Great location, and Michael made my nephew’s day with his thoughtfulness!
I’m impressed with School of Rock’s range of age appropriate music curricula. My son is currently enrolled in the Rookies program, and it’s amazing the knowledge that he comes home with after each session. In the class, he is learning, tempo, rhythm, tone, dynamics and other basic fundamental elements of music and sound. He is also trying out different types of musical instruments free-form to immerse himself in multiple tactile and audible experiences. After each session, he (loudly) says to me, “that was the best class ever”! I couldn’t be happier with SoR!
Environment, teachers, my kid loves it!
School of Rock
Address: 1270 E Joppa Rd Suite 300, Towson, MD 21286 , Colmenar Viejo , Maryland , United States
Our kids enjoy the music, the instruction, and the shows. We enjoy it all as parents, too! We’ve recommended SoR to many friends and coworkers.
Pairing private lessons with the performance groups is a great way to make learning music fun and challenging! This method works because the student WANTS to practice so they don’t hold the group back. And the kids are all great at encouraging each other. All the teachers are musicians who love what they do and their enthusiasm is contagious.
The School of Rock adult program is amazing. It has helped me develop as a musician in ways I only dreamed possible. I’ve met other like-minded adults at the school and I have a great time playing with them in the Grad School band. The young staff is very talented. They are the kinds of musicians you’d expect to find in Baltimore or New York. They are friendly and encouraging. The instruction and rehearsals are rigorous; no EZ chords at this school! When you perform, you feel like you’re playing the real stuff. I’ve played songs from a huge variety of bands and musicians, including Pink Floyd, Hall and Oates, Grace Potter, Fleetwood Mac and Joss Stone. The practices are often just as fun as the performances.
First let me start off by saying, the teachers at Columbia SOR are amazing and my daughter had such an amazing time in vocal classes with Gideon & Zack and Keys classes with Alex and Colin. And we really, really wanted it to work out but the administration at this branch of SOR was absolutely abysmal. The pervasive disorganization, cancelled lessons (sometimes on the same day), constantly shifting schedules, inconsistencies in which teacher we would have from week to week overshadowed whatever benefit my daughter was getting from the highly professional teachers at Columbia SOR. It made us very sad to leave the school because my daughter really made a connection with and loved working with her teachers and we really tried to put up with the mismanagement at the Columbia SOR. But ultimately the mismanagement was too much to bear. If Columbia SOR gets their act together, it could be a great place to learn music. However, at this time, I would not recommend spending your money there, which is a shame because the teachers really are great.
My experience is with Siohban Beckett. She inserted herself into a situation at work, based on a rumor from her friend and her own personal prejudice, that started an investigation. When nothing was found, she escalated the rumors, sending messages to her friends on social media, with the full intent of having someone fired. Based on the screenshots of her messages, Siohban Beckett’s own credibility was damaged. She left after one performance night.
Hi guys ! Please save your money and time and do
NOT go to this place . My daughter had an appointment and my mother in law took my daughter showed them the confirmation email with the time and date that they sent . The staff stated that the appointment time was wrong , even though it came from them . I reluctantly reschedule my appointment and they sent an email and again this happens . Just please don’t go here staff is very unprofessional . I would give no stars if I could .
School of Rock
Address: 1460 Ritchie Hwy Suite 105-106, Arnold, MD 21012 , Colmenar Viejo , Maryland , United States
My five year old loved the school! She feels like a rock star 🙂
My son is a drummer and joined to apply his years of lessons into a real band situation that the other music lesson place did not offer. He LOVES it. Staff are fantastic and he has made some great friends here too! Highly recommend.
Our child is thrilled going to DC School of Rock. Now he wants to go every day. The attention that he gets is unbelievable. Thank you so much to Chris and his team for delivering marvelous experience for our kids. Keep up the great work!
Owner contacted me about working there, was rude and inconsiderate on the phone. Very disappointing.
Beware! While the program might be interesting, the Cleveland Park location is poorly run and it will bring you more headaches than benefits.