
This visually appealing and easy to follow fiddle and violin method covers everything you need to play beginning tunes in an easy to understand, step-by-step fashion that is perfect for students, parents and teachers. This colourful resource includes:
Shamma has done a beautiful job of combining years of teaching experience with her own mastery on the fiddle to present an effective method of instruction. This book is also well laid out and easy to follow and my own kids love the cute characters throughout its pages!
Natalie MacMaster
Cape Breton Fiddler
Setting goals has always been what pushed me to become a better player and they are vitally important to getting the most out of our practice times. This book gives each student a fun and challenging way to set those goals with a strategic plan in place to help meet them. With an emphasis on good fundamentals and a heart to learn, a lot can be accomplished in a short amount of time and will keep each player encouraged along the way.
Andy Leftwich
Bluegrass Fiddler
Delightfully light-hearted and serious at the same time, Shamma takes the new fiddle student and their teacher methodically and calmly through the forest of technique and practice. Thoughtfully presented at the perfect level of detail, the Method is logically organized and full of great advice that the reader will keep coming back to.
Bruce Molsky
Old-Time Fiddler
How wonderful to be guided along by such a great fiddler and teacher! Shamma Sabir’s newest book is great on so many levels. It brings you along the road of A Major and D Major while imparting life lessons along with fiddling techniques. I love the help with bow management, intonation (how much the fiddle responds to GDAE), stretching, placement of the fingers, which way the stick of the bow should face, use of a metronome (which I hated as a young learner but which looks like it could be my friend now). The tune choices are brilliant and, again, there is a great understanding and imparting of what comes next and what is a challenge. When I learned music, my lesson books were pages full of notes; all the explanations came from my teacher. What’s incredibly nice here is to be able to read and reread sentences of instruction and encouragement, and reasons for doing things - all quite gently expressed. As I move through the book I feel a kindness on the other end bringing me along, and wanting me to do well.
Liz Carroll
Irish Fiddler