Bass PlayersUnited
Why Does a Club Like Bass Club Exist for Bass Players?
Think about the movie Fight Club for a second.
There's a bunch of these guys sleepwalking through life.
Doing everything they were told would make them happy.
And feeling absolutely nothing.
Until they found a room where they could finally be tested.
Where somebody looked them in the eye and expected something from them.
Where they FINALLY woke up.
Now think about your last practice session.
You were probably alone in your bedroom with your door shut.
Running the same tired old riffs and licks you've always played.
Wondering if you're getting better or just running in circles.
You're a good bass player.
You know it.
Everybody who hears you says so.
And yet, something inside you knows you're capable of way more than "good."
You don't need another course or tutorial video.
You've got courses coming out of your ears.
What you need is a room full of bass players who take this beautiful instrument just as seriously as you do.
Bass players who will hear your playing every week, keep you accountable every day, challenge you to greater heights, and expect you to show up.
That room exists now.
It's capped at 500 players.
And you're looking at the door.
The Rules of Bass Club
You DO talk about Bass Club. We're proud of this room. Wear the shirt. Tell your drummer.
Seriously, tell EVERYONE you know about Bass Club.
Fight Night is sacred. Every Tuesday, the whole club gets in one room with John. You leave knowing exactly what YOU need to work on next.
You answer the Role Call. Every single day. Because the players who show up daily are the ones who actually get better.
Everybody gets heard. Open mic nights exist so your music finally gets HEARD and PROMOTED. First night in the club? You perform. That's Rule #8, and yes, we skipped ahead. You'll learn the rest inside.
Exclusive, never discriminatory. No gatekeepers here. Nobody asks who you've played with before you're allowed to sit down. If you love the bass and you're willing to get in The Ring, you belong.
At 500 members, the doors close. Forever. Then the waitlist starts and you wait for somebody to leave. (Nobody leaves.)
If this is your first night in Bass Club, you have to PLAY. Lurkers don't last here. What you learn goes into The Ring.
Every Club Needs Its Tyler Durden. Ours Walks Around With a Bass In His Hand at All Times.
Meet John Ferrara.
Fodera-sponsored bassist of world renowned band Consider the Source. 300+ shows a year for 25 years with Consider the Source, Mono Means One, and his solo work. He's shared stages with Victor Wooten, Tony Levin, and members of King Crimson. Charles Berthoud called him "the unsung genius of bass tapping." Scott Devine called him "an absolute beast of a player."
He's taught bass for 20+ years at $200+ an hour, and he recently closed his books to new private students for good.
Bass Club is the only way left to learn from him.
And every Tuesday night, he's in the room with you. Live. That's Fight Night.
Here's Everything Waiting for You Inside Bass Club
01Weekly Fight Nights With John Ferrara
Every Tuesday, the whole club gets in one room and John teaches. Live.
Technique. Groove. Composition. The music business. Finding your voice. You raise your hand, you ask, he answers on the spot.
And you walk out of every Fight Night knowing exactly what YOU need to work on to improve YOUR playing. No more guessing what to practice. No more hoping you're working on the right thing.
At John's old $200/hr private rate, this alone is $800+ a month of his time.
02The Best Bass Players in the Industry, Brought to YOU
We bring world-class players into the club to give you a lesson.
Normally that means a masterclass ticket, a plane flight, and hundreds of dollars for a seat you probably can't get anyway.
In here, they come to YOU.
And then you don't just watch and forget. You take what they taught you straight into The Ring and PLAY it.
That's the difference between collecting lessons and actually absorbing them.
03Daily Role Calls
Every day, the club sounds off.
Did you practice? Did you show up? The Role Call keeps you accountable to your instrument daily, because nobody ever got great at bass practicing "when they felt like it."
This is the piece every course you've ever bought was missing. Not information. ACCOUNTABILITY. People who notice when you go quiet and call you back in.
04The Bass Club Vault
Every week, John uploads a brand new challenge to the Vault.
You don't binge it and bookmark it for "later." You take it into The Ring and make music out of it. Learn something, use it, get heard, improve. That loop is the whole engine.
05The Ring
The heart of the club.
You post a clip of your playing. Every member watches it and gives you real feedback. Not hearts, not fire emojis. NOTES, from serious players who actually give a damn.
Then you take what you learned and use it for your next clip. Week after week. That's how "pretty good" becomes "holy shit, where'd that come from?"
06Bass Club Open Mic Nights
You've been playing for years. Be honest: how many people have actually HEARD your music?
Open mic nights are the place where your music finally gets heard AND promoted. Players who've never had a stage get one. And the room is full of people who understand exactly what it took to play what you just played.
07Our Network Becomes YOUR Network
John has 20+ years of connections in this industry. Touring musicians. Session players. Producers. Booking agents.
And we hand exclusive opportunities (gigs, session work, jobs) to the most engaged and active members of the club. Show up, put in the work, get in The Ring, and doors start opening that you could never knock on from your bedroom.
