The banjo sites:

Exbanjo.com

and

Kafiristan.com

really helped me. The latter was the home of the DownNeck Gazzette. Patrick Costello and his Dear Old Dad prepared a Real Audio clawhammer workshop every month for over a year. This was combined with the text and graphics to really help me get started. They are on hiatus now, but the workshops are still available for download. It looks like they are also going to redo them to add video.

great concept.

JAB