Béla Fleck
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Banjo Is a Percussive Instrument, It's a Melodic Instrument
It's hard for banjo players to stop. It's because the banco doesn't have sustained so the way that we create the illusion of sustain is to do a continuous arpegios and inolingson and wen. So it provides all this drive, but it also provides a sasonic change, which you don't get if you're playing constantly. Banjois half percussion instrument and half melodic instrument.
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