24+ Caged System Guitar Pentatonic Background. The minor pentatonic scale is one of the first scales we learn, and is certainly one of the most common scales in the majority of guitar music. One of the easiest and most usable.
When you see guitarists play up and down the neck effortlessly, it's no secret that they're using some sort of system to connect different scales on the fretboard. I have a 'system' that works for me, and might work well for you too, but you need to experiment and find out what works best for you! I believe that once you understand the caged system, you'll be able to crack.
Because this scale is more an alphabet and you.
I believe that once you understand the caged system, you'll be able to crack. Every system for arranging the guitar fretboard is complicated. The caged pentatonic soloing system is designed to break you out of that box pattern that we all learned when we first started to play guitar. Many guitar solos will spend the majority of time using just the first three or four strings of the guitar.