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TERMS & CONDITIONS

 

Cancellation & No Refund Policy

Effective Date: July 29th, 2022

By enrolling in any course, retreat, or event offered by Samā School of Music or Voice of the Beloved (collectively referred to as "we," "us," or "our"), you acknowledge and agree to the following Cancellation and No Refund Policy:

  1. No Refunds

All payments made to Samā School of Music and Voice of the Beloved, including but not limited to deposits, tuition fees, and event or retreat fees, are non-refundable under any circumstances. This includes, but is not limited to, the following scenarios:

- Change of mind
- Scheduling conflicts
- Personal or professional commitments
- Medical reasons, including illness or injury
- Travel restrictions or issues, including visa denials or flight cancellations
- Force majeure events such as natural disasters, pandemics, or other unforeseen circumstances

Once payment is made, no refunds will be granted.

  1. Cancellations

If a participant chooses to cancel their enrollment in any course, retreat, or event, they will incur a 10% cancellation fee of the total payment amount. This cancellation fee will be applied regardless of the reason for cancellation. However, we reserve the right to waive this cancellation fee at our sole discretion in exceptional cases.

All cancellations are final, and no refunds will be provided, even if the 10% fee is applied or waived. It is the participant’s responsibility to ensure they can attend before making a purchase.

  1. Behavior and Conduct

We reserve the right to refuse access to any course, retreat, event (whether online or in-person), or any other offering to any participant who behaves inappropriately at any point during the engagement with us. 

This includes but is not limited to:
- Disruptive, disrespectful, or inappropriate behavior during training sessions, workshops, or retreats
- Inappropriate conduct in conversations or communications leading up to the event
- Violations of the rules and guidelines provided for the event

If access is refused due to inappropriate behavior, no refund will be provided, and the 10% cancellation fee may still be applicable.

  1. Force Majeure

In the event that a course, retreat, or event must be postponed or rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control (such as natural disasters, acts of war, or pandemics), we will make reasonable efforts to reschedule the event. In such cases, we do not offer refunds, but you will be allowed to attend the rescheduled event.

  1. Program Adjustments

We reserve the right to modify the content, schedule, and location of any course, retreat, or event as necessary. Such adjustments will not qualify for a refund or cancellation. We will notify participants of any significant changes in advance.

  1. Waiver of Liability

By enrolling in any of our programs, you agree to waive any right to dispute or demand a refund for any reason, whether for any reason stated above or dissatisfaction with the course, retreat, or event. Participation is at your own risk, and you are responsible for ensuring that our programs meet your personal goals and expectations.

  1. Acknowledgment

By registering for any program or service with Samā School of Music and/or Voice of the Beloved, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to this Cancellation and No Refund Policy. This policy applies to all transactions and is non-negotiable.

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Harmonium Mastery: From Scratch to Shred

Take your harmonium game from novice to absolute shredder with Tahir Qawwal

What you'll receive & learn:

6+ Hours of exclusive HD video tutorials

  • Learn all the Essentials

    Start from the very beginning with correct fingering technique; running scales and transposing thaats

  • Drill for Dexterity: Rhythm & Chords

    Learn Tahir’s best practices to strengthen your fingers for virtuosity, as passed down to him by the masters

  • Fine-tune your Musical Ear

    Practice accompanying vocals in any style of music. Improvise within a raag and learn ornamentation techniques to add texturing and flavour

  • Geek out on Anatomy

    From bellows to reeds: Get up close and personal with your very own harmonium, and make it truly yours

  • Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Melodic Exercises
  • Fingering Exercises
  • Melodic Dictation
  • Weeks worth of melodic patterns
  • Thaat knowledge
  • Masterful Improvisation & Accompaniment
  • Bump your order on bespoke harmoniums (contact us)

About Tahir Qawwal

Tahir has been teaching traditional vocal music all over the world for the past 20 years. He is a passionate and highly skilled vocalist and harmonium player, having spent plenty of study time with Pakistan’s present day Qawwali masters. Tahir’s guruji Pt. Pashupatinath Mishra of Varanasi has passed on to him a great musical knowledge. Tahir’s unique expression of the classical art of Indian music is shown by his ability to perform and teach styles such as Geet, Ghazal, Bhajan, Thumri, Classical & Folk songs.

Qawwali is a passionate devotional practice in which the fire of divine love (ishq) is ecstatically expressed through the mystical verses of Sufi poets, sung in Urdu, Farsi, Hindi and Punjabi. The origins of Qawwali music date back about a thousand years to the first Sufi mystics who came to India. Qawwali has evolved into an immense art form spanning over hundreds of years of poets, languages & musical evolutions. 

Originally from a small town in Nova-Scotia Canada, Tahir Hussain Faridi Qawwal has been journeying into music and mysticism within the Indian subcontinent from a very young age. At fifteen he was taken in by the great tabla maestro Harjeet Seyan Singh, and under his noble tutelage initiated into the profound subject of Indian rhythm cycles. Several years of rigorous tabla instruction later, Tahir became completely enchanted by his teachers singing voice. Tahir’s late teens were mostly spent wandering in the Gharwal Himalayas living as a lonely dervish, practicing the yogic path and searching for sur with a shruti box in hand. ’Sur’ is at the heart of all Indian/Pakistani classical music and when translated to English means ‘purity of sound and pitch’. Because of the wide tonal spectrum of classical Indian raaga notation, the profound journey into sur requires the grace of a guru. Tahir Qawwal’s first knowledge of sur came by the kindness of Pandit Sanjeev Jha of Varanasi.

“Dissolving oneself within any perfect sur under the shade of a tuned tampura is total bliss.”
— TAHIR

Throughout his early tutelage of raaga, Tahir also immersed himself in the sacred sufi writings of Data Ganj-e-Buksh, Hazrat Amir Khusrau, Baba Bulleh Shah, Baba Ganj-e-Shakar, Shah Hussain, Khaja Ghulam Farid and others. Because of these spiritual inspirations and his shahadat (initiation) into Tasawwuf (Sufism) by Sheikh Liben, Tahir’s path in music was quickly directed towards qawwali.Qawwali is the perfect marriage of classical raag & divine sufi passion. Tahir’s first formal training in the qawwali genre began in Ajmer Sharif where he and his musical companion Aminah Chishty enjoyed an extended stay at this important Indian sufi shrine. Under the wise hospitality of Ajmer’s great qawwal’s and sufi’s, dozens of the qawwali songs Tahir had transcribed up to this point were finally translated with a deeper clarity. 

“Beyond the literal translation of qawwali poetry, there is a profound world of spiritual & cultural metaphor which can take years to understand.”
— TAHIR