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How to Build Your Speed on The Banjo 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.

Testimonials from Customers
I would like for you to know the exercises have already help my speed and I like the presentation". Thank you. Dwayne Glanton

Ross,
The Dixie Breakdown book is a great exercise. Super roll practice. Fun song to work up and demonstrate the abilities of the banjo. Keep doing the web page and training material. I would like to see more intermediate - advanced methods and tab.
I have enjoyed all of the material you have offered. Thanks for being there for the aspiring banjo players of the world.
Joe Meyer

I've taken some private lessons but have gotten more out of your Building Speed book and CD.
Bob C

Ross, I ordinarily do not contact anyone when I purchase their products, but I had to let you know I purchased your "How to Build Speed on Your Banjo" and in just 5 days it has absolutely increased beyond my expectations. Billy F

Hear a sound byte from How to Build Your Speed on the Banjo

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Purchase How to Build Your Speed on the Banjo by Ross Nickerson for 4.95 off and no shipping charges with this E-Book option. When you purchase, I send you a a webpage with a link to download the Book in PDF with all the tracks from the CD. You can either download the tracks to your hard drive or keep returning to the webpage and simply click on the individual track links when working with a song. This version includes 24 two meausure rolls at three speeds to learn and practice with. Also included are the Tabledit tablature files that can be used to hear the songs on your computer

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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. Check out this sound byte of Foggy Mountain Breakdown as played by Ross Nickerson Songs Include: Lonesome Road Blues, Little Darlin' Pal of Mine, Fireball Mail, Groundspeed, Sally Goodwin, and Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Lonesome Road Blues     Little Darlin' Pal of Mine     Fireball Mail  
Groundspeed      Foggy Mountain Breakdown

I just received the instruction book on Earl's style instruction and listened to the CD, and it's simply fantastic! I'm not really a beginner but I didn't practice seriously! This method'll help me a lot, and I'm sure that in a short time I'll improve my technique a lot! Thank you for this, and I'll need to increase my speed and to work more...... Gerard Poisson

"I want to get the clear cut definition I hear in your playing". Alton Wagner, PA

"Nickerson...not just a good player but a really great player". Bob Piekel, Banjo Newsletter

"The sound is crisp and dynamic, unlike many other instruction CD's I already own".  Ralf R. Australia

"It would take pages to relate how much enjoyment I get from you Scruggs Style tapes".    Linda Gorchinsky, PA

"I am enjoying the personal instruction of a pro". John Hiatt, MD

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Purchase SCRUGGS' STYLE INSTRUCTION FOR 5 STRING BANJO by Ross Nickerson for 4.95 off and no shipping charges with this E-Book option. When you purchase, I send you a a webpage with a link to download the Book in PDF with all the tracks from the CD. You can either download the tracks to your hard drive or keep returning to the webpage and simply click on the individual track links when working with a song.

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12 popular 5-string banjo tunes in tablature with accompanying CD to learn from. Accents inserted for melody notes, improved tablature, and more. The Banjo SongBook has just been revised with three new tunes and a top quality re-recorded CD with the songs at played at three speeds for easy learning.Songs included are: Dueling Banjos, Wreck of the Old 97, Rocky Top, Bill Cheatum, Reuben's Train, Ballad of Jed Clampett, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Old Joe Clark, She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms and bonus song; America The Beautiful

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Gospel songs for Banjo is a collection of popular Gospel Songs arranged by banjo master Ross Nickerson.The tablature is big, easy to read and includes left and right hand fingering indications, as well as accent marks for melody notes too. The CD that accompanies the book clearly plays each song at three speeds and also includes a rhythm track to practice with. Also in the book is the chords for each song, instruction on playing and picking through the chord changes of the song as well as advice on how to learn the songs easier and use the rhythm tracks. These fun to pick arrangements all use proper 5-string bluegrass banjo technique and are designed so you can hear the melody clearly and learn the songs easily.

Songs included are: I'll Fly Away, Crying Holy, This is My Father's World, I am a Pilgrim, Are you Washed in the Blood, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, That Old Time Religion, Keep on the Sunny Side, Where the Soul of Man never Dies, I'm Working on a Building, Amazing Grace, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Wayfaring Stranger, and Do Lord.

