CAGED System PDF: Guitar Patterns for the Minor Scale

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Charts to help you learn the CAGED system for the Minor scale for guitar. Each of the 5 shapes will produce a full A-Minor scale when you play it from root note till any other root note.

Visual appearance

Fretboard diagrams are arranged diagonally to show you where patterns line up. The CAGED shapes on this reference are aligned with the notes of the A-Minor scale in particular. This reference features flat style notes (empty circles). Even though it's intended for more seasoned guitar players, it's here as a variation that you simply might prefer over the other options.

Practical application

Root tones have a stronger visual emphasis to provide soloing landmarks and a better overview of the shape's primary "anchor points" to help you memorize and internalize all 5 patterns.

You can use variation with blank circles and squares to get yourself prepared for switching between the CAGED patterns on the fly. For example, you can occasionally "borrow" notes from the neighbouring CAGED pattern for a brief moment and then get back to the pattern you started with. This is basically a tool to break free from being stuck within one CAGED "box" shape.

These adjacent blank placeholders are given less emphasis on purpose—they should not distract you from the main pattern you are focusing on, but should you wish to temporarily visit (or peek into) a neighbouring pattern, then you can do that. You can also think of them as a guide of where you are and where you can go.

Tip: Since these diagrams have blank circles in place of specific note names or intervals, you can view these charts as a recipe for any minor scale, not just A-Minor. The patterns will be identical for all minor keys. For example, to get CAGED patterns for the G-Minor scale you just need to align the E-shape's (pattern 1) root tone with the 3rd fret of the lowest 6th string (you can also align the G-shape with the 3rd fret of the 6th string, but then you'll have to play the pattern with open strings—not that you have to avoid it, but I'm just saying).

The order of CAGED patterns never changes, and it's the same as the CAGED-word is spelled. So for our G-Minor example the next shape towards the guitar's bridge would be the D-shape, and the previous shape towards the guitar's nut would be the G-shape.

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