A Different Kind Of Band Camp
Zac Roueche of Toggle rocks with teacher Tom Bernath at rock band camp.
(Photos By Marianne Meyer For The Washington Post)
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The climax of the All Things Rock band camp featured 11 groups of 7- to 15-year-old musicians performing rock songs they had composed during the summer.
For the bands with the youngest musicians, teachers offered instrumental support during the final performance last month at Jammin' Java in Vienna; others hit their own licks.
Bum notes were minimal, drumming confident, and a few lead guitarists, such as A Salted Battery's Colin Cook, 14, showed promise.
Barclay Saul, a partner at All Things Rock, said the comedy movie "School of Rock" jump-started his private lessons into a much bigger gig.
"My business went through the roof when [the movie] came out. . . . All of a sudden, every kid in the world wanted to learn how to play AC/DC."
The school, in Tysons Corner, offers music instruction to burgeoning musicians of all ages. Saul figured that 80 percent are high school age or younger.
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-- Marianne Meyer
