ELIANE DELAGE GUITAR ENSEMBLE

Eliane Delage Guitar Ensemble (EDGE) is an all-inclusive group of guitar players of all background and skill levels. What began in June 2013 as NYC Beginner’s Guitar Orchestra, Eliane Delage created a group in which musicians can learn, grow, and feel confident within a positive environment.  Nearly four years and thirteen shows later, EDGE has served as a welcoming platform for dozens of musicians - including guest singers, saxophonists, drummers… and of course, guitarists and bassists! - to do what they love; to play music.  So if you love playing guitar or at least being surrounded by guitar lovers, come join us!  No matter what is your level of ability, we have a part for you to play!

 

This group welcomes guitar players of ALL LEVELS. Yes, you can join if you're a total beginner, guitars, basses and ukeleles welcome, there will be a part for you to play! We'll play arrangements of popular songs and perform at venues in NYC.

Arrangements are written for distinct guitar parts that generally follow this criteria:

GUITAR 1: Simple accompaniment; ideal for beginners playing 3 years or less; open chords, power chords and simple bass lines.

GUITAR 2: Melody and add-ons; ideal for players comfortable with rhythm involving eighth notes, eighth rests, basic lead skills, comfortable with strumming.

GUITAR 3: 16th note rhythm, 7th chords, extended chords, altered chords, barre chords

GUITAR 4&5: Solo and fxs; ideal for players comfortable with lead guitar, sixteenth notes, ties, slides, bends, hammer ons/pull offs and able to manage their instrument levels, fx pedals and dynamics.

To participate;
 

• You must bring your guitar

• You must download and bring your chart to follow (to download you'll need a password you get upon RSVP on meetup)

• You must be able to follow charts (tablature or standard notation)

• You must know the very basics of your instrument

• We also use Guitar Pro, so it is strongly recommended to have it on desktop or mobile, or at least an equivalent that can read Guitar Pro (.gpx) files.

So, join in and come have fun playing your guitar with us!