LOL. I still listen to “Stutter” like every couple days 
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This is a very cool and strong point.
I’m gunna analogize this one!
Once everyone has figured out how to drive the car, everyone wants to go their preferred way.
A broad based Intermediate course would be a caravan of sorts - a guided tour. More in depth than the beginning one, but some people want to get off the caravan in the desert and trip out hard with psych-rock for a week. Some people want to camp in the mountains and play Americana for the rest of their lives. Some people get off the caravan in the dystopic Megatropolis where it’s all metal-tapping-soloing all the time. Others roll slow into Funkville and want to buy property.
I dig the specialized view, and it makes sense to dig deeper into what people are into once the basics are in.
It moves from basic skills to application, and a specialized buffet of bass courses would let folks apply their skills in the way they are most excited about.
Good food for thought.
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I like the idea too, from the standpoint of both the learners (us), and the instructors. Making an entire second B2B style course is a huge undertaking. These types of buffet courses not only appeal to those interested in that specialty topic, but it’s easier to make, say, a series of 5-10 lessons, rather than trying to plan out 100+ again. It also allows for not only @JoshFossgreen to teach, but maybe @Gio and other talent in the future.
I’m actually doing some of Josh’s courses from his personal site, and I’m like: He should be charging for this stuff. These lessons are better than some paid stuff out there - and I know, I’ve recently tried Scott’s Bass Lessons - some good stuff there, for sure, I’m not trying to dog them, but Josh’s methods are just higher quality in so many ways. Just sayin’. And the only reason I can even dabble with other online bass instruction is because of B2B. To me, BassBuzz sets the bar high, it’s the gold standard.
The specialty lessons may also be more affordable too, than another larger course. It’s the reality of having so many “freebie” things out there in the YouTube universe. Even though the irony is, the paid stuff is 50x better, accelerates one’s learning, and, I will say, B2B is the greatest value for the money that I’ve spent in all of 2019 - that $200 I spent has paid tremendous dividends to me (and continues to), and was worth every cent, and more. But the economics of online training is a tough animal to contend with. And it has to be just as worth it to the instructors, as the students.
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Yeah, this pretty much speaks for me.
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I like the analogy, @Gio! Let me try another one 
Imagine it is the early 90’s, it is your first time in the US, and perhaps you even come from one of those used-to-be-communist countries in Europe, and you enter a Starbucks for the very first time in your life! All you really wanted to begin with was a cup of coffee. Now, however, you are faced with a bewildering array of different choices, and it is expected from you to make decisions, which you really aren’t equipped to make. After all, you are new to the “coffee is not just coffee” game. Chances are you might turn around and leave because all these choices make you feel lost and you don’t know where to start and you don’t want to embarrass yourself in front of the other customers…
But, hey, here is our experienced barrista @JoshFossgreen stepping forward, realizing you look like a deer caught in the headlights and he takes you by your hand and explains to you all those different types of coffees and preparations and let’s you taste them and get a feel for them.
Awesome! So, now what? You are beginning to be a coffee buff, you start to use the lingo and you start to embrace the fact that there is variety, that you have oodles of choices. BUT, maybe you’ve stopped exploring already, maybe you are happy with one concoction, maybe you just want to feel “hip” and “cool”, go up to the counter and confidently order your “grande latte, non-fat milk, two pumps of hazelnut, a whiff of nutmeg on the top”. And that is all you ever do from now on…
Meanwhile, the friendly barista is giving away free shots of espresso to further educate the masses about coffee, and you sample some of them (“hey, they’re free”), and he is mumbling something about workshops learning about coffees from Madagascar and Sumatra and roasting techniques and little cats pooping out fermented coffee, but that is all too much of a hassle for you, too much effort, costs too much, and, anyway, you’re happy with your latte… and, by the way, there is this other barista down the street also offering free shots…
The END!?!?!
So, I guess there are websites that offer soooo much that, unless you exactly know what you want, you will feel lost and overwhelmed. B2B is perfect for beginners as it is balanced and structured and still touches upon many (if not most) important aspects of playing bass. The tricky part for Josh is how to follow that up with a business model that is sustainable for him (can’t prepare too many (different) videos himself etc) and offers the same high quality as B2B. The tricky part for us is where to find what we are seeking in order to improve… Do we even know what it is we are seeking? We all have (vastly) different ambition levels and musical interests and goals. Many of us are in this greyzone where we are already know stuff (thanks to B2B), but still need quite some guidance… either to advance or, at least, to not lose momentum. This community/forum is a great tool for addressing many of these issues, but there needs to be more… What, exactly, I don’t know either!
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The wheel came off my caravan and got stuck in the middle of nowhere, but it’s given me time to contemplate where I want to be. I suspect I’d be a candidate for several more specialised courses.
I spent months dithering between options, trying to get the most out of free courses/content, and dabbled with other paid content, but B2B has been so well structured that I’ve got more out of my first 6 weeks than in the months before it. I’d be unlikely to pay for another course as long that included numerous modules that simply held no interest to me, but cherrypicking a few styles or deeper levels of technique would certainly appeal.
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I hate it when people make fun of a coffee order and it turns out to be mine. 
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Every single word of what @Vik posted.
You just summed up my experience and all the same things I’ve been thinking. Thanks Vik!
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I agree. Though I’d like to see (and pay for 
) more specialised courses, I feel like I need a few more layers of “generel bass knowledge” before I’m ready to explore some more in-dept-genre-based courses.
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@Don_D Oh I’m so far away from being ready for what’s next I even hesitate to post agreement with people in this thread. 
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It’s mine too - sans the nutmeg 
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I agree with this (along with the other guys), too. The B2B course is a great starting point and covers a lot of material ranging from basic fingering skills to reading music and introducing music theory, etc. I’m still going over the course, making my own “textbook” out of it, and filling in some blank spots that I did not completely understand the first time through.
I definitely would rather see some smaller, more specific courses than another huge one with 100+ lessons. 
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100+ lesson slap course plz
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That is a brilliant list Howard. All relatively simple AND timeless!
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Very nice analogy @joergkutter, it makes sense.
But now I’m going to get on @JoshFossgreen and ask why after I’ve spent all this money he hasn’t served me a single cup of coffee!
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You know, @PamPurrs, it might turn out that @JoshFossgreen only drinks tea, from a certain mountain side in the Himalayas, harvested during a full moon… 
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it was fun reading all this while drinking my coffee. I’m the “black coffee without anything in it” type of guy. Or in bass language “Precision played with a pick” type of guy
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I get one every other day - it takes him that long to make the transcontinental-transAtlantic flights. Perhaps that’s why he has no time for your coffee.
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First off, I love coffee, and any analogy that references said nectar.
Second - This, in all of my tours, in all of my travels, in the hundreds and hundreds of coffee shops I have patronized over a decade of coffee-shop-hunting-while-touring… this only happened once, and it was to the rest of the band, as I was busy doing something else at the time.
But the legend lives on. And I still search for this unicorn every day.
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