"Rhett is teaching exactly what you need to be a better guitar player!" -Steve B.
The CAGED Course
Unlock the entire fretboard with 5 simple shapes, and finally see how chords, scales, and solos all connect.
- 🎸 16 Video Lessons
- 📄 PDFs + Jam Tracks
- ♾️ Lifetime Access
Your Key to Unlocking the Entire Fretboard
The CAGED System is one of the single most powerful tools you can have as a guitar player. It's the bridge between knowing a handful of chords and actually understanding how the fretboard works. How chords, scales, melodies, and solos all live in the same five shapes you already know.
When I first really grasped CAGED and started picking out where my triads lived on the neck, that's when guitar started to make sense. Pair it with knowing your notes, your intervals, and your chord relationships, and suddenly the fretboard stops being a mystery. This course is built to give you that same breakthrough.
This isn't just "what CAGED is."
It's how to actually use it. In your chord playing, your soloing, your improvisation, and your songwriting.
Here's What You'll Learn Inside
- The 5 CAGED Shapes — Mastered See all five shapes on the neck, understand the intervals that build them, and connect them so the fretboard becomes one continuous map instead of a disconnected mess.
- CAGED for Soloing & Improvisation Use the shapes to anchor your lead playing, connect pentatonic boxes, find octaves instantly, and break out of the same five-note rut you've been stuck in for years.
- CAGED for Rhythm, Chords & Inversions Unlock chord inversions, relative minor voicings, sus chords, 9ths and 11ths, adding color and movement to your rhythm playing that goes way beyond open chords and barre chords.
- CAGED for Songwriting Once you can see the harmony, you can write it. Use these shapes as a launchpad for new chord progressions, voicings, and ideas you couldn't have found before.
Stop Guessing. Start Seeing the Fretboard.
CAGED is the foundation that finally connects everything you've been trying to learn, and this course gives you a clear, step-by-step path to actually using it on the guitar.
See the Whole Neck
Reduce the entire fretboard to five shapes you already know. No more random scale patterns floating in space with no connection to the chords underneath.
Solo with Purpose
Anchor your improvisation to real chord tones and triads, so your solos sound musical and intentional, not like you're just running scales over backing tracks.
Find New Voicings
Unlock inversions, sus chords, 9ths, 11ths, and relative minor voicings that instantly make your rhythm playing sound more interesting and more professional.
Crack Open Theory
Use CAGED as the on-ramp to deeper concepts like intervals, harmony, modes, and chord relationships. Things that used to feel impossible suddenly start to click.
Everything You Need to Actually Learn It
The Complete CAGED Curriculum
4 sections · 16 video lessons · PDFs & jam tracks throughout
Foundations — The 5 CAGED Shapes
3 lessons + resources- Introduction 3:41
- CAGED Shapes 3:24
- Important Notes 5:32
- All Resources in a ZIP File Download
Soloing with CAGED
5 lessons- Major Pentatonic 3:57
- Connecting Scale Shapes 5:43
- Octave Mapping 4:27
- Wide Intervals 5:38
- Track Breakdown 2:43
Chords, Inversions & Triads
5 lessons- What CAGED is Actually For 1:32
- Inversions 6:00
- Inversions Exercise 8:32
- Relative Minor Voicings 4:23
- Track Breakdown 7:04
Adding Color — Sus Chords & Extensions
2 lessons- Sus Chords 3:22
- 9ths and 11ths 5:09
Built for Two Kinds of Players
Whether CAGED is brand new to you or something you've heard of but never really used, this course meets you where you are.
🧭 New to CAGED?
Start at the top and work your way down.
- You've never heard of CAGED, or it's always felt confusing
- You know chords but the fretboard still feels like a maze
- You want a clear foundation before diving into deeper theory
- You play electric, acoustic, and even bass concepts apply
⚡ Already Familiar with the Basics?
Skip ahead to Section 2 and start applying it.
- You know the 5 shapes but don't really use them when you play
- You want CAGED to actually inform your solos and rhythm
- You're hungry for inversions, sus chords, and extensions
- You want to unlock songwriting ideas you can't currently see
"To me, CAGED is the gateway into understanding guitar and harmony and music theory and your fretboard. The point of this course is to give you that foundation, so you can use it as a launchpad to go into deeper subjects you might have tried to learn in the past but didn't quite click."
— Rhett Shull