Hear samples of two of the fast versions, don't worry, these are slowed way down and played at a medium tempo.
I'll Fly Away
I'm Working on a Building

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I firmly believe these backup tracks will help your progress a lot, and you'll have a lot of fun with them too, no matter what level you are at. I recorded the backup tracks in the recording studio at three different speeds, and not too fast either! The tempos of the songs range from very easy, (90 Beats per minute/BPM) to a slow medium tempo, (130 /BPM) to a moderate fast speed, 105 BPM double or cut time, (Four eighth notes per click). Included are recordings of the songs, backup play along tracks at three speeds to play along with, instruction tips on each song! In addition the book includes instruction on learning how to play by the chords to the song, has easy to read tablature with accent marks for melody notes, and there is a CD with available DVD.

Here are the songs included in the Rhythm Backup Band Play Along Book and CD Volume 2 by Ross Nickerson

This Land is Your Land, When the Saints Go Marching In ,The Crawdad Song, Pig in a Pen, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Jesse James, Ode to Joy, Oh Susanna, Battle Hymn of The Republic, Reuben's Train, Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms, America the Beautiful, She'll be coming around the Mountain, and Old Joe Clark.

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Purchase the Rhythm Backup Band Play Along Book and CD Volume 2 for 5.00 off and no shipping charges with this E-Book option. When you purchase, I send you a a webpage with a link to download the Book in PDF with all the tracks from the CD. You can either download the tracks to your hard drive or keep returning to the webpage and simply click on the individual track links when working with a song. This version includes the songs at three speeds and the backup band to play along with. Also included are the Tabledit tablature files that can be used to hear the songs on your computer

E-Book of Rhythm Backup Band Play Along Book and CD Volume 2

Purchase Volume 2 with Split Screen DVD, Spiral Bound Book and Backup Band Play Along Tracks CD 39.95

BanjoTeacher.com presents The Joy of Christmas Banjo Tab E-Book or Hard Copy 11 popular Christmas favorites Arrangements made easy to learn and play Now Available in Download E-Book form with the CD tracks you download, or as a Hard Copy Book with CD. INCLUDES A CD OF THE SONGS PLAYED SLOW AND FAST BY ROSS NICKERSON.

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, and God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman.

All arrangements are easy to play and learn. I wrote the arrangements so you could hear the melody clearly without having to be a virtuoso to get the satisfaction of playing them. I hope you'll like them! 

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BLAZING THE WEST CD and TABLATURE BOOK
Now Available in Download E-Book form with the CD tracks you download, or as a Hard Copy Book with CD

Easy to read tablature with tips on learning the songs, backup tips, notes on each song, and some photos. Country Music Television voted Blazing the West as one of the top ten albums of 2003 The International Bluegrass Music Association named Blazing the West one of the top 15 instrumental CD’s of 2003

Songs included are: 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. Featuring Banjo Player Ross Nickerson with special guests: RIDERS IN THE SKY, TIM O'BRIEN, DAROL ANGER, BUTCH BALDASSARI, MIKE BUB, JASON CARTER,JOE CRAVEN,DAVID GRIER, ROB ICKES, LAURIE LEWIS, PETER MCLAUGHLIN, TOM ROZUM

BANJO NEWSLETTER; "Nickerson's playing is tasteful, so carefully arranged, so very very thoughtful and complex".

BLUEGRASS NOW; A succesful merge that should encourage others to explore Bluegrass in the Cowboy way or should I say Cowboy music in the Bluegrass way".

TUCSON CITIZEN; No matter what mood or genre Nickerson has the chops to pull it off with brilliance and taste, and the sidemen to compliment every match and turn".

BLUEGRASS UNLIMITED; "Ross Nickerson deserves a lot of credit for coming up with tasteful, appropriate, and interesting banjo versions for such a wide variety of tunes, on some very challenging material".

.....I've been listening all week to the "Blazing the West" CD and am absolutely thrilled with it. Beyond banjo, beyond bluegrass, western music, or cowboy music as I prefer to call it, is my favorite music. Having the chance to listen to both cowboy music AND banjo is just delightful. I hope it will do very well for you and that you'll be encouraged to do a volume II. 8-) Thanks again and best wishes, Brenda Jackson

Recent Review in Sing Out Magazine

Joining Nickerson is an all-star cast, too numerous to mention in full, but which includes the Riders in the Sky, Jason Carter and Mike Bub (both from Del McCoury's Band), Laurie Lewis, Peter McLaughlin, Tim O'Brien and Blue Highway's Dobro wizard, Rob Ickes. Nickerson's playing is clean and powerful, with a lot of drive, but he can jazz things up as well, and it's especially on the cuts where he and Ickes square off that Blazing the West works best. The version here of Leon McAuliffe's "Panhandle Rag" is worth the cost of the disc by itself--the only thing missing is Bob Wills throwing in an "Ah-hahhh" or two. Banjo instrumental albums can be (and often are) tedious.