{"id":8752,"date":"2016-04-13T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=8752"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:44:16","slug":"can-you-play-tom-sawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/can-you-play-tom-sawyer.html","title":{"rendered":"Can you play &quot;Tom Sawyer&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A YouTube user going by username &#8220;Baltasar Gua\u00f1abens&#8221; plays a song familiar to many bass players, <em>Tom Sawyer<\/em> by RUSH. And he does it on a 5-string Sire V7.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tom Sawyer<\/em> is, obviously, not an easy song to pull off (even when practicing just by yourself, never mind in a full band,) but once you get that &#8220;twangy&#8221; sound down and your fingers placed just right, it&#8217;s an amazing tune to play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever tried to play <em>Tom Sawyer<\/em> on bass?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have, did you ever get the line(s) right? <\/p>\n<p>Also, if you have a video of yourself playing the song, even if just a piece of it, feel free to post a link to it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XGtuq13tNFo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A YouTube user going by username &#8220;Baltasar Gua\u00f1abens&#8221; plays a song familiar to many bass players, Tom Sawyer by RUSH. And he does it on a 5-string Sire V7. Tom Sawyer is, obviously, not an easy song to pull off (even when practicing just by yourself, never mind in a full band,) but once you &#8230; <a title=\"Can you play &quot;Tom Sawyer&quot;?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/can-you-play-tom-sawyer.html\" aria-label=\"More on Can you play &quot;Tom Sawyer&quot;?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8751,"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\/8752"}],"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=8752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}