Welcome @manana
Have fun!
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Welcome @chris.childs
Have fun!
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Welcome @Libitina
Have fun!
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Shouldn’t be that bad, its max weight is only about 8.4lbs just a touch above the weight of my Heritage. So should be about 60% of the weight of the Gibson LP Standard. The Sire U5 is a short scale bass, supposedly a good place for a beginner at bass. Time will tell.
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I’m Alex, a 40-year-young dude from Ukraine, who wants to start playing bass. Never played any instrument, but still know some music theory and can read sheet music. My musical tastes are veeeeeery broad - from blues, Motown and jazz to hard rock to most extreme forms of metal (death, black and so on) and classical. No matter what is the genre or style of music - it only can be my thing, or not my thing, simple like that.
Other than music, I like literature (bookworm since childhood, yeah!) good movies and work as a sports journalist.
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Hi and welcome along @Alex_Hevari !
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Welcome @Alex_Hevari
Have fun!
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Hello Fellowship of the Bass,
I resume Bass playing having quit in 1993, At that time I was playing a lot.
My hears are not my main strength, I do love many style of music but mainly funk jazz, RnB, Disco.
I love slapping a lot even if those 30 i have lost everything
I love Marcus miller , Stanley Clarke, abe laboriel, Doug wimbish, bootsy Collins, you got the idea 
I am lucky enough to own a wonderful bass a Vigier Passion III (photos below) with a wonderful and beautiful carbon thru neck , i had to weld a new jack to get a clean sound again but now everything is settled.
I choose this beginner course to “reset” my learning to nice basics. In parallel i try to catch the bass line from this song “youtu.be/D3BfHES7wNA”, i feel pretty close as i used moises to get the chord but they are some tricks in the line (this is where i do not trust my ears)
Anyway glad to join the pack and contribute to grumble and grooves
Slap it !!
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Hi and welcome along @matelot.saxos_55 !
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Welcome, @CT-9902 , @manana m @Libitina and @chris.childs !
I’m glad you all heard the “call of the bass”. I’m sure you will enjoy the course! Welcome to our community and have fun! 
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Hello Alex and welcome! So nice you decided to start learning to play bass. Are you studying on your own, through YouTube, with a teacher or through an online course? I can warmly recommend the BassBuzz Beginner to Badass course.
I started to learn bass in April. I had first 3 lessons with a local teacher, then I started the BassBuzz online course, which I finished in September or so. Then I had a few more lessons with a teacher. I can say I learned the most from the online course, because it is so well designed and Josh is an excellent teacher. Everything is so well explained, and progressing from the start (for people with no musical background) and the lessons progress gradually. It is an excellent blend of theory and practice.
Welcome to our community, have fun playing the bass, and slava Ukraini!
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Of course I will start with B2B. That’s “must” for me. Now I’m in the stage of selecting the right gear to start.
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hello @manana @chris.childs @Libitina (that’s a lot of instruments!) @Alex_Hevari and @matelot.saxos_55! That’s a lot of new faces, welcome!
And also @ronlmckelvey and @MrFrench, whom I missed on the last one, nice to meet you!
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Hi Josh!
Congratulations on getting married. Many people make new resolutions on a new year. I make a new obsession. This is it. I’ve been watching your YouTube videos and loved the way you presented learning the bass. I’ve played classical music on the piano for many years. Mostly rigid in the music. I love playing classical, but found it very difficult to improvise. I’m hoping learning bass guitar helps me in two ways. One, learning a cool instrument with a cool teacher. Two, what I learn here bleeds into my piano playing and techniques.
I just started module one and can’t wait to get to badass level.
Thanks for making these videos.
Johnas
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Welcome @matelot.saxos_55 @Alex_Hevari and @beethoven62 - enjoy!
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Greetings! I’ve recently registered as new member after browsing the forums in the past. Musically, I hadn’t played for well over 45 years and I picked up an electric guitar shortly before retiring and realized it’s much more difficult than I remembered. I played a little mostly jamming. I would swap out to play some bass when the bassist would blow the harmonica. As things would have it, I joined with a local band playing bass for them (weirdly I picked up a banjo and we put that into a few songs). I currently have an Epiphone Non-Reverse Thunderbird bass and a Fender 200 watt Rumble as my go to items. I saw somewhere that replacing the Epiphone badge replacing it with a Gibson plate made it look more classy. Who knows!! Other points—I was a pharmacist for 42 years before walking away, I had twin grandchildren but tragically my grandson Miles pasted away at 5 from .pediatric liver cancer, my wife and I still live in the small Massachusetts city we both grew up in and I am fighting leukemia which makes some good days and some bad days. Part of getting older at best. Cheers!
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Welcome @RXManPaul - the best to your bass playing and health!
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Greetings all,
Where to begin! I am through module 2, part way into 3, having started last week. I have “played” music off and on through my life, but never consistently enough to really learn anything. Violin for a few months in elementary school, tabs on my guitar with a friend in high school, plucked random strings on a bass with my friend (a real musician) 10 years ago… You get the idea.
I am 36 with a 3yo daughter, and I have found over the last year or so that I have time in the evenings after my daughter goes to bed and my wife needs time to unwind on her own after a long day. I am typically an outdoors kind of guy, but there is only so much someone can do from 8:30PM to midnight… Got this crazy idea that I would use this time to actually stick with music this time and actually learn something, and I enjoyed bass so much in the past that I chose bass as my instrument.
After a couple months trying to learn on Rocksmith 2014 with customs forge songs, I decided it’s okay for building muscle memory and strength maybe, but it isn’t a robust way to actually learn music or good bassist basics… So I found myself here and I am loving it so far! Josh has been an excellent teacher, feel like I have learned more in the last couple weeks than I ever have before. And, it’s really cool to see such an active community on these forums as well!
Okay, so here the babies (I am told it is illegal to post pictured of guitars on here, so I will skip my Ibanez guitar even though I love it).
Bought this 10 years ago when I was messing around jamming(ish) with a friend. Saw this in a music store and something came over me, I just HAD TO have it! I still think it is just so pretty.
But, I found it to kind of hard to play in my office area where my computer and amp are. Always seem to be whacking into stuff with the head… So… My solution was to buy this short scale headless bass. Found out I absolutely love playing it, so this is what I have been playing lately.
Oh, and to save money I have been playing on my Peavey guitar amp, but it obviously just didn’t feel right. Happy to say I just bought an Ampeg RB-115 (100W internal, expandable to 200 with a second cab), and I am so excited to keep playing.
Well… I guess I am long winded, thanks for reading. I am glad to be here.
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Welcome @matelot.saxos_55
Have fun!
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