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some more picking and slapping possibly, further exploration of 16th notes and 16th note syncopations.
bass chords, how to get familiar with certain effects pedals, hammer ons and pull offs, odd time signatures and three finger plucking maybeeeeeeee
also would it be cool if you taught full songs in it. that would be a copyright nightmare possibly. they could be original works if something can’t be resolved.
these are just my ideas, still excited after years of it in the works.
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I just had a wild idea of “musical evolution.”
A module on how to sing and play at the same time.
This may seem crazy. but, it really helps you grow and be a part of what your playing.
I often watch house band players alternate singing songs, guitar, bass, drums; It’s just an interesting skill people put off.
I think it would be invaluable to give some really simply bass and vocal lines as an intermediate skill!
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When I tried Blues guitar I learned the Blues scale, and for a standard Blues song I could usually figure out lead-type parts easily. I’d like to feel comfortable playing the bass at a jam, whether it be a Blues jam or other. Just can’t figure out how to listen to a song and figure out what notes to play. If there is a way to guide us on how to figure out how and what to play for a random song we hear that would be awesome.
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Ghost Notes. I know it’s been mentioned before, but I want to reinforce how useful that would be. Maybe also talking a bit about percussive muting.
I would also like a Walking Bass lesson, but feel that would be a good stand-alone video rather than incorporated into B2B.
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For the next course… maybe a return of an ‘old friend’?
( Courtesy of @Megatronpt from the BassBuzz Discord )
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@JoshFossgreen : Today we are going to learn how to ‘tappa da bass’ !
Billie Jean : I’m Ba-ack!
Walking bass encompasses vastly more than a single lesson can effectively address. It is an involved topic worthy of a deep dive course. It requires learning and mastering several theory principles as well as application of various approaches and musical vocabulary techniques. It takes time and dedicated practice.
Mark Smith at Talking Bass offers an excellent in-depth walking bass course and a separate mini-course/workbook. I’ve been working through both of them for months. It’s a lot of work but I love blues and jazz, so it’s worth the time and effort to me.
Mark has a lot of short lessons about walking bass on YouTube, for free. They’re worth checking out, for sure.
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Same could have been said for slapping as well… 1 module wasn’t enough honestly.
See … you could have the second course have sections for each… Walking / Slapping / Tapping / Advance Theory … 4 or 5 modules per section.
That kind of thing. 
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Therein lies the rub. Creating a course to teach bass fundamentals and emphasizing the “fun” in fundamentals was no doubt a monumental task for Josh and company. They pulled it off brilliantly, but not without shedding much blood, sweat and tears. And time. LOTS of time.
Every beginner needs and is interested in learning how to make coherent sounds with a bass. But not every post-B2B beginner/intermediate is necessarily interested in all (or any) of these topics.
Besides that, each topic would get short shrift with an abbreviated, touch-and-go approach. Each one of the listed topics is deep and involved, requiring not only a commitment from students but also a crazy amount of research, time and effort by Josh to create.
B2B has defied gravity, quite literally, to present fundamentals in a light-hearted but effectively meaningful way. Bass technique and theory courses would be difficult to approach with the BassBuzz signature treatment. Just my take.
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Ya… I agree with all of that …
Just thinking out loud more or less
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This is my struggle as well. I’m nervous/anxious going to play with others because of this. I’m a Tab player so if I don’t have some sort of guide in front of me I don’t really know where to put my fingers.
Improv was touched on in the course, but I’d love to see more concentration on it.
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Yeah - no interest at all in slapping or tapping, IMO the two most currently overdone techniques that few (besides other bassists) really want to hear more of in 2025. (Just my take, YMMV).
Walking basslines on the other hand open up a lot more than just jam banding/walking jazz. It’s something I should put time in to actually just for the fretboard navigation alone. It’s one thing to know something and another for it to fit like a glove, and walking basslines are one way to get there.
I’m very new to the course, so please disregard if covered somewhere, but the geek in me would already like to learn more about amp settings, different pedals etc. I’m realistic enough to be more “academically interested” than trying to introduce things into practice at this point of my journey!
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Nothing in B2B but he does have some introductory videos on his YT talking about beginner basses and some gear. It’d be cool to see them do some more on amp and pedal settings / pedal order kind of stuff. More as stand alone videos rather than something in an intermediate to bass god course.
I have thought about this a lot and came to the same conclusion. Josh did basically the best course you could do for beginners but it’s not clear the same model translates well to more advanced techniques. I’ve looked at a lot of guitar courses over the last couple years and none of them (basic or intermediate) do nearly as good a job as Josh and Mark do for beginner and intermediate respectively. The only exception is Justin Sandercoe’s beginner course, but IMO Josh does a better job there. Bassbuzz is just kind of special.
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I’d love another one but I agree. Once you get past the initial course, which is perfect for its intended audience imo, I think the next step would be what Mark Smith is already doing. I wouldn’t mind a little more levity and personality from Mark but what he’s teaching and how he does it works perfectly. Especially the fact that he breaks his courses into specific topics.
Have you found any guitar courses that work like B2B or the Talkingbass ones, where you just buy the course and it’s yours? Everything, even Justinguitars courses work on a sub.
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Yes. Rob Scallon has a course called GuitarQuest for a $197 flat fee which is cute and funny but in the end just too basic IMO. Still a good bet for absolute beginners.
Paul Davids has a nice intermediate/advanced course for $199. I did not find his beginner content to be absolute beginner though, and like Scott’s content, as much as I love Paul’s youtube channel I did not find his lessons as conducive to learning as Mark’s or Josh’s. However it looks like he has revamped the beginner content since I looked at it so really this is probably the best choice to trial:
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This is pretty much intermediate bass playing in a nutshell.
Keep the rhythm, walk the chords.
Know your options:
Chromatic approach or Arpeggiated approach?
Suddenly all the “pointless scale playing” is tested to see if you need to think about playing the notes in time 
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I will self promote:
This type of lesson would be a perfect “Next steps/ideas” for a lot of people thinking “chord to chord” in general.
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