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Technique: Creative fingering for double bassists

2024-04-23T08:05:00

_MG_4989 David Desimpelaere

Belgian double bassist David Desimpelaere explores the ongoing quest for new and personal solutions

Over recent years I have played a lot of new music, especially by my composer brother Erik. He likes to challenge me and his music has encouraged me to think even more deeply about effective and expressive fingering.

When I return to standard bass repertoire, I find that many of the solutions I have devised for his music are useful in this context too…

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