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	Biography - EarlScruggs.com
		Earl's father, George Elam Scruggs, was a farmer and a bookkeeper.
		At the age of ten, he developed a style utilizing three fingers that was to become known world-wide as "Scruggs-Style Picking." The banjo was, for all practical purposes, "reborn" as a musical instrument due to the talent and prominence Earl Scruggs gave to the instrument.
		This banjo picking style originated around a small area where Earl grew up and was not heard in any other part of the country except in that general region of North Carolina.
	www.earlscruggs.com /biography.html (768 words)

	Scruggs style - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scruggs style is the most common style of playing the banjo in bluegrass music.
		It is named for Earl Scruggs, whose innovative approach and technical mastery of the instrument has influenced generations of bluegrass banjoists ever since he was first recorded in 1945.
		The influence of Scruggs is so pervasive that even bluegrass players such as Bill Keith and Don Reno, who are credited with developing these latter styles, typically work out of the Scruggs style much of the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scruggs_style (504 words)

	CMT.com : News : Nashville Skyline : Salute to Earl Scruggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Essential Earl Scruggs (Columbia Legacy) is a marvelous journey through the life of the banjo in modern country music (modern being 1940 to the present).
		Scruggs relates in his liner notes that Monroe wrote the song as a band in-joke.
		Scruggs formed the Earl Scruggs Revue with his sons Gary and Randy and later added fiddler supreme Vassar Clements and Dobro master Josh Graves.
	www.cmt.com /news/articles/1485559/20040304/scruggs_earl.jhtml (728 words)

	Bluegrass Style Banjo - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		The banjo’s association with bluegrass came with the stylistic innovation of Earl Scruggs in the mid-1940s, when he joined founding father Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys Band.
		Scruggs was one of many Southern musicians who took up the instrument after it was reintroduced to the South by ragtime musicians and players in traveling minstrel shows.
		His arpeggiated, three-finger picking style is now commonplace among banjo players, and his breakneck playing in Monroe’s band led to the inclusion of the banjo, along with mandolin and guitar, as the primary instruments of the bluegrass sound.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461563401/Bluegrass_Style_Banjo.html (139 words)

	Earl Scruggs to receive star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Scruggs is being honored for his more than 55 years of musical creations and performances on records, radio, television and films.
		In early 2000 Scruggs began work on a project, his first new recording in 17 years.
		Scruggs has resumed touring this year with a select number of concert dates including this Saturday night, December 7, in Winston-Salem, N.C. Born in 1924 in North Carolina, Earl Scruggs has played Gibson banjos from the beginning of his professional career in rural North Carolina in the 1930s.
	www.gibson.com /whatsnew/pressrelease/2002/dec3b.html (462 words)

	EARL SCRUGGS
		Scruggs' sound diversified as his solo career gathered steam; today, at 77, he continues to record, perform and awe generations of music fans in every genre.
		Not only is Scruggs a musical legend, but so is his banjo: a Gibson Granada model manufactured in 1934 that he acquired in 1949.
		Notes Randy Scruggs, “Elton is such a fan of dad's — he came into the studio with a boxed set and asked dad to autograph it.
	mixonline.com /mag/audio_earl_scruggs/index.html (1559 words)

	BlueGrass Music History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Scruggs played an innovative three-finger picking style on the banjo that energized enthusiastic audiences, and has since come to be called simply, "Scruggs style" banjo.
		From 1948-1969, Flatt and Scruggs were a major force in introducing bluegrass music to America through national television, at major universities and coliseums, and at schoolhouse appearances in numerous towns.
		Scruggs wrote and recorded one of bluegrass music's most famous instrumentals, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," which was used in the soundtrack for the film, Bonnie and Clyde.
	www.westerntoday.com /entertaiment/music_grass.php (1025 words)

