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Here you can learn the main melody of the song " Love Is You " by Carlos Santana. I show how you can play it and how you can work around some cool fill ins in between to carry the theme through the song. Love is you - Santana.pdf love is you.mp3

Carlos Santana is the main protagonist of the genre " Latin Rock ". His playing style and his kind of music influence many not to say all upcoming guitarist so it realy makes sense to look a little bit behind the scenes. Also the big names only cook with water and here you get some insights of the theoretical background and playing tips. This is meant to be a very easy to understand introduction into his really great style -- to get deeper I really recommend to you to buy his music and make some transcriptions and play it exactly the way he does on his recordings. In these examples I have used the C aeolian scale and on the last example the A dorian scale : C aeolian E |--------------------------------------------8--10---| B |-----------------------------------8--9--11---------| G |--------------------------7--8--10------------------| D |--------------------8--10---------------------------| A |-----------8--10-11---------------------------------| E |--8--10-11------------------------------------------| A dorian --------------------------------------------5--7----|| -----------------------------------5--7--8----------|| --------------------------4--5--7-------------------|| -----------------4--5--7----------------------------|| -----------5--7-------------------------------------|| --5--7--8-------------------------------------------|| More about Carlos Santana can be learnt in this entire tutorial : http://www.hanspeterkruesi.com/guitarschool/index.php?showtopic=1345

Artist Studies - Carlos Santana Learn some essentiol licks, playing style tricks and typical chords and chord movments of early Carlos Santana : Here you can learn the essentials of the early style of Carlos Santona which made him very famous. You learn which chords and scales are used, the way he is making his phrasing which gives his style this very personal touch. Carlos Santana - Intro Carlos Santana - Chords 1 Carlos Santana - Chords 2 Carlos Santana - Basic Licks Carlos Santana - Melodic Licks 1 Carlos Santana - Melodic Licks 2 Carlos Santana - Melodic Licks 3 Carlos Santana - Melodic Licks 4 Carlos Santana - Vamp Licks Carlos Santana - All Lesson of the month This lesson is a cool blues played with a few chords and a simple rhythm pattern. Music is about groove and feeling so even if you think that you are able to play a few of these more easy things - dont underestimate this lesson. If you want to sound great you must feel this bluesy tune here and pay attention to the details which I explain to you during this lesson. Have some fun. Cool Blues - go to the lesson