Songwriting & Fiddle Lessons

Amelia Baker offers music lessons online for all ages, abilities, and timezones.


Songwriting Sessions

  • Turn the music in your head into something you can play and share

  • Songwriting sessions are 100% based around your own process and goals.

  • Topics include: the creative process and its blockages, performance anxiety, exercises for generating lyrics and melody, arrangement, composition, production, guidance throughout process of writing / recording / releasing an album.

Fiddle Lessons

  • Learn Irish traditional fiddle technique, style and repertoire

  • All musical backgrounds and skill levels

  • No need to read music

  • Explore using the fiddle for composition and arrangement

  • Gain skills and confidence to participate in traditional Irish music sessions

 
 

“I am extremely comfortable being extremely uncomfortable in front of Amelia.  That is obviously a key when you're doing something as strange as sharing your ideas with the world.  Amelia does a great job of providing insights that I can't find on my own, and does the slow work of helping me find my own answers rather than dictating them to me, which is so important in taking ownership of the outcome and being able to write with the confidence and clarity required to make good and true art.”

“Amelia has been a guiding light with unblocking my hang-ups with song writing. Amelia has helped me to find my intuitive compass with making music, tailoring sessions to my needs and my practice, and ultimately has helped me rediscover my confidence.”

“Amelia has unlocked a passion I didn’t know I had. I have become more immersed in music, have a better trained ear and a new instrument to love. She has an ease about her that allows for fluid exploration and just plain fun. “

“Amelia's pedagogical technique is adaptive and considerate. She served as both a meticulous instructor of violin technique and as an experienced fellow traveller of traditional music. As an adult beginner I benefited enormously from this fluid approach to fiddle teaching. Her approach suits itself particularly well to remote lessons, making use of video lessons and pre-recorded demos. After lessons with Amelia, I was able found myself well prepared to join a local Irish trad session. This is almost entirely due to her ability as a teacher, and I will always be grateful for it.”