Hi Everybody
I just found out that the dorian scale is useful for improvising on most Carlos Santana songs.
I know that this is not new information, but it is fun to find a scale that you can run up and down on a Carlos Santana song and most of the notes sounds good.
And I have also tweaked the V-Amp to get the right Santana sound with my new Yamaha guitar.
Using the neck Humbucker and V-Amp set to "California Drive" ( Mesa Boogie mark 2C drive channel) gives a "close to" Santana sound.
Kalle
Tanglewood TW28STE (Shadow P7 EQ) acoustic
Yamaha RGX 320FZ electric guitar/Egnater Tweaker 15 amp.
Yamaha RBX 270 bass/Laney DB 150 amp.
http://www.soundclick.com/kalleinsweden
D Dorian gets a lot of usage where I jam.
Dorian Scale for Santana songs in C
-----------------------------------8-10-11---
----------------------------8-9-11-----------
---------------------7-8-10------------------
----------------8-10-------------------------
---------8-10--------------------------------
-8-10-11-------------------------------------
I will fit Europa and the Backing track santanaesque in Cm we used in the GN jam
Move the scale to A and it will fit Evil Ways.
Go to D and you can play it over Black Magic Woman
You can find many "Santana" backing tracks here; http://jammer.net.ru/mpjam_rock.html#mk
But this site is often blocked, but it is not closed.
Tanglewood TW28STE (Shadow P7 EQ) acoustic
Yamaha RGX 320FZ electric guitar/Egnater Tweaker 15 amp.
Yamaha RBX 270 bass/Laney DB 150 amp.
http://www.soundclick.com/kalleinsweden
