connecting scales/memorising notes on fretboard

[danceOfEternity]

not sure if anyone has posted a topic on this already, but it's a burning question in my head...

yup we all know scales and modes are the stuff that fits a set of notes into a nice melody and chord progression. we all also know that there are several basic scales, at several positions.

i guess the biggest hurdle, is of cos after knowing scales and modes like the back of your hand, is to memorise the fretboard so as to be able to connect the notes together to get a nice string of notes, and not be restricted in the box/pattern.

would like to seek opinions from more accomplished softies, on how did you all manage to connect the notes of a particular lick to another, thereby forming a long passage? any techniques, lessons, exercises that u guys used? or just die die practise practise?

hope someone could enlighten me... i majiam climbing a mountain and this is the next cliff i have to overcome man.... been looking at this cliff for damn long....

 

[vernplum]

You can try the CAGED system.


What this is, is to utilise the open string shapes of C, A, G, E and D chords and transpose these up the neck in the relevant key you are playing. It will take me all day to write about it here, but the essence of it is that you use well known chord shapes to link the scale fragments/positions together.
Here's one link of many I found on Google.
http://www.tonydesmarteau.com/caged.htm

 

[danceOfEternity]

hhhmmm not alot of ppl replying huh...

vern, did u find the caged system useful? as in it helped u greatly huh? i've seen alot of so-called learning methods online but not sure which one to try...

 

[jeremyrozario]

You can try the CAGED system.

haha, music clef student

 

[vernplum]

Heh heh - well I never learned it from there - I take my lessons at Music Clef in Classical guitar so Teacher doesn't show CAGED.

Personally, I use a form of the CAGED system in that I am learning all the chord shapes over the entire neck. This has a couple of benefits.

1) The chord shapes conveniently divide the neck up into 5 sections - 1 on each chord, so this gives you a kind of framework in which to fit your scale fingerings and begin to be able to navigate the entire neck.

2) It teaches you the chord/arpeggio shapes all over the neck which is as (if not more important) than knowing the scales.

 

[danceOfEternity]

thx man will try it out