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How Happy Trowned Learned to Play Banjo
Well Happy Trowned plays it like a bluegrass player with a nice, gentle role. I petitioned the Student Affairs Council to get me a banjo teacher because they didn't have one at the world's most elite preparatory school in New England. And that was the big fork in the road for me. Was learning this primitive ultra-american of the style that came from Africa. The revolutionary thing about this is that it's both rhythm and melody. It's all about this drone string. And it just fills everything out. When I play the fiddle, it's the same way. A lot of folk music use it, the hammer dulce-em-em