Despite a number of people’s holiday’s coinciding with rehearsals, the Liverpool Guitar Ensemble is still going strong. At present we are working on a piece, origninally for guitar trio, called “Four Moods” by sensational Czech maestro Stepan Rak. We are also continuing to rehearse the Handel Passacaglia and Khatachurian’s Sabre Dance which were highlights from the last performance we felt. There is also an arrangement of a Metallica track to begin at the next rehearsal!

Next rehearsal? 8th Speptember. Next general Society meeting 25th August 2011

7pm – 9.30pm

at CAP004, Capstone Building, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, Shaw Street, Liverpool, L3 8QB

We were pleased to have local sound engineer Phil Hargreaves attend our meeting on 28th July and present a seminar on Recording the Guitar. The meeting was well attended and very informative on this tricky area. Phil’s exensive knowledge on all aspects of recording mean that we may extend the seminar into a series of workshops through the year if Phil can schedule the time. Some of the principles Phil dicussed can be read about here: http://magazine.dv247.com/2011/07/27/recording-acoustic-guitar (though as Phil has pointed out, the article is primarily concerned with steel stringed acoustic guitars).

As well as recording, Phil runs an independant label and produces improvised and experimental music himself: http://www.whi-music.co.uk/