Ross Nickerson Banjo Workshop - St Petersburg FL Feb. 11, 2023
Ross Nickerson Banjo Workshop
St Petersburg, Fl. February 11th, 2023
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1 to 4:30 PM
Some Topics Focused on in Ross's Banjo Workshop:
Banjo Techniques
- Developing Skills to become a better banjo player
- How to play a song you don't know based on the chord progression
- How to most efficiently and correctly learn a song from tablature
- Fully understanding how to count time and practice timing
- Understanding what it takes to play from one end of the song to the other without stopping to fix mistakes.
- How to overcome obstacles and break through to the next level
- Developing more speed in your picking
More Advanced Techniques
- Playing in the keys of C, D, E, F from open G tuning
- Up the Neck Techniques
- Mixing Scruggs, Single String and Melodic Styles
- How to take what you can play already and turn it into 10 new things
- How to fully develop and solidify correct picking hand technique
- How Muscle Memory works and how to use it
- Playing the Blues on Banjo
Workshop Location
Doc Feaster's - Private Residence
1225 42nd Ave North, St Petersburg, FL (Located in Central St Petersburg)
Saturday, February 11th, 1:00 to 4:30 PM
Performance by Ross Nickerson
Evening House Concert - Doc Feaster's House
Saturday night, Feb 11th 7:00PM - Open to the Public (Free for Workshop Attendees)
1225 42nd Ave North, St Petersburg, FL
Private Lessons with Ross
Sunday Afternoon, Feb 12th
Workshop attendees get first priority for available time slots. Contact us to reserve.
Location of Private Lessons will be supplied after you register.
Register here online to reserve your spot. Registration Cost is $129 - Purchase on this page to reserve or call 1-866-322-6567
Registration also includes PLATINUM LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP to Ross's BanjoTeacher.com Members site Free.
More Details on the Platinum Site here.
Platinum LIFETIME Membership Details
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Listen to Ross Nickerson - sound clips below
Banjo CD
Let's Kick It - Ross Nickerson on Pinecastle Records
Straight ahead banjo playing featuring Pinecastle Recording Artis Ross Nickerson and members of the band, Blue Highway, Rob Ickes on Dobro, Shawn Lane Mandolin/Fiddle, Tim Stafford, Guitar and Wayne Taylor Bass. Engineered by Scott Vestal. 14 songs in all.
Let's Kick It features fast tempos, explosive solos and some great new bluegrass music. The band rips up some great Bill Monroe standards, swings Lady Be Good and drives home other standards like Little Maggie along with Nickerson originals, Roundhouse and Feeling Low.
This "incredibly hot" banjo project must have been filled with jet fuel the way it took off after I started playing it
Ross's new album is on fire!!! I listened on my car CD player and forgot which road I was traveling
Click on the song title to hear soundclips
1. RoundHouse
2. Cluck Old Hen
3. Kentucky Mandolin
4. Dixie Hoedown
5. Old Dangerfield
6. Little Maggie
7. Rough and Rocky
8. Bluegrass Breakdown
9. Lady Be Good
10. Jerusalem Ridge
11. Feeling Low
12. Wheel Hoss
13. Can't Stop Me From Dreaming
14. John Henry
...The disc IS incredible ... Fantastic banjo tracks brilliantly played! Really enjoy the music Ross, thanks very much. If only I could play half as good as you one day I would be very happy!Karl
...Every inch of Let's Kick It is exactly what its title implies, true heel-kickin' Appalachian joy, unrestrained delight in zesty melodies
Let’s Kick It Tab Book Available!
Note for note transcriptions of all the Ross Nickerson solos from Lets Kick It. Meticulously transcribed with easy to read tab right down to the last bend, hammer-on, pull-off and slide. Details.
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The Banjo Encyclopedia "Bluegrass Banjo from A to Z" - $5 Off Sale This Month
Ross Nickerson's best selling banjo technique book.
The Banjo Encyclopedia is a comprehensive, in-depth banjo instructional book and CD that covers in depth the intricacies of bluegrass banjo playing, including numerous topics that have been overlooked in banjo instruction to date. The Banjo Encyclopedia can take a student from the beginning, to intermediate, and right through to more advanced styles of banjo playing.
More Information Here are two free Mp3s from the Advanced Songs chapter in the Mel Bay Book by Ross Nickerson,The Banjo Encyclopedia
Tab for these songs in The Banjo Encyclopedia
Ross Nickerson Brief Playing and Teaching Bio
Ross Nickerson is an award winning banjo player with a successful extensive performing, recording, and teaching career behind him. He has performed nationally and internationally and held many banjo workshops abroad as well as at home. He has performed at such notable places as Opryland in Nashville, Tokyo Disneyland, and Silver Dollar City and has won the Telluride Band contest twice.
Ross is the author of best selling banjo book, The Banjo Encyclopedia, “Bluegrass Banjo from A to Z” and has written and recorded over 20 other Banjo Books and DVDs. As a signed artist with Pinecastle Records, Ross has recorded with many well- known bluegrass artists and appeared on compilation CDs with legends Earl Scruggs, Sonny Osborne and other top contemporary banjo players.
His latest CD on Pinecastle “Lets Kick It” features Ross’s hard driving fast picking style with four members of one of the top US bluegrass bands “Blue Highway”.
Note from Ross Nickerson
From the very beginning of when I started playing banjo I've always enjoyed sharing my knowledge and helping others learn to play the banjo. Through the years of experience I've had, teaching privately, and also traveling all over the US, Canada, Europe and Australia teaching group banjo workshops I’ve gained many unique insights into the common obstacles facing banjo students today. I've listened to my students, seen the challenges they face, understand what students are craving for and always strive to deliver practical, focused instruction in a personable and easy to use manner.
I launched BanjoTeacher.com in 2001 and I offer my many banjo books, DVDs, CDs, Online Videos, advanced banjo dvd videos, intermediate banjo lessons and lots of free resources for banjo students. We have a members only online lesson site and I have been offering banjo lessons online since 2002, even before the advent of YouTube. My business has also grown into a large banjo sales operation featuring pro set up and advice along with offering unique gear and supplies specifically for banjo players.
I've written the top selling banjo book "The Banjo Encyclopedia", “Bluegrass Banjo from A to Z” as well as many other books, CDs and DVDs designed to help you, the banjo student, save time and learn the fun of playing 5-string banjo easier and perfect your banjo technique.
Here is a link to the Banjo Encyclopedia. The Table of Contents featured on this page for this 240 page book will illustrate the many topics that could be covered.
https://www.banjoteacher.com/banjo-instruction/intermediate-banjo-lessons/banjo-encyclopedia-special-order-wire-bound.html
A Few of the Topics Focused on in Ross's Banjo Workshop:
Banjo Techniques
- Developing Skills to become a better banjo player
- How to play a song you don't know based on the chord progression
- How to most efficiently and correctly learn a song from tablature
- Fully understanding how to count time and practice timing
- Understanding what it takes to play from one end of the song to the other without stopping to fix mistakes.
- How to overcome obstacles and break through to the next level
- Developing more speed in your picking
More Advanced Techniques
- Playing in the keys of C, D, E, F from open G tuning
- Up the Neck Techniques
- Mixing Scruggs, Single String and Melodic Styles
- How to take what you can play already and turn it into 10 new things
- How to fully develop and solidify correct picking hand technique
- How Muscle Memory works and how to use it
- Playing the Blues on Banjo
Ross Nickerson
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