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?

About Coen

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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