Welcome aboard @williamtait4,
Enjoy the ride.
Cheers Brian
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Hey Will, welcome!
Out of curiosity, where in Scotland are you from?
And is Scotland under Boris & Dominic’s “Stay Alert” regime, or does Sturgeon et al determine what your cautionary measures look like?
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Welcome @williamtait4.
Will, if you have not explored the sight yet, search for threads on Billie Jean (our wicked mistress), as she is so popular on this sight for the very same reason you stated.
It’s a love / hate relationship with her.
You hate her guts until you love her to death.
Persistence, go slower then the slow workout if necessary, try 50bpm for a while, til you get the brain and fingers working together at least a bit.
Don’t let her throw you off your 1 month schedule.
Once you can comfortably pass the slow workout, carry on.
If the medium and fast are still kicking your but, try not to get stuck there.
It is permissible, or suggested rather, that you continue the course once the first workout is complete.
Practice daily (if possible) and go back to her until you get thru the medium and fast, as often as you like, as long as it doesn’t knock you off your selected pace.
That said, you don’t need to keep 1 month pace, that’s only if you really want to and can. But you get the idea, move on, there is much to learn, much of which will help you finally break her down.
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Welcome @williamtait4!
Same here with the pandemic & free time. I finished the course but am still revisiting it to clean up technique. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and have written my own song and am currently building a bass out of a build kit after encouragement of this great community.
To sum up: Welcome! The course is great, the community is awesome - have fun.
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Boris is proof that covid 19 doesn’t kill the stupid 
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Welcome!
Is it the Orange Crush amp?
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Thanks!
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Hey, I live in Aberdeen. No, Sturgen advises us here, we are around 10 days behind England on opening buisness’ which is not ideal as I have a beauty salon that is closed right now.
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Yeah its been a blast so far, I have learned so much already with Josh, especially the note names on the fret board!
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Thanks man! Thats all great advice! Ive been doing the billie jean notes as a warm up every day so hopefully when I go back to the workouts I will smash them.
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Awesome! Yeah its sort of a good thing having the free time too. Thats great you wrote a song, what kind of music do you play?
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Now I see two different questions in there because one would be the kind of music I like to play and enjoy and that’s mostly rock and ska but I tend to think that every genre has its place and want to be able to play different styles.
Then there’s the question what my song actually is and ummm… I’m not sure. Acoustic guitar drinking/tavern song I guess.
Inspiration came from Pen & Paper RPG as I play a bard and according to lore he has already written the song. So I wrote it. See more info and a faulty rendering of the song here - I did something wrong with the timings for the different “drum” beat in the chorus so it didn’t come out right. But the first verse and chorus should give you an idea of the style.
Lyrics including a dodgy translation
And recently I practiced my music sheet writing skills by actually writing my composition on a note sheet.
All links are to the same thread about original creations/compositions but the links are the exact posts I explain about the song, background and motivation in more detail.
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… ?
… is that d&d turned upside down?
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Well. My name is Jack and live in California. I have two grown children, five dogs, and lots of time on my hands. I picked up bass in 1994 from a pawn shop in town. I sat down and noodled around with it. I never learned any formal or informal lessons. I just tried my best to pick out notes. To spectacular failure. I stopped playing when I sold the bass guitar and my little porta studio to pay the rent 20 years ago. I would buy another bass, but that was sold again to pay the bills. Plus, I lost all creative desire when my daughter passed away on 2006. I did not do anything music-wise for 15 years, because I got into computers.
Fast forward to 2018, and got the music bug back. Over the course from then to now, I bought recording equipment again, and this time around, I have features and processing I could only dream of 15-20 years ago. Racks and racks of gear smashed into a small part of my hard drive. Everything I could wish for - right there. I am still blown away by the technology in a box.
So, I bought an analog mixer, an interface (when I learned about latency, which was absent in the analog gear), a MIDI controller, a nice condenser mic (I love the NT1A), and some low end monitors (Presonus 4.5’s). I have Studio One and Ableton Live 10 Standard. To help with grooves, I bought Superior Drummer 3. I bought EZ Bass, but it sucked, which made me pick up a real bass. I got a Music Man Sub Series, but that was waaaay too chunky for me, so I returned that, and got a Schecter Diamond. It feels really good. I dinked around, and remembered I cannot play - So I looked up online lessons to learn the proper way.
In the meantime, I still need to learn keyboard to work the MIDI and the drum machine. So I have a long, long way to go before I become a one man band.
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Welcome @dprkforum!
Sorry for your loss.
Good you found your way back to music again.
Seems you are well equipped! @Kekec also has a keyboard background so maybe he has some tips for you regarding that topic. For bass you found the best beginner course I know of 
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