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three-styles · adler1974-manual-formulaic-composition
- Claim ID
- three-styles
- Assertion
- Adler identified three major bluegrass banjo styles in 1974, distinguished by how they treat melody: Scruggs style breaks the melody into a syncopated skeletal pattern in which only every third or fourth note is a melody note; Keith style (or 'fiddle-picking') plays the exact melody by analogy with the fiddle; and a 'blues-chromatic' style emphasizes blue notes and slights the melody.
- Quote
The result is that only every third or fourth note played is actually a note of the melody
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 55
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