Nile Rodgers

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Left-Nile Rodgers performs during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024 in Hollywood, California; Right-Chris Martin performs at the Coldplay concert held at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, October 07, 2024 in New York, New York

How Nile Rodgers ended up on the latest Coldplay album

By Janelle Borg published

2024 saw the Chic co-founder add the British mega-act to his star-studded list of collaborators...

Guitarists
Nile Rodgers (L) and Jerry Barnes of Chic perform at Smoothie King Center on April 24, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jerry Barnes and Nile Rodgers give an insiders’ view of this seven-minute bass anthem by Chic

By Chris Jisi published

Performing alongside guitarist Nile Rodgers, Jerry Barnes has bestowed his deep-pocketed basslines upon Chic since the untimely death of Bernard Edwards in 1996

Bassists
Nile Rodgers with his Hitmaker Stratocaster

Nile Rodgers on what convinced him to buy a Fender Stratocaster – and why it was the best investment he ever made

By Andrew Daly published

The Chic founder on the tale of his legendary Hitmaker Strat – which was the cheapest guitar in the store when he bought it

Guitarists
Nile Rodgers plays his hitmaker Stratocaster under the stage lights at the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam

Improve your syncopation now with this lesson in funk guitar 101

By Simon Barnard published

Taking small chord shapes, single notes and 16th-note strums, we unpack the essentials for funk guitar and target those offbeats for rhythmic intrigue in your playing

Techniques
Alfie Templeman

How rising Gen Z guitar star Alfie Templeman wound up with Nile Rodgers on his new album

By Andrew Daly published

With Rodgers guesting on his second album, the 21-year-old is committed to Strat-ing his way out of his comfort zone – preferably without TikToking all the time

Guitarists
Nile Rodgers with CHIC performs on stage at Fremantle Prison on October 27, 2023 in Perth, Australia

Nile Rodgers on how he found The Hitmaker – and how the Fender Strat changed the world

By Matt Owen published

The funk guitar superstar looks back at trading in his old Barney Kessel for the budget Strat that would go on to become The Hitmaker – the fabled instrument heard on Get Lucky, Le Freak and countless others

Electric Guitars
Nile Rodgers playing guitar with Le Sserafim at Coachella

Nile Rodgers makes a surprise appearance at Coachella with K-pop group Le Sserafim

By Janelle Borg published

Nile Rodgers lent his signature playing style to the group’s track Unforgiven

Artists
(left to right) Mateus Asato, Nile Rodgers, Ari O'Neal and Rei

“Forever ahead of its time”: Fender kicks off the Strat’s 70th anniversary party with star-studded Voodoo Child (Slight Return) mega-jam – featuring Tom Morello, Nile Rodgers, Mateus Asato, Ari O'Neal and Rei

By Matt Parker published

The fiery, tag-teamed take on the Hendrix classic is designed to showcase the Strat’s enduring legacy – and tonal flexibility

Electric Guitars
Bassist Bernard Edwards and Guitarist Nile Rodgers, both of the group Chic, in a recording studio, New York, New York, July 29, 1981.

“The last thing Bernard Edwards wanted to be was a bass player who used a pick”: Nile Rodgers on the funk behind Chic’s Le Freak

By Nick Wells published

In 1978 Bernard Edwards helped define one of the most distinctive sounds of disco

Bassists
Nile Rodgers

Fine-tune your rhythm chops with this lesson on classic disco funk

By Steve Allsworth published

The glitter ball is spinning and it's time to throw some shapes on the guitar in the style of the funk heroes behind Chic, Sister Sledge, Earth, Wind & Fire and more

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