Bee Gees – Night Fever: Did You Know the Bass and Guitars Were This Funky? 🎸 One of the secret weapons of this record — Maurice Gibb playing syncopated funky bass with a pick. Here’s a bit of the bass and drums moving from the pre-chorus into the chorus, and you can really feel how tight that pocket is. There is percussion in this song except it’s actually rhythm guitar. Literally rhythm guitar acting like percussion. The strings are muted, running through a wah pedal and what sounds like a pha