I took a look at the Patek technique which is interesting, but I don't want to retune. I'd like to develop a bluegrassy banjo sound, just playing chords with occasional runs, if that's possible, so I've been reading up on 3-finger picking. As several have pointed out the banjo makes a nice variation, and there's no banjo in any of the several sessions I attend each week.

I've wanted to fingerpick guitar for years but the sessions were always too loud and drowned it out--that doesn't happen with the old Framus with resonator!