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Greetings to the curious, unconventional, free-thinking musicians! This is where you'll find my diagrams and thoughts on music, theory, and songwriting. Let's geek out together and have some fun!
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January 18, 2025

Hi everyone,

I have been studying the CAGED system lately, and working off paper diagrams of the scale intervals. The whole thing was very frustrating using static diagrams so I pulled an all-nighter last night to build this tool to assist in my understanding, and I think it would resonate with the community here.

Upon landing you are greeted with a typical fretboard diagram and all of the colours/shapes of the notes are lifted directly from the ColorMusic system

Then the CAGED system part: For each of the keys (CAGED), play the major scale, the pentatonic major scale, arpeggiated triad for the tonic note, and arpeggiated triads for each of the chords in the key (I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii°)

https://caged-practice-tool.vercel.app/

I think this is a really nice intersection of some more conventional tools and the awesome ColorMusic system. If it gains any traction I’ll get a permanent domain name for it, but it’ll always be free if anyone wants to use it. Also, if I got any of the terminology wrong above, or in the app, let me know as these are all new concepts for me. Also very open to feedback and bug reports.

@MikeGeorge I'm still working on it, but I will attribute the visual language of the notes to you.

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