We offer acoustic and electric guitar lessons as well as bass lessons for complete beginners to advanced students and everyone in between.

At San Antonio Music Academy our instructors tailor guitar lessons to your personal needs, goals, learning style and your preferred genre of music. Learning to play an instrument is an exciting and rewarding adventure. Our instructors are here to guide and motivate you each step on the way to help you become the best guitarist you can be.

We believe it is important to learn the right techniques and music theory basics from the beginning, to be able to build a strong foundation to grow as a musician.

Jake Ramirez, M.M.

Jacob Vallejo, B.M.E.

Randy Naranjo, M.S.

Mark Salazar, B.M.

Paul Dattner, A.M.

Music Is Our Passion!

San Antonio Music Academy is devoted to excellence in music education. As one of our core values, we aim to “be the epitome of excellence and quality in education. (To see a complete list of our core values, click here.) SAMA guitar instructors are dedicated to this value and believe that an aspiring musician can reach his or her goals with enough determination and hard work.

Guitar Lessons at SAMA

SAMA guitar instructors guide their students towards their goals by instructing them each week on a new set of material and helping them perfect the skills learned in the previous lesson. Students are given weekly assignments, much like they are given in academic school, geared towards developing the skills necessary to become an accomplished musician. The students here at San Antonio Music Academy have varied goals, from playing pop songs in the privacy of their room to playing in a rock band with classmates from their school, and some even hope to pursue music education and performance at a collegiate level. Whatever a student’s interest, we encourage our students to express this to their instructor so that the private lessons an instructor creates will be constructed with this in mind. We know that students succeed when given goals that are both interesting and challenging.

Performance Opportunities

As part of our program at SAMA, we encourage students to perform in our formal recitals which give students the opportunity to showcase their talent for family and friends. Performance is a skill in and of itself, and one that we feel is an essential part of being a musician. For those really ambitious guitarists, we have ensemble classes that will give them a group setting and teach them essential skills useful for playing and performing with other musicians. Students enrolled in these ensemble classes, get real-world experience of what it’s like to play in a band, all under the direction of SAMA’s highly experienced and university educated guitar instructors.

SAMA Instructors

San Antonio Music Academy has a rigorous selection process when choosing instructors to work for our academy. We want only the best on staff so that everyone involved has a positive experience with our academy. In addition to the qualifications of our instructors (each having a Bachelor’s degree or higher), we understand that student safety and respect is paramount. This is why each of our instructors takes a certified safety training program when hired in addition to the extensive background check we run. Instructors at San Antonio Music Academy understand the needs of their students and that each student has a different motivation for learning. Our passion is to take a student’s goals and make them a reality.

In addition to the formal education our guitar instructors have received (Click here to see SAMA guitar instructor bios), they are each accomplished performers in their own right. Some play classical guitar for private events and faulty concerts, while others play jazz at local jazz clubs within the San Antonio area. And yet others play in their very own rock band. Through their experience and education, SAMA instructors have the proficiency to train their students in the genre of their interest. (Click here to view guitar instructor performance videos.)

Above are available guitar lesson times throughout the week. If you any questions about a specific time or scheduling, feel free to call us (210-681-7262) or email us at contact@samusicacdemy.com.