Banjo Diaries 1: Boil That Cabbage Down

I have recently come into possession of a banjo. In purchasing it, I was hoping to start a more robust instrument practice than I've done in some time. I make do with a clawhammer-y strum thing on my old beater banjo, but I want to really learn the instrument and participate in a musical tradition, so I've resolved to learn Earl Scruggs-style bluegrass banjo, a 3-finger picking method with…