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		<title>Do You Really Need That Capo?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A capo is an essential tool for the bluegrass banjoist, but don’t automatically reach for it just because a song isn’t in the key of G.  Remember that a capo is there not to make it possible to play in a given key, but to make it possible to play in a given key in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practice, Practice, Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, that is how you get to Carnegie Hall.  Practice (or &#8220;time on board&#8221; to the fretted instrument player&#8211;the fingerboard) is necessary if you&#8217;re to reach any of your goals as a musician, whether you&#8217;ve taken up banjo, guitar or any instrument.  The discipline of practice when playing an instrument should be fun rather than a chore; approaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allen Shelton: 1936-2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all those in contention for the title “The Banjo Player’s Banjo Player”, Allen Shelton is generally considered among the favorites.  The Reidsville, North Carolina native, who died of leukemia last November, was noted for his “bouncy” rhythmic feel and integration of a more sophisticated jazz- and pop-flavored chord voicings into a generally “straight-ahead” bluegrass approach. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gibson Musical Instruments &#8211; A Very Short History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No brand name looms larger in the bluegrass banjo world than Gibson.  The company’s story goes back to the late 1800s when a young man named Orville Gibson, son of an English immigrant, moved from his native New York to the rapidly-growing industrial town of Kalamazoo, Michigan (“Yes”, said the Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banjo Tunings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of banjo-player jokes.  One goes “You can drop a shoe on the banjo and make music,” due to the “open G” tuning that is standard among bluegrass banjoists.  Unlike a guitar or mandolin, which must be fretted to make a proper chord, merely strumming the open strings of a banjo (or dropping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie Adcock</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia native Eddie Adcock first came to prominence as the banjo player with the groundbreaking Washington-D.C.-based Country Gentlemen during the 1960s.  His overwhelming technical ability and blending of Scruggs, single-string, and Travis style were essential ingredients in the Gentlemen’s sound, and seminal recordings such as Sunrise and Pallet on the Floor earned the Country Gentlemen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melodic Style</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/104-melodic-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Earl Scruggs introduced his three-finger banjo picking technique to Bill Monroe&#8217;s Blue Grass Boys in 1945, the new musical genre now known as bluegrass took flight. Scruggs&#8217; hard-driving approach was supremely well-suited to rendering the melodies of vocal songs, with the relatively simple melody notes embedded in showers of &#8220;filler&#8221; notes, and executed with [...]]]></description>
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