Hacking the CAGED System: Book 2($14.99Value)

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This is where the CAGED system stops working, and this book says so on page one. Push the CAGED system past the major scale and three things break. The chord shapes it generates start needing a hand you don't have. The scale patterns turn irregular enough to wreck any consistent picking. And the shape names stop telling you anything useful about what the chord is actually doing in the key. So Book Two keeps the four hacked patterns from Book One and drops the rest of the method. Same tools, harder material. What you'll learn Where the CAGED system runs out, and exactly why it does - Ninth chords, sixth chords and 6add9 across all four patterns - Sus2, sus4 and 7sus4 guitar chords, and how to move between them rather than park on them - Open position for the major scale - The melodic minor scale on guitar — patterns, arpeggios and all seven modes - The altered scale, Lydian dominant, Aeolian b5, Lydian augmented, Mixolydian b6 and Dorian b2 - When to actually use each mode. Altered over a dominant chord that's resolving. Lydian dominant over one that's staying put. Aeolian b5 over m7b5. This is the chapter most melodic minor resources leave out, and it's the difference between knowing the scales and using them - A melodic minor jam progression to play over - A 30-day practice plan for material that takes longer than 30 days New in the 2026 revised edition Three new chapters: the honest account of where the CAGED system breaks down, a full guide to which chord situation calls for each melodic minor mode, and a 30-day practice plan. Fully updated throughout. Who this book is for Guitarists moving past the major scale into extended chords and jazz harmony — altered dominants, half-diminished chords, minor-major sevenths — who want the fretboard organised rather than memorised. You'll want Book One first, or its equivalent: the four patterns, diatonic chords, and intervals. This book is technically stand-alone, but you'll be working uphill without them. Book Two of the Hacking the CAGED System series. Book One covers the four hacked patterns, diatonic chords and the major scale modes. Diatonic Harmony maps an entire key from a single master pattern.