Your Top-5 list of music camp in Connerton

Great music school. Love the teachers, Josh, Chris and Michael, cool owners. The most important part is that our 2 boys (8 and 7) are eager to go for lessons and are enjoying learning, playing and practicing piano because of the passionate teachers. Teachers who are passionate about music and teaching music make this school special.

Very fun place to learn music

A staff dedicated to making music fun and following the interests of the student to do so. My son had his 9th birthday party here, rock and roll themed, all the kids had a blast singing and playing instruments under the guidance of the instructors. After that (for 7 years), both my son and daughter (and me too sometimes) have had on again off again lessons in voice, songwriting, bass guitar, drums, and guitar. The owners’ and instructors’ enthusiasm has instilled a lifelong love of music and performing in both of my kids. All the instructors we’ve had have been great – and Morgan and Josh have always gone above and beyond.

While largely catering to younger kids (at least at the Westchase location), neither of my kids outgrew it. The skills and motivation Rockatar fostered fueled their current loves of musical theater and songwriting.

Rockatar offers the opportunity for students to strut their stuff at performances at local restaurants or events. It is no ordinary “recital”. These events are full of energy, allow the kids to see what others have done, and are a fantastic way to get used to performing in front of a crowd.

In general, Rockatar looks for unusual opportunities for the students to perform. Through them the kids performed at a fundraiser, festival, several different restaurants and have had the opportunity to perform in a band and in a barbershop quartet.

Not your traditional music school. So creative and enthusiastic. Great concept. Nice people.

Excellent music school for children and love their approach of getting the younger children on stage early.

Not a musician went with friend to see grandson play at the end of a summer camp. Great people top notch facility and the kids were having a blast.

Our daughter has grown tremendously as a musician since starting at SOR St. Pete. The instructors and owners go above and beyond for their students and treat everyone like family! I look forward to many more years with this group and can’t wait until my younger children are old enough to participate!

Nice staff,fun classes. My daughter did a trail they explained everything and she was pumped. I had 2 more who wanted to do a trail too. However I have 3 children and to put all 3 in it would be 350 plus… The price is outrageous for normal working class families with more than 1 kid.

I attend the School of Rock for approximately 2 months and decided that it wasn’t the right group for me. There were some definitive factors which lead me to stop attending. Here are the pros and cons about the School of Rock:

1. Parking… the parking at the School of Rock cannot accommodate more than 7 – 9 people at one time. So if you’re unable to find a parking spot on the School of Rock’s premises, you’ll have to find parking elsewhere. This can become problematic when most of the parking on the street is taken up or unavailable. Eight times out of ten, the available parking spaces on the street are a couple hundred meters to a quarter mile away. I cannot confirm but I was told parking on the street was free for up to an hour.

2. Cost Per Lesson… The cost per lesson is on the high end of reasonable. The lessons should be longer given the amount of money you will pay per lesson.

3. Quality of Lesson… I don’t have anything negative to say about the lessons. The instructors, at least the one I was under, understand and know how to play their instruments and are able to teach effectively.

4. Schedule… Scheduling is and isn’t a problem at the School of Rock. I was able to schedule the lessons when it suited my personal schedule. The instructor I was assigned to was available on certain days of the week so ultimately, flexibility is dependent on your instructors and who you’re paired with. Although, I didn’t enjoy this experience at the School of Rock due to their rigid policy that is enforced when your unable to make it to the lesson the day of. See reason number #5.

5. Pre-Payments… Scheduling and this topic go hand and hand. The School of Rock will ask that you pay up front for all (4) lessons for the month. One would expect to have (4) lessons since they paid for (4) lessons but this is unfortunately not the case. Accident or not, you will pay the full amount of money despite not having attended a lesson the day of that lesson.

Conclusion:

I don’t have a problem with the instructors, in fact I believe the School of Rock has a good team of musicians capable of teaching students how to have a good foundation where they could learn to become better on their own, but the policy of the School of Rock is rather unforgiving.

The type of treatment of customers who pay for a service and get nothing in return is rather silly and I would hope for the School of Rock’s sake that I’m just a special case scenario. The reasons why this is the case are petty and unconvincing in my opinion and I don’t care enough to fight about it. The School of Rock will not show mercy on this topic.

Truly, I would have stayed longer had the School of Rock not been so stingy about their own policy.

You can most definitely find a private instructor who will not penalize you for missing a lesson, charges a similar amount of money per lesson and is as skillful as the level of those at School of Rock for more time elsewhere.