Product Details

• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Homespun
• DVD Release Date: July 31, 2007
• Run Time: 265 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000UCD4AQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,476 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

All 3 C-A-G-E-D Guitar System Made Easy DVDs together in one value-priced collection. These DVDs will familiarize you with the entire neck of the guitar, teach you chords and riffs in every key, and eventually cover alternate-thumb fingerpicking, 12-bar blues, and "circle of fifths" progressions.Level 3: Early Intermediate—You have been playing a while and can play some songs and/or instrumentals without too much difficulty. Now you want to move into specific styles, develop your repertoire and increase your technique. The instructor still covers the material in detail, but there are more challenges.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars another gem from Homespun, November 29, 2007

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Peter Hyatt (Orrington, Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The C-A-G-E-D Guitar System Made Easy, Vol. 1 2 and 3 (DVD)

Ernie Hawkins is a great teacher. He is passionate and knows how to communicate to his students. The material presented here is vital for the knowledge of the guitar, and Ernie pleads with the student to follow instructions, stay with it, and methodically learn what it presented.

As to Homespun, you get the great camera angles and excellence in production.

This is not a DVD to learn songs, but rather a system to learn the fretbord. If viewed as serious guitar lessons (which even the post beginner can work with) you will find these to be months of invaluable work. If you are looking to learn a song, you will be disappointed. This is work.

Homespun has lots of great DVDs to teach songs, of which I love and own, but these are the type of DVDs (along with some of Pete Huttlinger's) that are necessary for someone serious about learning the guitar.

Take your time. Go slowly. This is a tremendous bargain to get all 3. For the cost, you will be supplied with months of weekly lessons. Take notes. Measure your progress.

This is a 5 Star set, along with so much else from Homespun. Enjoy and learn.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unlocks the hidden map to the guitar fretboard, March 30, 2010

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E. Hebert - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The C-A-G-E-D Guitar System Made Easy, Vol. 1 2 and 3 (DVD)

I'm a recreational guitarist that's played for over 20 years. As a self-taught player, I've managed to learn a lot by listening and repeating the play of others, but have always felt a gaping hole in my overall knowledge of technique and theory. I've been trying to backfill some of those gaps by pursuing lessons like the ones offered in this CAGED program.

I think this series of DVDs will similarly appeal to other guitarists like me - ones looking to supplement their self-instruction with some good core fundamentals. While I already had a basic knowledge of the CAGED system and the relationship between these chord forms to move within a key up the fretboard, I never had it thoroughly explained or demonstrated to me. Ernie Hawkin's instruction is clear and patient, and he encourages the viewer to stick with some of the initial exercises that outline the CAGED fundamentals, in exchange for what becomes a great payoff in some of the later lessons.

From the very first lesson, I immediately I found myself connecting the missing pieces of information that had escaped me in the past. Further, Ernie introduces some basics of music theory that allow the viewer to better understand the relationship of the notes in building the chords that they create. He explains, and then plays, and then explains and plays again. The viewer gets a chance to actually hear what the relationships sound like, and the new information is given time to sink in. For example, By clearly identifying and learning the locations of the critical 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes in each of the CAGED chord forms, Hawkins teaches how to establish the visual landmarks that will allow you to travel with confidence through chords, scales, and arpeggios all the way up and down the fretboard. He also explains some basic techniques to add flavor to a chord progression, like sliding from a minor third into a 3rd note, or when adding a 6th or 7th to a chord sounds good, etc. The construction of passing chords, turnarounds, and tonal relationships all start to become quite clear.

Armed with this new grasp of the "roadmap" of the fretboard and a better understanding of these tonal relationships, I'm locating these notes confidently and timing them properly in a manner that's becoming second nature. No longer am I relying solely on feel or dumb luck instead of musicianship and knowledge. While I still have a long way to progress in my mastery of this technique, it's already paying rewards within the first week. I think these videos will remain a vital part of my instruction library, and I can see myself referring back to these lessons again and again over the years.

While Hawkin's forte is fingerpicking and acoustic blues, this CAGED system is applicable to any style of music. While I don't think this series of DVDs would be the right choice for an absolute beginner that's just learning to form chords, I think that anyone who can quickly and comfortably finger the C, A, G, E, and D chords and play along with a song at tempo, and has a basic ability to play Barre chords (or at least understand how they work) would benefit greatly from this instructional.

Thanks to Homespun and Ernie Hawkins for a great lesson on these key fundamentals that will unlock new doors in my guitar progress.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ernie hawkins is a great teacher, November 5, 2011

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This review is from: The C-A-G-E-D Guitar System Made Easy, Vol. 1 2 and 3 (DVD)

easy to follow, systematic and comprehensive course. Ernie Hawkins is a great teacher and here you get a comprehensive package of essential guitar tuition for a fraction of the price you would have to pay if you took lessons. very practical with lots of good tips and detail. thank you Ernie.