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Hot Seller The SeeDEGA! Method This is the book that introduces the powerful SeeDEGA! system. Creator Joe Doran presents his innovative concepts in a clear, no-nonsense style...an instant classic. Order for $24.95 limited time: FREE SHIPPING! (on orders $50 or less)	SeeDEGA! FAQ Is SeeDEGA just CAGED spelled a different way? Is SeeDEGA "derived" from CAGED? Is SeeDEGA just a handful of guitar tricks? Aren't the SeeDEGA sequences just chords from various scales in the guitar "open" position taken up the neck? How can SeeDEGA be new? Why are you saying SeeDEGA is new? I knew about SeeDEGA all along! Why doesn't your book use standard chord diagrams? You show a diminished chord as the VII chord form of a key. Shouldn't it be a min7 flat 5? Why so proprietary about your ideas? Can I teach SeeDEGA to others? ____________ Q: Is SeeDEGA just CAGED spelled a different way? A: No! CAGED is a modulating sequence of chord forms used to play the same chord tone along the guitar fret board. It provides no information on locating sets of scale chords... But SeeDEGA does. It reveals how to locate scale chords everywhere on the fret board with ease, how to play "cycle" progressions, and more. Q: Is SeeDEGA "derived" from CAGED? A: CAGED and SeeDEGA represent different aspects of the way chord forms can be used to conceptualize the fret board. Neither is "derived" from the other. Some have claimed the SeeDEGA sequence is somehow “derived” from CAGED. The claim is nonsensical. SeeDEGA is not CAGED rearranged. It doesn’t locate the same chord tone along the neck, any more than CAGED identifies successive chords of a music key at a given fret position area. SeeDEGA, CAGED—and other useful sequences, for that matter—are all derived from conceptualizing the fret board systematically using chord forms. The way chord forms happen to exist in playable fingerings on a standard tuned guitar has nothing to do with one useful sequence being “derived” from another. Q: Is SeeDEGA just a handful of guitar tricks? A: SeeDEGA was designed as a comprehensive method of using basic chord forms to fully conceptualize the fret board. Q: Aren't the SeeDEGA sequences just chords from various scales in the guitar "open" position taken up the neck using your index finger to bar the chords? A: No. Most of the SeeDEGA sequences can't be played in the open position to produce a major scale, using common chord form fingerings. To give just one example, consider the "A-Root" SeeDEGA sequence. The first two chord forms in the sequence are A-C. In the open position, an A-form can be fingered (at the second fret on the 4th, 3rd and 2nd strings) to play the I tone of the A tonal scale. But there is no practical C-form fingering that can produce the II tone of this scale, a B minor tone, in an "open" position on the fret board. Guitarists therefore commonly use an A-form bar chord beginning at the second fret to sound the B tone. To sum up: taken together, the SeeDEGA modulations are definitely not just open position chord fingerings of various scales "taken up the neck". Q: How can SeeDEGA be new? A: The SeeDEGA Method, published in 2003, is the first to present and explain the SeeDEGA modulating sequence, as well as other concepts. If anyone believes they know of an earlier work that does so, we'd be happy to acknowledge it. Send the name of the work, author and publisher to info@seedega.com. But we can report that no one has taken up our challenge in the three years since The SeeDEGA Method was first published. And we've had thousands of visitors to this site, with SeeDEGA information right there for everyone to see. And while we're at it, Joe's newest work, Leading SeeDEGA, published in 2004, introduces "CAGGED", another innovative memory tool found for the first time in his book. Q: Why are you saying SeeDEGA is new? I knew about SeeDEGA all along! A: The effort to develop and write The SeeDEGA Method was undertaken, because it contributes something new to guitar learning. There are hundreds of CAGED sites on the web, and plenty of books on that subject. But The SeeDEGA Method is the first work that identifies the SeeDEGA modulating sequence. It represents a truly comprehensive “chord form” approach to the fret board. Some people claim the SeeDEGA modulations are “obvious” and unoriginal. “I knew it all along!” Of course you did. You just forgot to write the book or tell anyone else... Such "claims" aside, if the SeeDEGA sequences were common knowledge, they would have been outlined in many books and primers before now, in the same way as other “obvious” guitar information. But the fact is, the SeeDEGA modulating sequence hasn’t been identified in any prior work. It’s certainly true that SeeDEGA will seem obvious and simple, once learned. As Galileo observed—“all truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, the point is to discover them…” The irony of the astronomer's statement will be lost on those who confuse the simplicity of SeeDEGA with their own powers of originality... Q: Why doesn't your book use standard chord diagrams? A: In The SeeDEGA Method book, chord diagrams depict the fret board as horizontal, rather than vertical. Vertical chord diagrams are certainly more common. But some books (eg. the popular Interactive Guitar book by PlayPro) do choose to show horizontally oriented chord diagrams. The SeeDEGA Method contains quite a few full fret board illustrations as well as chord diagrams, and we felt fret board illustrations were better laid out in a horizontal rather than vertical style. So we used horizontal chord diagrams to maintain a visual consistency. Q: You show a diminished chord as the VII chord form of a key. Shouldn't it be a min7 flat 5? A: The purpose of the chord diagrams are not to show four-tone harmonized key chords. Note that basic major and minor forms are shown in the other degree positions—not major and minor 7ths (or a dom7 V chord), as a four-tone harmonized scale would dictate. The diagrams show basic triadic sounding chord form versions—and the triad at the VII degree sounds a diminished chord. But, by all means, play min7 flat 5's if you want. Q: Why so proprietary about your ideas? A: The SeeDEGA Method is copyrighted, like other original works. A provisional patent was submitted for the method, to explore the possibility of other companies licensing it. But that has little to do with guitarists, who are free to buy our products and use them to their hearts content. Q: Can I teach SeeDEGA to others? A: Of course. We appreciate instructors and teaching institutions who want to purchase copies of SeeDEGA for students. We even offer discounts. Change the way you play.	What sets the SeeDEGA! guitar learning system apart? The truth is, there are plenty of other "guitar secret" resources. SeeDEGA! presents a new learning approach designed for guitarists who want to play better quickly. So don't wait. Be among the first to benefit from this breakthrough method. SeeDEGA! presents a powerful and original conceptual framework for learning and playing guitar SeeDEGA! techniques are easy to understand, remember and use—even for newer players SeeDEGA! provides a clear and streamlined practice method SeeDEGA! introduces an exciting new way to analyze and arrange songs SeeDEGA! offers new ways of understanding and applying other music and guitar tools including the "Cycle" and CAGED.
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