My experience was much like that described by JonPR, a rather 'organic' development. I used various shapes from a chord book that I have lost a long time ago which made it clear that the same shape could be moved as needed. I used them as I needed and never learned them by rote, and at wouldn't have understood if someone referred to the CAGED system. I see systems like that more as a framework, a reference rather than something that needs to be learned from A to Z...
|