[quote name='urbanx' post='635561' date='Oct 24 2009, 08:09 PM']University of life +1
My suggested syllabus:
1) take your favourite album,
2) print off the tabs
3) take both of these, and you bass into a room, and lock it.
4) unlock it when you've learnt it.
Repeat as required...[/quote]
Sorry, can't say I agree with this at all.
The OP wants to study music - so using tabs would be completely pointless. Surely using your ear would be more beneficial, and learning to read music.
My tip: stay away from tab!
I hear ACM in Guildford is good. A guitarist I know is studying there. The place where Dave Marks teaches bass (BassTech or BassX or something) is excellent too, I hear.