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banjo-styles · newton2022-machines-and-music
- Citation
- newton2022-machines-and-music
- Claim ID
- banjo-styles
- Assertion
- Bluegrass banjo has three predominant styles: Scruggs style, which plays the melody on lower strings interspersed with chord tones in patterns called rolls; melodic or 'Keith' style, which spreads the melody across strings to follow a fiddle tune more closely; and single-string or 'Reno' style. In a Scruggs-style break the melody is often simplified to allow more chord tones.
- Quote
Scruggs style uses three fingers (thumb, index and middle) and generally involves playing the melody notes on lower strings, while other strings intersperse the melody with chord tones, utilising different patterns of string ordering (referred to as banjo rolls).
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 477–478, 489
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