John P. Martinez

John has a way of putting you at ease, while teaching. He is patient, knowledgeable, and professional, while making your lesson fun. He teaches at your level, but challenges you with different assignments and projects. I highly recommend John as a guitar teacher for any level player.

When I first came to John Martinez for Guitar lessons I knew nothing about the guitar and even less about music. John is very knowledgeable and a very skillful teacher. I look forward to our weekly lessons. John challenges me to be better with each lesson. William White

My 16 year old son began lessons with John three weeks ago as an absolute beginner and I could not be more happy. John is a talented guitarist, a very patient and insightful instructor, and has gone above and beyond to help my son enjoy learning how to play the guitar. I suspect we will be going to him for lessons for a very long time.

The lesson was for my 9 year old daughter. I share joint custody with her dad. So, for her first lesson we all wanted to go meet John P. Martinez. So, myself, my husband, my toddler daughter, my 9 year old who was taking the lesson, her dad, and other toddler sister show up. Right away John seemed to not like that. Initially getting there my husband who is a black man,goes to shake John's hand, John says "Ahh let's just fist bump". Thinking John just had a phobia of germs my husband says ok. However, when my daughters father, who is Hispanic goes to shake his hand John shakes his hand very firmly with no hesitation. I was unaware of this all. If I'd had seen that I would have left. That is just flat out racism. So John seemed annoyed that we were all there, stating " it's a lot of people for one little girl". Also he doesn't have much room for us all. The lesson was for one hour. The first half hour he just talked how bad her guitar was that we bought for her, and how cheap it was. While showing and telling us how many thousands he spent on his guitar. Lesson went on. John would talk to my daughter as if she were dumb. She has never played a guitar in her life, but he kept telling her do this and that as if she knew what she was doing. The whole time she looked confused. He did not take the time to explain it or go over the basics with her. He's not child friendly, much Less people friendly. I was very disappointed with his service. I was very offended with how he treated my kid and my husband.Mr martinez acted very unprofessional I would not go back even if it were free. I would not recommend him to ANYONE!

I've been playing guitar for almost five years and up until a couple years ago I was self taught and since I've been taking lessons from John I can definitely notice significant improvement. Anything I want to learn he's willing to teach me and I honestly couldn't ask for a better teacher.