Boogie On Reggae Woman (CoutCam - Loop)

For this week's CoutCam video - an amazing bassline-loop taken from Stevie Wonder's "Boogie On Reggae Woman."

This tune might have one of the sickest basslines in history.

I didn't actually play that entire bassline - originally played on an amazing Moog bass-synth - but just extracted the main groove, so that I could turn it into a "solo-playable" piano part with the chord vamp on top.

Buddied up with my good friend Flip on drums, we created this CoutCam loop:

 

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Left hand bassline indicated in top keyboard image, the 1, 2, 3 is the right hand vamp-move (with the root - bassline is being played from that root - indicated below)

 

What would be (and, in the original is) the "logical" third chord where we would play the exact same figures and patterns, to complete this bluesy round?

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Founder of Piano Couture and creator of the Hack the Piano method. Coen is a musician, reader, writer, web-designer, eater and traveler. Find him at CoenModder.com

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