Learn lead guitar in the style of Carlos Santana




Learn lead guitar in the style of Carlos Santana

Learn to play lead guitar in the style of one of the most influential rock blues guitarists of all time. Santana’s brilliant playing has influenced countless guitarists all over the world. He is truly one of the greats, and we can all be inspired and empowered through his playing.

In these lessons you will learn all kinds of techniques, devices, scales, and approaches to soloing in the Santana style. His style of play focuses on passion and energy combined with blending rich harmonic textures with earthy scales.

Other key elements in his style include trademark trills, long sustained notes without vibrato, unision bends, repeated rhythmic motiffs, and melodically simple but rhythmically complex phrases. And we go over it all in these in depth lessons. Santana’s unique style blends blues, rock, jazz fusion, salsa, Afro- Cuban, and Latin music together.

Now you can learn to play all kinds of techniques, devices, scales, and approaches to soloing in the Santana style.
He has a certain touch and feel that is all his own and instantly recognizable. His playing is always in control, melodic, and very pure. And YOU will be doing this, too, after watching and practicing with these lessons.

This course is taught by Next Level Guitar instructor Ben Zinn and contains seven in-depth video lessons. These total over 65 minutes of pure step-by-step, move-by-move instruction you can pause and easily follow along with our on-screen tablature. You also get two killer jam tracks with one being in the Latin rock style of Santana. This is the exact same track that we utilize throughout the video lessons.  

And you also get a detailed 25-page PDF eBook that coincides with the videos. This valuable eBook gives you crucial tips, scale diagrams, soloing strategies, and charts to speed your progress. 

We break all the licks, devices, and techniques down into digestible pieces and demonstrate them at slow and regular speeds. Then we demonstrate and teach you how to practice and apply them over the included jam track. And all the lessons feature on-screen tablature and close-ups of the fret and pick hands with multiple camera angles to make it easy to follow along. 

Throughout these lessons you will learn:

-How to dial in your gear and equipment so that you can get in the wheelhouse of the Santana sound.

-Tons and tons of licks in the Santana style

-How to add color and texture to rhythms by “sliding” into chords.

-Santana’s trademark trills, long sustained notes without vibrato, unision bends, repeated rhythmic motifs, and melodically simple but rhythmically complex phrases.

-How to play Santana-inspired phrasing ideas and licks - and learn all about phrasing strategies and options in the Santana style.

-How to think rhythmically like Santana and how to vary notes within the same rhythmic motif.

-Signature-sounding Santana inspired licks, but MAKE THEM YOUR OWN to blow away your listeners.

-To combine licks for tons of musical sounding ideas from just a few basic patterns.

-All about scale CHOICES and soloing OPTIONS, so you can easily see what’s behind what your playing.

-Learn everything in its proper musical context by APPLYING it in a musical context by jamming over custom made backing track that coincides with the lesson.

Learn blues rock lead guitar soloing devices, techniques, licks, and soloing strategies inspired by Carlos Santana

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What you will learn
  • Play lead guitar in the style of Carlos Santana
  • Have more lead guitar confidence and soloing avenues when soloing and jamming
  • Gain an overall increased knowldge of lead guitar, soloing, jamming, and improvisation.

Rating: 5

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: David Taub


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