Truefire Eric Haugen's Guitar Zen: CAGED

Unleash CAGED to Power Your Rhythm, Fills and Improvised Solos
Practicing and playing are two distinct states of mind. When we practice, we're patient, repetitive and intentional, so that when we play, our creativity can flow freely, mindfully, and tastefully. The key is finding a framework that bridges those two states of mind.

Eric Haugen's Guitar Zen presents you with an ideal framework to bridge practice and play. The CAGED system clearly maps chord shapes and chord tones, all over the fretboard, to intuitively guide your rhythm playing, fills, and improvised solos, in any key.

Eric Haugen is an accomplished guitarist and highly acclaimed educator who emphasizes composition, subtlety, and tone, and his detailed transcriptions His published guitar lessons showcase not only classic guitar heroes but also many important players who are often overlooked. We're thrilled to welcome Eric to the family with his first TrueFire course, the CAGED edition of Guitar Zen.

”In this edition, we'll explore the 5 CAGED shapes, in both major and minor tonalities, along with the Pentatonic scales that correlate to them. We'll start In open position, and work our way up the entire fretboard. I'll demonstrate how to practice them effectively -- I'll also show you how to play them creatively and tastefully.”

For each of the seven sections in the course, you'll explore new CAGED approaches, over a series of play-along backing tracks. Eric starts you off with applications that focus on a particular CAGED shape, and then gradually advances to being able to play over simple 2 and 3 chord progressions.

"I'll share a variety of patterns to use with the CAGED shapes to craft rhythmic grooves, on the fly, in any key, up and down the neck. I'll also show you how to easily find and play a variety of double-stops inside the pentatonic CAGED framework.

My intention with this course is to keep everything very airy and loose - not difficult to play, so you can rewire your brain to bring musical ideas to life on the fretboard rather than chasing your fingers around hot licks or scales.”

Eric will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You'll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you'll be able to use TrueFire's learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson.

You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are also included to work with on your own.

Grab your guitar and let's get zen with Eric Haugen!