Santeria Guitar Solo Lesson - Sublime

In this Santeria guitar lesson, I will show you note-for-note how to play Bradley Nowell's killer guitar solo to this now classic song.

This solo if full of highly musical yet tricky guitar licks. You will need to dial in a nice clean guitar tone and tune your guitar to standard to follow along.

I will go through the solo phrase-by-phrase after my initial full performance. I suggest learning these phrases individually before attempting to put them together into one cohesive musical statement.

It starts with Bradley Nowell playing some ascending slide licks into some melodic bends. The groove of this lick and the rest of that solo for that matter is very important. You have to really feel that groove to place all the notes correctly.

After that opening phrase, Bradley Nowell launches into a fast series of licks that incorporate a lot of hammer-ons and pull-offs. Each one of them can make for a great repetitive technique exercise, especially the fast ascending chromatic licks.

The solo then moves up into the 9th position for a fast and bluesy pentatonic sequence with a some melodic double-stops closing out the solo.

All of this makes for a great challenge and if you can put it all together it should make for a nice accomplishment for most players. Have Fun!

Carl...

[lyricpatton]

I really wish I could learn this but I don't practice Santeria.

[codyjorsch]

Practice SLOW if you are getting frustrated. If you can't play slow, you probably sound bad fast. If the first phrase is too much, break it down in chunks. Shoot, do 3 notes at a time. Master the 3, then the next 3, and so on. Next thing you know, your doing it. I've been playing for 20 years and regret not taking the time to play slowly in my beginning years. Dont get discouraged if you can't do it as fast as you'd hope. Playing is about the journey, not the destination. Rock on 🤘 virtuosos

[kiwasamuels]

S1 0:49-1:46
S2 1:47- 2:50
S3 2:52- 3:25
S4 3:26-5:45

[gregschneiderii]

We can’t forget how cool Bradley was to have put together such a sweet solo

[Nizzzzify]

Can't tell you how happy I was to see this video posted!

[jacobleonard]

itsvreally good but u were really fast for me at some parts

[arturojfernandez]

I just want to say thank you Carl, the way you teach makes it so easy to follow. I appreciate all your videos dude.👌👍

[joystick]

Warning: this is not a beginner song, I was able to learn it and keep pace with him because I’ve been playing guitar and have the finger dexterity, it’s important to get that first

[jnott]

damn thats a tricky one will be worth the work though thanks a lot carl

[ronanmusic]

God that chromatic lick part is gonna take a lot of practice but ima get it

[hafr]

one of the songs that made me want to learn guitar. Thanks for the lesson!

[adriatic.vineyards]

How have you managed to maintain such an enormous, high quality and consistent output stream over the years ? Blows my mind 🤯

[davidkohli]

I appreciate thorough breakdown, you helped me find the hammer ons and pulloffs to get faster

[luiztoledo]

Hei man, you are amazing! I've been watching many of your lessons here and you get to the very last note of every and each song! Impressive! Thanks!

[PetarLuketina]

Such a great lesson, thank you so much for all your videos Carl!

[ColinCampbell]

Solid tutorial. Communication is clean. Broken down perfectly. Thanks man.

[themorningbump]

I can figure most solos out myself by just slowing them down and picking out the notes and phrasing not a flex I've been playing over 25 years so I better be able to do that This is one of the rare leads that I actually needed to use a tutorial (last time I used one was 5 yrs ago... that Stray Cat Strut solo was a bitch!!!) After watching a few other YouTube tutorials for this solo I Started to become really grateful I never had to use them And then I found yours and you were on it, no BS just right to the business. I hope Another 5 years passes before I need To use another But whenever that day comes ima save 🕰 and come to your channel 1st

[childrenoftheabzu]

great beginner solo. lots of essential techniques

[marshallwiese]

This dude kinda looks like doctor strange. Anyway thanks for the video it helped a lot

[yogenthakali]

for so long i wanted to learn this song .. so glad that i know can play... thanks for the lesson.. keep on rocking and keep posting gr8 lessons as u always do.... cheers mate...