{"id":8146,"date":"2015-12-22T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2015-12-22T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:39:33","slug":"this-christmas-donny-hathaway-bass-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/this-christmas-donny-hathaway-bass-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;This Christmas&quot; (Donny Hathaway) Bass Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many players have covered this song on YouTube, and this is one of the better attempts at the song.<\/p>\n<p>The song is <em>This Christmas<\/em> by Donny Hathaway, and it has one of the smoothest, cleanest bass lines you&#8217;ll ever hear. It&#8217;s also not easy to pull off as a cover, but YouTube user ming2006 did a darned fine job at it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOCTI_BG6do?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To note: This is a song that does allow room for improvisation, which is to say you don&#8217;t have to get it exactly on the mark note-for-note for it to sound good. Songs with really good bass lines permit you to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the original studio release. Very nice track all around.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2oWTuxh5mVg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many players have covered this song on YouTube, and this is one of the better attempts at the song. The song is This Christmas by Donny Hathaway, and it has one of the smoothest, cleanest bass lines you&#8217;ll ever hear. It&#8217;s also not easy to pull off as a cover, but YouTube user ming2006 did &#8230; <a title=\"&quot;This Christmas&quot; (Donny Hathaway) Bass Cover\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/this-christmas-donny-hathaway-bass-cover.html\" aria-label=\"More on &quot;This Christmas&quot; (Donny Hathaway) Bass Cover\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8145,"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\/8146"}],"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=8146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}