Jam With Carlos Santana: Guitar/Vocal (Jam With...) (Paperback)

~ Carlos Santana (Author)

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Product Description

This guitar workshop is a powerful learning tool that will help extend your stockpile of licks and fills and help develop your improvisational skills. The play-along songs (in standard notation and tab, and on the CD with and without guitar parts) are: Black Magic Woman Samba Pa Ti She's Not There The Healer Oye Como Va Europa Evil Ways Persuasion. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: Warner Brothers Publications; Pap/Com edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843285371
• ISBN-13: 978-1843285373
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 8.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #146,732 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dream come true for learning guitarists and Santana fanatics, May 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Jam Jam Jam With Carlos Santana (Paperback)

Santana has always been my ultimate guitarist idol, and for a book like this to come out, I feel like I've actually had a workshop with Santana himself. It provides a number of easy to interpret tips and recommendations that have not only increased my confidence in improvisation, but also have allowed me to imagine during the play-alongs that I may one day meet a level of playing like Carlos'. My guitar techniques have without a doubt undergone significant improvements. This book includes all the classics, and is a must for any of the other Santana fanatics like me.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jam with Carlos Santana with CD, May 12, 2007

By	James V. Catania - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The CD & book are very good to play along with, also the chords & notes are right in the book, only one thing they dont tell you, they are not the entire songs. Europa, Black Magic Woman, etc are all cut short & dont play through the guitar solos, so there are several minutes cut out of each song, so its not the entire song. If you dont care about the solos its fine, but this says its a jam, to me soloing is the best part of the jam & they are all cut out

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff! Useful and fun!, March 25, 2004

By	M. C Cardoso "marciohaas" (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Jam Jam Jam With Carlos Santana (Paperback)

If you like Santana music and have decent guitar skills, you will appreciate this book. First of all, a recommendation that applies to all the books with sheet music and tablature: the reader/player should be able to read AT LEAST the rhythmic info on the paper in order to take more advantage of the product. That is, one should understand when it is a quarter or eighth or sixteenth note, if it is on the down or up beat, when it is staccato or not. You can use the tablature for getting the "note", but try to be disciplined on the rhythmic front. And play slowly,with a metronome, before jumping to the performance tempo of the jam tracks. Believe me, it adds so much to your rhythmic performance. At least for me, certain passages are rhythmically challenging so for the time being I am inserting licks that I control while trying to keep the "key notes" of the solo there. Hey, that is a good exercise in improvisation!
I have not "jammed" with the CD yet but I've been playing the licks with special concern to timing. My opinion is that almost anyone will benefit from this book at multiple levels: the book might serve as a beautiful introduction to the syncopated cha cha rhythm by playing "Oye como va". It also offers busy rhythm comping with "Evil Ways" and "Persuasion". And for the soloists, of course a guitar student will be able to appreciate the soulful, bluesy phrasing of Santana ("BlackMagic Woman", "Europa")and hopefully become able to add some of Santana's magic to his or her own style. Finally, kudos for the authors for having included "The Healer", an overlooked gem of Santana (the intro is as good an exercise in playing both with a pick and the fingers as any other).
There is one thing that I miss: I think the author could have included an intro on the book highlghying a few of the "trademark" Santana licks and techniques so you can practive in a more structured way instead of jumping directly into the tracks. Also, more rhythmic information for comping (e.g. the author mensions the "bossa nova feel" of BlackMagic Woman but does not show it on paper) would be welcome. But hey, I am very pleased with the purchase and I intend to buy more books of the "jam with" series.