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. Manzanita is an ensemble piece to help students learn to play and read in 3/4 time. The Guitar 1 part contains quarter notes, dotted quarter notes, half notes, and eighth notes providing experience playing constantly changing note values. Guitar parts 2 and 3 fill a harmonic role and will also help develop proficiency performing call and response playing.
