What Is The Primary Role Of Bass Guitar Musical Instruments?
You might have noticed a bass guitarists plucking, popping, slapping, tapping and thumping his or her way through a concert. But the thing is: unlike the lead guitarist whose instrument you can literally hear piercing the air, you can hardly hear the bass humming underneath all the other musical instruments. So if you can hardly hear it, why let the bass guitarist do his thing anyway? The answer lies in the fact that people who stage concerts (and similar musical shows) want to develop several layers of complementing and contrasting sounds that eventually make for a rich fusion of melody. And the low vibrations of the bass guitar contribute to that fusion greatly. Before the 1950s, double bass was the most prevalent musical instrument that provided any concert that deep, low booming or humming sound that literally smoothens or balances the sounds of the other string instruments. Almost all the great composers of our age have written concerts or solos for the double bass making its dist
