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!
Discuss the Guitar lesson: Songs From Scratch: The Crawdad Song
8 Likes
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.
5 Likes
Down here in Tennessee where I’m from, we call them crawdaddys! 
I guess we all have a different name for them! This looks like a great lesson. I can’t wait to jump into it!
2 Likes
Great lesson Ben! Thank you!
I
3 Likes
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!
2 Likes
Best Lesson Ever! Great job Ben!
2 Likes
I saw this lesson. I paid the money. It was an hour and the most important lesson for me. It was the crawdad song and finding Melody. Now I can’t find it. Can’t find anything one this site . I don’t understand it. Love banjo Ben, but don’t get the site. Someone please help me. Update!! Still not good with this site. But someone reached out to me by email and got me where I need to be. This is the best lesson for me right now. This is what I have been working on since I started bluegrass about a year ago. Ben is a great teacher! Really knows how to break it down, and make it make sense!! Thank you team Banjo Ben!!
1 Like
Hi @ltdpayne Daniel 
to @BanjoBen 's Forum. I see from your profile that you are a Gold Pick Member and should have full access to ALL the lessons on the website. Are your sure you Logged In using the email address and password you used when creating your account.
So lets see if I can help you find all the lessons. If you look at the top of the screen you’ll see all the instruments listed . Click on Guitar to open a new page. You’ll see a list of learning tracks, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced. That list is to help you navigate to the lessons at the level you are at.
If you look to the left of the list mentioned above you’ll see a Text Search box which is one option to help you find a lesson. Now scroll down and you’ll see a bunch of lessons on the screen. If you look to the left of those lessons in the margin you see a number of categories that will quickly help you find topics that interest you.
Finally if you want to find the Crawdad Lesson again, you are on the Discussion Page for that lesson. Just scroll to the top of the page and click on the blue text link that will take you back to that lesson.
Good luck.
1 Like