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Try not to put words into my mouth.
Your exact words were "everyone else", so I left out the "else" part.
NO, that's not the entire premise of the article. That was one point. Go back and read it again.
True. He also makes other claims that belie the fact that he doesn't know what CAGED is or how anyone uses it. Here he is:
You Won’t Be Able To Creatively Use Arpeggios In Your Guitar Solos
What does that mean? If you can locate the root, 3rd, 5th and any extension, you can play an arpeggio. What fingering patterns you use to learn scales has zero bearing on whether you can find and play an arpeggio.
All Your Guitar Solos Will Sound The Same… Here’s Why
His argument here is flimsy. Scales aren't music. If you are playing scales, that's what you are doing - playing scales. If every lick you play is a 3nps pattern, then they will all sound the same too. The point is to be able to play scales in any number of notes on any number of strings so you can go wherever you want.
You Will Have A Hard Time FLUENTLY Improvising Guitar Solos Using The Entire Fretboard
See my point above. Once you know a scale all over the neck you can go where you want.
Your Guitar Solos Will Lack Emotion... Don’t Believe Me? Here Is The Proof
This one is hilarious. Here he says:
The CAGED system only focuses on visualization of major chords…completely ignoring minor, diminished, augmented, 7th and extended chords
At the core of each inversion is a triad. Flatten the 3rd for a minor, etc. Not to mention that one need only google "minor CAGED" to see that there is a fuck ton of people doing that and 7ths etc.
You Won’t Be Able To Consistently Write AWESOME Songs
Lol. Here's his argument:
This problem comes from the fact that the 5 major chords making up the system (C major A major G major E major D major) are taught as if they have some musical connection with each other or belong to the same key. In reality, none of the chords in the CAGED system fit into any standard major or minor key
We are talking about inversions of one chord in those shapes. Only an idiot would even make this argument.
You Will Have A Hard Time Communicating With Other Musicians
What the actual fuck is he arguing here? It's just another way to map out the neck and isn't meant to be a way to "communicate with other musicians". Does learning the same notes in some other pattern somehow make you better at theory? Ridiculous.
The rest of the article is a series of idiotic straw man arguments that are meaningless.