I wonder if @JoshFossgreen would link to the challenge in the course extras?
I would assume there are a lot of course takers that don’t really care much about forums.
4 Likes
I would violate my own rule of not following the herd and support this effort; but the only song on the list that I’d be interested in doing, I’ve already done (December 2020) and posted in the Post your Covers thread.
My song is not on the 50 songs schedule until September 2022 (Ironically right after Billie Jean). At my age, it’s impossible to predict if I’ll even still be alive then LOL.
5 Likes
+1 on what @PamPurrs said above…. Must be our age and all….
But, whatever gets a person to challenge themselves playing music is all good!!
4 Likes
YUP!
2 Likes
Thank you, Regina for these stats. Glad to see you back posting Videos. Hopefully you will motivate more women to post videos on this Forum. Thanks again.
6 Likes
I get so much more joy out of learning a song because I just heard it on the radio or it popped into my head and I proclaimed to myself, “I’m going to learn that song”, than I possibly could out of forcing myself to learn a list of songs that someone thrust upon me. (However, if a band hired me and thrust a list of songs upon me, that would be a totally different story! 
)
I guess my point is: Cheers to all who have participated in this challenge, but I’d love to see some of our female Buzzers use their imagination and post some covers of songs they love in the Post your Covers thread as well.
2 Likes
I was just thinking that this challange to me is more of an extension of the course vs. learning songs I don’t want to learn.
I think Josh is much more clever than we think and selected each song because it teaches slightly different things that build on your skillset to play entire songs.
I wish I had started a log of each song and what I had trouble with on each one. I bet 1/2 or more of the things that I stumbled on in each are now easier when I hit them in another song. I do remember on the first few panicing a bit near the ends of the song because the end had a slightly different embelishment to it and I had to remember when to do it and what it was. Now, that is commonplace and easy. Or 3 or 4 fret leaps which are now commonplace and I don’t even think about it.
There are still loads of songs I want to learn that I just don’t have the skills for, but I think Josh’s picks are not random at all, and help me learn other songs a lot faster.
YMMV.
8 Likes
+1 on this. I think exactly the same thing. I consider it ‘enjoyable homework’ or eating my vegetables rather than goofing around.
The eighth note rhythm on the Chorus of Song 12 has taken me about a week to get under my fingers. But I can see the value in a song I don’t particularly like.
7 Likes
Funny, I played it the first time through, no issues.
This is very interesting to me what some people find easy and others find hard.
You banged out House of the Rising Sun and looked bored, I struggled for a long time to nail that one.
The brain works (or, more aptly, dosen’t) in mysterious ways.
6 Likes
Totally agree - most of them are not my favourite songs, but they definitely build on each other and are reinforcing things we’ve learnt in the course (plus teaching us a bit more). Left to my own devices I’d most likely pick songs that may not challenge me in the right ways. @JoshFossgreen knew exactly what he was doing when he selected these songs and put them in the order he’s put them in.
Not to say I’m not picking my own songs to learn from time to time, I’m totally doing that too.
4 Likes
Just want to pop in and give a bravo to everybody taking the challenge to learn songs and post covers, in whatever capacity you’re doing it! Awesome. 
Also…
I’ve noticed some of that too @PamPurrs, I hope it’s just unrelated circumstances. My mom is a musician, and was told many times in her younger years things along the lines of “the world’s not ready for a female saxophonist.” 
So it’s part of my mission to make my little corner of music education fully accessible to anybody who wants to learn bass, and for them to feel encouraged and welcome. If anybody witnesses ways that’s not happening, please let me know via DM!
Totally. Me too. I’ve gotten that feedback a few times, and it is firmly in my notes for future course improvements.
I would too! We don’t have that information though, there’s no gender field to sign up for the course.
11 Likes
I’ve already done one
3 Likes
Covered a little Psycho Killer here, but she deserves more!
9 Likes
Thanks for the analysis @Regina - and your contributions as a Badass lady Bassist!!
Or SE Texas @PamPurrs ! LoL Although I have been outside quite a lot as we’ve been camping most every weekend (glamping actually - pic of our set up at my Father in Law’s property below) which is why I’ve gotten so dang far behind on the 50 Songs Challenge.
We’re going to the Texas Hill Country to go camping and do some river rafting for the last two weeks of August but I WILL take my Acoustic Traveler Bass so I maintain some semblance of forward momentum.
PS - @PamPurrs - you rep the lady Bassists awesomely (as well as all of us Beginner to Badass Alumni) and continue to inspire me and others.
6 Likes
love the way you teach…and I’m going to be 74 in July and just picked up the bass…what was I thinking?
7 Likes
seems to me you are thinking like a smart man!
3 Likes
Ditto!
1 Like
I completely agree with you on this Pam!
I do want to extend a big “BRAVO” to all who have participated in this challenge. I admit I haven’t been doing the 50/100 lately because I just don’t have as much time as some of you do, but I will try to do another song from the 50/100 list as soon as time permits.
6 Likes