Justin
Alfano
Justin is one of the students who have been
studying with me the longest. As such he
is also one of my most advanced. It has
been a pleasure to see him develop the level musicality that he has reached
over the last couple of years. I like to
acknowledge students when they put forth a noticeable amount of effort and he
has done so over the last few weeks. I
have asked him to take on one of the heaviest workloads within our Rock School
program and he has risen to the occasion, even taking it upon himself to
arrange a more accurate version of the transcriptions. I always know I can depend on him to know his
parts with minimal assistance from me. I
look forward to continuing our efforts with music theory and seeing what
interesting ideas he will certainly have as he takes on songwriting.
Spencer
Lynch
August features A.I. Root 8th
grader, Spencer Lynch, as our percussion student of the month. Spencer has been a student of mine since I
began teaching at Woodsy's almost five years ago. With the encouragement of
Spencer's Father, David, he has blossomed into a first rate player of several
styles of music, including Jazz, Afro-Cuban, and Latin. All this
diversity enables Spencer to enjoy playing drums to his favorite Rock bands and
participating in the Jazz and Concert bands at school. Thanks for all your hard
work Spencer.
-Roy King
