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Guitar, bass, drums. The standard rock trio. The reason it works (keeps working again and again) is that each instrument occupies a distinct part of the sonic spectrum: The guitar is high, bass is low, and drums provide structure. Importantly, a trio doesn’t need to be those instruments, but it does have to respect that balance of registers and roles. Look at jazz: Same dynamic, you just trade the guitar for a piano or saxophone. Or how about a string trio—violin, viola, cello—same,…
