Roberts Music Institute

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  Great place for music lessons, and the teachers are great.

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  Posted on 05.22.13 Jared K.

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  I love this place, after 3 years of playing here, switching around my interests and songs I wanted to learn they were ALWAYS understanding and helpful. I get frustrated when playing instruments and they were always patient with me, Lucian was my teacher for a while and boy is he talented! This whole institute is like a family to me, I don't go here anymore because I moved but my step brother does and I am always happy to come in and have a conversation with the man at the front desk, Rob, who is extremely friendly and outgoing! They are all very nice men who only want to help you succeed and continue in your passions! Miss them all dearly!

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  Posted on 04.22.13 Giulia C.

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  I have been taking bass lessons (with Scott) for over a year now and cannot say enough good things about RMI. They are very flexible with how you want to learn and learning to play the type of music that works best for you. Plenty of opportunities to play with others (it's encouraged!) and even to play in public as part of the student showcase. And I always have fun!
  
  I also really like learning to play by playing real songs, not by doing exercises. I had tried to learn different instruments years ago and that was discouraging for me. I was amazed how quickly I was playing real music after starting lessons here. Definitely the right way to go.
  
  No matter your age or level of experience, I think you will enjoy learning to play at RMI :)

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  Posted on 07.08.12 Mike K.

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  These guys are great.  Can't say enough about them.  The instructors are all top notch, all seem to really enjoy teaching.  They have been flexible when one of the kids is sick.  It is more like family there, than going for a 30 minute lesson, and they really care about you making progress.
  
  They also teach in a way that starts with "what kind of music do you like?  What are your favorite songs?" And then you start from there, learning things you care about until it all comes together.  
  
  If that wasn't enough, you have the ensembles...Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Clapton, Santana.  What better way to learn than putting together a band for 10 weeks?
  
  But again, that isn't enough.  How about pushing your comfort zone, and having you and your little band (and all the other little bands, etc.) perform at a local restaurant?
  
  Our whole family (5 of us) now takes lessons there, and definitely better than anywhere else I have been.  I just wish they offered a family discount :)

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  Posted on 03.23.11 Thomas M.

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  Way back in 1984, Van Halen released a new album.  This album was named, completely coincidentally, 1984.  I was 16 years old and I had been waiting for this album to drop for many many months.  New Van Halen! Oh boy!  This album was going to rock HARD.  Then that day arrived.  I ran down to the record store - because, if you wanted music you had to go to the store and actually physically buy a vinyl or tape recording of it - and there it was: 1984.  I paid in cash - because there was no such thing as debit cards back then - and ran home and dropped the long awaited platter on my turntable.  Up goes the tone arm, over, and back down.  I sit, and wait for the needle to run along the intro grooves.  Then......SYNTHESIZERS! OMG! WHAT! IS! THIS!
  
  Yes, Eddie was playing a synthesizer.  I decided at that point that something had to be done to preserve the purity of rock guitar.  And there was only one person who could do that something to preserve the purity of rock guitar.  ME.  So, I took all of my part time job money and looked in the classifieds section of the local newspaper - because there was no such thing as eBay or Craigslist - and found an advertisement for an electric guitar in my neighborhood.  I went and looked at that guitar - a cheap foreign Gibson SG copy - and bought it on the spot.  Later on, I purchased the tablature for Jimi Hendrix's "Smash Hits" intent on learning how to play "Purple Haze".  Many weeks and months passed, and I looked at the tablature with great puzzlement.  Numbers.  Lines.  Hmm.  This finger goes....here?  Perhaps Eddie Van Halen knew something that I didn't.  
  
  Fast forward ten years.  YEAH MINISTRY!  Man that music is good.  Boy, I sure would like to play the guitar.  I should go to the guitar store and try to learn how to play again.  Why, sure, Mr. Guitar Salesman, this Jackson Dinky guitar is a bit out of my newbie price range and the neck seems far too small for my giant hands but I will accept your hypothesis that this guitar will give me the ability to ROCK BEYOND BELIEF.  Some weeks pass, I noodle around on my new guitar.  I put it in its case.  It sits for years until I give it to my younger brother who is a real musician who promptly trades it for a real guitar.
  
  Fast forward another ten years.  Man I'm old.  If I don't learn how to play the guitar now, my hands will just be gnarled claws unable to wrap around a guitar neck by the time I do.  Cue Roberts Music Institute!  Jay Roberts sat down with me and assessed my abilities (zero), asked me what I wanted to play (HENDRIX! MAIDEN! PRIEST! SRV!), decided on who would be the best teacher for me at the school, and set me on my way.  Now, nearly a year and a half later I can actually PLAY THE GUITAR!  My teacher, Chris, is very patient and adapts his teaching style to best suit my learning style as an older student.  Chris has begun unlocking the secrets and mysteries of the guitar and it has been hugely personally rewarding for me to not only play the music that has so inspired me for so long, but to also understand WHY that music is so fantastic and why it had such an impact on me.  It's not often that one has life changing experiences but I can honestly say that taking lessons at RMI has done that for me.

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  Posted on 01.05.11 Peter T.

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