I was thinking of taking some online courses to expand my knowledge of theory, chords, scales, etc...

I came across these guys www.musicianuniversity.com and tried their 'free' (it costs 1 cent) bass trial. It was OK, nothing amazing.

I was wondering if anyone here has ever taken any of the actual courses and what your thought was on it. Was it good? Was it a waste of money?

I'm really keen on the fact that it's online because that means I can work through stuff while I'm at work when I have some free time, during lunch, and breaks, of course ;)

Well, since nobody seems to know anything I went ahead and signed up for a few courses.

Guess what?

It's soooo baaaaad. The courses are terrible. Bad spelling and grammer. Quizzing you on things they've never even discussed.

There's this one testing tool that shows you notes on a staff and you have to click on a virtual fretbord where you would play it. Well, since it used an 'adaptive' testing scheme (the better you do, the harder the question) it starts to give you notes that are so many ledger lines above the staff that's it's actually physically impossible to play on their 4-string fretboard, for example, an A# that would have to be on the 27th fret of the G string. And this is a 'beginning' bass level 1 test. Some notes we're so high that it couldn't even display then properly. God forbid it shows notes on the actual staff. What a joke.

That's just one example of many that I saw that proved to me that their so called 'courses' are just plain bad. There's obviously no quality checking after the developer finishes with a new course and there's no freakin' way that someone who actually knows bass ever even looked at them.

STAY AWAY!!!!

Luckily, they have a 10-day money back guarantee. I wrote them a 'nice' e-mail expressing my dissapointment and they said they would refund my money. I'll let you guys know if that works out.