William Bradford "Bill" Keith (December 20, 1939 – October 23, 2015) was a five-string banjoist who made a significant contribution to the stylistic development of the instrument. In the 1960s he introduced a variation on the popular "
Scruggs style" of
banjo playing (an integral element of
bluegrass music) which would soon become known as melodic style, or "
Keith style".