Re: Octave in the Mix
I played in a band with a bass player who showed up with a six string bass one night. I thought that he and the guitar player would eventually kill each other that night.
They were constantly in each other's space all night , and things got very tense.
That said, I used to go to a bi-monthly jam that was made up of most guitar players, all of whom played chords. You could not hear yourself think, let along hear an octave mandolin, mandola, or even one lonely mandolin attempting to play melody at times. I can say the same for when I played farmers markets with three guitar players. I used to beg one of the guys to play mandolin when we played fiddle tunes. Balance is so important, and it's not cool when the singer is being drowned out by the accordion player
either.
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