Don’t Stop Rockin’

My daughter loves her piano lessons, and everyone at DSR is super nice and keeps it fun. Highly recommended!

James and crew are fantastic. My daughters piano instructor, Todd, is so patient, kind and very, very talented. She loves going to class in such a cool place. Highly recommend these ladies and gentlemen over at Don’t Stop Rockin’!

DSR is the real deal — great instructors, outstanding business model. My boy loves his lessons and is really progressing. HIGHLY recommend.

My boys used to dislike music lessons and it took a lot of energy to encourage them to practice. After we found Rob, James, and Todd everything changed for the better. Whereas with our previous teacher who sometimes brought the kids to tears, they come out of DSR happy and telling us they «love to play» guitar and piano. Rob is an awesome teacher and has really engaged one of our boys with guitar. Todd has made piano fun and enjoyable for our other two boys. They love «The Big Show» where they get to perform on stage and showcase what they have been working on.
You can go the strict music teaching route that many choose to try to get their kid to be a Mozart. Most parents I have talked to said their kid never wanted to touch a piano again after high school going that route. Better yet, you can take your kids to DSR where they will be learning music in a way that will keep them engage not only as kids but through adulthood. The first day I took our son to DSR to learn guitar, I heard lots of laughter as they were learning to play. I don’t think I ever heard our kids laugh once with their previous instructor!
Just to give you a little guide on how good the teaching is, my son got Rocksmith 2014 for Christmas and within a couple of hours was playing «Where is My Mind?» by The Pixies on master mode where the notes disappear and you play it by memory!

My son has been taking piano lessons at DSR for 6 months and I am amazed at how much he has learned. His lessons are based on a tradional book but each week he also works on a popular radio song of his choice. The lessons are fun and he loves it. I like having a relationship with a program that offers private and group lessons on various instruments and voice. We won’t need to go anywhere if my son wants to explore other areas of music.

Our oldest has been with DSR since the beginning, and we couldn’t be more impressed with their operation. Rob and James could have easily taken their program and focused on franchising it to make a quick buck, but they focus all their time (and a lot of money) making the local program better and better. We’re blown away by the show at Hill’s Café at the end of the year too. They constantly throw little surprises as well, like one year they had our child show up in a stretch limo for the Big Show. Their program is much more thorough and focused than the other companies in the same realm. The weekly emails that are focused specifically on each child shows that they really focus on each kid’s progress. It’s very exciting each year to see what they come up with next.

What an amazing group of dedicated rock teachers! Jack Black would be proud. DSR is amazing with kids and gets high marks for communications and updated with us parents. And these guys love to rock! My son loved the program. We would do it again in a heartbeat when time permits!

Across the board, this is just a well-​thought out and well-​run business. I have been incredibly impressed with DSR’s ability to make music lessons fun, cool and effective for the kids, while still catering to the people who pay the bills: the parents. I get feedback every two weeks from my son’s instructor regarding what he’s doing well and where he should spend a bit more time. The online videos are amazing. If my son misses a week (which is rare), he can catch up using videos from any of the previous weeks.

If you are thinking about getting guitar lessons for your child, but think they won’t enjoy sitting for and hour to learn a musical instrument then this is the class for you. My son started when he was 8 and LOVES it! The teachers are amazing, and the recital, or the BIG SHOW as the little rock stars call it, is fun for the whole family. The music classes are small and personal, and the teachers even throw in some music history.