Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the SBL podcast, usually hosted by Scott and Ian, but today you got this face.

My name is Sharon Reynolds. I occasionally pop up on the podcast and are over on the YouTube channel.

But Ian will be joining us in a second. We actually filmed this podcast last week when we were doing an IG live and we were answering people's burning questions all around

base gear and this crazy thing called the music biz I'll let you get to that in a second but first

a little bit of sbL housekeeping number one we've got our usual mentor session running today

hosted by the great todd Johnson and he'll be talking about the days of Wine and Roses, his melodic and rhythmic sequences, part two.

And next week's mentor session will be run by Danny Moe,

and he'll be talking about the Philly Sound.

And then we're running a super exciting challenge over on the SBL campus,

where you can set your intentions and outcomes in our super-focused New Year's XYZ challenge.

And then finally, and this is also, H will segue very cleanly into our main meat of the

podcast.

Today is the day where we launch a new program over on the SBL Academy.

And you do have to be a member in order to join.

It is called Live Class.

And I won't tell you more about it right now because we're going to talk about it on the pod.

But if you do want more information about it, head over to LiveClassNow.com.

I'm going to say that one more time because that's what people do, apparently.

LiveClassNow.com.

And now we will bring in Ian, and let's do this thing.

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Oh! You guys, I just put new strings on this bass, and it's like,

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