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WELCOME to FRETLESS STUDIO!

We all want to know how we become musical, and then we want to know how to reach our full performance potential. In 1995 I began a restructuring of my teaching. Audiation, listening with understanding, became my primary teaching tool. Audiation nurtures creativityas it expands independence. Building a musical foundation based on Audiation means making the most of each student's potential.   Helen Martin

  

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Emily Orenstein, Violinist, Teacher and Concertmaster of the Lehigh University Philharmonic, describes her experience with Helen Martin-

"Ms. Martin teaches her students not just how to play music, but also how to be expressive, creative, theoretically and aurally literate musicians.  Her refined and common sense approach to teaching is a breath of fresh air in a field with so many contrasting ideologies."


You have been listening to SURE START tracks: SWINGING and PIPING TUNE.

Click MUSIC to hear more. The NEWS tab will take you to SURE START text excerpts and goals. PRODUCTS includes the Teachers Book plus CD, and the DVD, VIOLIN FOR MUSICIANS.  The BIO page includes a Piazzolla Tango. Enjoy!

Visit my blog: http://foreverfretless.blogspot.com/


Photo: Seventh Grade, Viola Class, San Diego, California - 1984