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What is the StudyBass Study Guide?

The StudyBass Study Guide is a tool to help you navigate the StudyBass lessons. It helps you keep your place, see your progress, and quickly access lessons, exercises, quizzes and song lists.

The Study Guide helps you track your progress. It remembers where you left off, and helps you identify lessons you may have skipped. To use these features, you must be signed in to your StudyBass account.

Study Guide Structure

The Study Guide has an index page of all of the StudyBass curricula, and a view for each individual curriculum.

The StudyBass lessons are organized in a three-level hierarchy:

Curriculum
└── Lesson Block
    └── Lesson (which may contain some or all the following elements)
        ├── Text
        ├── Video
        ├── Exercises
        ├── Songs
        └── Quiz

Curricula

Each curriculum contains multiple lesson blocks arranged in my recommended learning sequence which is based on decades of guiding private students through the material.

Lesson Blocks

Within each curriculum, lessons are grouped into blocks. A block contains related lessons that cover a single topic like "Major Chords" or "Reading Music."

In the Study Guide, blocks are displayed as collapsible sections. Click on a block title to expand or collapse it and view the lessons within.

Lessons

Inside each expanded lesson block you'll find individual lessons. Each lesson may contain text, videos, interactive exercises, songs to practice, and quizzes to test your knowledge.

Tracking Your Progress

There are a lot of lessons and StudyBass helps you keep track of your place in them.

Marking Lessons Complete

As you progress through the lessons, you'll want to mark them complete. You can manage this at the bottom of each lesson page or on the Study Guide pages.

It's up to you to decide when you have completed a lesson. Be sure to read the how to use StudyBass page for my suggestions and to get the most out of the lessons.

At the bottom of each lesson page, you will find a "Mark Complete" button. Click this to mark the lesson as complete. Your progress is saved to your account and will sync across devices.

You can also click again to remove the lesson complete status.

Seeing Your Progress

You can see your progress through the lessons, blocks and curricula by different status icons on the Study Guide and elsewhere on StudyBass.

Lesson Status Squares

Complete - You have marked this lesson as complete.
Current - This is your next lesson to study. The Study Guide automatically identifies your current position based on your progress.
Incomplete - You have not yet completed this lesson.

Block Progress Squares

Incomplete block
Incomplete Block - This identifies a lesson block with no completed lessons.
Partially complete block
Partially Complete Block - This identifies a lesson block with some lessons completed.
Complete block
Complete Block - This identifies a lesson block with all lessons completed.

Lesson Content Icons

Each lesson row displays icons indicating what type of content is available. Click an icon to go directly to that content.

subject Lesson Text
Written lesson content with explanations, diagrams, and notation.

play_circle_outline Video/Audio
Video demonstration or audio explanation for the lesson.

fitness_center Exercises
Interactive exercises to practice the lesson concepts. Clicking this icon takes you directly to the exercises page.

queue_music Songs
Practice songs that apply the lesson material. Clicking this icon takes you directly to the songs page.

help_outline Quiz
A quiz to test your understanding of the lesson. Clicking this icon takes you directly to the quiz page.

Favorites

You can mark any lesson as a favorite by clicking the star icon next to the lesson.

Favorites help you bookmark lessons you want to revisit, reference frequently, or continue practicing. Your favorites appear in the Continue Studying dashboard for quick access.

star_border Not a Favorite
Click to add this lesson to your favorites.

star Favorite
This lesson is in your favorites. Click to remove it.

Continue Studying Dashboard

The Continue Studying dashboard appears at the top of the Study Guide main page when you are signed in.

The dashboard shows all curricula where you have marked at least one lesson complete, allowing you to quickly resume your studies.

Each curriculum on the dashboard shows you how much you've completed, your last completed lesson, a link to your next lesson in the curriculum, and skipped lessons.

Any curricula you have completed in full will be moved to the Completed Curricula dropdown at the bottom.

Skipped Lessons

The Study Guide tracks whether you have completed lessons in sequence. If you complete lessons out of order, leaving gaps, you will see a "Skipped Lessons" alert on that curriculum card in the Continue Studying dashboard.

warning Skipped lessons detected

This alert appears when you have completed a lesson further along in the curriculum without completing earlier lessons, or rarely I may decide to drop in a new lesson into one of your already completed blocks or curricula.

Why Skipped Lessons Matter

StudyBass lessons are designed to build upon one another. Skipping lessons may mean missing foundational concepts or musical vocabulary that later lessons assume you understand. If you see a skipped lessons alert:

  1. Click "See Skipped Lessons" to view which lessons were missed.
  2. Review the list and consider going back to complete them.
  3. If you already know the material, you can mark those lessons complete to clear the alert.

Start Studying!

If you have read this far, you're going to be a great student!

Keep me informed of your progress. If you ever have questions, contact me through the feedback form.

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