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.)
