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Ross, Just wanted to say thank you soooo much for putting out incredible material. My mother is the retired music teacher that you have talked to lately, we both have just picked up the banjo. I have been playing trombone for about 27 years now, am 6 hours away from my masters in performance. Let me just say that your material is OUTSTANDING! It truly does feel like you are there with us to guide us along. This has been so much fun to learn and I would really like to thank you for such wonderful material and for your great talent on this instrument. Thanks again and have a GREAT day! Mike Montgomery O=='={::} All
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Beginning
The 5-String Banjo The Beginning the Five String Banjo Book includes CD and or DVD! Everything
you'll need to know to learn banjo and get started having fun picking. Ross Nickerson covers all these subjects with you in a personal and informative way: Banjo rolls and picking patterns, left hand techniques, reading tablature, tuning the banjo, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, practice tips, memorizing, understanding timing, how to use a metronome, eleven songs, the chords up and down the neck and more. The two CDs come with the lessons demonstrated clearly at three speeds including a backup play along practice track for each song. The two hour DVD features high quality video with split screen technology and easy to use click through menus. Also included on the DVD is a special feature lesson on tuning the banjo, changing a string, putting on a strap, using the picks, tightening the head and other important banjo basics. The DVD also has an added menu option for scrolling through the songs at the slow, medium or fast tempos separately. Click on the price links below for fast secure credit card payment; Beginning The Five-String Banjo Spiral
Bound Book and two CDs $19.95 |
 Ross Nickerson's Best selling book, The Banjo Encyclopedia Read what banjo students are saying about The Banjo Encyclopedia Here
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Publications I'm confident if you buy the book and CD you will be very happy with it. A lot of work went into this one. It's 240 pages long, has 17 chapters, and has a 99 track CD. Testimonials for the Banjo Encyclopedia Click here to view the Table Of Contents Special wire bound Banjo Encyclopedia available only at BanjoTeacher.com 32.95 |
  DVD 1/Playing Banjo By Ear and Learning the Chords .....This format is so different from the mass of lessons on the market, it definitely is a jewel that stands alone. 130 minute DVD instruction to help you play without tablature, learn to memorize, learn the chords better and loads of practical tips for the student trying to reach the next level. Includes instruction on learning the chords to songs, playing rolls and chords, up the neck chords, minor major and seventh chords. Tips and exercises to improve your chord changing ability. How to improve timing, pick steady, improvise simply, add slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs to chords and chord changes in the song and much, much more. Click price link to purchase 29.95 DVD 2/Banjo Jamming and Play Along DVD and Bonus Learning the Chord Forms Video ....Superb help and many valuable thoughts and tips...the bonus learning the chords lesson on the "Jamming" DVD is worth the entire cost. Ross, You have hit a double homerun! The DVD's are excellent. Learn
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Essential Banjo Licks/Over 100 Must Know Banjo Licks and Techniques/Includes Tab book Nine different categories of Must Know" Essential Banjo Licks. This DVD has just been completed. It features over 100 useful and fun banjo licks that are essential to your knowledge and development. It was filmed using high quality split screen technology and features the licks played at a faster and slow speed to make it easier to learn. There is a full size tab booklet inlcuded right on the dvd for you to open and print out yourself. I am very please with the way this came out and I think you will be too. Read the descriptions below of the different categories of licks that are covered and demonstrated for you. The
subjects covered, Beginnings, Endings and Turnarounds, Must
Know Scruggs Style Licks
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Banjo Songs for Beginners by Ross Nickerson Purchase Banjo Songs for Beginners |
Learn how to make everything you play sound better while increasing your speed and overall ability. Get valuable insights on right hand technique, practice habits, and tips that will save you hours of practice time and move you towards your goals. Here is a sound byte from the song Dixie Breakdown which is used as a model for ways to improve your speed and many other important aspects of your banjo playing. The book and CD includes 24 two meausure rolls at three speeds to learn and practice with, as well as text instruction and personalized verbal instruction on the CD. Find out why so many banjo students have purchased and benefited from this specialized instruction method. ....I
would like for you to know the exercises have already help my speed
and I like the presentation". Thank you. Dwayne Glanton |
The Blazing the West Tablature Book Blazing The West Tablature Book for Banjo Easy to read tablature with tips on learning the songs, backup tips, notes on each song, and some photos. Country Music Television has voted Blazing the West as one of the top ten albums of 2003! El Cumbanchero, San Antonio Rose, Garcia, Panhandle Rag, Ghost Riders in the Sky, Texas Blues, Red River Valley, Lonesome Cowboy, Jesse James, Don't Fence Me In, Standing Eagle, and Streets of Laredo Both the Blazing the West CD and Tablature book are 30-day satisfaction guaranteed your money back with no shipping charges! Click on the price links below to buy. BLAZING THE WEST TABLATURE BOOK. $17.95 BOOK AND CD $24.95 Click here for even more information
