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E-Books and CD Tracks are now available for download immediately after you purchase with a download link that is given to you automatically after completing checkout!

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HOW TO BUILD YOUR SPEED ON THE BANJO
Now Available in Download E-Book form with the CD tracks you download, or as a Hard Copy Book with CD

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.

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

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.

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

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

Now available in E-Book form! Download banjo lessons, tablature book and CD tracks right to your desktop!

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

Download the E-Book and CD Tracks of How to Build Your Speed on the Banjo by Ross Nickerson

SCRUGGS' STYLE INSTRUCTION FOR 5 STRING BANJO
Now Available in Download E-Book form with the CD tracks you download, or as a Hard Copy Book with CD

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

Lonesome Road Blues, Little Darlin' Pal of Mine, Fireball Mail, Groundspeed, Sally Goodwin, and Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Includes 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 That I have come across to date. I will buy more once I have this down".

Yesterday I received his Scruggs Style instruction book and 2 CD set, and lemme tell ya'll - I am blown away but the instruction on it! I learned more in 20 minutes of listening to the first CD and just floowing along with my finger in the book - NO banjo in hand! - than I did the first few months of lessons I took!

I am DEFINITELY going become a member there, and also am picking-up his other instruction books. He is explicit even down to where and why to put the odd finger on the odd string, and how that flows into the next chord. Best part is the recorded back-up band, minus the banjo recorded at both slow (beginner-level) and full speeds.

If I can get more actual lessons from Ross through the internet without having to chase him all over the world, then I will gladly pay the price asked! No wonder his site is named "BanjoTeacher.com" - that's exactly What he is!

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

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.

The Banjo Songbook by Ross Nickerson
Now Available in Download E-Book form with the CD tracks you download, or as a Hard Copy Book with CD

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, Two Dollar Bill and bonus song; America The Beautiful

The arrangements of these songs are all rooted in the Earl Scruggs style and accent the melody. They are great for students at a beginning and intermediate level that want to expand their repertoire with some easy to play arrangements of popular five string banjo tunes. They aren't terribly complex but they sound great.

All the songs include easy to read tablature and a CD recording of each song to hear the banjo at a slow, medium and fast tempo.

A top quality CD for the Banjo SongBook just re-recorded with Ross Nickerson performing the songs at three speeds for easy learning.

Available in DVD too!

The Banjo Song Book By Ross Nickerson

Click on the price link to purchase the E-Book option 15.00

Purchase the Hard Copy Spiral Bound Book and CD 19.95

Purchase the Hard Copy Spiral Bound Book and CD and DVD 39.95

Customer testimonials on The Banjo Songbook

Rhythm Backup Play Along Book and CD Volume 2
Now Available in Download E-Book form with the CD tracks you download, or as a Hard Copy Book with CD

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, 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.

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

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!

We'll send the E-Book download to you within 24 hours or less. The book comes as an easy to download and print out PDF file. We'll also send you included with the E-Book the tabledit tab files so you can hear, see and even edit the songs if you like. Tabledit offers a free viewer if you don't already have it. This was the first E-Book we've offered at BanjoTeacher.com. I'm very excited about this option! The convenience to the customer with almost immediate delivery and no shipping charges is a fantastic alternative.

Also free for members a new Christmas video of Hark the Herald Angels Sing played slow and fast by Ross Nickerson, with tab.

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

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

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.

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.

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