I studied the Okinawan karate style Uechi Ryu, which is best described as “half-hard/half-soft” and is based on four styles of kung fu. The emphasis is on a front-facing stance, economy of motion, forward kicks, and round blocks and steps. Very much the oppostie of Tae Kwon Do.
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Cool!!! That is one style I do not know. Will have a look at it … I’m looking for an “old man’s” martial art anyway ^^
I did Shotokan karate and found it … boring. But good enough to learn. Kyokushinkai Karate was better, but really hard!
My anecdotal observation is that almost all of the really technically impressive bass/guitar/keys/whatever players in rock/metal/etc have classical and/or jazz training backgrounds on some instrument, even if it’s maybe not the one they play in bands. I have a lot of issues with parts of traditional classical pedagogy, but there’s a lot that’s very very effective as well.
Technical ability is also definitely not a measure of how good a musician is, and the requirements definitely vary by genre as well. There’s a good chance there’s no reason to really worry about etudes for the music any individual person wants to play.
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As I said earlier, it’s all a personal choice.
Any learning player will bang his/her head against something in order to be able to play anything. That something can indeed be strictly songs. Or it can be other studies and songs. Or, it can strictly be other studies without songs, if technique and/or theory is their bag.
All roads lead to Rome. Eventually. But how one gets there is a subjective path.
Personally, I’ve jammed and played in bands, on guitar and bass, so those are not my goals. For others, they most definitely are. My choice in studying bass has been to learn proper technique(s) in the shortest amount of time (for sure not suggesting it will take a short time!). YMMV
Amen!
Listening to some interviews artists were spending 3-4 hours on one exercise Hendrik said 10-12 hours a day practicing. There’s not enough time in a day for me to even approach portions of that.
Perfect timing for that example was last night. My son had a bad dream that kept him up all night my sleep tracking is out of whack. Imma pay for it dearly today.
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I think my sleep tracker is drunk as far as time in bed, but it looks like heart rate bounced between 47 - 60 bpm.
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Can’t see your heart rate … but I envy you for the 8 hours uninterrupted sleep!
Luckily my resting heart rate and HRV is always quite ok, even with my 4-6 hours sleep per day. In less stressfull times I get below 48 resting, so I’m happy!
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@chris_van_hoven
Have you posted any covers on the forum? It’s helpful to do so. I haven’t had. Chance to drop by post your covers for a while now. I gotta catch up too.
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It would be interesting to see heart rate results as you work through the Technique Builder course. If readings can actually go up that high, that is. 
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Bass Exercises prolly not but some songs on live performances can get my heart rate to in the 130-150. It was quite terrifying the first time it happened my hands was shaking like crazy but I got the taste of the “bullet time” thing going and I’ve been chasing them ever since. If it goes to 400 I could have shot the wings off the flies, 
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@Al1885 I am working on two possible covers, but @sunDOG 's covers intimidate me so much, that I don’t dare to post them 
No, seriously: I am working on them, but I feel not confident enough to post yet. Not only because I am too fat to get me in the picture, but mainly because I still s#ck too much!
@MikeC - yeah, my heart rate is very dynamic. It can be very low, but when I do sports (except cycling - there I level on about 155bpm) it can jump very high.
Same with professional meetings with intellectually “challenging” business partners. The calmness I appear to have on the outside covers my inner impatience succesfully…
So I expect a heartrate of 220 BPM when doing any TalkingBass course
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Come on, post them! We’re all here for each other! 
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Just don’t let @sunDOG down 
Srsly though, with all the tabs you’ve posted for us, you totally should. I’ll post one (after having started B2B 3 weeks ago) if you will. Mine might just be one of the songs with 3 notes but I’ll do it. Maybe Soma by Smashing Pumpkins. That one looks simple enough.
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I’ll keep it simple too.
Either:
Or:
The tracks I’m posting on the “List of play-along songs with synchronised tabs on Youtube” thread are mainly to motivate other beginners or help people that struggle with a song. It’s not necessarily for me or what I (can) play!
But again, I need to be a little better - I hate to get “great” responses and know it really s#cks!
This forum is too much “Friede Freude Eierkuchen” (= friendly and amiable) for hard truths.
And I want the hard truth - but cannot handle it currently
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Both cool songs, and I love me a bit of Hole! Of the two, I’d say the Fugazi would be easier. With all those pauses in the Hole song, you’ve got to get the timings spot on…
Siamese Twins off of Pornography. Definitely that one. I just looked it up and I know I can play that right now, plus I even get to use a pick (Simon used a pick all the time back then).
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I’m still a beginner but I absolutely am not religious about following tabs - one potential benefit of using the standard music notation instead. For example look at this simple bar or two:
The first is the way it was in the music but I found fretting 5-2-5-3 really uncomfortable with my hand bouncing around (bear in mind I’m avoiding my pinky). But the second version going 5-7-5-3 I found way easier and that’s how I play it. I’m always looking for the easiest transitions for me.
Another one is this one (that you might recognise!). Nothing wrong with the first one using the open strings but later it’s all shifted up 5 semitones resulting in a different fretting pattern. So now I play the first bar using the same pattern as the second one shifted down 5 with no open strings, as in the third bar. I just found that easier to switch between the two using the same pattern for each. And to my ear it still sounds as good.
Maybe it’s all rubbish but I often look for different fretting patterns that work for my fingers. And find that lets me be quicker and smoother.
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I’ve also found that the songs have got to speak to you, in some way, to resonate, to mean something.
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