{"id":5480,"date":"2014-03-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2014-03-26T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T13:31:00","slug":"mega-man-7-bass-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/mega-man-7-bass-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"Mega Man 7 Bass Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure the bass purists out there are going to instantly say &#8220;WASTE OF TIME!!11!11!!&#8221; just based on the <em>title<\/em> of this article, never mind the video below.<\/p>\n<p>Kids today play a lot of video game music on real instruments and do it often. Whether it&#8217;s games from the 80s, 90s 2000s or now, they&#8217;re playing them on real-deal gear. Why? Because they simply like to do it. Gamers, obviously, play games. And a lot of gamers are musicians.<\/p>\n<p>I made the mistake of making fun of those who played video game music once. The backlash wasn&#8217;t pretty, therefore I don&#8217;t poke fun at anyone who plays game music anymore because those who play this style are passionate about it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my advice to anyone that wants to bash on bass players who play game music: Don&#8217;t. Consider they&#8217;re actually playing bass, and usually doing it pretty well.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/POc61Ozc_00\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure the bass purists out there are going to instantly say &#8220;WASTE OF TIME!!11!11!!&#8221; just based on the title of this article, never mind the video below. Kids today play a lot of video game music on real instruments and do it often. Whether it&#8217;s games from the 80s, 90s 2000s or now, they&#8217;re &#8230; <a title=\"Mega Man 7 Bass Cover\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/mega-man-7-bass-cover.html\" aria-label=\"More on Mega Man 7 Bass Cover\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5479,"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\/5480"}],"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=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}