That’s the only course on TalkingBass I haven’t purchased. I think it’s probably a rehash of everything you learned on B2B, but with maybe a different twist.
I did go through the Technique Essentials course, which I found quite helpful.
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Took me a bit to even find what you were talking about. When I pull up “Courses” on his site, I don’t see that, but I did find a link and see it listed as a “mini-course”. Doesn’t look like it’s on sale, but it’s cheap to begin with. I’ll keep it in mind - I’m sure I would benefit from it. Thanks…
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My bass skills thank you but my wallet does not.
All jokes aside, I recommend the slap course! Really got me feeling comfortable with that technique.
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I picked up Chord Tone Essentials, Walking Bass, and Slap Bass. That should keep me busy for a while.
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At least you didn’t pay full price [shrug] 
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I did Bassic Fundamentals before B2B, although I was doing it on the (now unavailable) monthly subscription option so I perhaps rushed it a bit.
From what I remember, the course was split up into 3 modules:
A fairly meaty section on theory (scales, arpeggios etc), that goes a bit deeper than B2B.
Techniques (including some B2B doesn’t cover like hammer-ons & pull-offs)
Gear topics like setup, effect pedals.
There is some good stuff in there but for me it didn’t really hang together too well as a course, it felt more like a bunch of disparate elements rather than working towards a goal in the way B2B does. That’s just personal preference though.
If you’ve already for the Scales, Chord Tones and Sight Reading courses I suspect you’ve probably already got most of the extra material over B2B covered.
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Appreciate that @pete_s . I did learn that the techniques mini-course is a subset of the bassics course, so it’s probably that 2nd module that you mentioned just separated out on it’s own.
Sounds like I should just stick with the courses I already have… Thanks again!
Halloween sale, 24 hours only
https://members.talkingbass.net/shop/
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Mark just announced a 30% off New Years Sale at TalkingBass. Not sure how long it’s on for. If you’re interested in a course or two (or three), grab them here.
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He’s got a newly released course on etudes/chops building that’s pretty cheap and 20% off for the introduction. Looks like killer practice stuff, I just grabbed it.
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This one looks interesting. Looking forward to hearing how you like it.
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These are two ‘exercises’ from the new course…
MIght be interesting. Going to hold off for the 30% off sale though, I have so much Rich Brown love right now that is keeping me uber busy.
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He’s been talking about this one for several weeks on his live hangs, and I’m glad he’s finally finished it. I’m going to grab it with the hope it’s what I need to nudge me back into playing the bass.
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In case anyone is interested, Mark Smith is doing a live workshop and intro to his new Technique Builder course today (Feb 16). You’ll be able to ask Mark questions during the workshop.
Live Times:
UK 8pm
East Coast USA: 3pm
West Coast USA: 12pm
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I picked this up as it was cheap and I do really want to improve my technique but it’s a disappointment for me so far.
A bunch of disconnected short technique primers, rehashed from his fundamentals course and a load of exercises.
I’ve worked my way onto the first etude, but as usual with his courses there’s no set goals to try to achieve or explanation what I’m supposed to learn from the exerise. Just play as-is, then move it around the neck then aim to increase the speed (at which point he plays it through at a pace I could never reach if I practice every day for a hundred years). So I suppose I just keep going with it until I get bored then move onto the next one?
I really wish he’d put a bit more thought into how to make his courses fun and motivational for the learner. This is another one I doubt I’ll get to the end of.
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That’s unfortunate. I was interested. I was also hoping each “etude” was built around something, to teach a concept. I can pull up tabs/notation for Bach’s cello suite easily for free 
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Well they probably are to be fair. The one I’m working on now is just to practise basic picking and fingering I think. He mentioned about other etudes being for working on stretches, hammer-ons etc. Whether he provides more context for those things or if it’s just presented as ‘play these notes using hammer-ons’ remains to be seen though.
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