Chords for Evil Ways Santana Guitar Lesson | Guitar Tricks

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In this video, we're going to learn the famous riff from Evil Ways.
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[C] You've got to [Gm] change all your ways, _ [C] baby.
_ [Gm] _ [C] For I still love you.
[Gm] You've got to [C] change, _
[Gm] [C] baby.
_ [Gm] And [C] every word [Gm] that I [C] say is true.
[G] You've got me running [C] and hiding [Gm] all over [C] town.
[G] You've got me peeping [C] and sneaking [Gm] and running [C] down.
[D] This can't go on.
_ [Eb] Lord knows you've got to_
So the verse continues over this G minor to C major progression.
And the basic comp [Gm] pattern is this. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [C] _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ It's a real nice rhythmic pattern.
One, _ _ two, [C] and three, [Gm] four, five.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ So pretty syncopated.
It's got a real nice rhythmic quality.
A lot of Santana's music has these, you know, very much built around these Latin rhythms.
So obviously the chord progression is not sophisticated.
It's a two chord song.
I guess three chords with a D.
That'll come in at the end of the verse.
But rhythmically, very cool.
So that's the [Gb] basic rhythmic feel [Ab] for the verse.
Now once the lyrics come in, _ there's some nuances.
So let's check those out.
So once the singing comes in, it begins with that [Gm] phrase I just showed you.
_ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ And then in answer to that, there's a more straight phrase, which sounds [Gm] like this.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ So it's all downbeats for the first measure.
_ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ So those two phrases, it's like a call and a response phrase for the verse.
So here's those two phrases together.
_ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It makes for a nice call and response.
Now notice the result of this little fill here in [Gm] between.
_ _ _ _ So this is always at the beginning of each verse.
And the phrase is a hammer-on on the fifth string from three to five.
[D] And then this [Bb] double stop _ on the third fret, third and second string.
Resolving back to your G minor chord.
_ _ _ So from when the vocals come in, here's what we get. _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Gm] So you get the syncopated phrase, a little fill, and then the straighter phrase.
One more time. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ Okay, [Gm] syncopated.
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
No fill there, [C] right?
_ [Gm] He just returns to the G minor, then the straight phrase again.
_ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ Cool.
So it's syncopated phrase, a little fill, straight phrase.
Syncopated phrase, straight phrase.
So that's four phrases.
And then we get these punches.
_ [Gm]
One, two, [C] three, four, [G] one, _ [C] two, three, four.
[Gm] Okay.
And so these chords, _ I'm going to a full G minor.
_ _ Although I'm [G] only really going to be articulating the top four strings or so.
But the reason I'm playing this full G minor makes it a little easier for me
to mute the unwanted strings just to kind of keep things tidy.
So [Gm] first chord is this G minor to the [C] C7.
_ Okay, so I'm barring third fret.
_ My ring finger on the [Em] fourth string and my pinky on [C] the second string.
It's a C7.
Okay?
[G] I'm going [Gm] back to G minor, but I'm putting my pinky on the seventh.
So it's a G minor 7.
This is on the second string, sixth fret.
_ [C] And back to the C7.
_ So it's a nice little phrase here.
G minor, [Gm] C7, G minor [C] 7, C7.
So you [Gm] get this moving melody.
_ D, E, [C] F, E.
Okay?
And the rhythm [Gm] is one, two, three, four, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ one, two, [E] three, four.
[G] If you want, you can kind of ghost the downbeat real quietly.
_ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Might help with the timing to just feel that [Abm] downbeat.
And then, so after that phrase, it goes to the [D] V chord or the D7.
_ [E] Okay?
So this is, [C] _ if you play a C chord, [Bb] add your pinky.
So it's a C7, [D] C sharp, D.
Okay, so it's a D7 up here.
Fifth string, fifth fret, five, four, five, three.
That's your D7. _
_ _ _ So for a measure, one, two, three, and stop.
[Gm] Two, three, cool.
So that's the whole first progression.
I'll play the whole thing for you here. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Cool, cool pattern.
_ Now that we've broken it down, let's play through slowly. _
_ Two, [Gm] three, four.
_ [C] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ One _
_ [Gm] more time.
_ [C] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ Again.
[Gm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [G] _
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Last time.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
[C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _
_ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Gm] _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] Cool.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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