Absolute Beginner Violin Method Book 1

Made Especially for Adults on a Tight Schedule

Other violin method books are written for kids. Adult violin students have different needs than kids. This book is made specifically for adults. Since you are smarter than a 3rd grader, your comprehension is higher, so don't need to go on the same long, tedious journey that kids need to. 

Your journey, in fact, is much shorter.

Kids need to learn the alphabet, basic math and practice discipline before they can start playing. You have time and experience on your side, making you a much faster student.

Because of this, learning to read sheet music is much faster, too. 

Surprised? Antoinette was too, when she started teaching adults. But she realized that while the popular belief is "you have to learn violin when you're a kid," nothing could be further from the truth! Her adult students have always progressed faster than her young students, because they already had so many basic concepts down through life experience.

Because they moved so fast through the books she initially used, she started developing a method for busy adults with lives and children of their own. Most adults don't have the leisure of having hours of practice time available each day. With that in mind, the songs and exercises you'll be practicing are the CORE exercises you need to focus on for the FASTEST progress.

Authored By a Specialist Who's Been Through What You've Been Through

31 years ago, Antoinette was confronted with a decision. The result would change her life, and the lives of hundreds, and later thousands of others forever.

When she wanted to start violin, she didn't have money for private lessons like everyone else seemed to. She had to decide: "I really want to learn violin. It's such a beautiful instrument, but I can't afford lessons. I'd have to learn it on my own. Should I try, knowing I might fail? Or should I just bootstrap my own way, go for it and stick with it until I can prove to myself that I can do it?"

Luckily for her, and for you, she chose the latter. After years of practicing every single day in the hopes that through mere grit and effort, she would somehow rise to the ranks of "first row" in orchestra (which only seats the best players). Being a part of a professional orchestra sounded nice, but she knew she mainly wanted to play for friends and family, and most of all, to prove to herself that she could indeed learn the "hardest instrument" and sound good, too.

It took years. She had a little help, but nothing she could afford to pay for out of pocket. Through a combination of believing in herself, and picking up the violin every day, she was able to progress, little by little.

20 years later, she found herself in position where she was able to start teaching violin. In that very first lesson, she realized she had found her life's passion: helping others, and being able to spend time with her absolute favorite instrument.

Not long after starting to teach, she started accepting adult students, knowing that she had had success teaching children. She noticed something very interesting. 

We've all heard the adage, "you have to be young to learn the violin." She started taking notes on how fast the children were progressing through their method books versus the adults and she found that the adults were progressing much faster.

After a while, she found herself picking and choosing certain exercises for the adults, knowing that they had a much faster rate of learning. And, to keep speed them along, she started researching various ways to relay musical concepts and violin technique. Throwing away the useless, ineffective and time-consuming methods, and emphasizing the fast, effective explanations and exercises, she eventually honed her own method.

That method, after 8 years of research, is contained within this book.