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	<title>The Banjo Guru &#187; Banjos</title>
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		<title>Pearls of Songwriting Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/272-pearls-of-songwriting-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pete Seeger once said that &#8220;all songwriters are links in a chain,&#8221; and his body of work defends that statement. Known as a legendary folk singer, Seeger turned to roots music and storytelling tradition as sources for inspiration. He helped bring classic American spirituals back into the public consciousness during the 1960s. Along with fellow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Sounds of Old Ireland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing you will find that is popular in the Irish capital is traditional folk music. By going around the streets of Dublin like the Whelan&#8217;s in Camden Street, you will surely find traditional and folk music. This is one exciting spot has the best of Ireland&#8217;s talented folk performers.
A vast array of instruments are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help for the Struggling Songwriter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the computer age, upstart songwriters had it tough. Options for laying their music down on tape were extremely limited. They had to scrimp and save just to afford some studio time to lay down a few tracks. Alternatively, they could utilize a four-track recorder to capture their work in grainy low fidelity. The rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banjo Starter Packs</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/training/219-banjo-starter-packs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my youngest son endeavored to learn the banjo last year, I honestly knew nothing about the instrument. After going to a local music shop, I decided that purchasing the various components individually would be much too costly and time consuming.  After doing some research online, I found a site that carried comprehensive banjo starter packs.
Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Foundation of Bluegrass</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/210-the-foundation-of-bluegrass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few people have left as indelible of a mark on their craft as Earl Scruggs. The three-finger playing style was in use before Scruggs, but he is the one who perfected the art and made it the predominant style in bluegrass music. Today the style is referred to as “Scruggs style,” as homage to its [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/175-the-advent-of-the-electric-banjo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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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>Don&#8217;t Be Afraid to Improvise</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/170-dont-be-afraid-to-improvise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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As the parent of a beginning banjo player, I have to try especially hard not to seem overbearing. After all, I started playing the instrument when I was precisely my son&#8217;s age, and it&#8217;s tempting to help him avoid making all the same mistakes I made. But I&#8217;ve found through experience that harping on him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5-String Bluegrass Banjo Parts and Setup Vol 1</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/instruments/banjo-setup/91-5-string-bluegrass-banjo-parts-and-setup-vol-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Bramlett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a mini-series devoted to parts and setup of a modern five-string bluegrass banjo. In this post, we define the major assemblies of the banjo and each component within those assemblies. In future posts we will expand on each of these and on the role each part plays in the setup [...]]]></description>
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