	Banjo Teachers Directory
		Style: Scruggs and Melodic (beginning to advanced) We are homeschoolers and welcome other homeschool students.
		Style: I've played music professionally for over thirty years, and was a community college instructor for fifteen years, so I like to think that I know a little about playing and can also teach.
		Style: Scruggs Style, Jimmy Martin and Folk (basically I'll teach someone how to accompany themselves on the banjo to folk songs and even rock and pop).
	www.angiesbanjo.com /Teachers.htm (599 words)

	peermusic - The Independent Major :: Earl Scruggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Born in Flint Hill, North Carolina, on January 6, 1924, Earl Eugene Scrugs, as half of the duo Flatt and Scruggs, brought the intricate, energy-fused bluegrass sound to the attention of the massess.
		Their first recording dates were in Cincinnati, with some recordings featuring Scruggs on guitar (he also finger picked guitar superbly) instead of banjo.
		Scruggs formed The Earl Scruggs Revue, an all electric band, with his sons Gary on bass and Randy on guitar along with former Flatt and Scruggs dobroist Josh Graves and Vassar Clements on fiddle.
	www.peermusic.com /artistpage/Earl_Scruggs.html (719 words)

	Earl Scruggs, king of the banjo - July 22, 2005
		Scruggs will be joined by his son Gary, who plays bass and is the group’s lead singer and emcee; Rob Ickes, dobro; John Gardner, drums; Jon Randal, acoustic guitar and Bobby Hicks, fiddle.
		Scruggs was 10 and sitting in his room noodling on the banjo.
		Scruggs, his partners Lester Flatt and the Foggy Mountain Boys, were a mainstay of bluegrass from 1948 until Scruggs and Flatt parted ways in 1968 to pursue their own musical interests.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0722/life/stories/10life.htm (789 words)

	Welcome to Mel Bay's Banjo Sessions® Web Magazine
		Scruggs Style solo: The important element in this style is to keep roll patterns going in the right hand.
		The song is in the key of D and all the versions can be played using standard G tuning without retuning the 5th string, although you may prefer to tune the 5th string to the note A in the Scruggs style solo.
		Melodic Style solo: The guiding principal in the melodic approach is to avoid using the same right-hand finger on two consecutive quick (eight) notes.
	www.banjosessions.com /oct03/whiskey.html (674 words)

	rcmforums.org :: Forums
		Scruggs, 82, has been playing this music so long it predates the time when it got the name "bluegrass." His instrumental tune Foggy Mountain Breakdown, cut in 1949, is regarded as one of the most recognizable American songs of the 20th century.
		Scruggs said he first met Martin in the early '70s when the comedian did his stand-up routine as a warm-up before Earl Scruggs Revue concerts.
		Scruggs, who now rarely performs, is still mourning the death in February of his wife and longtime manager, Louise Scruggs.
	realcountrymusic.org /cgi/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=128932 (1904 words)

	5-String Banjo Keith Style Melodic Chromatic Banjo Lesson 1
		Melodic style banjo is known by a few other names: Keith Style, Chromatic Style and Fiddle Tune Style...today, it doesn't seem to hold the same popularity it once did in the '70s.
		Outside of the fact that this approach always seemed to lay in the shadows, while a few progressive exponents of the style have carried it forward, it may still be discovered as a mainstream approach in its own right.
		Scruggs Style is based on chords and rolls with accents on the interspersed melody notes within chordal forms.
	www.folkofthewood.com /page4258.htm (676 words)

