music education

Keith Allen, 1980

Who created the CAGED System for guitarists? There has been some controversy as to the origins of the “CAGED System” for mastering the guitar. In an article in the May, 1975, issue of Guitar Player Magazine called “Blue Bear Waltzes” about San Francisco’s famous Blue Bear School of Music, the school’s 20 year old head
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Keith Allen–Music Education Master

I’d like to take the opportunity to write about my late partner on The Guitar Poster, Keith Allen, who was the world’s all-time best guitar teacher and perhaps the best teacher I ever had in any subject. I consulted him on all my songs, coaxed him into playing on several in the studio, but I never took an
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