Decage is a visual map of the CAGED system — the 5 shapes you already know, repositioned to find every chord, everywhere on the neck. Built for artistic, non-linear, and creative brains that learn laterally — by seeing, not memorising.
No deadlines, no homework, no rigid lesson order. Open the fretboard for 5 minutes or 50 — skip a week, come back after months. The tool waits.
No lessons to book, no schedule to keep. The fretboard becomes self-explanatory — pick a chord, see where it lives, move on. No one explaining for an hour.
No walls of text. No 50-video courses. Just visual patterns your brain can actually hold onto — because memorisation is the enemy of progress.
The CAGED system maps every major and minor chord across all 12 frets. Stop being stuck at open position — see every chord, everywhere, instantly.
Click. Explore. Play. Decage is a live tool you use alongside your guitar — not a course you watch and forget.
You know open chords. Now what? Decage is built specifically for that frustrating middle stage — where most people quit.
After hitting a wall with traditional methods, Mariam built Decage for her own artistic, non-linear, lateral-learning brain. Then it worked.
It's easy to use, and I love that it's big — when I'm playing on my iPad, it doesn't hurt my eyes. As an ADHD player needing a quick check while strumming, that's huge. Strum, glance, strum — so satisfying.
It doesn't scare me anymore to play along with another guitarist…
The instructions are spot on: the root note, the muted strings, the open positions — all marked clearly. The colors are mindfully pleasing; they help me grasp the chord fast and play it.
I tried the chords on my guitar — it was easy to see and just play. It's really beautiful.
This is the tool I have been looking for. It unlocked the whole fretboard for me. From this place, I knew exactly where to put my effort next.
A visual, interactive fretboard tool built around the CAGED system — the 5 chord shapes (C·A·G·E·D) that cover every major and minor chord across the whole neck. Not a video course, not a 50-lesson series, not an ebook. One web app you use alongside your guitar to see where chords actually live.
One chord traveling the whole neck. The same shape slides up the fretboard through all five CAGED positions, lighting up every place that chord can be played — so you see, at a glance, how a single chord lives in many spots across the neck instead of just one.
After beginner. When you're stuck in that curve trying to reach intermediate but have no clue where to step next — you know open chords, you can play a few songs, but the rest of the neck feels like a mystery. That's the gap Decage closes.
Pick a CAGED shape. Pick major or minor. The fretboard lights up with every place that chord can be played across all 12 frets. Click around, compare shapes, see the patterns emerge.
You're not memorising — you're recognising. Built for brains that learn visually instead of through repetition.
Anything chord-driven: rock, blues, country, folk, pop, jazz comping, songwriting. If you're navigating chords on a fretboard, Decage helps you find them. It's neutral on style — it shows you the neck, your music lives on top of it.
It's not a substitute for practice, theory study, or ear training. It won't teach you rhythm, picking technique, or how a chord progression feels. It's a visual reference you keep open while you play — the part of a teacher that points at the neck and says "look, the same chord lives here, here, and here."
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No. Decage is a visual tool — your guitar makes the sound. Open the fretboard, play along on your own instrument, look at the patterns light up. The silence is intentional: you focus on what your hands are doing, not on app audio.
Instantly. The moment Stripe confirms payment, you get an email with your access link. Bookmark it, open it on any device, and you're in — lifetime access, no subscription, no expiring login, no version that disappears six months from now.
Exactly for you. That's the post-beginner gap Decage was built to close — you know open chords and a few songs, but the rest of the neck feels random. More on the post-beginner gap →
Yes — it's built for artistic, non-linear, lateral-learning brains. You see the patterns instead of memorising or reading theory. Why seeing beats memorizing →
Plenty of courses, apps, and chord finders exist — but none is an interactive, hands-on map of the full CAGED system across the neck. That precise thing is what Decage is. See the honest comparison →
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i know this sounds too good to be true. i promise — it might be. when my friend Icy reviewed the site, those were exactly her words. i know.
this product may be unnecessary. might be overpriced. i don't know. that's why i'm offering it at this price point. the product isn't necessary for beginners. not for advanced players. it just replaces many reference videos and books, and a lot of research work.
i notice all guitarists on YouTube pass this information as a "well known" fact. for a 2-year-old in guitar age, self-learner, no coaching, this didn't hit me until very long later. i had to check it again and again. my friend who plays guitar very well couldn't confirm. she's a disbeliever in music theory. lol.
anyways — if you didn't find the tool useful, please email me. i'll fully refund you within 2 weeks of your purchase.
oh, and don't forget to check the tools section — small, focused tools i use to develop my knowledge. there's a free PDF in there too.
cheers,
— Mariam
