Hello all,
I’m Gustavo and for Christmas I decided to finally start playing bass, since it was something I always wanted to learn.
Anyway, after reading a lot about it and asking for some opinions I decided to start slow and bought a Squier Affinity PJ to get the feel of it.
I also got the B2B course right away and I’m loving Josh’s classes.
Hope some day I get to be good at it.
Cheers!!
Welcome aboard, @Guto . . . 
A Squier is a great choice to get started, too. Good luck in the course and see you around the Forums!
Cheers, Joe
Welcome to the community, @Guto!
Jerry
Howdy ya’ll! So I guess I’m (at least) one of the new kids on here. I’ve been “learning” to play the bass for far too long, decided it was time to buckle down and tame my beasts. I used to do a lot of on-line gaming, but my wife told me she was tired of seeing the back of my head and told me to find a new hobby. Opted to try to learn an instrument. Wanted to play guitar, but my fingers don’t work like that. Considered drums, but realized she would kill me, so I met in the middle and picked up a bass. My only regret is that I’ve tooled around too long, I should have buckled down a long time ago and got serious about playing. So here I am, teach me sensei/shifu/master!
Welcome @Guto, nice looking bass. I only started about a month ago, so lots of newbies here with you.
Thanks guys!! Let me tell you it has been a while that I’ve been looking for a forum full of people sharing the same interest, where I could get tons of info about bass.
One month into it and I’m loving it!
@eric1 @Guto @satxfreddy Welcome everybody!
Josh’s course is excellent and the BassBuzz community is easily one of the most supportive and helpful places on the Internet. Together, it’s the best place I’ve found for learning Bass, anywhere.
Thanks
Welcome @satxfreddy!
Welcome Gustavo @Guto! Nice looking Squier.
Welcome @satxfreddy, glad the bass helped you get off the gaming a bit. I’ve struggled with that myself many times over the years! I shudder to think how many other instruments I could have learned in the time I spent playing Diablo II alone…
LOVE IT! and welcome! Turning 50 next month and been playing for almost 2yrs now… and about 4 months with Josh’s program.
I told the wife I was seriously considering playing in a buddies band that keeps pestering me to play with them (even though Im still a newbie bass player). She thinks Im CRAZY and going thru a mid-life crisis. All I did was pick up the bass, grew my hair Viking style (short sides, long top in pony tail). She says “I will NOT be one of those girls in the front row of your gig throwing my panties on the stage”. Without hesitation I said “No one wants to see a big pair of granny panties get thrown on stage”… ya…Im still sleeping on the couch.
Hi - learned bass, stopped playing, started again…according to Josh’s “Are you a noob or an intermediate bass player” I’m on the low end of the intermediate spectrum (ha!). My challenge these days is singing and playing at the same time on anything but S-L-O-W blues. 
Thanks, Joe - I’ve been wandering around Josh’s YouTube videos for a while now, figured I’d speak up
Welcome @Melissa6742, this is a great place. Enjoy.
Welcome @Melissa6742!
Hi everyone, great to be on the bassbuzz forum! Since 2000 /01- I was the young broke teenager in London who never could afford a guitar or any instrument but desperately wanted to learn to play. I never had enough money and would spend it on cds instead of saving. My best friend at the time knew this unrealized dream and she saw second hand 3/4 size bass guitar in a shop and immediately purchased it in secret. One Christmas it was unbelievable present under our tree. She had given me a bass guitar!! It was truly the best present I have ever received!!! Without knowing much about the bass guitar, we looked up an advert in our local cd shop Beanos and found the name and number of a local bass teacher. He turned out to be a jazz bassist with at least ten bass guitars or more, and a double bass. I managed to very basically learn for a year or two. However when it was time to go to university, I ended up giving it up. At age 35 I have decided to commit to learning the bass again.
Welcome, @siddhi - couldn’t have chosen a better place to learn or re-learn the bass and get lots of help along the way from a supportive community 
A big welcome to both @siddhi and @Melissa6742!
Welcome to the forum @Melissa6742! Singing and playing is hard, took me a lot of sloooooow practice to get halfway decent at it. Halfway decent at the coordination, maybe 10% decent at singing. 
And welcome @siddhi! Thanks for sharing the story and glad you’re back on the bass.
