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The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, in modern...

Clawhammer, sometimes called down-picking, overhand, or frailing, is a distinctive banjo playing style and a common component of American old-time music...

records and slow them down to 16 rpm and tune his banjo down, so the notes would sound the same. Martin was able to pick out each note and perfect his...

to: Gonna jump down, turn around Pick a bale of cotton Gonna jump down, turn around Pick a bale a day Oh lordy, pick a bale of cotton Oh lordy, pick a...

may vary considerably. Banjo and guitar players may wear a metal or plastic thumb pick mounted on a ring, and bluegrass banjo players often wear metal...

A fingerpick is a type of plectrum used most commonly for playing bluegrass style banjo music. Most fingerpicks are composed of metal or plastic (usually...

three-finger bluegrass style of banjo playing. Hartford said often that the first time he heard Earl Scruggs pick the banjo, it changed his life. By age...

"held the riches that Dad had discovered. They could sing, fiddle, pick the banjos, and guitars with traditional grace and style found nowhere else but...

the banjo, he wore a special shirt that allowed a real banjo player to hide behind him. The scene was then shot with carefully chosen camera angles to conceal...

film is noted for a music scene near the beginning, with one of the city men playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-picking country boy. It is...

domestic setting: an old black man is teaching a young boy – possibly his grandson – to play the banjo. The painting was Tanner's first accepted entry...

used a pick pattern of D - D - U / D - D - U / D - D . . . . The traditional banjo roll form is D - D - U / D - D - U / D - D . . . this helps to accentuate...

Scruggs style much of the time.[citation needed] Scruggs-style banjo is played with picks on the thumb, index, and middle fingers; the pinky and ring fingers...

Pick Up a Bone is the first album by Rupert Hine, released in 1971. Pick Up a Bone was the only album by Hine that he did not produce himself. In its...

banjo stroke style are forms of down-picking, a technique in which the fingernail of a single finger – either the index or middle finger – is used to...

Guitar picking Shredding Traum, Happy (1974). Bluegrass Guitar. Oak Publications. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-8256-0153-8. PBS Documentary Give Me the Banjo Erbsen...

and returned to my school on Sunday evening. She was interested in my picking the banjo, and she asked me to get the five-string banjo down and play...

Banjo Frogs is a 1998 Australian claymation film directed by Nick Hilligos. According to the New York Public Library catalogue's listing of the film: "An...

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...

mid-nineteenth-century African-American banjo techniques and includes demonstrations of techniques, such as up-picking and strumming, which are not found in...