I hear you! There are a few tips and tricks, like searching notes and determining the scale from that. It can get complicated fast, but the more patterns you know, the easier it’ll be.
If you do a bit of ear training, you can play any note and if it sounds bad, go up or down a half step, voilá, you should be on the right note. It would be great to have a module on ear training and jamming, just to learn a few of these little tricks.
I like Carol Kaye’s approach of focusing on chordal notes vs. note scales.
Hey there!
I’m new here (started B2B and also my bass adventure last week) but I’m really amazed at just how good an online course can be if done right, I never expected to be able to learn something that involves dexterity and practical implementation with this level of depth and aproachability from “generic” videos in the sense that they are a “one size fits all” resource and not private lessons. It’s really something you should be really proud of.
Since I’m just starting module 3 I can’t really offer any ideas for the next course, but I was really psyched when saw there was a new course on the making and, little later, a little bummed when saw the original post dates from over 7 years ago. Is there still a plan on doing this or is the project dead/on suspension?. I understand meeting the quality and usefulness of B2B is quite the task and, if I’m honest, maybe not even doable (although I would never have thought something like B2B could exist, so blind faith in Josh and the bassbuzz team), but would love to have more lessons when I finish the course. I know there are tons of content on the youtube channel and I’m saving most of it for when I finish the course since I want to respect the program’s design and pace, but something with a little structure would help me a lot since I have great discipline when guided and told what to do, but tend to be all over the place when left alone to freely roam the wilderness :-D.
Hope the project is still in the making. Would be great if it could be released in the next two months, just sayin 
At module 3 don’t overthink this already 
There’s good options for you after the course. For now just enjoy the course.
Of course, I have still plenty of time for this to be a problem. It’s just that when I saw the post I thought “great! I can keep learning with Josh in the future!”. And then realized the posting date and just got curious about what happend (and a little bummed, too, because I really like the course :-D)
Honestly, I think part of Josh’s “problem” with a follow on course is that Beginner to Badass is just too good.
I’m around 7 months into playing and a couple of months beyond completing B2B and I don’t know what else there is to learn beyond more advanced music theory. Now, that doesn’t mean I am a great bassist now, or even a good one, but I feel like B2B gave me all the tools to become one, now it is on me to continue to practice to get my dumb hands to properly do as instructed and that just comes with time and practice.
Pretty much everything I want to do on bass was covered in B2B. I can look at any tab and can understand 99% of what I’m supposed to do and the 1% that I don’t the community here has always been amazing at answering those questions. So now I’m playing songs and working on the hard parts so I can play more advanced songs. For example I want to play some Tool, but to do that you have to get good at hammer ons and pull offs. This is covered in B2B, it’s a simple concept to understand but it’s taking me a lot of time to build up the speed and power to do it right. A new course won’t help, the only thing that will is repetition.
Don’t fret though, once you finish B2B the journey isn’t over. Do it again and pick up stuff that you missed the first time because you were so focused on the fundamentals that are more engrained this time so you have more bandwidth this time around. I’m going through it again with a pick this time to try to learn to play with a pick.
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The story Josh would probably tell you is that a follow-up course is difficult because B2B covers the basics, but there are so many different ways to go beyond that it makes it hard to put it into one course.
The real reason is that he ran out of band shirts to match up to songs in the modules.
I imagine shirts his size are hard to find.
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