I’m Michael, and I’ve been playing bass on and off since I was 18. Recently I decided I needed a new hobby and since I’ve always enjoyed playing bass and I love music (mainly metal, rock, some punk and alternative), bass has become said hobby.
I want to make a proper go of it, so I signed up for Beginner to Badass after finding Bass Buzz on YouTube about a month ago. I’m on Module 3 and I’m absolutely loving it so far.
My gear setup is an Ibanez SR300EDX (purchased as a result of deciding to pick up bass again) and a Roland MicroCube. I also have a Frank Bello Squier Jazz bass (any Anthrax fans might know this one). As I progress, I’m likely to upgrade my amp as it struggles with the open E string and frets 1-4), and in the meantime I’ll be upgrading my strap and buying a tuner/metronome combo. The gear rabbit holes are fun but dangerous .
Looking forward to continuing the course and connecting with you .
Hello fellow Aussie. I am on the west coast. I have been here for 12 months but only half way through module 5. I had a few 6 months break but getting back into it and hope to get into some consistency with my practice. Have fun.
Hey there, I’m a mid-40s guy living in Austin who just picked up a used P-Bass and a cheap 10W desktop-sized amp a little over a week ago and am halfway through Module 2 in Josh’s beginner course.
Outside of playing trumpet in middle school I have zero musical background, and don’t even remember how to read sheet music at this point.
For decades I’ve been listening to all the typical bass-heavy stuff — Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Interpol (probably my favorite in terms of pure bass riffs), Arctic Monkeys, etc. — but over the last few months I’ve found my ear really keying in on the basslines of more “normal” less-bassy tunes.
So I took that as my cue to buy a bass and learn to play. I have been in search of an artistic outlet for awhile and this seems as good as anything. As of now I don’t have any interest in playing gigs or anything like that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that changes at some point.
Welcome everyone. @Josh makes learning to play very easy. Much of how I played has been gone over and names have been applied to techniques I happened to naturally fall into. I bought Jeff Berlin’s vhs years ago only to find out it was a ripoff with zero lessons and lots of Roddy Piper. The man can play but as a teacher I have my doubts.
B2B is the way to go and very relaxing in the progression through the different modules. I could skip much of it but that would not be the best way to go for being self taught and never having taken a lesson. I did try to learn guitar in fourth grade but when my mother asked the teacher after my first “lesson” if I should keep at it, I saw him out of the corner of my eye shake his head no. That hurt but I never put in any practice time due to the fact there was only a Mel-Bay book and a rented Yamaha acoustic. Zero hands on with no examples to emulate. Tabs were not a thing in 1970.
I will be what I want to be when I finish and that is all I expect.
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