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The Banjo Song book by Ross Nickerson The Banjo Songbook includes CD and or Video! Click here for more info on the Banjo Songbook Songs included are: Dueling Banjos, Wreck of the Old 97, Ballad of Jed Clampett, Old Joe Clark, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Bill Cheatum, Reuben's Train, Two Dollar Bill, She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, and bonus song; America The Beautiful. All songs are demonstrated at three speeds. The Book features tips and information about each song. Click on the price links below to buy. Spiral Bound Book and CD. 19.95 DVD
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Scruggs Style Instruction for Five String Banjo Hear Ross Nickerson perform six Earl Scruggs banjo classics at two speeds followed by detailed instruction with many Scruggs' Style insights and tips. Hear hard to get licks slowed down and get banjo instruction from someone that knows how to help you build a foundation. The valuable lessons on Scruggs banjo style you'll learn from this book and two CD's can help every aspect of your banjo playing. Hear a sound byte of the faster version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown played by Ross Nickerson Songs
Included The book includes tablature for up the neck solos and breaks for Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Little Darlin' Pal of Mine, Fireball Mail, a solid low break for Lonesome Road Blues, and some other tasteful innovations in solid bluegrass Scruggs Style. "Your
arrangement is as close to Earl as I have ever heard and your instructions
are breaking it down into digestible pieces so I'm actually making
progress each time I sit down. It is the best value in instruction
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A Backup Bluegrass Band You Can Play Along With! Two Volumes! 14 songs each I believe these backup tracks will help your progress a lot, and
I recorded the backup tracks in the recording studio at three different speeds. The
CD comes packaged in a double CD case with an audio CD of the songs
at three speeds, Volume 1 Cripple
Creek,Banjo in the Hollow Volume 2 America
the Beautiful, Battle Hymn of The Republic, The Crawdad Song Volume 1, Hard Copy spiral bound book with DVD & CD Volume
2 Hard Copy spiral bound book with DVD & CD Both Volume 1 and 2 Each volume is a Hard Copy spiral bound book with DVD and CD |
The Joy of Christmas Banjo DVD and Tab Book by Ross Nickerson BanjoTeacher.com
presents the Hark the Herald Angels Sing, We Three Kings of Orient Are, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Oh Come All Ye Faithful, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Deck the Halls, What Child is This (Greensleeves), Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Joy to the World, God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, and Away in a Manger. All arrangements are easy to play and learn. I wrote the arrangements so you could hear the melody clearly without having to be an advance player to get the satisfaction of playing them and hearing the melody. These types of songs are excellent for your development because you know the tune so well, you will instinctively improve your own ability to play and accent melody notes. I'm very proud of my arrangements. I think you will enjoy them and learn a lot from the DVD too. There are some slower songs, several in minor keys and 3/4 time tunes too. Many students have told me it's the best Christmas Banjo Book out there. Thanks, Ross Nickerson The DVD demonstrates each of the songs on high quality DVD video at either two or three speeds. The DVD also includes a Tablature book on a separate CDR that you print out yourself. Having the tab book on CDR saves from shrinking down the tab to fit in the box, it helps keep the cost of the DVD down and the full size tab book will be much easier to learn from. The tab book also includes learning tips on each song, the chords to each song written out separately and detailed tablature with right and left hand fingerings, a 32 page book. Click here to purchase 24.95 |
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 How To Practice Banjo Learn how to get the most from your practice time and progress faster. Ross Nickerson shows you proven techniques that really work helping you advance quickly and accomplish your goals. details |
 Rock Solid Timing and Back Up Tips What could be more important than good timing when playing the five-string banjo? It's not hard to learn if someone takes the time to show you how. Ross Nickerson takes you through learning timing step by step. details |
 Playing in the Keys of C, D, E, F and G Up the Neck Ross teaches easy techniques to quickly transpose the songs you already know in open G tuning to other keys. Help on this important transition in bluegrass banjo playing has been needed for a very long time, and here it is details |
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Let’s Kick it is the latest release from Ross Nickerson. Accompanying Ross’ hard-driving, blue- grass banjo are members of the critically acclaimed bluegrass band, Blue Highway, Rob Ickes on dobro, Tim Stafford, guitar and vocal, Shawn Lane mandolin and fiddle and Wayne Taylor, bass and vocals. Click for details Reviews of CD |
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