My son (12) plays drums, and my daughter (14) plays guitar. Weve been going to SoR Natick since late February and they are having a great time.It is expensive, especially with two kids going at the same time, but if you count the 2.5 hours a week of rehearsal time + the .75 hours a week of instruction time it comes out to about $23/hour ($325 a month divided by ~14 hours/month). Granted they are not playing for the full 2.5 hours of rehearsal time, its still a good value if you consider music store lessons are $25-$35 for a *half* hour.The performance program also encourages the kids to practice more often then when they were taking individual lessons. If you value working as a team as a valuable life skill, but your child is not a team sports kind of kid (or maybe youre not a team sports kind of parent...) SoR is a great program for them to learn work as a team while building a skill theyll have for life.