Virtuoso guitarist Marco Sartor is working with a national youth orchestra program in his native Uruguay to establish a national program for guitar orchestra. As the standards in Uruguay take shape, Marco generously agreed to share materials with guitarcurriculum.com.
“Scattered” is a level 4 piece that provides an excellent opportunity to discuss how motivic repetition can create expectations and deliver surprises. Call attention to the imitative figures in measures 2 and 4, paying special attention to articulation and dynamics. Discuss the use of the repeated gestures and how the are sequenced (first a-c, then c-e). Ask students what they might expect the next time the motive appears (probably a similar interval at a higher level). Point out that the sequence is disrupted by lowering the pitches (back to a-c) and through an early arrival (we might expect the pattern to continue in measure 6, but it arrives one beat early in the second half of measure 5).
As with all pieces in the guitarcurriculum.com library- tone, dynamics, articulation, and ensemble are the most important elements. Isolate measures requiring staccato marks. Model the sounds you want to hear, and then practice unifying the sound as a group.