Alfred's Guitar 101, Ensemble makes a great supplement to any class guitar program. Your students will enjoy rehearsing and performing great-sounding pieces using the skills and concepts they have learned in Alfred's Guitar 101 . This flexible guitar ensemble is written for five guitars, but it can easily be adapted for as few as two or as many as eight guitars. A creative teacher can find many ways to use Alfred's Guitar 101, Ensemble : add a bass player, percussion, or other melodic or harmonic instruments---whatever fills the needs of your students and program. Desert Trail is a guitar ensemble piece in 4/4 time that switches alternately back and forth from a minor tonality to a major tonality. Since Guitar parts 1-4 all contain eighth notes, students will have a chance to develop their picking and fingerstyle. The Guitar 5 part will help students learn to change chords in a variety of rhythmic situations.
