Geek99

I’m the only bass player at our local jam nights/om nights. I’d advise you to start with OM and tell the host you’d like to team up with someone and agree something to learn for next time. Also take your bass anyway so guitards approach you to team up. Speak slowly to them is my advice and if you write anything down, avoid joined-up

65? you're practically a toddler around here, most basschat members here knew God when he was little. The majority saw the first dinosaurs 🤷 if you hear any talking about “before the war, it were all different…” they do actually mean the Trojan War

Maybe she has natural talent in abundance you can still have a good time with bass regardless

Not everyone had that level of natural talent. I certainly do not I respect your opinion, this isn’t talkbass. I just note that I, for one, needed and benefitted from guidance as to the “normal way” to play bass and not get into bad habits.

Theres also the minor point that learning vocabulary and concepts from a teacher will make understanding online videos much easier as you’ll have a better idea of what theyre trying to express

A good teacher will cover hand technique, tuning, basic shapes. Your short scale will make this much easier

Antibiotics are amazing. @Matt P is better now. The filthy infection has gone and he treads the path of the righteous man and woman by sticking to a great instrument and ditching the weedy things. If it were me, I’d take a few months of lessons to get confident. Online makes you sound great to you. As someone above noted, you have to sound good to other people to make tangible progress. when you can confidently tell strings apart, find notes and not think about which fingers to use, then consider online. think about it like this- if you were starting to drive cars, would online/only be a good option ? However once youre changing gear without thinking or looking down, you might want to consider hazard observation training or motorway skills but only a human teacher could get you there to that point

Bq250 is a solid choice

I liked it - and I tried to get a date with the AMP tower tour guide lady. Didn’t work but the crowd laughed

Theyre a bit marmite

You never finish being a bass player so you’re good to go there 👍

And of course, “ where did the blue crayon go?”

Plenty of experts on here @Hellzero? Amongst others

Youre misunderstanding- I was joking that you must be a bass player mentally because you can do that stuff. Your average guitarist would not analyze their goal/progress in this way. “It’s loud” and “where’s the fuzz pedal?” Being the extent of must of their musings.

The mere fact that he’s even asking this question shows he isn’t a secret guitarist the use of grammar and punctuation are also strong indications 👍