Carlos Santana

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