Progress Village – Top 5 places for music camp5 recommended music camp in Progress Village

To clarify, I have never attended or had my child attend here. However, we randomly heard them and were impressed. We had lunch at Michael’s Cafe nearby and the school had a couple bands putting on a concert. I am guessing they were teens. Guitars, drums, singers, etc. We could sing along to the singers. Some pretty amazing guitar rifts that made the whole table and other tables turn around to watch. Drummers on point. The school, musical artists, and parents should be proud of the accomplishments. You could see the support and encouragement among the group performing. These kids are stars and it’s amazing to have a place to encourage and bring that talent together. When I was young, I lost interest in playing the piano. An environment like that could have changed my mind. Guess that “could have been” feeling is why I felt the need to give a rating. I hope to see them playing at stadium in the future!

Awesome..personable instructors..! Great facility!
Lessons and Performance group going great!!

Best place in Tampa not only for a kid to learn an instrument, but build confidence and learn to work in a group. Students have the opportunity to play in a band on stage at local outside venues with other students in their age group to show what they have learned. Can’t say enough about the staff and management, they really care about passing along their knowledge and love of music to the next generation.
Very professional and knowledgeable instructors. This place tends to attract great kids too, everyone gets along, no drama, no bullying, they foster an environment of respect. So glad we found this place!

Elio mate

VERY VERY happy with Rockatar. My kiddo has learned a lot in a short amount of time and now he cannot get enough about learning the electric guitar.

One child does drums and the other is learning guitar and that both love it! The instructors are amazing!!

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!

I heard Tammy Burch my niece, I’ll love it.

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.