Carlos Santana: In Session with Carlos Santana: Guitar TAB: Instrumental Album

Carlos Santana’s instantly recognisable guitar style brought the rhythms of Afro-Cuban music to generations of people who might otherwise never have heard them. His soulful playing has inspired guitarists the world over for the last three decades and continues to do so today. This guitar workshop is a powerful tool that will help you extend your stockpile of licks and fills and develop your improvisational skills. The combination of musical notation and guitar tablature in this book together with the backing tracks on the CD gives you the opportunity to learn eight of Carlos Santana’s most popular tracks note-for-note and then jam with a professional session band.The track listing reflects some of Carlos Santana’s most popular recordings providing something for guitarists to have fun and improvise with as well as something to aspire to. The first eight tracks on the CD are full-length backing tracks recorded without the lead guitar. The remaning tracks feature the backing tracks with the lead guitar parts added.

Instructional DVD-Steve Lukather the Grammy Award-winning lead guitarist with the super group Toto is considered one of the foremost rock guitarists of today. Steve has performed or recorded with a plethora of top artists like Carlos Santana Larry Carlton Les Paul Elton John Paul McCartney and Michael McDonald to name a few. He has won several Grammy Awards as a songwriter producer and guitarist. On this DVD Steve takes you step by step through a spectacularassortment of his best licks and solos in this video session recorded in 1985. You'll learn the licks and leads to such hits as “Rosanna ” “Carmen ” “Hold the Line ” and “Lovers in theNight.” He also shares important tips and techniques in speed picking position shifting traveling scales false harmonics and melodic phrasing as well as equipment and effects demonstrations. You're carefully takenthrough every lick which you can follow in the accompanying instructional booklet. However there's no need to read music because the booklet comes with fretboard diagrams. This is truly a unique opportunity to receive a privateguitar lesson from one of the most influential and versatile guitarists today whose musical compositions have helped shape the sound of popular music. 36 minutes.