Blues Transformations in the Music of Cream
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Example 3.10b. Chorus from Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" centrates on the lower torn sounds and uses an articulation and sound reminiscent of the jazz drumming in the Woody Herman or Benny Goodman bands, the most memorable and forward-looking feature is the recurring newly-composed riff. "Sunshine of Your Love," Cream's best-known song, is a culmination of the British adaptation of blues into rock and also the direct precursor of Led Zeppelin and heavy metal, where this type of blues-based motivic riff and harmonic motions like A-C-G or E-G-A (as in "Whole Lotta Love") serve as the basis for a seemingly endless number of songs.
Conclusion Writers on the subject of analysis of rock music note that beyond the usual problems of trying to somehow explain music in words, popular music, existing primarily in recorded form, is dependent to an even greater degree than art music on the