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Discuss the Guitar lesson: Songs From Scratch: The Crawdad Song

#1

https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/songs-from-scratch-the-crawdad-song-guitar-intermediate

Let’s take a common song & learn to play it from scratch! We’ll learn the chords, rhythm patterns, melody solo, & how to back yourself up as you sing!

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#2

A lot of gems in here…The comments about shifting to a seventh chord in repeating bars and how to make tasteful decisions around seventh chords in particular for me. I’ve been working my way through parking lot pickers and there’s a lot of seventh chords used. Like to the point that I wondered if all D chords returning to the root in the key of G should instead be D7 chords by assumption. But your thought process about when/how to use them makes a LOT more sense.

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#3

Down here in Tennessee where I’m from, we call them crawdaddys! :joy: I guess we all have a different name for them! This looks like a great lesson. I can’t wait to jump into it!

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#4

Great lesson Ben! Thank you!
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#5

I opened up an email and found a bunch of crawdads and decided to go ahead and consume the series… what a great series it is! For those wanting to learn how to pick a little lead, sing at the same time, and improv… this is where it ALL STARTS!

You personally? Take a lesson like this and spend all the time required (could be months) until you “get it”…you need to pass this step…“bust the rocks” like a college student! Do your time…we all have “done our time”, it is part of the process!

If you do your time? No doubt Ben is going to take this lesson to another level to help you advance … but you have to “bust those rocks”. You will have to “bust those rocks” on the next level also…just like you “busted those rocks” to learn how to strum and sing at the same time!

To put all of this together? It’s developing your brain to “multitask”. It’s no different than banjo pickers developing “rolls” over time (hours of practice) or guitar players learning how to finger pick…you have to practice!

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#6

Best Lesson Ever! Great job Ben!

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