Welcome aboard, @ALCINCHNZ . . . 
Glad to have you with us!
Cheers, Joe
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Welcome @ALCINCHNZ… that is a very nice intro, thanks for taking the time to write it.
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Welcome to the community @ALCINCHNZ!
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Welcome aboard @ALCINCHNZ,
Happy birthday, don’t be to concerned by your age, never to old to learn something new.
I started in April and I’m 58, and there are plenty others around our age😎or older who has seen the light, and it’s great to see the progress of forum members via post your covers, or post your originals etc, that can give you lots of inspiration👍
You have come to the right place B2B will set you up with the basic stuff to get you on your way down the bass path, don’t get bogged down, the course is very motivating and you will see good progress in no time.
Chris Squire was one of my favourite players.
Enjoy the ride
Cheers Brian
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Welcome @ALCINCHNZ.
That’s a great story and congratulations on picking up the bass. Many of us here are the wrong side of 50 so don’t feel bad on the late start. Just enjoy the journey
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I forgot to mention! My main goal is to be able to play music with my kids. Won’t that be an amazing bonding experience?!? One of the charts they play frequently is “Song For My Father”. I was so excited to see that was on the B2B curriculum!
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Hello, name is Tommy. I work nights hauling milk in a semi truck.
I’ve been playing with guitar on and off since I was about six or seven years old.
Bass guitar is something I always kind of wanted to try, but many other hobbies, (firearms, D&D, martial arts, etc.) pretty much ate my time up.
Then, one day, I was crusing the pawn shop for deals, and came across a Yamaha RTX170 4 string bass being sold for $35 as-is. Fretboard looked okay, tuning heads looked okay, bridge looked okay. So I asked why it was being sold as is, and was told when they ran it through their test amp, it sounded horrible.
So on a lark, I bought it.
Just needed to clean and resolder the wiring on the jack. 
Waiting on my Vox Amplug 2 to come in (thanks for the rec Josh), and have been practing basic finger stretching exercises (again, thanks Josh).
I’ve decided I wanted to take my time, do it the right way and start from scratch. I want to learn the fretboard, learn sheet music and music theory and proper technique.
Anyway, sorry for the novella, but thats my story and I’m sticking to it.
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Welcome aboard @Sp33dSnakr,
Enjoy the ride,
Cheers Brian
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Welcome to the community @Sp33dSnakr!
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Welcome @Sp33dSnakr
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Welcome @Sp33dSnakr
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I’m a 64 year old retired lawyer living in Toronto.
The last time I played bass before this year was 50 years ago!! I was in a band with kids at school and didn’t know how to read music or anything. I got serious about hockey and dropped music. When I retired I resolved to learn yoga and bass. Shockingly I have followed through and am sorta proud of that.
I live in a tri-plex above my son’s family including 2 year old grandson and my office/studio in in the lower. Unfortunately I can’t play without headphones at nap time (his) 1-3pm and bedtime, 7:30. One thing I am trying to figure out is how to feed the lesson audio into amp from laptop so I can continue the lessons quietly.
So far, I am making decent progress and am surprised I even have clue one about reading music. Josh, your course makes me happy and keeps my old brain from grinding down during the pandemic.
Stay safe all. Best regards and happy New Year.
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Welcome @guy.farrell. You’re a youngster as far as I’m concerned 
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Welcome to the community @guy.farrell!
If your amp has an auxiliary input jack, connect a stereo patch cable from your laptop’s headphone jack to the amp’s aux in jack. That should work. Or if your amp doesn’t have an aux in jack, you may need to get a headphone bass guitar amplifier (e.g., VOX amPlug2 or NUX Mighty Plug). One of these will allow you to practice quietly.
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Welcome aboard @guy.farrell,
Sounds like your already enjoying the ride,
Cheers Brian
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Welcome @guy.farrell
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Hello everybody.
I have posted my first entry here in the wrong place,so just to (re) introduce myself:
I’m Stan,35,a Slovak living in the UK which is markedly less cool than being an Englishman in New York.
I played the bass on and off since I was about 17,with a massive break somewhere in the middle and I have never really got it going properly,mainly because I switched to bass as a self taught ,awful ,guitarist and acquired a plethora of bad habits that i never managed to shake off.
I got myself a full set of brand new gear( sterling sub4 hh, fender v3 rumble 100 ) and the begginer to badass course of which I have only read great reviews.
I’m hoping to finally get proper foundational knowledge through the course so I can stop sounding the way I do and progress to the promised land of deep tone&buzzfree notes.
Oh and: this forum has been one of the main reasons to go for begginer to badass rather than elsewhere!
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Welcome to the community @Stando!
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Oh where to start?
I just picked up my first bass, a Shecter Cv-4, the music store in my town picked up from a store that folded due to covid, so it was a good deal. I am a complete noob when it comes to the bass; I played drums when I was young but that was ages ago.
I have long had a passion for music; when I was 11 I talked my mom into letting me get a paper route so I could buy albums, my first one being Machine Head by Deep Purple. My sister bought a keyboard so she could learn, so I figure why not give it a shot. So I have my new bass. Just an old dude looking to kick back and jam to Spotify.
Looking forward to the journey. \m/
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Welcome @Wombat-metal
I remember getting Machine Head when I was 16 and beginning my heavy rock journey
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