08The Pocket: The Groove Training App That Exists ONLY Inside Bass Club
This is our secret weapon and it is not for sale anywhere, at any price.
The Pocket is a groove training app built for bass players. It has every chord progression, scale, and rhythm ever created built into it. You can create your own progressions, or plug in the ones you already play, and instantly see everything that works over them.
And it turns practice into sport: you set records in your playing, then you BEAT them. Your practice sessions stop being aimless noodling and start being training.
One of a kind. Members only. The only way to touch it is to be in the club.
What All of That Costs
- Weekly Fight Nights with John Ferrara, live and recorded... so you always know exactly what to work on next and never waste another practice session guessing
- The best bass players in the world brought to YOU... so you learn from players you'd normally pay hundreds just to sit near, without leaving your house
- Daily Role Calls keeping you accountable (the thing no course can sell you)... so you actually practice every day and improve faster in months than you have in years alone
- The Bass Club Vault: a new challenge from John Ferrara every week... so you're never staring at your bass wondering what to play, and everything you learn gets used instead of forgotten
- The Ring: weekly feedback on YOUR playing from the whole club... so you catch bad habits before they cost you years and hear yourself getting better week over week
- Open mic nights where your music gets heard and promoted to our social media, which has generated over 5.5 million views in its first 3 months... so your playing finally reaches real audiences instead of dying in your camera roll
- Exclusive Opportunities: our network becomes YOUR network... so being an active member can turn into gigs, session work, and job opportunities you could never reach from your bedroom
- The Pocket groove training app (not for sale at any price)... so you can see everything that works over any progression, set records in your playing, and beat them
One private lesson at John's old rate cost three times what a full month in the club costs.
Yes, We're Fighting the Machines Too
You've noticed what's happening out there. AI-generated tracks flooding every platform. Companies convincing the world that musicians are optional. "Good enough" slop eating real players' lunch.
Here's what a computer can't fake: a room of 500 humans who know your name, have heard your playing, and expect you at Fight Night.
Every clip posted in The Ring is proof that mastery still matters. This club is where real musicians hold the line. Fitting, honestly. The movie was about men fighting back against a world that made them soft. We're bass players fighting back against a world that says we're replaceable.
We're not.
The 500 Cap Is Not a Marketing Trick
It's math.
500 is the number where the room stays tight. Where your clip in The Ring gets seen instead of buried under 40,000 lurkers. Where the Role Call still means something because people actually notice when you miss it.
One member past that number and the whole thing stops working. So at 500, the doors close forever and the waitlist begins.
You're reading this while you can still walk in.
Your 60-Day Money-Back Guarantee
Join. Hit every Fight Night. Answer every Role Call. Post clips in The Ring. Train in The Pocket. And if at any point in your first 60 days you decide this club isn't for you, email [email protected] and you get every penny back. No questions, no hoops.
$67/month. Cancel anytime from your Skool account in two clicks. No contracts.
The Question Isn't Whether You're Good Enough. It's Whether You'll Get In The Ring.
You've been "pretty good" for years. Alone. In your bedroom. Wondering.
Or you take one of the 456 remaining seats in the most exclusive club of serious bass players on Earth, answer your first Role Call, and find out what happens when people who give a damn start expecting things from you.
You know which one you want.
Zach Austin
Founder, Bass Club · IG: @theloopybassist
P.S. In the movie, the club was a secret. Ours isn't. Rule #1 is you DO talk about Bass Club, because we're building something bigger than any one of us, and the 500 players who get in first are the founding members of it. See you at Fight Night.
FAQ
"I'm not good enough to post a clip yet."
Every member had that exact thought before their first post. Then they posted anyway and got real notes on what's working plus the one thing to fix next. You can't be too early for feedback. You can only waste more years without it.
"What actually happens at Fight Night?"
Every Tuesday, the whole club gets in one live room with John. He teaches, you ask him anything, and you leave knowing exactly what to work on next. All recorded, so if you miss one live, the replay is waiting.
"Is this a course?"
No. Courses collect dust. This is a club. There's a Vault inside with a new challenge from John every week, but you don't binge it. You take it into The Ring and make music out of it.
"What's a Role Call?"
A daily check-in that keeps you accountable to practicing and showing up. It takes seconds. And it's the reason members here actually improve while course-buyers stay stuck.
"What if I can only show up at weird hours?"
The Ring never closes and neither does The Pocket. Post clips and answer Role Calls on your schedule. Every Fight Night is recorded, and John or I answer follow-up questions in the group.
"I play metal / jazz / funk / country. Is this for me?"
Yes. John has coached players across every style you can name, and The Pocket has every progression, scale, and rhythm you'd ever play in any genre. Bring what you play.
"What happens at 500 members?"
The doors close forever and the waitlist starts. You only get in when a spot opens. Nobody's in a hurry to leave.
"Can I cancel anytime? How does the guarantee work?"
Cancel in two clicks from your Skool account. And inside your first 60 days, email [email protected] for a full refund, no questions asked.