• Registered: 2006-09-13
  • Posts: 441

Topic: Voodoo Chile actually "reversed" Sunshine of Your Love Riff?

Okay, maybe this isn't the best place to post this, but I thought some of you other guitar aficionados who hang out here could help me out.

I'm sure I read this somewhere before, but I'm wondering if anyone knows the actual story behind this.  I've played both riffs and I don't "get" how it is said to be reversed.  Can someone shed some light on this?

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  • Registered: 2006-06-16
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Re: Voodoo Chile actually "reversed" Sunshine of Your Love Riff?

similar without being reversed...both descending pentatonic lines, sunshine has the flated 5th degree making it a blues scale.

Voodoo Chile opening riff in scale degrees: 1, b7, 5, b7, b3, b3, 4, b3, 1 (octave lower), (original octave 1, b7, 5, 1

Sunshine opening riff in scale degrees: 1,1 b7, 1, 5, b5, 4, 3, 4, 1

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  • Registered: 2006-09-13
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Re: Voodoo Chile actually "reversed" Sunshine of Your Love Riff?

Thanks for replying Vette!

That's what I came up with after analyzing it and I was confused how this could be considered "reversed".

"There is nothing to it.  You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself."---Johann Sebastian Bach