Rocksteady Music School Avaliações 

My son has been attending this program for almost two years and is one of two drummers in his band. The band consists of nine kids, and the lesson is only 30 minutes once a week—so you can imagine how little individual attention each child receives during a session.

A few times last year, and three times since September of this year, my son asked to be taken out of the program. Each time, I encouraged him to continue and give it another chance. Unfortunately, the reason he no longer enjoys it is the instructor’s approach. The instructor is often short-tempered when the kids make mistakes, and today my son was not allowed to continue the lesson after being told off for a mistake during practice.

Considering this is a paid service and designed for children, I find this behavior unacceptable. The kids are actually doing very well given the minimal attention and limited practice time they receive. On top of that, after nearly two years, the children are still unable to read sheet music or demonstrate basic music knowledge, as they are not taught these fundamentals at all.

Overall, this experience has been very disappointing.

My son absolutely loves his lessons lead by Jack. He’s gained so much confidence and performed his first concert with pride and was absolutely buzzing. He only recently joined since he started year 1 and he reports back with enthusiasm after every lesson, even told me all the different parts of the drum which blew my mind as usually all the info I get from him after school is “I had a ham sandwich” 😆 we particularly love the aspect of learning in the band setting and that they’re learning to play music from bands like AC/DC, Guns n Roses, it’s just awesome! Thank you Jack and thank you Rocksteady.

My son has loved his time with Rock steady and I loved watching the confidence he had singing in front of a lot of people in his concert thank you very much.

This music school could be excellent if they actually delivered any classes. We have had a terrible experience with them, we have been paying full monthly price since the start of the school year in September 2025, but the Rocksteady instructor has had some personal problems and about 7-8 classes (7 weeks out approximately 12) have been cancelled within a 4 months period. Rocksteady failed to find a replacement instructor within this time, but also refused to refund parents for the lost classes. Rocksteady continues to take full payments regardless, while delivering about 50% of the classes. When you call them, the customer service is not great, they tell you that as long as they deliver a total of 33 weekly sessions over the school year, you still have to pay the full price. This equates to them being able to cancel about 1-2 weekly sessions per month and still being entitled to full monthly payments. These are their terms of business as they work as a sort of yearly subscription scheme, so you have to continue paying whether you receive the service or not. This translates into a very expensive handful of classes over a 4 month period, and a very disappointed little boy week after week. We have just had about enough of this, but our little boy really enjoys it when it actually happens, so against all common sense, we are giving it one last chance starting now in January 2026. However, if they continue with these poor service levels we will undoubtedly have to permanently cancel and walk away. We cannot continue paying them to deliver nothing or very little for our hard earnt money.
UPDATE: I have contacted Rocksteady 4-5 times already and I have been told basically the same every time (as above). Only one £10 credit has been offered, which is really a negligible amount, considering that from September to December 2025 we have paid circa £200 to receive about 50% of the classes. When Rocksteady offered catch up sessions, they were cancelled as well at short notice, so they did not happen. The worst thing is that the December concert was also cancelled because they had had hardly any practice plus the instructor was not available for the concert. This is very disappointing for the kids.

Watching our son enthusiastically play the drums, his instrument of choice, with a band was such a wonderful experience.

Daz visits my school every Friday and is a really friendly chap who is great with the children. He brings great energy to the termly concerts. The children, staff and parents thoroughly enjoy these sessions. Thank you Daz!

My child has been playing the keyboard for 12 months now. He is engaging in each session.
He loves the approach the teacher takes.
We have found the experience rewarding for our child.

Daz is a gentle, patient, kind teacher. The children enjoy their lessons and Daz gets the best out of them.

My daughter has been playing bass guitar with Rocksteady with Daz for 3 years. My husband and I are both classically trained musicians so the way she learns is very different to our musical education. She hasnt made that much technical progress but she has learnt a lot about ensemble playing. She did comment that her part was very easy and so she asked Daz to give her more challenge for the recent concert which he did. She loves performing at school and had one of the biggest smiles in the school during most of the concert. I want to say a special thank you for this. Daz may not know that she has struggled a lot with anxiety this term and says she doesn't enjoy any of the lessons or want to be at school at all, so having Rocksteady helps her want to be part of her school community and she is less resistant to coming to school on Rocksteady day.

Our girls loved Rocksteady, excellent teachers, good fun & helped their confidence performing in front of others.

My daughter has just finished her first term. She enjoys it so much. I get regular online updates on the skills she is developing. I just went to the first concert and watched her play. She is very young; however, I’m very proud of the work she has done on the drums. I cannot tell you how enthusiastic Adam, her rocksteady coach, is. He kept them entertained and focused. I also loved how, after the band performed, they explained the skills they were using during that performance. I hope rocksteady tell Adam how incredible a teacher he is to the children. We are very lucky to have him there.

My daughter is loving taking part in Rocksteady. She is learning to play the bass guitar and I was delighted to watch her in her first concert. A wonderful way to get children started in playing an instrument.

It was so great to watch our son play his favourite instrument (the drum) with a band.

Brilliant team, and such a great low pressure way for children to learn to love music and become confident at presenting

I am so proud of my sons progress with rocksteady. Each concert he always takes me by suprise , but today it was out of this world it was amazing really proud of him thank you to his great teacher. Can’t wait to see what the future holds

I was immensely proud to see all the kids perform in front of a crowd at the school performance! What a brilliant opportunity—not only to learn how to play a musical instrument, but also to develop teamwork skills and experience what it feels like to perform in front of an audience. I truly think the whole experience is fantastic for kids.
I also have to mention how much I enjoyed the way the Band Leader conducted the concert and shared insights on each child’s progress since they started. I could tell they really enjoy it. I’m very impressed with Rocksteady!

My daughter absolutely loves rock steady, her band leader Matt is incredible she comes home after every lesson and tells me how funny he is and how much she likes him as he makes lessons so fun, she has only been doing this for a few months but the progress already is amazing and I Carnt wait to see her progress throughout the years we cannot thank Matt enough for his communication with us and how happy our daughter is after every lesson.

It’s ok and my son enjoys it. But I wish they’d maybe do one concert a year and actually teach the children to play the instrument. I feel the concerts sound terrible and not much skills are taught because it’s rushed. We’ve started looking for real drum lessons now

Daz has a great personality and the children in my class absolutely love their Rock Steady sessions. The experience gives them confidence and the pure joy on their face when they perform is wonderful to witness!

Daz is really funny and kind. He makes me smile when I take part in Rock Steady.

A pupil from Year 2 Owls (Mrs Albery's class)