Hellzero Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Especially for me. 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I've been attending the workshop called : Halve Your Practise Time & Get Progress Faster Than Ever! What a waste of time ! 1 hour and 12 minutes of talking and talking and talking, and it wasn't live at all. I entered the Strap contest to justify this total waste of time, hoping I'll win it, but I know I won't. Ok, maybe I'm a (too) fast learner, but it could have been summarised in 10 minutes which is the total concentrating time per hour for an adult !!! Everyone into teaching is knowing that. It looks like our Scott has a serious problem on focusing and going to the point. Pareto's law is not what he said at all. Let's get it the right way : on an 100% time line, you'll learn (in this case, even if it's an economist law) 80% of your lesson in 20% of the time devoted, meaning that the remaining 20% will take you 80% of this very time. He is simply NOT learning the 20% left, so cutting the knowledge. Let's figure it in real time : if you need one hour to digest a lesson, you'll digest 80% of it in 12 minutes and it will take you 48 minutes to learn the 20% remaining if you want to know your lesson at 100%. Now, would you trust a medical specialist who only knows his work at 80% and is talking about a surgery ? I won't. Being a former medical representative specialised in bio technologies, I know the Pareto's law very well as in my domain it's always used for targeting, researching and learning the right way; and I can tell you that my exam results after a month of (fast) learning were exactly at 100%. To avoid the Pareto effect, in the medical representatives domain, we have exams each and every were the MINIMAL score to be accredited is 90%. So you have to know your job, which is a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 26 minutes ago, Hellzero said: It looks like our Scott has a serious problem on focusing and going to the point. That is very true, I do tend to skip ahead a lot of the videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No. 8 Wire Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 29 minutes ago, Woodinblack said: That is very true, I do tend to skip ahead a lot of the videos. Me too. I think he tends to waffle on a bit about SBL in general during his seminars. It probably made sense live, people give him 100s of questions, but on a replay it's not good. Where is this workshop though, i don't really remember it. Is it a seminar or on one of the courses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lownote Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 As unpleasant tit and employer of ghost writers, Lord Archer, once snapped to a nagging hack: "I've got 50 million in the bank, you haven't." While Scott hasn't got that much and I'm not about to tell you how much he does have, it's a sufficient percentage of that figure to justify him in making a similar rejoinder and not changing his approach to training and making video one iota. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No. 8 Wire Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 8 minutes ago, lownote12 said: As unpleasant tit and employer of ghost writers, Lord Archer, once snapped to a nagging hack: "I've got 50 million in the bank, you haven't." While Scott hasn't got that much and I'm not about to tell you how much he does have, it's a sufficient percentage of that figure to justify him in making a similar rejoinder and not changing his approach to training and making video one iota. To be fair he does ask for feedback within SBL and does respond. And to fair with SBL as its developed, if you don't like Scott's style there are a score of other instructors now too. The trick is to leave aside the free to air part of SBL, its just advertising. You wouldn't go buy a fodera and then leave it in it's case while you watch free YouTube videos of it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 1 hour ago, No. 8 Wire said: Where is this workshop though, i don't really remember it. Is it a seminar or on one of the courses? There : https://learn.scottsbasslessons.com/masterclass-replay/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No. 8 Wire Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 24 minutes ago, Hellzero said: There : https://learn.scottsbasslessons.com/masterclass-replay/ I'll have a skip through later. I would have ignored that though as i rarely havev that long to watch a video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I blocked the morning for this useless video. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No. 8 Wire Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 32 minutes ago, Hellzero said: I blocked the morning for this useless video. You should have read the summary sheet first. Sums it all up in about 10 lines. The feedback on the site suggests a lot of members got a lot out of it. Scott is great at motivating people to practice, but if you don't need that, it can stretch out the videos. Once you’ve been in SBL a while it gets easier to self filter and work out what will be of benefit to you. But, you know, if it just isn't your thing there's nothing anyone can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 I wanted to go to the end, even if I downloaded immediately that page and saw the very very very thin program with such an ambitious title. What I can tell after having watched the video all along (doing scales while waiting for the end) is that it's simply an easy way to get money. There is lot of harassment behaviour in the way the SBL is managed : two or more emails a day, always repeating the same things, telling you what to do because this is the only way, superlatives in every sentence, ... Sorry I'm 53, playing for more than 30 years, mainly fretless, and I've studied all my life because I like it, but this is just too much, I'm not a 5 years old kid. So, I'll turn down the notifications, attend the courses I want to and certainly get to where I want to get. I'lll come back later after more courses and give my honest feedback. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No. 8 Wire Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Yes, that's what most of us have done, turn off the notifications, unsub from the newsletters etc. Just access it as you need it rather than be 'pushed' along by the marketing, which is actually meant for non members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Started the "Harmonic Layering - Arpeggios, Chord Tones & Scales." course and I must say that it's way much better and useful than this introduction "thing". I've already done the fretless course with Steve Lawson. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greghagger Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Hi everyone I think Scott’s Bass Lessons are great. If you can’t afford it or aren’t into his style then I’m currently setting up an YouTube free bass tuition channel. Lots of new free videos going up all the time & improvements happening to the technical side of things. Give it a try, it’s free! Greg’s Bass Shed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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