♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> brown: we're joined now by another grammy winning banjo player bela fleck.re. thank you for asking me. >> brown: tell us about the earl scruggs sound. what did he do with the banjo to create something new? >> well he's the guy who really made that leap of using three fingers in a rotating fashion to create this fast rippling sound that had never been heard before. and i can show you. >> brown: please. >> he wears two finger picks and a thumb pick and by alternating them he can play about as fast as he wants. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ so it's this action. you couldn't move one finger that fast but all three it's pretty easy and it's kind of an incredible leap. >> brown: tell us a little bit more about the history of his playing and really changing the sound of bluegrass music. >> well he really exploded on the scene in bill monroe's band in the early '40s and when he joined the band it was an incredible thing. they played the grand ole opry and i think it was like a beatle's type response where nobody had heard anything like this before and i think his playing propelled bluegr