Guitar Lessons by Mark Benjamin

My son has been taking lessons from Mark Benjamin for almost 3 years. Mark is a FANTASTIC guitar teacher and I’m thrilled that our son has gone from having zero knowledge of reading music/​playing an instrument to now being able to play over 40 songs well. Mark is knowledgeable, patient, easy going and kind. I appreciate that he’s flexible and willing to give lessons in our home. Look no further, Mark is an excellent teacher and musician!

I began playing guitar again after a multi decade break. Mark’s program of musical development is tailored to each individual. He quickly ascertained my skill level and placed me on a path that I have found enjoyable and very rewarding. If you are serious about wanting to develop your musical skill set, Mark will show you the way!

Highly recommend Mark! Our 12 yr old daughter has been taking lessons with Mark for a little less than a year now. He is very patient and encouraging. The best part is he is teaching her to play music that she likes to listen to. He creates custom lessons for his students so they can learn to play music that they enjoy. He is very accommodating with our schedule that can change periodically. I am amazed at what she has learned to play so far. I would recommend Mark for any age.

If you want to learn guitar fast as well as challenge yourself go see Mark., He is very patient and can help you no matter what guitar level you are at. He is low pressure and he doesn’t make you feel bad if skipped some practice the week before. Mark is familiar with all kinds of music, Rock, folk, popular, etc. He is also an accomplished musician. He teaches you songs your want to learn to play as well as different techniques and music theory.
I am an older guy that used to play guitar back in high school and college. After 35 plus years of not playing I finally decided to call Mark based on a few of the reviews I read on Unilocal.I always looked forward to my lessons with Mark, they were fun, challenging. The best part in just a month or two he had taught me how to play a fair amount of songs and some of my friends even thought I could actually play, ha ha.
I myself will be back working with Mark again soon.

I have been taking lessons with Mark for over a year, he is an excellent teacher. He is very patient and is able to employ a variety of teaching approaches to best fit your learning style. He works with you to understand your playing style, music tastes, and technical ability and develops a plan best suited to your needs. I was able to increase my technical proficiency but also start learning the songs I love right away. Learning guitar has been challenging, but Mark has made it possible. I would absolutely recommend him to any beginning, intermediate, or advanced player.

Both my children, ages 11 and 8, take guitar lessons with Mark. He is an EXCELLENT teacher! He is so patient with my special needs child! By their third lesson, my kids were able to play the songs that they wanted to learn. Mark can figure out any song by listening to it and then break it down for the kids. He is so friendly and unpretentious. I would recommend Mark with zero hesitation.

Mark is an excellent, patient, friendly teacher, and fantastic guitar player. I’ve been playing guitar for decades but have never taken lessons up until now. I feel like each lesson unlocks a different secret of electric rock and blues guitar for me: pentatonic scales, palm mutes, tapping, bends, power chords, arpeggios, pinch harmonics and other techniques that I have yet to learn. He has also explained tablature to me, which has opened up a whole new world.
I show up each lesson with some ideas that I’d like covered, or a song that I’d like to learn. Mark understands what I’m trying to do, makes it look easy, and then, amazingly, makes it easy for me to do to the way he explains it and shows it.
He then goes on to write out exercises in tablature for me to work on.
It has been a positively motivating experience to practice during the week, knowing that I’ll have a lesson with Mark on the weekend to review what I’ve been working on.
If you’d like to treat yourself to something good, and quickly improve your playing, I’d recommend taking lessons from Mark.

I have had the great good fortune of finding a great guitar teacher. I have never played any instrument in my entire life, but at 58 decided, after thinking about it for quite a while, that I wanted to learn how to play the electric guitar. For the first month I had tried to learn how to play from a book. That didn’t work out very well. I found Mark’s post on Craig’s List and after our initial email exchange, I decided that he was the type of teacher I wanted to provide me with my musical training. I have not been disappointed. Mark is a wonderful teacher.
As talented as he is as a musician, you’d think that he would have an enormous ego. He doesn’t. He is genuinely committed to conveying his love of music to his students. He is patient, thorough, and adapts his instructional techniques to the student, changing his teaching rhythm to suit the student’s progress. For me he is laying a firm foundation in musical knowledge and technique that I believe will allow me to go as far as I can possibly go musically. Most importantly, he is helping me gain a well-​founded confidence that I can actually learn to create beautiful music. Thank you, Mark!

I’ve been taking lessons from Mark at The Jam Brothers for almost a year now, and I’m having a great time! I’d been away from guitar for over 30 years, and Mark has made it fun to get back into it. There are a few obligatory drills and scales, but mostly Mark teaches skills by teaching you songs, so your practice actually sounds like something. He perks up lessons with interesting stories about bands, artists, musical styles, and his own experiences performing.
His students are male and female, young and old. Parking at Jam Bros. is easy, but if the shop hours don’t work for your schedule, he’ll sometimes come to your house as well.
Highly recommended– I’m having fun!

I really don’t understand why Unilocal filtered this review. I contacted them and they said there is nothing they can do to unfilter…
Suffice it to say, I am a real person and a real student of Mark’s.
I have been taking lessons with Mark for over a year.
As an adult learning how to play an instrument for the first time, I was pretty nervous. Mark’s calm nature immediately put me at ease.
I thought I was going to have to spend a good amount of time practicing chords and learning Mary Had a Little Lamb, so I was surprised when Mark started me right off working on playing songs I actually like. This definitely gave me more motivation. This is how we’ve done all our lessons. I’m pretty amazed at the breadth of songs that Mark knows and when I managed to find a few songs he didn’t know he was able to pick them up quickly after listening to them on my MP3. He really makes the effort to help me learn to play the songs I pick. And somehow he also manages to sneak in lessons about music theory and tips on technique.
As a professional, I don’t have a consistent schedule and Mark is always flexible to meet my needs.
Another big plus for me is the fact that Mark gives lessons at the Jam Brothers store which is extremely convenient. Bonus: whenever I’ve needed extra gear like a guitar strap, everything I need is right there.
I’ve seen Mark with many different kinds of students, from kids to AARP members. He is a great teacher. I would recommend him to anyone who wants to learn to play guitar. So dust off that old guitar or bring in your little future rock star (while you grab a sub at Morucci’s)!

Mark clearly knows a lot about music and the guitar and he has been good about gauging where I am at in my progression. Very patient and flexible yet he offers challenges to help with stretching my abilities. I would recommend giving him a call if you are in the market for guitar lessons.

Read reviews about Mark from Jam Brothers before I engaged with him, and they were right on. He’s a great instructor.
Very patient, (needs to be with me), and clearly very accomplished himself. He has a flexible way of teaching, meaning he seems to bend to what you need, versus what he thinks you should learn, whether it’s good for you or not.
So, if you want a non-​pressured environment to learn a great instrument, Mark is your man. He’s also just a great guy.