unlimited access is ending permanently.
@Celticstar, Marc stopped the unlimited access offer. You will have to choose specific courses.
The entire site is being reconstructed and the All Access Pass will end in June. Mark has stated in his live feeds that he’s wanted to kill that monster a long time ago, and the site reconstruction is the end of it.
Scale essentials is now waiting for me to finish beginner to badass
Big Brain Fart
At first I was confused and could not understand why people were saying that there was no more lifetime membership when it appeared it was still advertised on the website. Of course that only applies if you are on the correct website.
I was on a website called talkbass.com which rerouted me to basseducation.com which strangely enough is also having a sale until the end of April 2021.
I can see why Mark discontinued the lifetime access if you could not download the lesson materials.
Thank you for helping me clear this up.
Streaming Video Lessons
Over 8 hours of video spread over 53 lessons. All video streamed from Talkingbass. So no need for downloads and no wasting your precious hard drive space on gigabytes of video files!
And it appears you can still not download the videos according to the above information.
Not good for me as I spend a lot of time at the cottage during the virus and there is no internet access.
Oh well you cannot please everybody I guess.
Thank you for the information.
happy to pass along the info. now is the time to buy a course if you are interested while the sale is on.
As I mentioned, not being able to download the videos is a deal breaker for me so I think I will have to pass on Mark’s sale.
ah yes I missed that part. no internet is hard to work around.
What does it mean when a course has the tag (complete) after it? For instance…
Chord Tone Essentials
versus
Scale Essentials (Complete)
I had to go to the site to look at this. pretty sure the scales course complete is a typo. but if you look at the sight reading course for instance, you can buy the first part of the course, the second part, or the complete course (parts 1 + 2).
Why would Mark (or anyone) allow his videos to be downloaded? That would be just plain stupid.
That has to be a typo. There is only one part to the Scale Essentials course.
Just to clarify they reason why downloads were not allowed with the All-Access Pass (I suspect) is because you could pay monthly on the All-Access Pass and cancel at any time. It wouldn’t take many people long to figure out that they could pay for one month, download all the material and then cancel.
Exactly correct @chris6. And the (very obvious) reason the video lessons aren’t downloadable is because of piracy.
Why - Because as I stated previously,
Because as stated before, I do not always have internet availability.
I have purchased well over $2000 worth of online lessons over the years and they ALL allow video and material downloads.
I understand what you are saying about piracy but if I were to pay the $130/$91(on sale)USD for Mark’s Simple Steps to Sight Reading Complete course I sure as heck am not going to be giving it away to somebody. If the same course is upgraded in a few years are you supposed to pay all over again for the updated course?
Also, most sites, including the Bass Buzz B2B site, offer their courses for digital download or on CD/DVD, for an extra fee, and those include All of the materials, including videos and jam tracks, in the course. These could also be easily pirated.
But my main gripe is my frequent lack of internet access.
I’m sure YOU wouldn’t share them @Celticstar, but as you and I know, there are people who would buy all the courses specifically to make money on the black market.
Well, pirates gonna pirate. There’s nothing Mark or anyone can do about it, really. Anyone motivated enough can download those videos or screen record them.
Yeah, that’s the only approach I see, limit the access. But even then, it won’t prevent people downloading what they have access to. That’s actually an issue with SBL, it’s pretty easy to subscribe to the free trial and download the entire catalogue. Especially when they use services like vimeo and such. I warned them about this a long time ago, never got an answer or acknowledgement.
I just got sent a gift from mark an extra 20 % off… It worked ontop of sale so I got walkingbass course im set for a good few months now.