{"id":11573,"date":"2017-09-13T10:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=11573"},"modified":"2017-09-13T11:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T16:32:40","slug":"faith-no-more-epic-possibly-one-of-the-easiest-bass-lines-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/faith-no-more-epic-possibly-one-of-the-easiest-bass-lines-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"Faith No More &quot;Epic&quot; &#8211; possibly one of the easiest bass lines ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E, E <\/p>\n<p>E, E-E<\/p>\n<p>That pretty much describes almost the entirety to <em>Epic<\/em> by Faith No More.<\/p>\n<p>The tone heard here is really chunky, really loud and the strings are being slammed with a pick for just about every note.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Gould, who has been the only bass player for Faith No More as far as is known, is the one who laid down this track.<\/p>\n<p>As simple as the bass line is, it does fit the song, so it could be argued that Billy really complemented the drums here and totally stayed in the pocket. Bass lines don&#8217;t have to be complicated to be good.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one other thing. In the original mix, the bass blares in a real nice way. It&#8217;s not buried in the mix and you hear it loud and proud.<\/p>\n<h3>Faith No More &#8220;Epic&#8221; isolated bass track<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/miaUoAOKtKY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Original Studio Mix<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZG_k5CSYKhg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E, E E, E-E That pretty much describes almost the entirety to Epic by Faith No More. The tone heard here is really chunky, really loud and the strings are being slammed with a pick for just about every note. Billy Gould, who has been the only bass player for Faith No More as far &#8230; <a title=\"Faith No More &quot;Epic&quot; &#8211; possibly one of the easiest bass lines ever\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/faith-no-more-epic-possibly-one-of-the-easiest-bass-lines-ever.html\" aria-label=\"More on Faith No More &quot;Epic&quot; &#8211; possibly one of the easiest bass lines ever\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11587,"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\/11573"}],"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=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}