Bingo! 
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Currently working on a jazz standard, “Autumn Leaves” through SBL. When I first started it, I thought it looked intimidating to play but after watching Scott’s navigation video, I am getting it under my fingers fairly easily. It is not something I would have normally even listened to but I find that playing bass gets me to expand my listening habits. A good bassline is a good bassline regardless of genre.
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@EddieJones, what course are you taking from SBL?
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Players Pathway-Start at Level One, master the songs and then I moved to Level 2. I know Scott gets a lot of flack for talking and rambling a lot but his courses are absolutely on-point. His courses are 100X better than his free content. On each song, he does a play through, then a navigation video that he goes over efficient fingerings and touches on the theory and muting techniques for that song, then a playthrough with standard notation and tablature. After that, there is a backing track for each song. Once you can play along with the backing track, you move forward. There is also a looper on each song for working on tough parts isolated, as well as recommended lessons to touch on techniques for that song. He is funny, engaging, and 100% knows his stuff and is a real monster on bass. I am also doing his theory course concurrently which is several hours in length so I am doing about 30 minutes a day. There is a lifetime of courses within SBL as well as a campus (forum) much like this one. There are “Learning Pathways” covering different genre’s also within the course and hundreds of stand alone courses as well. The deal is, on each level he gives you six or seven songs to choose from. You have to master at least three to move forward to the next level. I inadvertently started on the wrong level and almost gave up. I then took the test to determine my level and restarted on Level One. I am mastering every song on each level before moving one. I mastered the 5 songs on Level One and am now working on the first song, “Autumn Leaves” on Level Two. I love it. A perfect segue from BassBuzz to higher learning.
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Exactly! This is one of my favorite things about bass. Literally every genre is fun to play. On guitar, i pretty much stick to my rock roots, but with bass i wanna do it all. Glad your lessons are going well!
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I am playing along to a bass cover of Metallica’s ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’. I play the video at half speed and follow the tab. I can only do like two percent of the whole song for now.
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I’m learning something a bit out of my wheelhouse for my GF: That’s What I Like by Bruno Mars. Has anyone ever heard of Clay’s Bass Lessons on YouTube? He does a video to teach this particular song that is very reminiscent of the BassBuzz videos… tab on screen (with full music notation) with right-hand and left-hand techniques in different “panes” of the video. Very helpful after a morning of scrambling around looking for tabs, trying to match them up to the song, and trying to put down even 1 riff that sounded anything like the song.
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I’m working on “She’s Kerosene” by The Interrupters. Almost have it down, just need a bit more practice.
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Not quite the same a working on a conventional song per se, but working on learning off by heart several Christmas tunes, ready for the inevitable ‘family members asking me to play things because I have an instrument’.
Been learning God Save the Queen (national anthem, not the Sex Pistols song) as it felt relevant given recent events and I wanted to do a recording of it now I’ve got my acoustic suitably adjusted that it plays nicely through an amp.
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@mikeyjayjay melodies are conventional songs too, just a different kind, and can be a nice variation to playing basslines of songs.
I started out learning to play melodies before moving on to learning basslines and playing along to songs.
I have a few Christmas tunes I want to learn as well but since I can now learn relatively quickly I’ll save those for end of Oct or early Nov.
Still have Never ending story waiting to learn fully on the shelf. Am about halfway but can’t play due to a wrist injury on my plucking hand 
Don’t know what or how that happened but need to wear a brace for at least a week.
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Thanks for the feedback and that’s really encouraging too - hadn’t considered them from the melody perspective, so thank you. Frames it in a more positive light.
Sorry to hear about your wrist though, hope you heal up quickly
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It’s God save the King now btw.
Will take some getting used to for all of us in the Commonwealth I guess.
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Aye; Being in England I’m certainly well aware - I should have put Queen/King in hindsight. Just me running on autopilot and learning it more in tribute to the Queen passing.
King will take a little getting used to though, feels odd
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My all time favorite Metallica song! Can’t wait to see your video once you’ve got it locked down. 
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Did you play “Fine Wine” on level 1? I thought that was great fun. And then quickly realized I needed to go back to B2B and level up a bit more. SBL is for the big kids!
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The whole level one is great. “Fine Wine” is awesome. I also like “St Lucia”. I have all the songs on One under my fingers. I am now on Level Two working on a jazz standard, “September Leaves”. Level Two amps up the playing. But I’m working two bars at a time. Scott says if it takes 2 days or two months, that is fine. Everyone learns at a different pace. I truly love SBL for furthering my bass prowess.
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So, I’ve had a revelation as of late.
Africa by Toto has always been one of my guilty pleasure songs. But… Toto was always my parent’s music. They were high-end audiophiles, and were into anything with superb production values. And Toto IV has superb production values.
Anyway, I decided to learn the bassline to Africa, because I love the song so much, and in doing so I’m also learning the bassline to Hold the Line because it came up next in the iTunes song list. And I’ve listened to Toto IV a number of times now and…
…it’s a great effing album! Like, surprisingly so!
And now I am on a quest to learn the bassline to Georgy Porgy because it sounds like a super cool bassline I’d want to play.
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Never really gave them much thought but lately seems like they are all the rage.
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Me either. Except for - as noted - Africa. For some reason that song’s always made me happy. But lately, I find I’m opening myself up to more and more music I eschewed in the past. Especially music played by my dad and uncle when they were blasting their stereos so loud that the windows shook, because the “production values were so good”.
That line always bugged me. Even in my youth I thought, “who cares about that if the music is good?”
Turns out… the music was good as well. 
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