This is PDF Document that was Early Banjo Primer. It is based on an in depth look at the Early Tutors, and the work of Frank Converse, showing a cohesive path from the Briggs' and Rice books up to the monumental work by Converse in 1886 where he codifies the technique developed on a folk instrument into a cohesive and definable style.
This is a collection of ten progressive works to implement the essentenial elements of Stroke Style playing. Learn these, and you will have no problem in playing 90% of the 19th Century repertoire.
The Rice "Strike" aka the Converse "Combination", major and parallel minor keys, playing higher on the neck, simple Dactyl and more complex odd rhythms, flowing fiddle-like single lines, pull-offs, hammer-ons, slurs, chords, 3/4 and 6/8 timing,