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I don't think people are fully aware that Bluegrass rolling patterned banjo is just joplin style rags

He smoothed out the rolls of notes, making them more continuous than other players had in the past. According to banjo player John Hartford, who wrote the hit song "Gentle On My Mind," Scruggs recreated African-inspired ragtime rhythms on the modern banjo. Hartford says that like ragtime pianists, Scruggs forced rolls of three notes into two- and four-beat time signatures.

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