Joel Quarrington

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Joel Quarrington — Canadian School of Double Bass, Book 1 “Daily Studies”

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Joel Quarrington’s most recent project is updating and finishing his Canadian School of Double Bass Book 1 “Daily Studies” and Book 2, “Intervals, Chords, Arpeggios and Scales.” Both publications exist for basses tuned in fourths or fifths. All of these books are available as PDFs from his website store. Here are a couple of extracts from Book 1 that talk about a fundamental premise of his technique.

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Joel Quarrington: “I Do Believe That Eventually Everyone Will Be Tuning in Fifths but That Might Be a Hundred Years Away”

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Joel Quarrington shares with us in this interview his view of tuning in fifths. Not only that, but Quarrington tells us how he tries to accomplish better intonation with fifths tuning and how to become a significant supporting musician in an ensemble. He also shares how tuning in fifths is changing the lives of musicians in third-world countries.

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Ander Perrino: “You Have to Do What You Feel in the Music”

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Ander Perrino is a fantastic musician who, at a young age, has become the Principal Double Bass of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Germany. He shares how he developed his technique on the bass, the audition process, and his innovative projects with Linien Soundcraft, Cuatro Versos, and a violin duo in this interview.

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