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CONFIDENTLY PLAY THE VIOLIN WITH EASE AND JOY

by clearing fundamental blocks that stop you from progressing.

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🎻 Left-hand setup yielding consistent intonation & effortless vibrato.

🎻 Right-hand setup resulting in gorgeous tone & effortless bow technique.

🎻 Playing with musical expression you have only dreamt about but never achieved.

🎻 Effortlessly playing in seven positions with highly developed shifting accuracy.

You LOVE the violin yet it pains you so much that you are not able to play the way you desire.

Your heart hurts every time you play an out-of-tune note. Shifting to higher positions causes anxiety before the shift followed by despair the note was out of tune yet again.

Your vibrato is more than lacking because your left-hand tenses up just thinking about having to have a vibrato. You have practically given up your first finger vibrato will ever be like your second or third.

Then the fourth finger….always inaccurate, weak, and inconsistent without any hope of having a luscious vibrato.

Your bow hold is literally that, just holding the bow for dear life without proper knowledge of bow arm mechanics, bow flow, or the roles of the individual fingers in the bow hold resulting in forced tone, crooked bows, scratchy sounds, and stiff bow changes.

More advanced refined bow strokes like spiccato seem absolutely unachievable no matter how hard you try or how many hours you practice.

You are absolutely frustrated spending valuable lesson time on piece after piece without proper instruction on how to actually execute the techniques within the pieces.

You know deep down if you just had the proper training from someone willing to truly work with you and not just neverending pieces, you would be able to transform playing with heartache to playing with JOY!

You are worthy and deserving of proper foundational training to support your desired results. It is time to go deep and transform the left and right sides of your body to support the violin journey you truly wish to build. It is time to build your foundation on brick and not shifty sand.

At the end of the day you know playing piece after piece is NOT getting you where you desire to be. Let’s build a stronger bond with you and your violin journey by taking the time to go deep into the root cause of WHY you are not able to play accurately and expressively.

Heather is an expert in her field and specifically provides professional Violin Lessons for Adults.

Effortless Vibrato

Transform your left hand set up first and the relaxed vibrato will be the positive side effect. No need to spend hours practicing vibrato on a faulty left hand.

Step 1: Get your left hand checked out by Heather before delving into the world of vibrato.
Step 2: Reset your left hand (if needed.)
Step 3: Enroll in Vibrato Academy.

Gorgeous Tone

Transform your right hand set up first combined with proper bow arm mechanics and watch your tone flourish beneath your eyes. Combine this with an effortless vibrato and playing with musical expression is realized. With a faulty right hand, it doesn’t matter if you know all the bow stroke names and what they are if you are unable to execute them properly.

Step 1: Get your Left and Right Hand diagnosed by Heather.
Step 2: Retrain your left and right hand if needed.
Step 3: Enroll in Gorgeous Tone Academy
Step 4: Follow the program and attend the 6 live group workshops.

Position Fluency

Without sufficient practice time spent studying positions, you will always continue to play a position guessing game in your pieces, play out-of-tune notes, and hesitate reading in upper positions. How can you expect to play in tune in the upper registers if you do not understand the violin like the fingerboard it is? Working with a teacher through traditional position method books will take YEARS. As an adult violinist, your time is now. Let’s get you sorted in 8 weeks.

Step 1: Have a solid foundation playing and reading in 1st and 3rd positions.
Step 2: Enroll in Position Mastery Academy, 7 positions in 8 weeks.
Step 3: Follow the program and attend the 6 live group workshops.

My live private lessons with Heather have transformed my playing, in the best ways possible. With 6 months of study, my bow strokes have become more organized and my sound is more focused. She methodically separates left hand and right hand skills so that you can comb through all types of challenges. She always circles back to working on good tone production.

I also teach violin and studying with Heather has turned me into a much stronger teacher. My students are greatly benefitting. I am a section player in a professional orchestra. My orchestra playing has improved greatly. I am able to get the passage work much faster. In private lessons, I can easily send Heather an orchestral excerpt to work on at my next lesson. Technology makes it so easy. Plus, if I am having a technological challenge, Heather always offers tech support. If you are considering taking private lessons, I would definitely not look anywhere else as Heather can meet all your violinistic needs! It is a pleasure to study with Heather and I look forward to continuing my own private studies with Heather.

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Alyssa KuhnViolinist, Illinois USA

I am not exaggerating when I say that Heather and her Gorgeous Tone Academy (GTA) changed my violin journey in a radical way. I have Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Violin Performance and have played for over fifty years. But, in just over a year of studying with Heather, beginning with enrolling in the GTA, I have re-set my bow hand and left hand posture. I am now playing more freely and confidently than I ever have in my life! Heather teaches in the most efficient and encouraging manner I have ever experienced.

