{"id":8152,"date":"2015-12-22T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2015-12-22T12:16:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T17:16:02","slug":"christmas-wrapping-the-waitresses-bass-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/christmas-wrapping-the-waitresses-bass-cover.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Christmas Wrapping&quot; (The Waitresses) Bass Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/this-christmas-donny-hathaway-bass-cover.html\"><em>This Christmas<\/em> by Donny Hathaway<\/a> has smooth bass lines in it that everyone likes, <em>Christmas Wrapping<\/em> by The Waitresses is one of those love-it-or-hate-it modern (as in &#8220;not traditional&#8221;) Christmas songs. But even if you hate it, the bass line is pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>The good bass line doesn&#8217;t start until 24 seconds in as the intro drags a bit. But once it does kick in, yes it does work. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a cover of the song (and a good one):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r5nc34ezGK4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the original studio release:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ARq6uYSsUq0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The nice part about the original is that it does have a very pronounced bass line you can hear easily.<\/p>\n<p>The level of difficulty to play this song isn&#8217;t easy, but isn&#8217;t very difficult either; it would be best described as an intermediate level of difficulty to learn and play.<\/p>\n<p>What will throw you off more than anything else while learning this is the timing of the song. The bulk of the rhythm is &#8220;straight,&#8221; but then has a few parts that have some weirdness going on. You&#8217;ll jump from straight to a swing and then back again, hear instruments &#8220;fighting&#8221; against each other in certain parts, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christmas Wrapping<\/em> is a weird song. But it has some good bass lines in it that are worth learning. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While This Christmas by Donny Hathaway has smooth bass lines in it that everyone likes, Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses is one of those love-it-or-hate-it modern (as in &#8220;not traditional&#8221;) Christmas songs. But even if you hate it, the bass line is pretty good. The good bass line doesn&#8217;t start until 24 seconds in as &#8230; <a title=\"&quot;Christmas Wrapping&quot; (The Waitresses) Bass Cover\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/christmas-wrapping-the-waitresses-bass-cover.html\" aria-label=\"More on &quot;Christmas Wrapping&quot; (The Waitresses) Bass Cover\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8151,"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\/8152"}],"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=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}