https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/banjo-pov-pickalong-nine-pound-hammer-banjo-intermediate
Let’s pick! The point of the Pickalong lessons is not to teach you a tabbed solo or backup, but to get you actually playing along by using your eyes and ears! Don’t forget that you can slow down the video!
And the banjo is already up too… Excellent!
Yeah, I released all 3 at the same time. Thanks!
These pick along lessons are gonna be great for the Cabin Camps!
Dear Ben, I love this new POV for banjer and want to dive in and get all I can from it, so I have a question about how I should try to make my brain work with a capo. I have been letting my brain think in terms of playing in G when capo-ed up two to A like in this case. That works great down the neck near the capo but is hard to compute as you move up. I see that in this video you have written the chords in their real state of A or Nashville numbers which could be either. What is your recommendation about how to train your brain so that we are thinking in the best way to be able to do all the cool things we want do as we get better, think in G or in A?
Great question, and honestly I think in terms of G when I’m playing a capo-d instrument. I knew I’d get a question about it. However, if I labeled the video in G, I would get 100 questions about why G when we were iin the key of A! 
To further answer your question, I think what’s needed is to be aware. Yes, you’re playing out of a G position and it’s ok to imagine you are in G, but knowing that positions up the neck are in the real key. Because, after a certain point, you stop thinking about how many frets you are away from the capo and begin thinking about positions and fret markers.
I’m loving this lesson, but it’s kinda like a stretching exercise for my fingers and my brain at the same time…whew! I tend to want to vamp back in my normal closed patterns a little farther up the neck, but shifting back and forth to the capo A open for melody is playing with my brain a little. 
That is exactly what happens when I’m playing. Learning chords up the neck is tough. The first time I went to Ben’s he showed me something that was really helpful for figuring out chords up the neck based on a single string. Then I worked for the next 3 days and completely forgot what he told me. I’m going to get him to show me again, or maybe he could do a lesson on it (wink wink.)
In the mean time, I made this chord chart that you might find handy.
BanjoCombinedChordInversions.pdf (318.3 KB)
Opps, There seems to be something wrong with the server storage. I tried to upload a TEF file last week now your PDF file is Lost in Space. @BanjoBen is there still maintenance going on?
Another great lesson. Thanks, Ben. By the way, can you tell me what thumb pick you are using in the video?
Oh yeah. I forgot the board doesn’t like uploads. Anyone wanting the chord chart file, shoot me your email address in a PM and I’ll get it to you.
Yep, that’s the Blue Chip Crowe pick: https://store.banjobenclark.com/products/bluechip-jd-crowe-thumb-pick
I love it, been using it for many years now
Hi Ben
Ok I need to be a “big dummy “ about all of this ……
I’ve got the capo on second fret and fifth string on 7th peg so that means I’m in A.
Now………
What’s next? Help help
Help please I’m drowning.
Thanks
Howdy! I’d learn this: https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/nine-pound-hammer-basic-banjo
And also this: https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/backup-chord-drills-learn-the-neck-banjo
If you haven’t worked your way through the beginner track, you need to do that. After you’re through that, you’ll be prepared to start pickin’ along with the PickAlong!
This Pick-a-long series is exactly what every learn-at-home banjo picker needs
Try using the Katy Kluck with 9 Pound hammer Works great for backup