welcome, @cabke79. Glad you’re here. Enjoy the lessons!
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Welcome @cardiffchriss
Have fun!
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Welcome @cabke79
Have fun!
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Welcome @cabke79!
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Great to have you here @Branden
An idea for you - pump the brakes on the GC lessons and finish B2B. You will have a better idea of what you might want out of private lessons at that point and be paying a whole lot less for the basics that you will learn more efficiently with B2B.
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Great to have you here @cardiffchriss
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Great to have you here @cabke79
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Welcome @Branden, @cardiffchriss and @cabke79 !
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I’ve already pre-paid for a month at GC, and my teacher likes to jam mostly. I think I’ll be able to apply what I’m learning in B2B with this teacher, but we’ll see. He’s more of a theory nerd, too, which means I’ll be able to get to the theory part a lot quicker than B2B since I’m just in M2-L4 currently (in-depth theory is a long way off). If it gets too goofy, I’ll cancel. I’m not contracted in with GC so it’s cool. Plus, I need to pick out my bass and GC is the best place to do that around here. 
Figured maybe my lessons will give me an edge in that sale.
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Hi, I’m Leonie. I have always been interested in music (keys were my first instrument; we had an organ at home), but started trying to properly learn some instruments in 2019. Well, by “properly learn”, I mean “teach myself from the internet”. I have a lot of random instruments, but the main ones I’ve been practicing are guitar and violin. All that lead to joining Songfight with a friend in 2019, which is an online songwriting website that’s been around for over 20 years, and it turns out I really love songwriting and have kept it up consistently since then. That has meant fumbling my way through learning bass as well, because songs need basslines. I’ve been thinking about pushing the button on these lessons for a while, but bit the bullet this week because I accidentally joined a local band playing bass…
For context, I’m an Australian immigrant living in Ireland. We moved here in 2017, spent a couple of years in Dublin, moved to Cork for a few years, then finally moved back to the middle of the country a year ago. Around the same time we moved here, the local art collective (when I’m not making music, I’m a visual artist, primarily in printmaking, so joined up with the art collective as soon as we moved) started hosting a local mic at one of the pubs, so we’ve both been performing at the open mic (guitars and singing) for the past year (my band name is Hot Pink Halo, so search that on Bandcamp or the streaming services if you’re interested in hearing my stuff). I hadn’t performed in public on my own before that, and it was pretty terrifying, but have been steadily improving over the year. Another new all female band started performing at the open mic a couple of goes ago. At the time they were two people, singing and playing ukulele, then they added trumpet and sax players, then a drummer, then I sat in on one of their practices one day and they figured out I could bluff my way through a bassline, and here we are!
The last open mic I played with them using the acoustic bass that one of the band members had at home. The action was very high, the strap was very slippy and the stage was very small (especially with at least five people on it), but I managed to get through! I’m not sure anyone has ever looked less cool playing bass though. I have a fretless violin bass already, but I’m certainly not brave enough to play that in public yet, and we also have a lovely 22 year old MusicMan Stingray, but that is both too physically heavy and quite frankly too expensive to take out to the open mic. I’ve been practicing on that in the meantime, and my husband has just bought me a new bass for Christmas. I wanted a short scale because my fretless is short scale and I find it very comfortable, and also because there’s really not much room on that stage! I ended up choosing the Ibanez Talman TMB30 and it arrives in Tuesday. Both me and my left shoulder are very excited.
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Welcome @crumpet
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Welcome aboard, and beautiful Sire Bass you have, Josh will have you playing it in no time, he really is a wonderful teacher.
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Welcome, @crumpet. Glad you’re here. Enjoy the lessons!
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Welcome @crumpet !
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Hello all, brand new on the forum today and excited to be here among many other great musicians! I’ve been playing bass for around 18 or so years off and on. Been in and out of bands and am currently just doing bass cover videos for my YouTube channel. I live in North Carolina. Hope to pick up some great knowledge and connect with likeminded people on here. Here’s my lovely Ibanez 6. It has become my favorite bass of the three I have. I have a Jackson Dave Ellefson 5 string, aka “The Jackson 5”, and a Fender four string P bass as well.
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Welcome, @TheMadBassist. Glad you’re here. There are lots of good folks on the forum. Enjoy!
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Thank you for the warm welcome sir. I’m hoping to connect better with people in this forum. Another forum I’m a member of you don’t get much support, encouragement or friendliness so. Fingers crossed haha
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Welcome @crumpet
Have fun!
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Welcome @TheMadBassist
Have fun!
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