Sunshine Of Your Love Chords

Learn how to play Sunshine Of Your Love!

Spy Tunes version of Sunshine Of Your Love is a combination of Creams original and Spanky Wilson’s cover.

Using the main riff as a starting point over this blues the I chord has sometimes been colored with a 7#9 extension.

Spanky’s version use this and since it is Jimi Hendrix signature chord and jack Bruce wrote this tune on the back of an early Hendrix gig in London we thought we’d keep that in.

Can you see how the riff use the Blues Scale (minor pentatonic, added b5)?

Variations on a 12 Bar

Sunshine Of Your Love is a great example of a tune that can be jammed with anyone.

Rather than the traditional “V to IV” movement of your average 12 Bar Blues.

Sunshine Of Your Love stay on the V chord much longer before it returns to chord I.

To build the tension over this V chord, in the “one guitar arrangement” I move up through different shapes of the chord.

To keep the arrangement interesting the shapes are varied slightly every time the chord appears.

This type of approach is likely to keep a song alive, even if you gig it on a weekly basis.