The surprising act that made Nile Rodgers form Chic

how Nile made the strings funky 🎻 Chic’s Nile Rodgers & engineer Bob Clearmountain used studio magic to add funk and bounce to the strings on “Upside Down”: here’s how. 🎻 The legato string parts by the Chic Strings (credited to Valerie Haywood, Cheryl Hong & Karen Milne) were played and recorded as half notes, 2 to the bar; straightforward, and consistently across the song’s chorus. By selectively muting and adding delay, Rodgers and Clearmountain created the illusion that the strings were dro

He made it look so easy 🤯 | Nile Wilson