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[AlexLeach]

Thanks!! I love it, too. Both of the Gilmour leads are just incredible.

[AlexLeach]

Big congrats on finishing B2B!! Huge accomplishment.

[AlexLeach]

Fair enough, different strokes!

[faydout]

I do keep a bass strung with flats. My deep, dark secret musically is that I love Sam Cooke and old Motown stuff. I play it because I grew up with my Mom playing Sam’s stuff in the house, I just doubt I’ll ever do much in the way of covers. Most of what I do record is all more mid and treble forward, and that isn’t where flats shine.

[howard]

Yep! Nothing at all wrong with flats if you liked them. I wish I did but they aren’t so good for the genres I like, and feel really weird and sticky to me on bass. Guitar they would be fine.

[AlexLeach]

@faydout

My deep, dark secret musically is that I love Sam Cooke and old Motown stuff.

Ha! Your deep, dark secret is that you like some of the best music ever recorded.

[AlexLeach]

Super fair. Another thing to note is that bending is almost always a no go on guitars strung up with flats. It’s possible, but it’s hard and doesn’t sound natural IMO.

[Nebel]

[Professor]

@AlexLeach

For those who have finished the Beginner to Kickass course, drop a post here and share your date of graduation.

Woohoo! This was a lot of fun!!

Began 9/6/26 - Graduated 9/12/26

[SerSmokeShop]

wow…6 days. lol congrats

[kamikos]

@Professor

Woohoo! This was a lot of fun!!

Began 9/6/26 - Graduated 9/12/26

You know you’re supposed to leave time to breathe and eat between modules/lessons, right? Maybe a bathroom break or two?

[howard]

6 days is probably gonna be a longstanding record

[Professor]

I didn’t intend to do it this way. But I was on PTO and stuck between houses. I made up my mind Wednesday evening that I was gonna finish it before the end of the weekend.

Now I’m on a mission to find a song and record a guitar + bass cover…

[kamikos]

@Professor

I didn’t intend to do it this way. But I was on PTO and stuck between houses. I made up my mind Wednesday evening that I was gonna finish it before the end of the weekend.

Now I’m on a mission to find a song and record a guitar + bass cover…

I was just giving you grief!

You could do Seven Nation Army and do both at once!

[SerSmokeShop]

Do Zombie in the 50 first song pack in B2K and Zombie in the 100 first song pack in B2B.

[SerSmokeShop]

@kamikos

You could do Seven Nation Army and do both at once!

Seven Nation Army is also a good choice

[Professor]

Funny enough - I actually recorded a bass track of Zombie earlier today with a pick! (I owe B2K for that!)

And when I started looking at Zombie the chords are a bit different and there’s a jingle-jangly thing going on during the song. Rather than completely venturing into the unknown, I’m gonna look for something a little more familiar.

At least I have a bass cover using a pick to upload sometime soon. LOL

Edit: I made that side by side cover!

Post Your Covers!

I have a cover hot off the reel - straight from the GuitarBuzz full song module. Beverly Hills - Weezer [Beverly Hills - Weezer (Bass cover)] Featuring yours truly on guitar as well as my evil twin on bass. This was a whole lotta fun to put together! I graduated B2B in 2025 and now B2K in 2026. Thanks B2K and B2B gang!!

[SerSmokeShop]

@Professor

jingle-jangly thing going on during the song

?

[SerSmokeShop]

@Professor

chords are a bit different

Also, easy fix. just follow the root note from the guitar course on the bass.

[AlexLeach]

Big congrats, Prof! You’re the first I’ve seen to complete the full course. Not that it’s a competition, but I don’t think your speed run record with be broken anytime soon lol.