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  2. Bill Evans (bluegrass) - Wikipedia

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    2003: Power Pickin' Vol. 1: Up the Neck Backup for Bluegrass Banjo (AccuTab) 2005: The Bluegrass Banjo of Sonny Osborne (Accutab) hosted by Bill Evans and Tom Adler; 2010: Power Pickin' Vol. 3: Playing Banjo Backup in a Bluegrass Band (AccuTab) 2010: Power Pickin' Vol. 4: Power Pickin Vol. 4: Bluegrass Banjo Master Claas (AccuTab)

  3. Banjo roll - Wikipedia

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    Forward roll on G major chord in both standard notation and banjo tablature, accompaniment pattern characteristic of Scruggs style [1] Play ⓘ.. In bluegrass music, a banjo roll or roll is a pattern played by the banjo that uses a repeating eighth-note arpeggio – a broken chord – that by subdividing the beat 'keeps time'.

  4. Scruggs style - Wikipedia

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    Banjo, "standard roll patterns", on G major chord: Play forward ⓘ (above), Play backward ⓘ, Play mixed ⓘ, and Play forward-reverse ⓘ. [1] [3]Beginning with his first recordings with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, and later with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, Earl Scruggs introduced a vocabulary of "licks", short musical phrases that are reused in many ...

  5. Herbert J. Ellis - Wikipedia

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    He was the author of a banjo method, a guitar method, and a Tutor for Mandolin (1892), which he wrote while still in school. [ 1 ] Ellis was born in Dulwich , London, the son of a licensed victualler , and received no musical instruction beyond that given by his mother, who had been a pupil of Sir Julius Benedict; she taught her son the piano ...

  6. Banjo Newsletter - Wikipedia

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    The newsletter's banjo tablature selections, previously available only in the print magazine, also were made available online, with the option to purchase each tab separately. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] An online subscription option was added to the range of subscription choices, and a paywall was implemented to limit non-subscribers to five articles per month.

  7. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    5 strings 5 courses. G 3 D 2 G 2 B 2 D 3: banjo cello US One octave lower than 5-string bluegrass banjo. Banjo, contrabass: 3 strings 3 courses. Standard/common: E 1 A 1 D 2. Alternates: D 1 G 1 C 2; D 1 A 1 D 2; C 1 G 1 C 2; US Essentially in the same range as the bass banjo, but with a much larger resonator. These instruments are very rare ...

  8. Mandolin-banjo - Wikipedia

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    Two styles of mandolin-banjo, showing a large and small head, with a full size, four-string banjo (bottom). L-R - Banjo-mandolin, standard mandolin, 3-course mandolin, Tenor mandola. The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. [1]

  9. Crosspicking - Wikipedia

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    Crosspicking is a technique for playing the mandolin or guitar using a plectrum or flatpick in a rolling, syncopated style across three strings. This style is probably best known as one element of the flatpicking style in bluegrass music, and it closely resembles a banjo roll, the main difference being that the banjo roll is fingerpicked rather than flatpicked.