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The 2010 Banjo Cruise We have room for 9 more students! Don't miss this opportunity to advance your banjo skills...in the Caribbean! Six day Cruise to Key West, Grand Cayman and Ochos Rios. Reasonably priced too. We have room for 9 more students! Join Ross Nickerson, Tony Trischka, Rick Briggs, The Carter Brothers along with our fun support staff and our travel agent Helen on this incredible vacation/learning experience. Students will get lots of attention and instruction. This is going to be the best one yet. If you ever thought of being part of this wonderful event. Now is the time. We have low enrollment, small classes, an excellent faculty and are visiting great ports. The cruise classes are all when the ship is at sea. You'll have plenty of time to enjoy the cruise, visit the ports and relax. The cruise is for students of all skill levels and is always a relaxed supportive environment.

October 2009 Banjo Video lesson Free for members of our mailing list, our past customers and members of our BanjoTeacher.com members only site. Member’s only site subscribers have access to all past monthly lessons as well.

LOW Volume on Lessons

Hi, I'm real sorry about the low volume on the monthly lessons the last few months. This month I re-rendered the intro video and fixed this months lesson and turned it up as loud as I could. If you can use headphones that might help. also, tell the kids to be quiet, turn off the AC and crank up the volume. Sorry again. at least the volume level is better this month than it was for last month's lesson but next time I'll be more careful when we film the lessons.

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This first video in the smaller screen is an intro with tips and advice for the fretting hand exercises series. If you've viewed it already in a previous month, you could skip it. If you have not seen it yet, I recommend watching it through before getting started with the exercise videos below on the larger screen.

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Intro Video for the Left Hand Exercises



Here is this month's Fretting Hand Exercises Lesson Video

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Just released Check it out New CD from Ross Nickerson Soundbytes of all 14 songs	The ResNick Rayco Resonator "Dobro Banjo" Brand new live videos with The ResNick	Just Released Children's Song's for Banjo Made Easy By Ross Nickerson	BellBird Signature Model The "Cracka" 4 new demo videos. live in Australia click here	New Products Check out our new products New picks
E-Books Ross' Books are available as E-Books NO SHIPPING E-Books and CD Tracks are now available for download immediately	The Banjo Cruise 6 Nights from Fort Lauderdale January 24, 2010 Instructors: Tony Trischka, Ross Nickerson, Rick Briggs	Upgraded Online Banjo Lessons Online Lessons are available for immediate download	Ross Nickerson's Schedule Check out where Ross will be	Nova Scotia Banjo Camp Oct 23-25, 2009 Weekend Workshop for all skill levels Come join us in Beautiful Nova Scotia

New Ross Nickerson CD Let's Kick Some Ass Straight ahead bluegrass banjo recorded with members of Blue Highway, Rob Ickes, Shawn Lane, Tim Stafford and Wayne Taylor. Just Released Hear a Sound Byte Sound bytes of all 14 songs here Details CD available for digital download immediately after purchase

Further lessons like this appear in The Banjo Encyclopedia "Bluegrass Banjo from A to Z"

Online Lessons and E-Books now available as immediate download access. Also
Online Lessons are now in high quality flash video in addition to the split screen
windows versions.

New Online lessons: I've upgraded the videos for my Beginner courses, added 24 new songs in high quality split screen flash video, and ....another three new lessons that are keys to advancing, How to Use a Metronome and Timing Exercises, Playing Chords to a song with a Simple Roll and Learning the Chord Forms Up and Down the Neck. Click here to find out more about these new videos

Check out these Online Lessons. I'm very proud of these and I think you will be happy if you
try some. The new lessons include over 100 Must Know Licks in nine different
important categories of banjo playing. The subjects covered are Beginnings, Endings,
and Turnarounds - Must Know Scruggs Licks - Backup Banjo - Up the Neck Banjo \
Slow Banjo Styles - Blues Banjo - Bending the Strings - Chromatic, Triplets and Fun Licks,
along with Melodic and Single String Styles

