PLAY GUITAR OVER 50? Check This Out! Pt 1 #shorts #guitar #classicrock #guitarlesson

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GUITAR OVER 50? Check This Riff! Pt 1 #shorts #guitar #classicrock #guitarlesson

“Sunshine of Your Love” is a 1967 song by the British rock band Cream. With elements of hard rock and psychedelia, it is one of Cream’s best known and most popular songs. Cream bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce based it on a distinctive bass riff he developed after attending a Jimi Hendrix concert. Guitarist Eric Clapton and lyricist Pete Brown later contributed to the song and drummer Ginger Baker plays a distinctive tom-tom drum rhythm.

The song was included on Cream’s best-selling second album Disraeli Gears in November 1967. Atco Records, the group’s American label, was initially unsure of the song’s potential. After recommendations by other label-affiliated artists, it released an edited single version in December 1967.[a] The song became Cream’s first and highest charting American single and one of the most popular singles of 1968. In September 1968, it became a modest chart hit after being released in the UK.

Cream performed “Sunshine of Your Love” regularly in concert and several live recordings have been issued, including on the Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6, 2005 reunion album and video. Hendrix performed faster instrumental versions of the song, which he often dedicated to Cream. Several rock journals have placed the song on their greatest song lists, such as Rolling Stone, Q magazine, and VH1. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included it on its list of the “500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll”.

Composition

Cream’s “Sunshine of Your Love”
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In early 1967, Cream were writing and rehearsing songs for a second album. Their December 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream, was a mix of updated blues numbers and pop-oriented rock songs.[5] Inspired by recent developments in rock music, the group began pursuing a more overtly psychedelic direction.[6][7] “Sunshine of Your Love” began as a bass phrase or riff developed by Cream bassist Jack Bruce. Cream attended a concert on 29 January 1967 by the Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Saville Theatre in London.[8] Cream guitarist Eric Clapton elaborated in a 1988 Rolling Stone magazine interview:

He [Hendrix] played this gig that was blinding. I don’t think Jack [Bruce] had really taken him in before … and when he did see it that night, after the gig he went home and came up with the riff. It was strictly a dedication to Jimi. And then we wrote a song on top of it.[8]

Music writers Covach and Boone describe the riff as blues-derived, using a minor blues pentatonic scale with an added flattened fifth note (or common blues scale).[9] The song follows a blues chord progression (I–IV–I) during the first eight bars.[9] Brown had a difficult time writing lyrics that fit the riff.[10] After an all-night session, Bruce played it on a standup bass while lyricist Pete Brown was staring out the window.[10] Slowly, he started to write “It’s getting near dawn and lights close their tired eyes”, which is used in the first verse.[11] Later, to break up the rhythm, Clapton wrote a refrain which also yielded the song’s title.[11][9] It consists of eight-bar sections using three chords, when the key shifts to the V chord (I = V):

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