Any banjo players out there?
Adventures with 'other' instruments...
Though i don't play much music lately, Ryan's comment brought back a memory of when i first started learning clawhammer banjo 28 long years ago...
I was a brand new beginner, learning from some softcover booklets. Youtube did not even exist yet, no banjohangout yet... there was really no banjo instruction on the internet yet. The only thing online to 'talk banjo' was Banjo-L, an email listserve. (and thank God for at least that) Horse and buggy days. 
Anyway, I remember very clearly the day that I finally 'got' the clawhammer stroke motion, after struggling on my own to get the rhythm and motion from reading my booklets.
As my clawhammer stroke began to flow, I added a hammer-on E minor chord to it (which was pretty simple)... and alternated the open G chord with the e minor hammer-on. It was pure magic to my ears.
Experiencing this was a musical epiphany, touching my very being. It sounds silly now, but at the time I could not stop playing this simple stroke and hammer-on...
I had the exact same experience, Strumelia! I still remember the simple melody and rhythm I played OVER AND OVER when I figured out the clawhammer motion. It was a Saturday night, and I remember grinning like an idiot while I played haha. I also remember telling myself that I'd better put the banjo down and go to sleep because I had church the next morning!
It's amazing how a simple motion can do so much between the fifth-string, drop thumb, clucking, and striking the banjo head. When I started trying to learn I would watch videos and couldn't wrap my mind around how the right hand could do all that.