Hacking the CAGED System - Diatonic Harmony
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Most guitarists learn the fretboard in pieces and never assemble it.
A pentatonic here, some barre chords there, a mode learned off YouTube, an arpeggio from a lesson years ago. All of it real, none of it connected, so none of it comes out when you're actually playing.
This book takes the opposite approach. One master pattern, laid across the whole neck, containing every note in the key. Then it draws everything else out of it.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Organised by how many notes you're using, which is a more useful question than it sounds:
• TWO NOTES — intervals, dyads, double stops
• THREE — every triad in the key, and their inversions
• FOUR — seventh chords, their arpeggios, and the barre chords hiding inside them
• FIVE — pentatonics, and why every pentatonic in the key is the same pattern moved
• SIX AND SEVEN — hexatonics and the full modes
• Sixth chords and their synonyms — C6 and Am7 are the same four notes, and once you see that, your chord vocabulary roughly doubles overnight
• Sus2, sus4, add9 and 6/9 for every diatonic root
• The master pattern in all twelve keys
• A worked example taking one progression through triads, sevenths, pentatonics, modes and synonyms without leaving a single pattern
• A practice plan, and a chapter for when you get stuck
Only one thing in this book needs memorising: the master pattern. Everything else is meant to be discovered inside it, because what you work out yourself is what actually stays.
NEW IN THE 2026 EDITION
Three new chapters — a full worked application, a practice plan, and troubleshooting.
WHO THIS ISN'T FOR
It's stand-alone and genuinely doesn't require Books 1 or 2. But it assumes you know your intervals and can find your way around a fretboard. Complete beginners will drown.
Instant PDF download. Yours to keep, no subscription.
A pentatonic here, some barre chords there, a mode learned off YouTube, an arpeggio from a lesson years ago. All of it real, none of it connected, so none of it comes out when you're actually playing.
This book takes the opposite approach. One master pattern, laid across the whole neck, containing every note in the key. Then it draws everything else out of it.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Organised by how many notes you're using, which is a more useful question than it sounds:
• TWO NOTES — intervals, dyads, double stops
• THREE — every triad in the key, and their inversions
• FOUR — seventh chords, their arpeggios, and the barre chords hiding inside them
• FIVE — pentatonics, and why every pentatonic in the key is the same pattern moved
• SIX AND SEVEN — hexatonics and the full modes
• Sixth chords and their synonyms — C6 and Am7 are the same four notes, and once you see that, your chord vocabulary roughly doubles overnight
• Sus2, sus4, add9 and 6/9 for every diatonic root
• The master pattern in all twelve keys
• A worked example taking one progression through triads, sevenths, pentatonics, modes and synonyms without leaving a single pattern
• A practice plan, and a chapter for when you get stuck
Only one thing in this book needs memorising: the master pattern. Everything else is meant to be discovered inside it, because what you work out yourself is what actually stays.
NEW IN THE 2026 EDITION
Three new chapters — a full worked application, a practice plan, and troubleshooting.
WHO THIS ISN'T FOR
It's stand-alone and genuinely doesn't require Books 1 or 2. But it assumes you know your intervals and can find your way around a fretboard. Complete beginners will drown.
Instant PDF download. Yours to keep, no subscription.