Thanks John! This is a very informative video. I just bought a banjo a few days ago! I am 63 and so hope I can learn to play it.

Thanks for the different angle and lighting that shows which strings you're actually hitting. Most videos I've come across are lit in such a way as to make it hard to see what's actually going on.

This is helpful to me as I am learning three finger banjo.  I like your style of teaching.

thanks for the vid. even seasoned composers need help understanding how different instruments are played according to their tunings and ranges. these are very helpful.

Awesome playing

That little quote ya said about, if you can do that ya cooking! Goes very far ! Thanks again for this lesson, on behalf of all the banjo warriors out there, thank you, Stray1 britians best unknown stuntman that never was,

Very good lesson...maybe the best I've seen

After watching this i found a new appreciation for banjo AND solfeggio. Awkward without a metronome but helpful. I get what you were trying to do with a play along type approach. Singing with the pattern in solfeggio really helped me grasp the same concepts I was trying to solidify with other videos. Cheers!

What a brilliant lesson, cheers man, Stray1 Britain’s best Unknown stuntman that never was,

I’m in a country where Banjo is hardly known let alone played. Bought an Australian-made Banjo (Asthon) from a Music shop owner before the Covid (2018), just to decorate my sitting room. Drg the Covid I picked it up, looked up some YT videos on how to play it. This video and a number of others like Jim Panky, Ed Sullivan, DAbanjo, Eli Gilbert to name a few have helped me play this beautiful instrument.
It cost probably around USD200+, I can’t complain bcoz there’s no other banjo around to compare it with😂. At 63, I can’t play fast but reaching up to 180bpm on certain songs is good enough for me.
I’m more into Gospel and Country. I guess I can claim to be the only one who plays the Banjo Scruggs’ style in my city, if not the whole state🤭. Dreaming of owning a low-end Deering/Gold Tone one day (just).

amazing job explaining this

Very good and very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

I once tried to learn this and the only roll that got stuck is the last one in the video :) The only one I use while picking (besides homemade stuff). Then I found clawhammer and was hooked! This gives me inspiration to try and learn some basic bluegrass again! Would really be fun to be able to play a few tunes as they should be played! Besides the poor version of foggy mountain breakdown I managed to learn lol:)

Nice Video, good lesson for a block head!

hey, this was really helpful! thanks a lot!

What roll would you use for " I'll fly away "?

This is great! Thank you so so much!

These make great warmups.

thank you for this post, very usefull.

Not everyone does it, but it is recommended basically because early banjo players did it and it's just sort of become something you do.

The same is true of the three finger playing style.  The "rolls" that became popular with Earl Scruggs and other early bluegrass players used three fingers rather than the 5 finger classical guitar style, so that is the pattern you see in all the tablature for playing.