Fancy a Guitar Lesson from Carlos Santana on Your iPhone?
The newly released Santana app for iPhone offers several nice features, but the one that really grabbed me this morning was the two sample lessons videos. These 2-3 minute videos feature Carlos Santana talking about the origins and inspiration behind a couple of his classic tracks “ ‘Black Magic Woman ‘ and ‘Oye Como Va ‘ “ while also giving little demos of his guitar techniques on the songs.
I didn ‘t get a real ‘lesson ‘ feel out of these videos (and I ‘m no musician anyway) but they ‘re just super cool in my book anyway “ just for the chance to watch the man himself chatting in this way. I hope more will be added in future app updates.
The rest of this app is pretty good too “ hit the jump for a little more detail and some more screencaps
Santana is laid out simply and in a recognized style for the iPhone “ with a bottom nav bar with buttons for its main sections. Those sections are:
Home “ A selection of four cool pics of Carlos in action on this page. These are pretty good for wallpaper as well if you just take a screen capture of them into your Camera Roll .
Music “ This one is a disappointment. No free tracks included within the app “ as the recent Death Cab for Cutie app offered “ and no streaming of tracks, as the PUSA app provides (though it is also a paid app, not free like Santana and DCfC). All you get here is links to the iTunes store for a number of tracks. I hope the developers may choose to follow the lead of other good apps in this area, and offer more real content in future updates.
Videos “ Links to eight music and one ‘behind the scenes ‘ tour videos. Some of these are quite good “ like ‘Maria Maria ‘ with Wyclef Jean.
News / Tour “ Links to recent Santana related news and information on upcoming tour dates.
More “ Quite a bit of good content here. Biography and Discography sections, as well as links to those video lessons and more.
Here ‘s a screencap of the ‘Black Magic Woman ‘ lesson video
One legendary guitarist, with another legendary guitarist on his t-shirt, talking about a legendary track of his “ can’t argue with that.
I like the Santana app, largely because I ‘m a Santana fan since way back. It ‘s not the slickest or most complete band app for the iPhone I ‘ve seen recently “ but it ‘s got enough good content to provide Santana fans with a nice diversion, or serve as a great discovery tool for those who don ‘t know the man / group.
A bonus I ‘ve got out of discovering it this morning is that a drab Monday morning has now had a Santana soundtrack to it “ as the app got me turning up the tracks on our stereo.
You can find Santana in the App Store now, and it ‘s a free app.
Because of the lack good service iphone makes you not even want to download this app because unless you have a wifi connection you won't even be able to watch this video im sorry but for apple to have one of the most costly phones on the market there service sucks!!! I have wifi so I did get to see the videos and they were all that and more…. to short though as far apple you need to go back to the drawing board and do whats fare instead of just being about the money!!!