	SPBGMA: Flatt and Scruggs-Preservation Hall of Greats 1985 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Earl Eugene Scruggs was born January 6, 1924 in the Flint Hill community near Shelby, North Carolina, where the three finger style of banjo playing that Earl would popularize, was a big part of the country or hillbilly music of those days.
		Flatt and Scruggs played many radio stations throughout the Southeastern United States in the early days with their own band, and recorded for major record labels, establishing themselves as a force in the music business.
		Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were inducted into SPBGMA's Preservation Hall of Greats on January 25th 1985, a fitting and just honor for all the years they spent playing their music, still enjoyed today by their fans around the world.
	www.spbgma.com /level2/flatt-scruggs.html (2158 words)

	banjo picking \| Ask MetaFilter
		In that, the drone string (the high G, the string closest to the player) is played by the player's thumb and then player uses their pointer and middle finger (along with the thumb sometimes) to play the other 4 strings.
		It is a simpler style of playing than 3-finger, but 3-finger style grew out of frailing and was just about singlehandedly developed by the great Earl Scruggs.
		I neglected to mention Don Reno, Ralph Stanley and onto Bela Fleck all contributed greatly to the evolution of Scruggs Style picking.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/24020 (998 words)

	Slow Jam: What Is Clawhammer Banjo?
		The clawhammer style of playing the banjo is the most common way to play the banjo in Old Time music.
		This new Scruggs' style of playing the banjo used very syncopated, fingerpicking rolls to enhance the hard-driving rhythms of bluegrass music.
		To understand the clawhammer style it is helpful to contrast it with its main rival, Scruggs' Style fingerpicking.
	www.bgot.org.vt.edu /whatis.htm (487 words)

	Banjo Teachers Directory
		Style: I've played music professionally for over thirty years, and was a community college instructor for fifteen years, so I like to think that I know a little about playing and can also teach.
		Style: Scruggs Style, Jimmy Martin and Folk (basically I'll teach someone how to accompany themselves on the banjo to folk songs and even rock and pop).
		Style: I've been playing over 30 years and teach traditional to newgrass as well as fiddle tunes and other chromatic styles.
	angiesbanjo.com /Teachers.htm (564 words)

	NPR : Bluegrass Musician Earl Scruggs
		Fresh Air from WHYY, January 9, 2004 · Earl Scruggs, who turned 80 on Jan. 6, originated the staccato three-finger, five-string banjo technique that became known as the "Scruggs style." He got his start playing with Bill Monroe's band in the 1940s, and then teamed up with guitarist Lester Flatt (fronting The Foggy Mountain Boys).
		The two penned and recorded the tune "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" which was used on the Bonnie and Clyde film soundtrack and was one of the first crossover hits of the genre.
		Scruggs teamed up with Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs for the new CD The Three Pickers.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1590559 (224 words)

	Roughstock's History of Country Music - Bill Monroe & Bluegrass
		Most notable was the addition of Earl Scruggs, with a driving banjo style, putting the final, distinctive seal on Monroe's bluegrass sound.
		Flatt and Scruggs and their band became members of the Grand Ole Opry in 1955, and were winning numerous fan polls and industry awards.
		In recent years, Scruggs has cut back on his activities, while his sons have made their mark as songwriters, producers and multi-instrumentalists in country music.
	www.roughstock.com /history/bgrass.html (946 words)

	Biography of Earl Scruggs
		Scruggs developed a lead guitar style, using the three-finger style, which was innovative and an entirely new sound.
		Scruggs brought two of his sons in to record with them and was a source of some tension.
		Scruggs had a plane accident in October of 1975 in which he was the pilot.
	www.flatt-and-scruggs.com /earlbio.html (8255 words)

	DiscoverBluegrass.com - Bluegrass education
		When first Earl Scruggs, and then Lester Flatt left Monroe's band and eventually formed their own group, The Foggy Mountain Boys, they decided to include the resophonic guitar, or Dobro into their band format.
		From 1948-1969, Flatt & Scruggs were a major force in introducing bluegrass music to America through national television, at major universities and coliseums, and at schoolhouse appearances in numerous towns.
		Scruggs wrote and recorded one of bluegrass music's most famous instrumentals, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," which was used in the soundtrack for the film, Bonnie & Clyde.
	www.discoverbluegrass.com /HowItBegan2.aspx (376 words)

