Hey everyone,
This is the first in a new series of lessons i’m going to be releasing, going behind some of my favourite bass lines!
This first one is a Teena Marie song from her concept album Robbery (1983) featuring the great Anthony Jackson on bass. Playboy is built around AJ’s fantastic bass groove that forms the bedrock on which the song is based! It’s not harmonically complex, the devil is all in the small details, as we will look at today!
My complete transcription of the 12” remix can be found here
https://www.benwalkerbass.com/p/playboy
I’ve also prepared some notation that isolates the groove in question, which you can access below!
I’ll also be releasing a lesson for my subscribers later this week examining one of the killer fills that AJ throws down towards the end of the song!
Enjoy!
