An etude by definition is: an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill.
Here are a series of 10 banjo etudes, composed and arranged in the 19th century style of Stroke banjo. Each one addresses a specific technic found throughout the mid 19th century repertoire from Briggs to Converse. They stand alone as tunes you could use in a performance, either strung together or played separately....or with other tunes. They fall within a beginner to intermediate skill level and each one has a new challenge. When better experiment than to have Anthony Derycke, our French ambassador of the Minstrel banjo, test drive these and record them I will post the music ( notes and tab ) and link up his videos. He even came up with cool French names for each composition.