Name: Always There (arr. Derek Hasted) by Simon May Guitar Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Derek Hasted
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Always There (arr. Derek Hasted)
by Simon May Guitar Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Always There (arr. Derek Hasted)

Artist Simon May

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Simon May Leslie Osborne

Arranger Derek Hasted

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 25

Arrangement Guitar Ensemble

Publisher Derek Hasted

Level 3

Product ID 894163

Genre Contemporary

Instruments Guitar

Product Description

ALWAYS THERE (Howard's Way) - 4 GUITARS or LARGE ENSEMBLE
For Classical or Acoustic Guitar - sometimes it's erroneously listed here as Electric Guitar.

Derek Hasted writes "You might not know this piece - it was the theme to the UK Television Series "Howards Way" which was broadcast between 1985 and 1990. It was composed as an instrumental with an incessant beat and a disco-like "break" in the middle.
The piece was re-worked as the much more laid-back song "Always There" by Marti Webb; the song rose high into the Top Twenty. It also opened her album of the same name. But the song version lost much of the drive of the original.

As this quartet arrangement is for playing, not singing, it makes sense to put all the drive back in!

If you visit YouTube you will find some recordings of the original theme and these should point you in the right direction to make this piece blossom into a big wall of sound...
It's for an intermediate quartet or large ensemble. Guitar 4 is tuned 6=D and is the most straightforward line. There's a version of Guitar 4 in bass clef for contra or electric bass, and here normal tuning is used. Guitar 3 is all arpeggios, mainly in first position. Guitars 1 and 2 take the tune and countermelodies.

It's a foot-tapping piece that audiences will love!

I hope you enjoy playing this piece!"

This is one of a large and growing range of accessible ensembles from experienced arranger Derek Hasted, and is supplied as full score and parts. Derek's website at www.derek-hasted.co.uk/smp lists all his arrangements by title and by "number of instruments", with links to soundclips and sample score.

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.