Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love (Bass cover with tabs)

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When you teach bass this is an almost inevitable song for your lessons.
It was released in 1967 on Creams second studio album "Disraeli Gears".

"Sunshine of Your Love" began as a bass phrase or riff developed by Jack Bruce after having seen a Jimi Hendrix concert. Eric Clapton said 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.

The riff is based on a minor pentatonic scale with an additional flattened 5th, also referred to as "blues scale". This is a perfect example on how to use the "blues scale" for building licks and riffs. Simple but effective and catchy. And thus the song hasn't lost it's magic even after over 50 years.

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