Straight No Chaser – 12 Days of Christmas

Here’s a dynamite arrangement of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” from a performance at Indiana University about ten years ago featuring the original members of the a capella ensemble Straight No Chaser. It’s a great little video to get folks out...

Bill Harrison joins the Bass Blog writing staff

I’d like to welcome jazz bassist Bill Harrison to the doublebassblog.org writing staff. An active double bassist and educator, Bill is the owner of PlayJazzNow.com, the world’s only source for downloadable play-along tracks, and he maintains a blog called...

Getting a good sound – post from John Floeter

Bassist John Floeter has been continuing his series about organizing one’s practicing, putting up a great post earlier this week on his blog about how to really get a quality sound on the bass. This is a subject that I find very interesting, and it is great to...

Organizing practice time – a post from John Floeter

Grant Park Symphony bassist and blogger John Floeter put out a recent post on his blog about organizing practice time. He writes:I divide practice into two large categories, technique and repertoire. Within these two categories are many subcategories.Technique Goals:...