The Early Years Childhood Born in July 20 1947 in Mexico Started playing the violin at age 5 Moved to Tijuana Mexico at the age of 8 and started playing the guitar Teenage years Carlos started to book his first gigs ID: 146436
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Carlos SantanaSlide2
The Early Years
Childhood
Born in July 20, 1947 in Mexico
Started playing the violin at age 5 Moved to Tijuana, Mexico at the age of 8 and started playing the guitar
Teenage years
Carlos started to book his first gigs
Played at local clubs and bars in Tijuana area
Family moved to San Francisco in 1960
Carlos moved to live with his family in 1961Slide3
San Francisco, Where He gets His Start
Big music scene in San Francisco in 1960’s
Carlos started up his first band
Band named: Santana Blues Band Developed a local reputation
Still needed a ‘big break’ Slide4
Woodstock
This opportunity could either make or break them
Woodstock is where Santana found his big break
Legendary performance of ‘Soul Sacrifice’
Performance had potential for disaster
Band high on drugsBand was unseasonedSlide5
…Off and Running
Woodstock gave Santana the national popularity he needed to really launch his career
Following Woodstock, Santana released many albumsAbraxas in 1970 sold over 4 million copiesSantana III in 1971 reached #1 on charts
Santana released 15 albums just in the ‘70s By 1974 Santana’s record company had already released “Santana’s
Greatest
Hits
”Slide6
Rock ‘n’ Roll Summit
In 1987, Santana performed at the first ever “Rock ‘n’ Roll Summit.”
This was a music ‘peace effort’ between the Soviets and the AmericansSlide7
The Milagro Foundation
“
Milagro benefits underserved and vulnerable children around the world by making grants to community based tax-exempt organizations that work with children in the areas of education, health and the arts
.”
Santana started the Milagro Foundation in 1998
A nonprofit organization committed to helping underprivileged children
2013
the ALMA Award for Outstanding Commitment to Cause and CommunitySlide8
The Big Come Back
After years of dwindling popularity Santana made his big come back
In 1999 the band released ‘Supernatural’
Number one on the billboards 15x Platinum W
on the ALMA Award for Special AchievementSlide9
THE MUSICSlide10
Soul Sacrifice
Santana’s Big Break
1969
Woodstock
Music FestivalCrowd with tens of thousands of peopleAn Iconic Performance
Woodstock Slide11
Soul Sacrifice Listening Guide
Major Scale
00:00 the song intro begins.
The
rhythm is kept by the conga drums, a fast tempo with a strong beat. and beat is when the drums take a solo. The conga drums play a long introduction that sets the song up in quadruple meter.00:49 the guitar solo starts out with a fast vivace
tempo, the slows by just a slight amount while the guitar solo mimics the music in the way it way set up, it plays various four beat tunes and then pauses, after a few repetitions the keyboard echoes in the background
02:49 This interlude works its way into the drum solo. The drum solo is also very fast paced and rhythmically complicated
0:3:21 the music then mellows and the keyboard can be heard more above the rest of the music
03:28
the guitar first starts playing the same melody as the keyboard, but then breaking out into another solo.
05:01
the whole band plays again, once again playing the now familiar melody established at the beginning of the
song
05:35 the music rests for two beats before they play their grand finale to the coda at the end of the
song
06:01 the song ends.Slide12
Black Magic Woman
Originally
written and played by Fleetwood
Mac
Santana included the son on the Araxes album in 1970Song peaked in top ten on billboard charts
Lead vocalist, Gregg Rolie
latter left
Santana in 1973 to go to JourneySlide13
Black Magic Woman Listening Guide
Minor Scale
Quadruple Meter
0:00 This piece of music starts out with a long introduction, with the keyboards and guitar, with some drum with symbol rattling in the
background1:11 the guitar drops off and the keyboards play a complicated rhythm
1:25 The introduction moves the music into the first and second verses
2:10 Another guitar solo plays after the second
verse
2:56
thirds verse
beings
3:20 After the last verse the instruments take the song into
a
guitar
solo
3:36 This Guitar solo is why this song is often called Gypsy
Queen
4:55 This solo leads to the coda of the
song
5:20 the song endsSlide14
Song was Number One on Charts for an Incredible 10 weeks
Won
a GRAMMY for Best Po Performance
by
a Duo or Group with Vocallead vocals are done by a rhythm and blues duo, David McRae and Marvin Moore-Hough
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Santana later opened a chain of restaurants named after the song
Maria
MariaSlide15
Maria Maria Listening Guide
Lyrics in
both English and
Spanish
0:00 The guitar plays a simple melody in the introduction and leads into the first and second verses0:15 first verse
0:37 second verse
0:54 A guitar solo plays after the second
verse
1:02 The third and fourth verses are sung after the guitar solo.
1:23 After this point in the song there are backup vocals sung in a chanting rhythm
1:31
After this point in the song the first and second verses are repeated, making the verses into a chorus
2:07 after the chorus Santana plays the same guitar solo as before.
2:16
After the short guitar solo the singer goes directly into the next two verses, with the chanting in between the
verses
3:15 The chorus is played again after this verse, and the guitar solo
again
3:50 The Guitar solo fades away, ending the
song
4:17 songs fades out and endsSlide16
References
“Black Magic Woman” Song Facts.
Song Facts.
Web. 20 September 2014
“Santana Live at 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair” Rock and Roll hall of Fame. 11 March 2014. Web. 16 September 2014.“Carlos Santana Biography” IMDb IMDb. Web. 16 September 2014.