"Sunshine of Your Love" Lead Guitar Tutorial - Simple + Easy To Follow | Beginner Electric Guitar

Welcome to my "Sunshine of Your Love" Guitar Lesson + Tutorial, by Cream (and Eric Clapton). This famous riff is one of the most iconic in rock history and it's very easy to play. It all begins with an easy single note riff (written by the bassist, Jack Bruce) and then expand upon it (as Eric Clapton did) using triads, double stops and other essential electric guitar techniques. "Sunshine of Your Love" CHORDS: A C G "Sunshine of Your Love" STRUMMING PATTERN: D uD D D ► "Sunshine of Your Love" Full Song Play-Through (play along with me, from start-to-finish) available on my Patreon page:   / 58831467   ► Grab your copy of my FREE Lead Guitar E-BOOK! + Get Info on my Lead Guitar Course! https://goodguitarist.com/learn-lead-... "Sunshine of Your Love" TABLE OF CONTENTS 0:00 - INTRO 2:00 - MAIN RIFF 6:07 - MAIN RIFF PLAY-ALONG 6:29 - VERSE RIFF - D 9:04 - VERSE RIFF - G 11:56 - CHORUS 14:52 - CHORUS PLAY-ALONG 15:37 - GUITAR GEAR + TONE TIPS 17:46 - FINAL PLAY-ALONG We begin with the main riff. This is probably one of the most iconic riffs in rock history. In fact, it's probably the fourth or fifth riff that I ever learned personally. We break it down and learn the notes, and then we add the rhythm, taking the time to count it out properly, and play each note precisely. Once we've learned the riff, we play it together, nice and slow. The verse uses an adaptation of that riff. We basically are changing the first couple notes into a chord shape called a triad. In this case it's a D major triad. And we change the last couple notes, putting them up one octave. So the riff sounds very similar but it's a little bit different to play. And then we transpose this riff to G, which requires us to change our shape and play it in a different part of the fretboard, but it's actually quite similar. The chorus is really simple, just some power chords and simple strumming. We work through the shapes, we work through the strumming, we put it all together, and that's the chorus. Before putting it all together, I want to talk about gear. Eric Clapton, when he played in Cream, famously used a Gibson SG, nicknamed The Fool. He would set this guitar's tone and volume knobs in such a way that he got what is known as "The Woman Tone." In the lesson, we discuss how to set up the guitar for this particular tone, but considering there's a really good chance you don't have the same guitar, or the same amp or the same fingers(!) as Eric Clapton, we also discuss how to achieve this sound using any gear that you might have available. Now that we've broken it down and figured out everything that we need to learn, we can put it all together, playing through each section one after the other, so we can get used to transitioning and all that good stuff. Hope you enjoy this lesson, see you soon! -James --- http://goodguitarist.com/Sunshine-of-...   / goodguitarist   #SunshineofYourLove #EricClapton #GuitarTutorial