Welcome to
The Rockaway Arts Academy!
(973)586-0700
contact@rockawayartsacademy.com
350 Route 46 Rockaway, NJ 07866
(Click here for directions)

Are we the right music school for you?
The Rockaway Arts Academy offers more benefits than any other music school in Rockaway, New Jersey. Our students drive as far away as Ridgewood to take music lessons here. The Academy provides quality music lessons for all the major instruments: Guitar, Voice, Piano, Drums, Bass, Ukulele and Rock Band Classes. We offer music lessons for ages 5 to adult and from beginner through advanced.

While you are here researching the best music school for you, please consider the benefits of becoming an Academy student and find out why we are Rockaway, NJ's number one choice for music lessons.

1. Guitar, Voice, Piano, Drums, Bass Guitar, Ukulele and Rock Band Classes all in ONE location!
We are the only music school in Rockaway, New Jersey that offers music lessons for all of these popular instruments and classes: Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Voice, Singing, Piano, Bass, Drum set, Ukulele and year round Rock Band classes in one location. We also have group music lessons, ensembles, jam nights, clinics, music teacher training programs and recitals.

2. The most qualified and passionate music teachers in Rockaway.
All of our music teachers have either college training, professional performance experience and teaching experience. Our music teachers are dedicated to learning about your personal musical goals and helping you to achieve them in your music lessons. With at least two music teachers for every instrument, we are confident that we have the right teacher to meet your music lesson needs. In addition to their teaching credentials, our teachers have warm personalities, and are extremely friendly and dedicated to teaching you the style of music that you want to learn in your music lesson. We also have a wide range of music lesson times available.

3. A proven track record of excellence since 2003
Visit our testimonial page to see what our students are saying. Every year, aspiring music teachers start their own studio, and a year or two later it’s closed.The academy has a proven track record of offering quality music lessons for guitar, voice, piano, ukulele and drum lessons in Rockaway, New Jersey year round. Our full time mission is teaching music lessons trusted by over 1,000 families for over a decade.

4. A comfortable parent’s lounge for our clients
Our clients enjoy a spacious, professional parent’s lounge with comfortable chairs, bottled water service, free Wi-Fi, magazines and television while they wait for their music lessons. We also have large observation windows on every door so that you can watch your child’s music lessons. Or if you prefer you can sit in on their music lesson anytime you like.

5. Fully stocked music lesson rooms.
Our lesson rooms are stocked with everything you need for music lessons including amps, stereos, full drum kits with pads, electric pianos with weighted keys and much more. All you need to bring to your music lesson is your guitar, bass guitar, drum sticks, and books. We have spent thousands of dollars on our studio to offer soundproofing and large observation windows. Technology is a big part of our music lessons here at the Rockaway Arts Academy and we have hookups for iPods, iPads and laptops in each room. This allows students to have a modern and engaging lesson using music teaching apps, music software and more. Feel free to "Bring Your Own Device" to your music lesson in addition to your music instrument!

6. Recitals, performance, and recording opportunities
We are the only music school in Rockaway that holds its recitals in a 400 seat auditorium with over $350,000 of audio and visual equipment.

Every parent just wants to know how their child is doing and if they are really progressing. The best way for a parent to understand if their investment in music lessons is really worth it, is to have their child participate in a recital.

In May and December many of our students choose to perform in our biannual recitals. We also are continually adding other performance and recording opportunities for our students. Your child will love the opportunity to rock out on the big stage with a real rock band, play in front of their peers at local venues and get professional recordings of songs that they are working on. You are encouraged to bring your family and friends to the show and share in the fun of music! Our performers either perform in groups like in our Rock Band Classes, perform with a teacher, or perform a solo piano or guitar piece. Visit our videos page to see some of the performances!

7. Professional office staff to serve you.
We are the only music school in Rockaway that has a music lesson and scheduling director dedicated to our customer service during our business hours.

Our friendly office staff is always ready to answer any questions that you may have and to make sure that you get the best possible customer service available. They are always ready to tell you the wide range of music lesson times available. In addition to having a music lesson director always at the desk, we also send out newsletters, quarterly progress reports and letters to keep you up to date on everything that is going on at the Academy.

8. We are conveniently located in the Boro Plaza on Route 46 in Rockaway.
Due to it’s central location, our music school is convenient to all areas of Rockaway. While you are taking music lessons, close to the school you will find great shopping, dining, gym and local entertainment. Although located in Rockaway we are only minutes from Dover, Denville, Mine Hill, Randolph, Parsippany and all other ares near Morris County.

9. Student Discount Cards.
We are the only music school in Rockaway that offers students discount cards for their students which saves them money all throughout the year.

The academy also sells music books (for piano, guitar, drums, ukulele, bass, theory, voice, staff paper, tab paper), instruments and accessories. All of our current students receive a student discount card that saves them money on all of their music lesson supplies. Students will save up to 20% off on instruments, music lesson materials, accessories and much more! We have everything our students need for their music lessons here at the Rockaway Arts Academy.

10. FREE Student Picture Day
We are the FIRST and ONLY music school in Rockaway that offers a free picture day for their students.

Every year we host a free picture day with a professional photographer. This is a service that our student’s parents love as they all want quality photos of their children. Adults are welcome too! Students can bring their music instruments to the photo shoot and wear whatever they like. Piano players, drummers and singers, we will have a piano, microphone and drums set up for your pictures. We have all sorts of music instruments here at the store so if you'd rather pose with one of ours that's fine too!

11. Quarterly Progress Reports.
We are the FIRST and ONLY music school in Rockaway that offers quarterly progress reports for all of our private lesson students.

Each student receives a quarterly progress report that lets the students and parents know exactly what they are working on in their music lessons, what they need to improve on, and the goals that we have in the next upcoming months of music lessons. This ensures that a student is guided clearly and that parents can help encourage the student through their music lesson career. We also encourage our student's parents to come and talk to the teachers on a regular basis so we can keep you posted on how your child is doing so that they get the most out of music lessons and you know how to help guide and encourage them.

12. Month to month music lessons.
The Academy does not require semester minimums for music lessons. Every student here is on a month-to-month basis.

If you are ready to start, you have nothing to lose as we only want students who truly want to be here and we will not commit you to a long term contract.

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