CAGED Basics II | 9 | D Shape
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Hi Everyone,
We're getting close to the end of this series! Get comfortable with the D Shape pentatonic scale and accompanying major and relative minor chords. Watch the lesson, practice the shapes and scale, do the homework, and learn the practice tune at the end! This one is tricky because it's the first pentatonic shape that can't be played in one position.
Don't forget to download the PDF and use the BPM practice tracks.
Practice Tracks:
40 BPM
50 BPM
60 BPM
70 BPM
Keep in mind that these tracks continuously loop for easy practice but you only need to play through the exercise one time to move on.
CAGED Basics II:
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 11 | Full Circle
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 10 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 09 | D Shape (current lesson)
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 08 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 07 | E Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 06 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 05 | G Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 04 | Pentatonic Pit Stop
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 03 | A Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 02 | C Shape
CAGED Basics II | Lesson 01 | Overview
Post your questions, ah-ha moments, practice videos, tips you've learned along the way, etc to the community forum.
Other helpful links:
Scott's Recommended Lesson Plan
Searchable Lesson Archive
How to Join the Community Forum
Scott's Jam Tracks
Scott's Main YouTube Channel
Comments
there is a typo in pdf page 1, the root note in red is marked in wrong place.
秋昊 陈
2025-07-28 07:27:56 +0000 UTCCool pattern! Thanks for letting me know
Scott Paul Johnson
2024-10-16 23:27:03 +0000 UTCHowdy SPJ, Maybe you've brought this up somewhere else, but I have trouble sometimes remembering where the ROOT shows up in the Caged Pentatonic shapes., and I realized today that there is pattern that follows the sequence: C shape: Root is 4th note in pattern A shape: Root is 3rd G shape: Root is 2nd E shape: Root is 1st D shape: Root is 5th I marked up page 2 of this lesson to help remind me of this!
Ben Poe
2024-10-15 20:04:18 +0000 UTCYou've been so helpful - I don't know how this happened. I'll fix it
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-07-24 18:44:50 +0000 UTCSorry I keep blowing these up with comments, but the Practice Track links here lead to lesson 7 rather than the practice tracks.
Dan McHugh
2023-07-23 16:05:23 +0000 UTC