I'm archiving these monthly lesson videos on the members site BanjoTeacher.com These are the lessons so far, (also the last four months) Jan, -08, Moveable Chord Lick, Dec-08, Fun Chromatic Lick, November,-08, Away in a Manger, October-2007 Choke Trick / Bending the Strings Tip from Ross Nickerson, September-2007 Old Joe Pull , August-20072 to 5 Explosion, July-2007 Hot Up the Neck Banjo Lick, June-2007 Bending the Strings, May-2007 Ground Speed Catchy D-Lick, April-2007 The 10th Fret Foggy Mountain Breakdown Choke and More, March-2007 Blues Run for Fun, February-2007 Single String Lick, January-2007 Must Know Scruggs Style Turn Around Lick-"Tag lick",December-2006 Bending the strings instead of sliding, hammering or pulling, November-2006 Shave and Haircut! October-2006 How to the Scruggs double hammer-on lick, September-2006 How to do the 3-2 pull-off lick.

Also for members Two banjo arrangements free for members with video and tab, Country Roads and Man of Constant Sorrow. If you'd like to become a member or see what else is
on the members site click here. It's only 19.95 to join, Two years 34.95, Three years 49.95

Present Members can access all the past Free Monthly Lesson Videos and Bonus Songs by Logging in and going to the Streaming Videos link.

	New compilation CD from Pinecastle featuring Ross Nickerson. Other banjo players featured on the CD include: Earl Scruggs, Sonny Osborne, Eddie Adcock, Jim Mills, Greg Cahill, Kristin Scott Benson, Scott Vestal and more. Free tab transcription with purchase too

	Rhythm Backup Play Along Book, CD and DVD Volume 1 and 2. The books have been revised, also DVDs with split screen video of the songs at three speeds.

	Two New DVDs by Ross Nickerson Fundamentals of Five String Banjo and Banjo Songs for Beginners

Click the book you want to find out more about
or scroll down on this page for more information

Ross Nickerson upcoming Europe tour schedule for August and September

New ResNick Resophonic Banjo demo video New Nick Kick demo video at this link

Banjoteacher.com and Ross Nickerson will have a booth at these festivals this summer
Strawberry Park Bluegrass Festival, Preston, CT May 28-31
Appalachian Uprising Bluegrass Festival, Chesapeake, Ohio June 4-6
Bean Blossom 43rd Annual Bluegrass Festival Morgantown, Indiana June 13th to 20th Summersville Music in the Mountains, Summersville, West Va June 24-27

Schedule

New Gospel Songs for Banjo Book with DVD or E-Book with CD Tracks by Ross Nickerson 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

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.

Gospel Songs E-Book Version - 34 pages with 76 CD tracks, now with immediate download option. Buy now 15.00
DVD Version Book with DVD - Includes all the songs at three speeds and split screen close-ups. Special menu option for scrolling through the songs only at the speed you are working at. Buy now 24.95

New Updates page. Shows corrections available and upgraded versions of Books/CDs/DVDs/Online Lessons or E-Books. These upgrades are available at either no extra cost or discounted amounts for students who have purchased previous versions.

New DVD Essential Banjo Licks. This DVD is similar to my latest Online Lesson series, Must Know Licks, but in hard copy. It was not filmed at the same time and it is slightly different but if you already have the Must Know Online Lesson series, there is no need to purchase the DVD also. It really just depends on which format your prefer. There are over 100 Essential Banjo Licks in nine different important categories of banjo playing on the DVD. The subjects covered are: Beginnings, Endings, and Turnarounds Must Know Scruggs Licks Backup Banjo Up the Neck Banjo Slow Banjo Styles Blues Banjo Bending the Strings Chromatic, Triplets and Fun Licks Melodic and Single String Styles

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Bonus Song using the new innovation D-Tuners at BanjoTeacher.com.

New D-Tuners, check these out.

See a demonstration! I filmed
myself describing and demonstrating the
new tuners.
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