Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs is an eminent person who changed the way people thought about the banjo. He changed an instrument that used to be for playing around to one of the most important instruments in the bluegrass music industry. Bluegrass is a style of music that is country music with a twist. Bluegrass was never much until Earl added the banjo. After Earl took the banjo seriously others were inspired by him in how he used what he loved to make a difference in the world. Earl Scruggs is an intelligent musician who inspired many people around the world by innovating the banjo into a very important instrument in the bluegrass industry. Earl had many creations, but what was his best creation was creating the “roll” on the banjo. A roll is a sequence of hand motions in a certain order on the strings of a banjo to create a sound. Before the roll was created there were slight picking styles and strumming on the banjo. He started playing the banjo before he was in first grade(ic.galegroup.com). His father and two sisters also played the banjo, but when Earl was young his father died and the only thing that kept his family and him going was playing music. His sisters and father inspired him to start playing the banjo and soon enough he started. The banjo was something that he played with most of the time and when he was ten years old he started…show more content… Earl inspired people to take the banjo seriously by putting the banjo out to world and saying that it was an important instrument that should be taken more seriously. After Earl tried his best to put the banjo out there new people started playing the banjo and He put the banjo in Bluegrass music. Earl was in many Bluegrass bands that made him very famous person. He wrote songs that won Grammy awards and that led him to the hall of fame. Before the banjo became
