Love the idea of this thread! I started mid-January and I’m up to Module 10 now. Figured I’d go for the 3 month pace but it’s been so nice and smooth it’ll probably be closer to 2.
I too started on the Fender Play app, then there was some sort of technical glitch and I was unenrolled. Rather than signing up again I took a look around and quickly found BassBuzz and haven’t looked back.
The notorious Billie Jean also bested me on first pass, and I even went back a week later and still wasn’t happy with how I was playing it. Billie Jean was part of the toughest stretch I’ve had in this course M4L2-M5L3 when I was having a hard time keeping up with basically all the play-alongs, but since then it’s been back on a steady pace.
I read other people on the forum saying they went through the course multiple times and thought that wouldn’t be necessary. However there’s so much good stuff in here that Josh is talking about and while I can play the workouts, I’m only really focusing on rhythm and fret numbers. Now that we’re talking theory I’m following the discussion and I can “decode” the sheet music and some of the other theory elements but I’m not really connecting it to my playing yet. I think these elements might fall into place for me better on a second go around.
I haven’t made the time yet to learn any full songs since I want to maintain my momentum with the course. So I’ll probably try learning two or three before going through the course a second time.
Today I went back and played With or Without You for no particular reason. I like the song and I remember the fast workout felt really fast at first even though it’s so simple. Now it’s a breeze, so I’d suggest if there’s a song that we played early that you liked, and it was a bit too much of a stretch at the time, go back and try again, you just might get it this time.
@Regina I also really enjoyed M5L2 Musical Intervals, but I remember having a hard time with that one, I should give it another shot.
Three of my favorite lessons so far have been
M7L3 Melodic Improv with the Major Scale
M8L5 Pride and Joy
M10L2 House of the Rising Sun