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David Mead : CAGED app for iPhone and iPad


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Music Education
Developer: Leafcutter Studios Ltd
2.99 USD
Current version: 2.55, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 02 May 2012
App size: 14.97 Mb

Improve your guitar playing and master the fretboard with world renowned guitarist and best-selling author David Mead‘s CAGED guitar app.


The CAGED guitar system has been used by guitarists for decades to understand and map the guitar fretboard. The system is based on the relationship between the five basic chord patterns (C, A, G, E and D) and how they can be joined together to help you find any chord in any key wherever you are on the fretboard.

The David Mead : CAGED app gives you all the tools and information you need to master this trusted system quickly and efficiently.

The app contains:

- Eight easy to follow lessons that take you from the basics of chord construction to understanding the full power of the CAGED system across the fretboard.

- Each lesson includes interactive fretboard diagrams that allow you to see and hear the CAGED chord shapes, the notes and intervals they contain and the best way to play them on your guitar.

- Reference tools to help you visualise the entire CAGED fretboard in any key and to see the CAGED chord shapes around any root note.

- Exercises to help you practise the key parts of the CAGED theory and build up your knowledge wherever you are and whenever you want.

- Progress tracker to monitor your performance on each exercise and highlight where you can target your practice most effectively.

David Mead is an acoustic guitarist, writer, journalist and teacher. Find out more about David, his music and his best-selling guitar books at www.DavidMead.net.