I’ve never tried Talk Bass, I just know there are a lot of arguments on their Facebook page, so I stay away from them.
Bass Wizard has some good YouTube videos out there, but like you I don’t know how much value there is in his paid material.
SBL is okay… Scott is a good bass player and very knowledgeable, but as everyone else has stated, spends too much time jabbering when all you really want is a lesson.
My short list is:
I don’t need anything else, other than my own dedication and practice.
Well spoken, @PamPurrs . . . I couldn’t have expressed that any better 
All best, and please give your cute doggie a pat for me! 
Cheers, Joe
EDIT: I meant cute “groupie” . . .
Correction.
I meant Talking Bass with Mark.
NOT TALK BASS
Let me be the first to congratulate you on your new bad assess, your Royal Bad Ass!!!
Private lessons folks.
Fills the gaps, helps set goals, and timelines (between lessons) helps you sort thru the OVERWHELMING world of what’s out there on YT, amazon books, which things are important for your specific goals, and setting those goals if you just don’t know. I started lessons 2 weeks ago, and have my 2nd lesson on Tuesday, and I feel, no I am certain this has been my most productive 2 weeks on bass since going thru B2B.
I know all my weeks to come will be great as well with the teaching and guidance, coaching from a really good teacher.
I highly recommend private lessons, to fill the void, or for now, just til the next course, picking up after, whatever. Even at once a month, it can help your month be a stronger, structured learning month for sure.
So grab a good teacher. I know you guy,ay be biased but I got the best teacher, I am sure there are lots of great ones out there, who knows, maybe even mine.
Also, in case you do not know, on @JoshFossgreen website, he has 3 ebooks you can purchase cheap, and I am only theu chapter 3 of the first book on scales, it is a great book. And you know the teaching style already, it transfers pretty well to paper (text) also, so check those out, that’s another way to fill the void, Learn your fretboard thru scales and arpeggios and 5he excercises and lessons in those books.
Well,…
Um…I am in the same room with my bass, amp, and IPad, connected to Josh thru Skype.
But seriously, he may well have been here. I was just playing, and he said, “ I think you need to cut one of your fingernails on your right hand”, and sure enuf, I was looking for my clippers that morning and couldn’t find them.
As those were in the room…
So…
Skype works too,
Lots of places have adopted online lessons. Possibly because that’s how they had to get by during Covid? Or it was coming anywhere.
Guitar Center advertises them on the home screen of the website and app.
Many other sources too. I see them for as low as $20 per hour on apps like Offer Up and Let Go.
Now, how to pick a teacher, and can you pick one that could do more damage then playing and learning on your own. What to look for in a teacher, what to ask perspective teachers?
I do not know, I will leave those questions to be answered by those that teach, @JoshFossgreen, @Gio, anybody else who teaches, or takes lessons can chime in on their selection process.
I am curious what you would get out of online lessons from GC??
Think they are good?
Are you doing lessons virtually right now? If so, what is it like? Is your teacher able to get a good look at your technique via video and a good idea of your sound via microphone? I’ve been considering this myself.
Should have read that more carefully, I think my questions were already answered actually.
Its Ok. I can still answer the question.
Yes, I do lessons on Zoom with @JoshFossgreen. He is as amazing in person, (on Zoom) as he was in the B2B, if not more so.
and yes,
absolutely, he can pick up even the smallest details, like if one finger on my plucking hand has a nail longer than the other. He can easily hear if I mis play a note in a scale, and on the other end, I can see and hear him when he is playing lessons so I can see what I need to be doing.
If you are considering it, and are serious about it, I would highly recommend going for it, at least one lesson, or one series of lessons, if they are sold in a pack. it is not only money well spent, it is time well spent, time that extends thru every second you are practicing and playing between lessons.
you KNOW the materials you are using to learn, are the ones that will benefit you most per your current level of playing, to continually get you to the next level, and the next and the next…
Yeah if I get blocked on something, I am absolutely going to try to grab Josh or Gio on skype or something. Will be totally worth the price.
I go to my bass coach’s studio every Monday for an hour. It’s a 33 mile drive for me, but worth it. I am getting so much more from my one-on-one sessions than I could possibly get from online lessons. The best part is he is right there watching and listening to me, and catches my errors immediately, then gives me instantaneous corrective advice.
I tried one Zoom lesson with him just to eliminate the long drive, but it just wasn’t the same.
Yeah, of course, if you have the option to do live vs Zoom with the same teacher, live would be the way to go. But if Zoom is the only way you can work with your teacher, it beats not working with one.
Of course, I could find a teacher within driving distance, but it is just not the same teacher.
I am surprised their hasn’t been more activity on this thread in the last year.
Here is another site worth checking out, with an easy going teacher,
Luke is good, and I’m on his mailing list, but there’s something about him that grates on my nerves. I know, it’s just me, but I’ve not been able to bring myself to sign up for any of his courses.
I’m not there yet but I am starting to make a plan because nobody is like Josh. As I said in a previous post SBL feels flexy and vague.
So. I got my Ari Caps’ Music theory for bassists and I will get Josh’s two eBooks soon.
Along with that I think that since I am not very inspired by funk I might not really slap but I really enjoy tapping. So if I am finished with the B2B I will start shifting there.
But since I am halfway my course I don’t know how it will work for me.
Many suggested talkingbass’ bundles but I’m suffering with ADHD and I need quick and bite sized lessons instead of Ted talks so I don’t know if these courses would work for me. Shrug
Mark at Talkingbass is great. He doesn’t beat around the bush, and all his content is very focuesd.
Scott Devine on the other hand, that is a TED talk and a half IME, but he wanders from subject matter so frequently, that much of that time is not really focused on subject matter.
FWIW, I think Scott is super cool, and he is a great player (As is Mark from Talkingbass), and he would be great guy to grab a lunch with and hear all his stories, but for his lessons sake, I would prefer if he kept on track.
Also, I don’t find him to be highly beneficial for beginner to low intermediate players, but the more advanced you get, then I think he would be a better instructor.
Nobody works with beginners (and all levels) like Josh, but I find that Mark comes second, and then there are some other options, not a well known, like Dan Bass Lessons, BassEducation with Damien Erskine (I love this place, and Damien is great, and it is UBER affordable, Damien, like Josh, will answer your e-mails personally, and have conversations with you) that I would probably consider, at my current level, before SBL. That said, I may do a 14 day free trial right now, just to get entered into his give aways.
Also, I did do his FREE lesson map, that used to be on his site
(I don’t see it anymore, it is ONLY paid for content now), and this is where I found him to not be great for beginners (i was just starting at the time), where the first 8-9 lessons were just fine, I was hanging in there, then in lesson 10, he went from teaching basic math (addition and subtraction) straight to Trigonometry, and I was like, Wha, Wha, Wha, WTF???
Another great thing about Mark at Talkingbass, lots of FREE lessons mapped out, PLUS, the Scales course, you get the first 5 or 10 lessons of the actual course free to try (probably why I ended up doing the Scales course before the Chord Tones, now that I think about it.)
I’m very interested in picking up courses by Mark. I like him a lot but I can’t follow him sometimes and it’s not his fault, I can’t keep my head concentrated for long.
Did you see the finger exercise lick in A minor he posted recently? Top notch to be free!!!
I did not, unless you are referring to the Pinky exercise that starts on A on D string? Yeah, thats in A minor, so I guess I have.
Great exercise, I practice it almost daily.
His courses are not hard to follow.
Most lessons are under 10 min, with long ones going just past 20 min, but he breaks it up in to really good chunks, and only a couple 20 min lessons out of between 45 and up to 60 or more lessons per course.
