Key Notes Piano Studio

During the short time I was Jaime Garcia's student, I lived at his place for one year and I was also his girlfriend.  I don't recommend him for the following reasons: he is a pathological liar who thinks nothing of faking grave illnesses like having leukemia to bail out on people to make time to engage in indiscretions. He is a narcissist, a master manipulator, and he is an unreliable person who will ghost out on you when it is convenient for him (you can check his negative reviews on Unilocal to see that a few people have said the same about him over the years.)

When I was his student, he had a tendency to forget my lessons or to cancel at the last minute for petty reasons.  From my observation and experience, when he cancels your lesson, it is usually because he knows you are easier to convince than the next student; maybe they pay more or they have a bigger profession, but he definitely chooses to cancel based on which student he feels he can convince and not so much on his immediate need to cancel for an emergency.

Jaime is well-spoken and will use it to his advantage to convince you of anything; almost as if he enjoys seeing how easy it is to make you believe him. He does not care how his capricious ways affect you and your time.

A little personal history: Toward the end of 2020, Jaime told me and all of his students he had leukemia. Of course, it was so unexpected that people believed him. However, living with him and being his girlfriend at the time, I can tell you it is/was not true. I have recently (September 2021) notified all of his students via email of the fact that he lied about having leukemia.   I have even gotten replies to my email and was told that they believed me based on inconsistencies in the stories he has told them. They even said my email helped them understand some of his behaviors.  

If you look at most of his negative reviews ( a few on Unilocal and 1 on Google)  throughout his years of running his business, you will see he has a history of telling people that he has grave illnesses for sympathy, to cancel a lesson or in my experience to engage in indiscretions.   Toward the end of 2020, he announced he had Leukemia so that he could make time to secretly be with this married woman all the while telling students and me he was going away on cancer treatment trips.  Things didn't quite go as far as he had hoped, maybe she finally believed he was playing her too. In fact, once he told her in text, he had chemo scheduled on a day he was home with me, but I texted her back and told her that his " chemo treatments" were supposed to be from late November 2020.  

These days, I  am sure he is telling the world he is in remission. He has found a woman he can openly be with and move into his house to be his helper and keep his home clean, prepare for recitals while pretending to be in love by quickly proposing (2 wives and 2 fiancees thus far), like he did with me(only to get you legally evicted from his home, when he finds a new interest). I can call it pretense because until recently, he was still involved with me while being with this woman and neither of us knew of each other.

A week after exposing the real Jaime to all of his students, Jaime emailed me as if it were just another normal day between us. Being the narcissist that he is, he didn't even apologize to me for once again being with another woman and me;  not an explanation nor a confession; in fact, he offered to come by my place to help me (Another typical strange behavior by Jaime for a  week prior he had sent me an email threatening to sue him for defaming him and he had threatened to have his students pressed charges against me as a sex offender?? if I didn't send them an email telling them I was lying. Of course, I didn't email them again. I knew he felt cornered and that he could not think of a convincing lie to tell his students). I am not sure what about the content of this sort of conversation makes me a sex offender, but I will not let him intimidate me so that he can continue leading a double life and deceive people who trust him.

Sensing this woman was at his house, I went to his house tell her in front of him about him being with the both of us and denying her existence; even right in front me and her, he made no attempt to explain himself nor apologize for his deceptions.   Fyi, I found out about this woman, because being the narcissist that he is, while he was on vacation with her this entire month of August, he reached out to me and dropped a lot of hints thinking I would not catch on. I went to his house and his dog sitter confirmed he was with her (a woman whose picture, a few days before his holiday, he sent me out of nowhere to later say he was joking and that she did not exist)

Anyway going back to Jaime as a teacher, when you take a lesson with him, if you see him typing up a storm, most likely he is engaged in a personal conversation with a woman and he is not paying attention to you.  If you are taking lessons online, you may notice his head down and he goes on mute a lot. Try asking him in your next lesson, what you had done previously, you will notice he will give you a roundabout answer; which proves most of that typing up a storm was not about your lesson.  When I was with him, a lot of that extra typing was him having full-on text conversations (mainly him demanding every day, all day long confirmation that I loved him and that I would never leave him) with me all day long, even though I was living with him.  In fact, this is how I  first caught him in a text conversation with the married woman, whom I replied to from his PC during his lesson.

If your kids are taking lessons in person or online, I recommend being there to make sure you get your full hour's worth.

 If I had known these negative reviews about him canceling. faking grave illnesses, ghosting, and engaging in lots of childish mind games,  I would have never encouraged him to get his students to post positive reviews and to reply to them on Google so that he could have a high rating(Pay closed attention, you will see a number of positive reviews and his responses are all in the same time frame, and that was thanks to me; wanting so badly to believe him over the reviews.  I  should have never given him these SEO tips. People deserve to know the real him, an unethical pathological liar, a narcissist, and a master manipulator.

Jaime, if telling the truth is defamation, feel free to sue me. You don't get to keep lying to people and put my (a woman you used to call fiancee)  health at risk with your indiscretions and then to try to silence/intimidate me because you know you have the advantage of race, gender, title, education, and money over me.