	Bluegrass
		Banjo, his style of playing brought the banjo to the forefront of country music in the 50s and has brought thousands of people to the Banjo since then.
		The Scruggs Style of Banjo is based on a series of rolls with the right hand.
		My main playing style is frailing and melodic clawhammer.....though these are my favourite scruggs style rolls, but as i said it takes a lot of practice to play scruggs style well.
	www.unclebens.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /blugrass.htm (898 words)

	Bluegrass on tenor banjo
		Stanley style fingerpicking (used by 5-string banjo player Ralph Stanley) is the variation of Scruggs style with one substantial difference, which has major effect when the tunes are transcribed to tenor banjo -
		In Scruggs style on 5-string bluegrass banjo the melody is played by thumb whenever possible.
		The duality of thumb usage in Scruggs style also enables to play chain of four ascending notes by the finger sequence TIMT (which is part of forward roll).
	www.geocities.com /patekstylebanjo/styleScruggs.htm (2191 words)

	B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, Show schedule and ticket information. Ticketing, Box Office
		Earl Scruggs is to the five-string banjo what Paganini was to the violin - creating a banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is one of the defining characteristics of bluegrass.
		In 1968, Flatt and Scruggs broke up and Scruggs started a new band, the Earl Scruggs Revue, featuring several of his sons.
		Flatt and Scruggs won a Grammy Award in 1969 for Scruggs' instrumental "Foggy Mountain Breakdown".
	www.bbkingblues.com /schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=3559 (157 words)

	If only the boys back at the old mill could see Earl Scruggs now - Saturday, 09/04/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The banjo method he popularized now is called ''Scruggs' style,'' and it is a basic enough ingredient in bluegrass and other forms of folk music to be considered elemental.
		Scruggs fans will fill the hall's 213-seat Ford Theater each week, though it's doubtful that anyone will be as destructively enthusiastic about the music as was one gentleman who used to attend the dinner shows at the thread mill.
		Earl Scruggs and his Family and Friends Band will perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Ford Theater this month on three Tuesdays (Sept. 7, 14 and 21) and on Wednesday, Sept. 29.
	www.tennessean.com /entertainment/music/archives/04/08/56876693.shtml (844 words)

	Earl Scruggs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In addition to the concert there was a banjo workshop in the afternoon where all of the pickers took turns talking about, and giving tips about, playing the banjo to the people in the audience who showed up from all over the world.
		JD Crowe came up and talked about hearing Earl Scruggs playing on the radio and said that from then on he was hooked on the banjo.
		Gary Scruggs was real nice and I was also lucky enough to touch base with Dobro legend Jerry Douglas as well.
	www.gritz.net /subscribers_area/features/earl_scruggs.html (1872 words)

	Great Performances . Bluegrass Timeline . 1941-1960 \| PBS
		With the addition of Scruggs and Flatt, the "classic" line-up of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys is fixed: Monroe on mandolin, Scruggson banjo, Flatt onguitar, Cubby Wise on fiddle, and Howard Watts (aka Cedric Rainwater) on bass.
		Earl Scruggs' distinctive three-finger banjo picking, a style indigenous to his home in western North Carolina, becomes synonymous with what is later called "bluegrass" music.
		Rich-R-Tone releases the Stanleys' recording of a Monroe tune, "Molly and Tenbrooks." Monroe claims they are merely copying his style and is especially vexed by their recording of this song, which he often plays.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/bluegrass/multimedia/timeline2.html (562 words)

	USATODAY.com - Earl Scruggs talks Telluride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		At a time when most women were housewives, Louise became the business manager and booking agent for her husband, a banjo virtuoso and one of the most influential bluegrass musicians of all time.
		Louise: When the Earl Scruggs Revue was on the road, they played to younger audiences at colleges and with several popular music acts of the time — Loggins and Messina, The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield.
		Your contribution to the bluegrass sound is legendary with the "Scruggs style" of picking with three fingers on the banjo.
	www.usatoday.com /life/music/news/2005-06-15-scruggs-interview_x.htm (1068 words)

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