Clear your thoughts of banjo-picking as happy music. Stop those toes from tapping. If you start humming the cheerful ripple of “Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms,” quit it. We’re at the ...

To me, an important determining factor in the sound and feel of a riff is which pick-hand finger I use to attack certain notes. For example, Figure 1 shows a bluesy riff based on the G minor ...

Banjo picks. Brad Wheeler. Published August 12, 2009. This article was published more than 15 years ago. ... "Scruggs refined the three-finger banjo picking style in 1945," notes Quinn, ...

The Banjo Virtuoso's Most Important Pick. ... NASHVILLE -- His fame is such that he's referred to simply as Earl, and his fiery, rolling, three-finger attack as "Scruggs style." ...

If there is a Rodney Dangerfield of musical instruments, surely it is the humble banjo, that plunky, down-home melding of drum head and plectrum neck that gets about as much respect in the serious … ...

Oct. 7, 2011 — -- From the early days as a "Saturday Night Live" guest host to his film career, Steve Martin's life has been steeped in comedy, but few knew that the banjo he used during ...

Finger-pickin’ Good: American Banjo Classics Co-producer and banjo extraordinaire Greg C. Adams talks about Classic Banjo, a collection of American tunes that show off modern banjo’s diverse roots ...