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  1. bass12

    Belouis Some's "Imagination" (Bernard Edwards, Tony Thompson)

    Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson were credited on Belouis Some's album Some People along with other bassists and drummers but no specifications were given as to who played on what tracks. I just saw an interview with Neville Keighley (Belouis Some) where he confirms that it was Bernard and...
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  2. tb-player

    Good Times/Rappers Delight. Ian breaks it down.

    One of my all-time favorite bass-lines. Ian Allison breaks it down perfectly.
  3. Bart Funk Bass

    Bootsy Collins on Jaco Pastorius

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    • alembic bass bernard edwards bootsy collins chic fender precision funk bass get on the floor good times graham central station hitsville isolated bass isolated bass track james jamerson larry graham louis johnson michael jackson motown music man bass nile rodgers prince slap bass slapping bass sly and the family stone victor wooten
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  4. bass12

    Nile Rodgers talks about “Le Freak” (and more)

    From Sound On Sound (2005): CLASSIC TRACKS: Chic 'Le Freak'
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    • bernard edwards bob clearmountain chic le freak nile rodgers
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    Bernard Edwards and his strings

    Hi everyone, I know this has been discussed several times but I just saw this video from 1983 on his instagram: He says that he used flatwounds on the first two Chic LPs and then switched to rounds “for that slap sound”. He did those first two albums on a Fender right? His Musicman appears to...
  6. MarcoToba

    Thumping slap exercise! (With practice material inside!)

    Hi! How’s it going? In this video, I’m showing a new Thumping exercise (Use the thumb as a pick) on Chic’s “Everbody Dance” intro as an example. The key of this technique es having control of all the movements of the thumb, knowing exactly when to do downstrokes and when to do upstrokes (As...
  7. bass12

    New CHIC remix album

    A few days ago I picked up the new CHIC Organization remix album. I'd already heard a number of the remixes as some of them were previously released as singles and as part of the CHIC Organization box set. I'm normally not a fan of contemporary remixes of older material but Dimitri From Paris...
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