Foggy Mountain Breakdown

"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" is a famous bluegrass music instrumental by the seminal bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. It is used as background music in the 1967 motion picture Bonnie and Clyde, especially in the car chase scenes, and has been used in a similar manner in many other pictures and television programs, particularly when depicting a pursuit scene in a rural setting.

Related Topics:
Bluegrass music - Flatt and Scruggs - 1967 - Bonnie and Clyde - Television - Rural

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It was written more than a decade earlier by Earl Scruggs. It is closely related to Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Breakdown, which Earl helped to write. It featured the same opening double hammer on, but Bluegrass Breakdown goes to an F chord where as Foggy Mountain Breakdown goes to the G chords relative minor, an E Minor.

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Many banjo players consider the Foggy Mountain Breakdown one of the instrument's fastest and most rythmically challenging pieces. Only very skilled banjo players can play the song at the same speed and beat that Scruggs can.

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