{"id":13,"date":"2008-05-29T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bassguitartips.com\/newblog\/2008\/05\/29\/butt-kicking-bass-lines-in-3-simple-steps\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T05:56:08","slug":"butt-kicking-bass-lines-in-3-simple-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bassguitartips.com\/newblog\/2008\/05\/29\/butt-kicking-bass-lines-in-3-simple-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Butt Kicking Bass Lines in 3 Simple Steps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been searching for a 100%, totally unbiased way to describe today&#8217;s video and I&#8217;ve finally got it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Bad&#8221; <em>(By bad I of course mean super cool)<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the coolest thing since hair activator because of some real fancy-pants bass playing, but because as a teaching aid it finally distills the 1.93 bazillion <em>(give or take)<\/em> factors that make a great bass player, down into <strong>The 3 Most Powerful Levers<\/strong> you can use to crank up the overall awesomeness of your bass playing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nA few things you should know from the get go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>1. The master class-type lesson that follows is carefully disguised in simplicity but it&#8217;s some powerful ground level stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And I&#8217;m trying not to count my chickens before they hatch but it&#8217;s being rumored that <strong>&#8220;The Super Secret Bass Award Committee&#8221;<\/strong> <em>(S.S.B.A.C. for all you newcomers out there)<\/em> is dangerously close to handing it a very special award of some sort \ud83d\ude42 <em>(Shhhh! Let&#8217;s keep that quiet for now though.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>2. 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