Smooth - Carlos Santana - Bass Tabs

B. Rietveld (Bass)
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About Carlos Santana - Carlos Santana rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana . Its sound featured his melodic, blues-based lines set against Latin and African rhythms played on percussion instruments not generally heard in rock . He learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight . His younger brother, Jorge, also became a professional guitarist . Santana was heavily influenced by Ritchie Valens . Gábor Szabó's composition "Gypsy Queen" was used as the second part of Santana's 1970 treatment of Peter Green's "Black Magic Woman" The jazz guitar work also strongly influenced Santana's playing . Carlos Santana's music is influenced by genre(s) - latin rock blues rock jazz fusion.