I know the expense of the GTA may seem daunting. However, I chose to view it in terms of the price of a lesson per week. If one considers ALL the information, musical excerpts, training videos, the live sessions, and the fact that all of it is accessible FOREVER (and the fabulous list of freebies included!), the price per week turns out to be very reasonable. Heather and her GTA will greatly enhance the violin journey of beginners or veteran players alike. Don’t miss the Gorgeous Tone Academy opportunity!

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Susan StephensonViolinist & Suzuki Violin Teacher

Before I started studying with Heather, I had some position hesitations, intonation issues, and really being able to draw the sound from my instrument. Since working with her, I’ve noticed more confidence in my playing and shifting. More accuracy and ease with my playing. My intonation and all around playing has really been enhanced into something I wouldn’t have been able to do on my own.

I’ve learned so much already in just four lessons! I knew she was the perfect teacher for me through her amazing YouTube videos and what I was able to gain from them! She really knows how to get one to enhance their skills and make them a better player! I couldn’t be happier!! I’m so inspired and driven to be a better player now!

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Emilio ArredondoViolinist, Texas USA

Heather’s Gorgeous Tone Academy is wonderful, you have access 24/7 and can go back and repeat and continue to advance as your practice and ability increase! Always improving and learning as you progress! Heather is an amazing teacher, with kindness and humor, making the journey enjoyable and fun!

She has a positive approach and I have never gone away feeling discouraged or disheartened. I am always excited to keep practicing and enjoy it as well, always ready to learn new things and try them out. I Love everything I have received so far!

I am very picky when it comes to a teacher, I can learn from and also feel comfortable with. Heather is amazing and has such a passion to teach and play the Violin, she really wants, and is excited to see you succeed! She is an incredible Violinist and Teacher!

Thanks Heather for not just being my teacher but for being my friend. The staff is also great to work with and prompt to answer questions and concerns.

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Jann CookViolinist, Wyoming USA

I can’t say enough good things about Heather’s unique teaching style or how much it resonates with me. She’s more of a “Spiritual Warrior Violinist,” than a mere conventional instructor!! She uses a fun, spunky, energetic coaching style to motivate her students, while employing an intuitively inspired and distinctively holistic, “mind, body, spirit” approach to teaching. So, instead of merely teaching you how to play the violin, she actually empowers you with the tools to transform yourself into an “instrument for the instrument.”

It’s truly an awesome way for professional intuitives to manage their energy effectively, while also developing/ deepening energetic sensitivity & awareness and learning to transmute vibration. It’s turning out to be an amazing tool in my tool-set!!

So, if you’ve always wanted to learn the violin, but thought it was too challenging to do so, Study with HEATHER via her GORGEOUS TONE ACADEMY!

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Cristie Kephart Downs Intuitive Healer Connecticut, USA

I have enjoyed Melodic Etudes in First Position so much, and I recommend it to anyone who is looking to review and solidify basic techniques. These etudes which Heather wrote will become the basis of my practice routine whenever I have an opportunity to practice.

I began this study with only one year of violin playing, and there were a lot of basic bowing and finger techniques which I never had a chance to work on before the study.

The local teacher whom I was studying with was only focused on correcting my bow arm, and she never worried much about my intonation or the finger frame on the left hand until pretty much towards the end of my study with her.

When I found out about Heather’s online studio, I became interested with her methods of building a solid foundation for adult learners. I first began with the Position Mastery class, which I soon found out was still way too advanced for me. So I waited until she offered melodic etudes for first position. I thought this would be a fantastic opportunity for me to really focus on learning the techniques I need to be working on in a fast but systematic manner.

Indeed, throughout the course study, with every etude study, I had opportunities to work on different aspects of basic techniques. Right away in the first etude, I learned how to use the speed of the bow, as well as its position on the strings to play more musically with dynamics, which was something I was never given an opportunity to work on prior to coming to Heather.

Also, Heather really emphasizes on a solid left hand frame. As she corrected my hand frame, my intonation instantly got better. I am glad that I had a good start with Heather.

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Anne BerberianViolinist KUWAIT

Heather’s Weekly Violin Exercise Program brings new levels of awareness to my violin playing and teaching. She breaks down complex technical issues into very manageable bits that encourage progress.

What’s more, the exercises span a wide range of techniques that involve both the left and right hand. Thank you, Heather!

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Danielle Montague JuddViolinist, Utah USA

I came across Heather’s online academy searching for online violin learning resources as I was looking for a comprehensible pursue learning violin. I was instantly intrigued by the 52 violin exercises and went for it after much contemplation.

It is indeed as valuable and effective as promised and I am also happy to find myself being part of an active online community where Heather throws in challenges every month and answers doubts and questions we may have concerning our individual processes.

