CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Jam Etiquette — Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina (Blue Ridge National Heritage Area)
- Key
- blue-ridge-music-trails-jam-etiquette
- Authors
- Blue Ridge Music Trails
- Type
- webpage
- Container
- Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina (Blue Ridge National Heritage Area)
Raw CSL JSON
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"title": "Jam Etiquette",
"author": [
{
"literal": "Blue Ridge Music Trails"
}
],
"accessed": {
"date-parts": [
[
2026,
11,
11
]
]
},
"container-title": "Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina (Blue Ridge National Heritage Area)"
}
Claims
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In bluegrass jams, musicians 'take breaks': each plays an improvised lead for a few bars of the tune, and whoever is leading the song usually indicates whose turn it is.
"Bluegrass musicians “take breaks,” which means that each individual plays his or her own improvised lead for a few bars of the tune. Whoever is leading the song will usually indicate whose turn it is to take a break."
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