{"product_id":"hacking-the-caged-system-book-1-paperback","title":"Hacking the CAGED System: Book 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGraham Tippett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe CAGED system gives you five patterns. Two of them are almost unplayable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's where this book starts - by throwing two of them out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost CAGED system guitar books hand you five scale patterns, five chord shapes and a diagram showing how they link up, then leave you to work out why your solos still sound like scales. This one hacks the CAGED system down to four patterns: the two worth keeping, and two borrowed from the three-notes-per-string system that cover the same ground without wrecking your picking hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour shapes. One sequence. The whole fretboard.\u003c\/p\u003eTaught in F major, on purpose\u003cp\u003eNot C, not A, not E. Guitarists find those keys comfortable for reasons that have nothing to do with music, and a system learned in a comfortable key has a habit of only ever working in comfortable keys.\u003c\/p\u003eWhat you'll learn\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe four hacked CAGED patterns, and the sequence that connects them across the neck\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to find any root note anywhere on the guitar fretboard - one shape, one exception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConnecting the patterns so your solos stop living in one position\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery diatonic chord in the key, in every pattern\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeventh chords and the guitar arpeggios that come straight out of them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe switch from note names to intervals, which is where the fretboard finally opens up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to land on the right note as each chord goes past\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe guitar modes, drawn out of patterns you already know rather than learned as seven new scales\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKey signatures as the framework that ties all of it together\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 30-day practice plan, and a troubleshooting chapter for when it still sounds like scales\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eNew in the 2026 revised edition\u003cp\u003eSix new chapters: finding the root note anywhere on the neck, connecting the CAGED patterns, what happens between the landing notes, common chord progressions by number, a 30-day practice plan, and troubleshooting. Fully updated throughout.\u003c\/p\u003eWho this book is for\u003cp\u003eGuitarists who can already get around the instrument and are tired of knowing shapes without knowing what to do with them. If you're after licks, tabs or songs to copy, this isn't the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook One of the \u003cb\u003eHacking the CAGED System\u003c\/b\u003e series. Book Two covers extended chords and the melodic minor scale. \u003cb\u003eDiatonic Harmony\u003c\/b\u003e maps an entire key from a single master pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 52\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.11 x 10 x 8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318463897905,"sku":"9781519021564","price":31.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3486\/5969\/files\/IoSVs58AM9781519021564.webp?v=1793854259","url":"https:\/\/www.welibooks.com\/products\/hacking-the-caged-system-book-1-paperback","provider":"Welibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}