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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>Musical Genres On The Banjo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Melodic Style</title>
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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>
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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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		<title>How Many Strings Does a Banjo Have?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a frequent question, and not one with a single answer since the banjo is actually a family of instruments. The five-string banjo was the original, featuring a gourd body (later modified into a drum) and a short drone string. It was brought to what is now the United States by African slaves. The finger-picked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banjos: Beyond Bluegrass</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NiceSounds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The banjo is conventionally associated with bluegrass musical styles, and it&#8217;s really no wonder. Along with the fiddle, acoustic guitar and fiddle, the banjo is a mainstay in that storied musical tradition. A bluegrass picking style is accomplished by using the fingers in an up-picking motion and the thumb to pick downward. But you can [...]]]></description>
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