School of Rock

We started the kids in School of Rock at the beginning of March.  They were able to go for two weeks before COVID-19 happened and they had to close down in person lessons.  The three older kids never got to meet or play with their groups before the shut down.  We started doing zoom meetings.  Dyer was so disappointed because most of his drum lessons before School of Rock have been online and he was so excited to start doing in person lessons.

Poor Blakely wasn't able to do any lessons while the school was closed down.  She is in the Rookies group where they experiment with different instruments to see which one they will like to continue on with.  About half the time the school was closed down I had each of the older kids teach her something for 15 minutes one day a week.  I wanted it to be every week but I think Blair was the only one that was consistent at teaching her something.  

Dyer is in the Rock 101 class.  He has his individual lesson for 45 minutes once a week and his group lesson for 1 1/2 hours once a week.  During the shut down his group really only met for about 20-45 minutes.  They didn't play together so I started having the kids play together once a week in Dyer's room.  Both Easton and Dyer know "Wild Thing" and "Believer".  I only filmed them the first time they played together and they only played "Wild Thing".  I'll need to film them playing "Believer".

"Wild Thing"

Both Easton and Blair are in the British Invasion class together.  They have their individual lessons for 45 minutes and a group class for 3 hours once a week.  During the shut down their group met for about 45-60 minutes.  The only song that Easton and Blair are playing together right now is "(I can't get no) Satisfaction".  This was the first time they played together as well.

The kids started doing in person lessons at the beginning of June.  Since then Blair has been asked to be one of the singers.  She will be singing back up for "Drive my Car" and I think  "Twist and Shout".  Easton will also be playing "A Whiter Shade of Pale".  Along with "Wild Thing" Dyer will also be playing "Let it Be" and "Tootie Frootie"  Blakely's excited to be back and she says (at least right now) that she wants to play the bass.  It looks like we might eventually have a Kelsey band!