In this interview, Olivier Babaz teaches and discusses how to find the best parts of your double bass to play percussion, taking inspiration from both conga and Cajon players. He gives drumming demonstrations, as well as how to drum and play at the same time. There is also a fantastic performance exploring all these ideas with guitarist, Sam Dunn.

This video is a preview of the type of content in Olivier's new online video course, The Creative Improvisor, which is out now.

Interview timings:
00:00 Performance snippet with Sam Dunn.
00:33 Interview with Geoff Chalmers.
01:20 How do you approach playing percussion on double bass?
04:32 Combining bass and percussion playing.
05:48 Performance with guitarist Sam Dunn.

Olivier references the percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo and El Piraña.

Want to learn more from Olivier? Take a look at his courses 'Jazz Bowing' and ‘The Creative Improvisor’.