Hey there?
Question for all you BassBuzzers and beyond - what feels difficult for you on bass?
Do you struggle with speed? Accuracy? Connecting shapes on the fretboard? Anything like fretboard knowledge or ability to remember note names?
What grinds your gears when you’re playing bass?
Building speed, connecting shapes (mostly horizontally), and getting an even tone while chugging are the things I’ve been working on.
This is often a big one I feel gets overlooked. Great thing to mention.
For me it’s following the Nashville Number Chart. It’ll take me a while to memorize that’s forsure haha.
I try to practice triads and major minor scales every night while identifying the notes played.
For me it’s always been doing fast octave work. My hands just hate it for some reason.
Not stretching or microshifting enough when playing triads low on the neck, resulting in buzzzzzz It’s more like not being consistent in choosing between them if that makes sense …
Go slow. Microshift. Finger strings right behind each fret.
Go as slow as it takes to play cleanly. If that means snail-slow, so be it. Getting in the habit of playing cleanly is far more important than playing fast, but dirty.
Yes that, Tend to forget that sometimes while playing
speed and accuracy will come with time. Popping and slapping I can’t do.
Speed and un-learning the habits I’ve baked in for the last four years. My method of playing has basically just been chugging on the root note of whatever chord is being played and I’m trying to learn how to break out of that.
Consistent 8th notes across all 4 strings. I struggle on the higher strings. I’m trying to figure out if it’s hand position, thumb anchoring, or something else.
Speed; I simply cannot play fast with consistent and correct timing…fixing is an on going project! And I’d be the first to admit that I’ve never had a great sense of rhythm but actually since I’ve been playing I’ve noticed a huge improvement in that area but still a ways to go.
One of my biggest problems is getting lost when learning covers. Sometimes you have an identical phrase that appears in several different parts of the song but each time it is followed by totally different phrases. Then, particularly if I’m not concentrating (and just chilling to the music), I go off the end of such a phrase into the the wrong following phrase and then it all falls apart! 
Ohhh I think that you are in a large group, myself in for sure.
I have been keeping in touch with the song (or fill) and after it has automatically been becoming in my fingers/mind.
+1 
I’m trying to work on this at the moment. It’s currently sounding terrible 
But I’m trying Josh’s YouTube exercises - let’s see if something starts to click.
Guys how do you improve your ear training?
Start transcribing stuff. I use Transcribe+ on my iPhone for complex stuff since it can slow down and loop the audio
thanks for the response. what a method how do you achieve if you have something you want to cover?
Actually, I just purchased the course B2B and I’m currently working on module 4. Should I finish the course first before I use that app? and proceed some ear training.? thank you.
Awesome choice! Josh actually gets in to this a bit in the later modules IIRC
Thank you for the reply @howard. That is the reason why I bought this because I really want to cover many songs that I want. Ear training is my frustration ever since. I can’t use my ear to get those songs that I really like. I’m just relying on tabs anything else that do not require ear. but now on I just want to improve my ear to get several songs that I want. hopefully this course can help me to achieve my goal.
if you have something to advise for that. I really appreciate it.
Thank you.
Improving your ears is as hard or harder than your bass playing. There’s no reason to think it will come fast 
I’m only so so at it myself. My strategy is to try to listen to intervals, and identify the way the song is moving about. I find it immensely helpful to do this sitting there with my instrument to try and “sound it out” along with the song. Then a lot of pause, rewind, and slow playback helps.
There’s also great tools to help with this. A lot of people here use splitters like Moises or Deezers to isolate out the bass track; this works for more traditional songs, and then you can listen to the bass in isolation.
Melodyne can often show you exactly the notes being hit on a piano roll on an isolated stem track. It’s a DAW plugin used to pitch-correct vocals - think “autotune”, but with a lot more subtle and fine-editing capability than what you would typically associate with autotune. I find it super useful to analyze instrument tracks (and correct ones that have issues as well).
But really it’s best to put the time in to work on your ears.