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Shaheen SViolinist, MEXICO

Heather’s book, Master Third Position is amazing! As a violinist and a violin teacher I have encountered quite a few books on the topic of shifting positions. From my point of view, I believe that this book is helpful to everyone – beginners thru advanced learners! All the different finger patterns are a delight and the exercises are wonderful and interesting to play. What I love the most is, that the exercises focus on all four fingers and relationships between them, not only on the “simple” shift from first to third position, which I was used to from the books I have encountered so far.
Also, all of Heather’s exercises/books on violin technique are wonderful and extremely helpful. Beginners have a starting point and can learn a lot faster and advanced players also have a starting point for refreshing and upgrading their violin playing. I highly recommend Heather’s books to every violinist!

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Zala HribernikViolinist & Teacher, SLOVENIA

As an adult beginner violinist who wants to accomplish everything in a short amount of time, I was overwhelmed looking at the many techniques I need to master to play beautifully. Fortunately, I found Heather and her Violin Journey Mapping Program.

The program helps me focus on my goals, also helps me structure and organize my daily practice session. This is very important for me who started to play violin as an adult.

Aside from the technical aspect, the program also prepares me to be positive throughout my violin journey and appreciate ourselves more.

I think this program is for me to keep for life because every once in a while, I go back the videos and inspiration in the program to help me make sure I am on track.

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BernadetteViolinist, PHILIPPINES

Heather is an answer to a great wish of mine: a passion to play violin effectively. Since a teacher was not available, I developed a practice routine for myself, yet moved forward slowly. After a cry for help on LinkedIn, Heather was recommended to me by one of her students; he said that he highly recommended her and that she had it all figured out. Indeed, he was correct.

Right from the start she took charge in a supportive, friendly but businesslike, no-nonsense approach to giving me feedback on the violin. She is an insightful teacher that works on multiple levels; for example, for the nut and bolts of violin technique, she assigns very effective exercises; for the reflective level she suggests ways of recording, writing and videoing yourself in order to be present; and, for the philological level, she gives of exercises to over come stage fright.

For me, Heather is like the Jillian Michaels (work-out guru) for violin, in that, you follow her program and it is a short cut to being an effective player. I have been studying with Heather now since January and my improvement is noticeable not only to myself but to the outside also. During the last gig I played, a lady commented, saying my violin filled the room soulful beauty. I received the compliment with a smile remembering all the feedback from Heather and practicing she inspired me to do. If you are serious about improving, I highly recommend Heather.

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Darcie KhunakayevViolinist, California USA

I started coaching sessions with Heather in January 2014, having been finding my own way along without a teacher for around 3 years. I knew that I had major issues with intonation, tone, timing and vibrato to name but a few, and I had no structure to my practice although I played for an hour and a half every day. I had never tried or even considered violin coaching online but having studied Heather’s website and watched a few videos it looked like she ticked all the boxes. Having a free half hour Skype session with Heather then absolutely convinced me.

I found her approach light and inspirational, whilst she was able to shine a laser beam on the weaknesses in my technique in an instant and give me clear instructions on how to correct it, accompanied by exercises to wire it into my nervous system. In the following months since then I have loved every session and have seen week on week improvements in my playing beyond what I dreamed possible.

Heather’s way of bringing awareness to every pitch is inspirational and has revolutionized my intonation. Having worked with Heather online for these few months I don’t know if I would want to go back to conventional face to face teaching. It has so many advantages. Heather can just pull up some relevant teaching materials or sheet music and I have it instantly. I get links to videos so that I can continue learning between the sessions and can prep new things that we are going to work on. Plus I get a recording of our session so I can go back and check on anything I wasn’t clear about – and go back to earlier recording to see just how far I have progressed over the weeks. Then one of my favourite things – I get written notes after the session, with what to work on for the next session which has been great for giving me clear guidelines on what to practice each day, providing me with the structure that I had been lacking.

In short, I can’t praise Heather’s coaching sessions highly enough.

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Nicholas Bourne Hulme Violinist, UNITED KINGDOM

Heather in an incredibly gifted violin teacher. I have made so much progress in a relatively short time with her guidance. She has helped improve my technique and tone and is always kind and encouraging. Her passion for music and teaching comes through in every lesson.

She quickly identifies what you need to work on and has a solution for every problem—either exercises or advice. I really appreciate this because you really do get results if you follow her advice. There is always a clear action plan.

Working with Heather in private lessons is something I look forward to every week. She is motivating and inspiring. She is also very well organized, so you are never left wondering what or how to practice. If you want real progress and a truly fantastic teacher, Heather is the one. Studying with her is definitely a worthwhile investment. I can’t recommend Heather enough. I feel incredibly lucky to have her as my teacher.

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Rachel L. Violinist, New Mexico USA

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