Why Ensembles?

Why play Ensembles?

Reprinted from Derek Hasted's guitar ensemble web site

Why? Because good music and good friends are an irresistible combination.

It was Paul Hindemith who said "People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts"

Why? Because after a while, having guitarist friends round to play solos for (or perhaps 'at') each other, tends to pall.

Ensembles keep all the players busy all the time!

Still not convinced? Then read on.

Because it's sheer delight to...

	Be part of a rich and extended sound you couldn't achieve on your own.
	Hear a rich, tasto, vibrato, bass under a tune which is darting effortlessly.
	Hear the middle line of a three part harmony sing out effortlessly between the other lines of your favorite music.
	Be surrounded by music to your left and your right with a dynamic range so much bigger than one guitar.

Still not convinced? Then read on further.

Because we have an opportunity that the rest of the music world doesn't...

	Suppose you played piano. You'd never experience the fun of four of you sitting in one room all playing together.
	Suppose you played double bass. Even getting out to visit friends at all with it is a real pain!
	Suppose you played French horn. All you'd ever play is the horn part.
	We're lucky. We can play solo, we can get together, we're mobile, we can swap parts.

Take this opportunity!

Mind you, if you're the kind of person who holds down a demanding job and at the end of a long tiring day walks the dog, runs for five miles, does two hours of scales and arpeggios, writes three chapters of a novel, decorates the spare room and wants to be the best Guitarist within jogging distance of your home, you might find that other guitarists aren't that keen to join you...

You see, Guitar Ensemble is, to pursue an analogy, very much a team game. Except that there aren't any opponents.

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