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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>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>Musical Genres On The Banjo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Drummond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banjos have a long history dating back to ancient Egypt, and they&#8217;ve evolved today into four basic genres.  Folk or Traditional music features a clawhammer (also called a frailing) open-back five-string banjo.  It&#8217;s usually played with the index finger and the thumb, and produces a melodious sound.  It grew in popularity during the American Civil War as soldiers strummed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Advent of the Electric Banjo</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/175-the-advent-of-the-electric-banjo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people—myself included—think of the banjo as being a traditional instrument that has seen little modification over the years. Just as with guitars, there are several different options for the number of strings that are on your instrument, but this is usually where the deviation in banjo designs ceases. While it is true that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banjo Tunings</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/188-banjo-tunings/</link>
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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>D-Tuners</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/184-d-tuners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earl Scruggs learned to play the 5-string banjo on an instrument that belonged to his older brother Junie.  The banjo did not always stay in tune well, and the young virtuoso found himself having to retune mid-song.  Scruggs’s musical inventiveness took it from there, and he soon adapted that mid-song tuning sound into his developing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eddie Adcock</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/180-eddie-adcock/</link>
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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>Top-Tensions</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/105-top-tensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gibson&#8217;s now-legendary Mastertone banjo line was introduced in 1925 and quickly became an industry standard, but by the late 1930s the banjo had fallen in popularity. Anxious to kick-start flagging sales, Gibson announced a new product that fixed an old problem. The new &#8220;top-tension&#8221; Mastertone design, introduced in 1937, was intended to make life easier [...]]]></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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		<title>J.D. Crowe</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/76-j-d-crowe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Considered one of the pioneers in bluegrass banjo picking, J.D. Crowe first came to prominence as a member of Jimmy Martin&#8217;s Sunny Mountain Boys. His personal twist on the three-finger style of Earl Scruggs during the 1950s helped define the traditional bluegrass canon on over thirty recordings with Martin. The 1960s saw the formation of [...]]]></description>
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