I have been playing my Ode Longneck Five now for 15 years. I must say it is a great instrument. But I have been playing it totally short of it's potential for all those fifteen years. I mostly flat pick it or frail. Frailing I do in the most basic of ways. I want to stop playing banjo like a guitarist and learn to play Three-fingered banjo, possibly in a more Bluegrass like manner or just a solid folk style.
I found in a friends garage four years worth of The Banjo Newsletter, from 1976 -1980. I'm starting there. Any advice from the many who play Banjo among us?
If you were learning a Bluegrass tune as your first Banjo tune in a three fingered style what would it be?
I have learned a basic forward roll and a basic reversed roll and thats about it.