t no matter how long someone who plays a guitar plays, in “theory” a person should get better. This is not the case here as with everyone on my ever growing list and with I’m sure all of you. “Am I in Tune???” Santana plays the guitar with the identical skill of a clumsy child. A 4 year old child during a gran-maul seizure. When doing a music video, you have some freedom to move around and put on a bit of a show without having to worry about really playing. Your job is to get into the video and sell the tune. Look like you’re having fun or be the character you’re supposed to be according to the song. This is something that a person with even the most elementary motor skills can pull off. But not the grease monkey. He’s hunched over his guitar looking like a deer frozen in headlights.
Bending to pitch and vibrato are ideas unknown to this chimp. Youtube I like for many reasons. For one it allows me to save my money until I’ve sampled enough to know if it’s worth buying. Santana’s music in a nutshell is boring, plain and simple. Santana writes with the same structures as a 12 year old plucking while watching cartoons. Santana is a great example of the listener really needing to be either drunk, high or both to find anything redeemable in his hacking away on that poor innocent guitar.
When I was a kid, if I attempted to even slightly play something sloppy I was berated by my real talented friends to the point to turn back on my metronome and do what so many of you hacks and the hacks on my list either don’t, won’t or can’t do……to focus and exercise discipline to play correctly. That is asking waaay too much of all of you to do. Santana improvises with the same results as someone trying to speak with an advanced case of Duchene Muscular Dystrophy. If you enjoy listening to Santana, you must also enjoy smelling other peoples farts.
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