{"id":7205,"date":"2015-05-05T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2015-05-10T23:59:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T04:59:02","slug":"bernard-edwards-chucking-bass-technique-everybody-dance-by-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/bernard-edwards-chucking-bass-technique-everybody-dance-by-chic.html","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Edwards &quot;Chucking&quot; Bass Technique &#8211; Everybody Dance by Chic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While BBG does sell plenty of stuff to help you get the Bernard Edwards tone (such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/bartolini-mm-pickups.htm\">Bartolini MM-size offerings<\/a> among other things,) learning the technique Bernard used can be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The song with the bass line which is arguably one of the toughest to learn is <em>Everybody Dance<\/em>; this is the song where Bernard uses what he called &#8220;chucking&#8221; technique.<\/p>\n<p>This is the original where you can see Bernard chucking away (you can see some particularly good chucking at the 3:00 minute mark):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J1MMzMGX8xY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a YouTube user showing an <em>attempt<\/em> at getting the chucking technique working for him:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NwRFxG-gI1k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is a very in-depth explanation of chucking (with an almost spot-on example around the 4-minute mark):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RnBJWwK4kks?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when someone slap-pops his way through parts of the song instead of using chucking. It&#8217;s not correct, but certainly passable and sounds good:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ddVUs-6syiM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Want to give it a go? Foam mutes may help<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Early Music Man basses had foam mutes underneath the strings that were adjustable by small turn screws.<\/strong> (Side note: Some modern MM basses labeled as &#8220;Classic&#8221; models have the mutes.) This could very likely be a big reason Bernard was able to get those short-attack\/short-sustain notes so well when used in combination with flatwound strings. What you can take from this is that long-sustain notes work more against than for you.<\/p>\n<p>Need an easy foam mute to help get Bernard tone? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/gruvgear-fump.htm\"><strong>Get a Fump<\/strong><\/a>. Funny name, good product. You get the palm-muted bass tone without the palm. No, it&#8217;s not the same a Music Man bass with the foam mutes, but it beats having to buy a whole new bass just to get the foam-muted sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While BBG does sell plenty of stuff to help you get the Bernard Edwards tone (such as the Bartolini MM-size offerings among other things,) learning the technique Bernard used can be a challenge. The song with the bass line which is arguably one of the toughest to learn is Everybody Dance; this is the song &#8230; <a title=\"Bernard Edwards &quot;Chucking&quot; Bass Technique &#8211; Everybody Dance by Chic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/bernard-edwards-chucking-bass-technique-everybody-dance-by-chic.html\" aria-label=\"More on Bernard Edwards &quot;Chucking&quot; Bass Technique &#8211; Everybody Dance by Chic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[28,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205"}],"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=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}