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scruggs-synthesis · rinzler-seeger1990-american-banjo-scruggs-style
- Claim ID
- scruggs-synthesis
- Assertion
- Earlier three-finger players such as Junie Scruggs, Snuffy Jenkins and Earl Scruggs himself patterned their playing on that of Smith Hammett and Rex Brooks, locally famous banjo pickers; Charlie Poole of North Carolina was another influential pre-Scruggs three-finger player of the 1920s. In Rinzler and Seeger's account, Earl Scruggs combined the best elements of the rhythmic and the melodic approaches, projecting the melody clearly within a variety of rolls and fills over a rock-solid rhythmic foundation, and his characteristic right- and left-hand patterns became the basis for thousands of banjo players.
- Quote
J.C. Sutphin's style is a very good example of the old-time, pre-Scruggs type of three finger picking which he said he learned from North Carolinian, Charlie Poole, one of the influential banjo picking recording artists of the 1920s. ... Junie Scruggs (Earl's older brother), Snuffy Jenkins, and Earl Scruggs himself patterned much of their playing after that of Smith Hammett and Rex Brooks, two locally famous banjo pickers ... Earl Scruggs ... has in a sense combined the best elements of these two styles as he projects his melody clearly within a variety of rolls and fills over a rock-solid rhythmic foundation. ... He has created a style, an instantly identifiable language of banjo playing, characterized by certain right and left hand patterns, which have been the basis for the playing of thousands of banjo pickers around the world.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- section: Introduction (continued)
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