Recent content by Randy Whiting

This is all about tonality and musicality. It's all about how you interact with and add to the music. Having an instrument named should not limit what it does in a song - whether it lays down the foundation with deep tones or it plays chords or it plays a solo line in the upper register...

But it is a bass "guitar" not a new instrument. So, there is rational there in calling it what it is. Just like in other instruments, there is a bass clarinet, baritone sax, bass trombone, etc. The taxonomy of the various instruments related more the range than the need to define a new...