A Post For Jack Bruce

My very first CD was the Very Best of Cream. The original power rock trio. I was initially interested in the guitar playing of Eric Clapton, but became a huge Jack Bruce fan because of his powerful voice and adventurous, fuzzed-out, fretless bass playing.
Jack Bruce passed away this past weekend and I wanted to honor him by presenting a couple of his great contributions to guitar lick-dom. The first song and lick is the Cream classic White Room.

The opening of this song is an essential riff on the D chord that has been copied and re-imagined by countless other groups.

It is a descending bass pattern that breaks up the D chord.

 

Here is the White Room riff in notation and Tab.

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