10Jan2025 - The most important step in my learning this week is becoming familiar with the guitar fretboard by finding notes all over the neck of the guitar. Since a note only occurs once in an 11 semi-tone or fret region, it is easy to find a note on each string. Using the octave shapes also helps. I used copies of the fretboard notes found at the back of the Belwin Guitar method. After I did this for the C notes all over the fretboard, I decided to also do that for the other notes (E and G) in the C major chord triad. I colored the 1,3, and 5 scale notes with different colors (red, green and blue). It was easy to see the CAGED shapes. What surprised me is that the open chord shapes for C were in the order C, A, G, E and D shapes. I did this exercise for the A, G, E and D chords with the scales notes from the keys that the chords are the root or primary chord. The resulting map is done by hand and I will refine at some point in the future, but I believe that this will be a major point of reference in intermediate guitar as I compare to the major scale patterns. Here is my CAGED map:
