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		<title>Do You Really Need That Capo?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/254-do-you-really-need-that-capo/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/243-allen-shelton-1936-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bluegrass (5-String Resonator Banjo)]]></category>
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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>The 5th-String Capo</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/241-the-5th-string-capo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 10:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clawhammer (5-String Open-Back Banjo)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The five-string banjo presents a unique problem when using a capo.  Since the fifth string doesn’t start until the fifth fret, capoing the four long strings at the most common frets (two, three, or four) leaves the fifth string unaltered.  A number of solutions have been devised over the years.  Simply re-tuning the fifth string is [...]]]></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>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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		<title>How Many Strings Does a Banjo Have?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/78-how-many-strings-does-a-banjo-have/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/78-how-many-strings-does-a-banjo-have/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Earnest</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebanjoguru.com/?p=78</guid>
		<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>Fiddle Cliches</title>
		<link>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/15-fiddle-cliches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebanjoguru.com/music/15-fiddle-cliches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it is commonly believed to be a specific instrument, fiddles can be any bowed string instrument. A violin, viola and cello, all a part of the violin family, may sometimes be referred to by their players as a fiddle.
Over the years, there have been a number of clichés used to describe the differences between [...]]]></description>
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