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Songs From Scratch: The Crawdad Song

intermediate guitar

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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!

Doc Watson Key of C Tony Rice

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  1. Tom Vasquez ·

    My fingers know it but my brain doesn't yet — I can't play it without the tab in front of me. How do you all commit these to memory?

  2. Karen Doyle ·

    I had that exact problem. Turned out my thumb was anchoring in the wrong spot.

  3. Deb Carrigan ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

  4. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    Glad it clicked! That timing is the whole point of this lesson, so if that landed you got what you came for.

  5. Wes Pittman ·

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  6. Mick Stanton ·

    Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.

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