Cream Sunshine of Your Love Guitar Lesson for Beginners Riffs & Rhythm

This Guitar Lesson for Beginners video will show how to play Sunshine of Your Love by Cream [Eric Clapton]. Cream Sunshine of Your Love Guitar Lesson for Beginners [Riffs & Rhythm] 0:00 Lesson Preview 1:09 Lesson Intro 1:33 Intro 7:59 Intro Review (slow) 8:33 Verse 1 11:36 Intro/Verse 1 Review (slow) 13:10 Chorus 16:03 Chorus Review (slow) 16:49 Verse 2 Variation 17:38 Lesson Review Cream Sunshine of Your Love Lesson Plan with Guitar Tab Guitar Songs for Beginners Lesson Playlist Sunshine of Your Love by Cream Written in 1967, ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ would combine elements of traditional Blues with a new ‘heavy’sound that would later set the foundation for hard rock music. Sunshine of Your Love is a unique musical collaboration, featuring the classic opening Blues riff written by bassist/singer Jack Bruce, African-style drum rhythms by Ginger Baker, a hard-rock chorus by Eric Clapton, and lyrics written by Pete Brown. Cream Sunshine of Your Love Guitar Lesson for Beginners This easy beginner lesson will show how to play the intro riff to Sunshine of Your Love and all the rhythm guitar parts. Sunshine of Your Love Intro Riff The opening intro guitar riff to Sunshine of Your Love is based on the ‘D’ Blues scale. Note to addition of the passing tone or ‘blue note’ (fifth string/eleventh fret) as well as the phrasing (the Sunshine of Your Love riff begins and ends on a ‘D’ root note). Strum Sunshine of Your Love Rhythm Guitar Chords The verse chord progression to Sunshine of Your Love ‘locks-in’ with the lyrics. For example, each of the four syllables of ‘...getting-near-dawn...’ will ‘lock-in’ or ‘land’ with each of the four chords (‘D7-D7-C7-D7’) played. The chord progression of Sunshine of Your Love shifts from a standard 12-Bar Blues format of the Verse to a more-‘heavy’ rock sound of the Chorus that features the use of power chords. One way to capture the rhythm for this repeated ‘A5’ strum is to emulate the rhythm of a galloping horse (‘dun - da-da-dun - da-da-dun... etc.’). Sunshine of Your Love Guitar Tone While in Cream, Eric Clapton became known for his unique guitar tone, which many considered a ‘thick’ or warm sound. Replicating the guitar tone to Sunshine of Your Love is a combination of equipment, settings, and technique. With its solid-wood body, the Gibson SG provides better sustain, especially when played through a Marshall tube amp with distortion. The tone controls are turned all the way down, and the pickup setting should be set at middle position with the neck pickup set at full volume. Regardless of all the tone setting options, it is the guitarists’ finger strength and technique that ultimately determines the overall quality of tone and sustain of Sunshine of Your Love. Sunshine of Your Love Guitar Solo The guitar solo to Sunshine of Your Love by Cream is played primarily in the Key of ‘D’ Blues, and follows a twelve-bar format with the tab showing two bars per line. Occasional riffs are added from the ‘D’ Pentatonic Major scale. The Sunshine of Your Love guitar solo features Eric Clapton’s famous ‘Fool’ guitar, which was a 1964 Gibson SG named as a tribute to the artist who painted the body of the guitar with a psychedelic look. Guitar Songs for Beginners Lesson Playlist Blues for Beginners [Riffs/Soloing] Lesson Playlist Paluzzi Guitar The objective of the Paluzzi Guitar video series is to help establish a foundation of guitar fundamentals by applying various playing techniques (rhythm, fingerstyle, and soloing) to various styles of music. The more playing styles and techniques a guitarist can learn, the more diverse and self-sufficient a guitarist will become. A self-sufficient guitarist can then teach themselves, communicate with other musicians, and even write their own music once a solid foundation of fundamentals is established. The Creative Guitarist Method Series was written and designed by Kevin J. Paluzzi of Paluzzi Guitar Instruction in San Diego, CA. For more information on private lessons and books, go to: Guitar Lessons There really isn’t any one particular playing style or technique required in order to classify someone as a guitarist. The Paluzzi Guitar series of books and videos are designed with a ‘pick and choose’ topic format (songwriting, soloing, etc.) so that once the Guitar Basics are completed, you can then decide to focus on whatever topic you wish to study. Cream Sunshine of Your Love Guitar Lesson for Beginners [Riffs & Rhythm]