{"id":10389,"date":"2017-01-11T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10389"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T21:11:12","slug":"freebird-bass-line-play-some-skynyrd-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/freebird-bass-line-play-some-skynyrd-man.html","title":{"rendered":"Freebird bass line (play some Skynyrd, man!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who know Lynyrd Skynyrd obviously know <i>Freebird<\/i>, but most bassists get lazy when playing this particular bass line. And by lazy I mean not playing it how it&#8217;s heard on the album as it&#8217;s not something one would call easy.<\/p>\n<p>The player who played the studio track was Ed King. He started out as the guitar player for Strawberry Alarm Clock as he was one of the founding members in the 1960s. Later on in 1972 he joined Lynyrd Skynyrd as the bassist and remained until 1975. <\/p>\n<p>The bass lines to <i>Freebird<\/i> as heard below are challenging but amazing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QvZbbomSvb0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who know Lynyrd Skynyrd obviously know Freebird, but most bassists get lazy when playing this particular bass line. And by lazy I mean not playing it how it&#8217;s heard on the album as it&#8217;s not something one would call easy. The player who played the studio track was Ed King. He started out as &#8230; <a title=\"Freebird bass line (play some Skynyrd, man!)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/freebird-bass-line-play-some-skynyrd-man.html\" aria-label=\"More on Freebird bass line (play some Skynyrd, man!)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}