My daughter has been studying with Maxim for 3 years now and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. Alexis is a serious music student at a prominent art school where she auditioned to get in with great success. However, she wasn’t always such a hopeful. Although her innate talent and interest in music was always there, we went from school to school to find quality instructions and failed over and over. 4 years ago, a friend of our family back in Europe, who’s an international performer, a guitar teacher and the director of a music school was appalled to see that in spite of receiving private guitar lessons, Alexis didn’t even know how to hold the guitar properly. This was an eye-opener for me to take a good look at her music education and take steps in the right direction. We met Maxim coincidentally and feel very lucky that we did. But you don’t have to. If you are looking for an instructor who is friendly, reliable, caring and well-educated in his art, you have found him!
My name is Alexis, I am 16 years old, and since I was about 10 I thought it would be the best thing in the world if I knew how to play the electric guitar really well. Obviously then, I went to look for a private teacher. I was always the type of person who was determined to do what I ingrained into my head, and I was discouraged when I realized that a year had past already, and we were paying good money for me knowing three lousy chords. I practiced regularly too, but somehow, it’s a whole different learning experience when a teacher is really knowledgeable, kind, and encouraging. Sadly, as many private teachers I had, none of them showed much of those characteristics. Though I was playing on an acoustic guitar back then, a guitar’s a guitar, and I waited very patiently for my electric one. Torturously, that day slowly came, and a very nice guy helped me out on everything I needed to know. I told him how my hopes and dreams were being crushed, and he offered to teach me instead. For once, I thought I was finally on to something. And let me tell you now, after only 3 years of learning with Maxim, I can confidently say that that is the absolute best way to learn guitar I have ever experienced in my life! For anybody, learning an instrument starts from your willingness to do so, but it can go two different ways whether you learn from someone you like or someone not so much. I don’t know about you, but I like someone that’s funny, easy to talk to, really knowledgeable, patient, motivational, and feels a lot more like a friend to me. That’s all Maxim, and that’s why I would never go to anyone else for the life of me. Only 3 years, and he can tell you how far I’ve come.
Nora and Alexis