Chords for How to Play "Maria Maria" by Santana on Guitar

_ Hey there, what's happening?
I'm Nikki and I'm gonna show you how to play Santana's Maria Maria
and this is actually a request that came in from Kareem, so this goes out to you and
_ [Bb] _
I'm gonna do all open chords for this one.
It starts off with an intro.
[Am] That's in a minor and _ _
_ [Em] You can you know, you can just strum the a minor chord and
_ _ [Bb] While somebody else plays the solo that Carlos Santana [Am] does
[Bb] which is
For those of you who are lead guitar players.
He's playing a lot around just a regular a [D] minor scale and
It's up here around 12th to 15th frets
[Am] _ [Bb] so
_ okay, so the intro and
[E] you can do a bass that goes and _ _
[Gb] All I do is I'm shifting [E] between the [A] e a e a
[Em] The open strings [Am] some hit the chord
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
You
[E] Can even like put your hand down if you know how to do palm muting you can go
_ [Bb] To kind of make it more muffled.
So I got my right hand right against the bridge the [E] end of the strings
_ _ _ so _ _ _ _ _ _ and this a minor [B] part [Bb] is going to be not only in the intro, but in all the interludes where
Carlos Santana plays lead guitar
_ It's also in all the parts [Gm] where Carlos and Wyclef are rapping
So and then you see there you can do that to do the part now
_ After the intro you go to the chorus and it starts with a D minor [Dm] chord
_ _ Maria Maria
_ _ You do
_ Two bars of that, you know four strums [Ab] per chord then you go to e
[E] _ She reminds me of the West [Eb] Side and then a minor [Cm] seven
_ story
For those of you don't know a minor seven.
[E] It's like an a minor chord, but you just leave the G string [C] open
_ and then
_ _ _ [Ab] And then a minor seven
[Bb] So it's like an a minor chord, but you put your pinky on the third fret of the B string
Now growing [Em] up in Spanish _
_ _ And then [E] e7 _ like an E chord [Dm] but let the D string be open
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ There's your a minor [A] and then _
_ [B] A7 that's like a setup chord to do the chorus again
So for you who haven't done a seven it's like an a chord be let the G string be open _ _
Maria [Dm] Maria
Back to D minor.
Whoa
No, no, [E] no and then e7 instead of E the second time
No, no, no, but he's [C] still a a minor and another minor
No, no, no, [Bm] no, no
E minor seven _ _
[E] Then e7
_ Played by Carlos [Am] Santana and you [E] end on the a minor this time
[D] And then he does a [E] solo and you go
[A] _
_ You do that part?
[Bb] _ Okay.
Now we're in the verse the verses
_ They're gonna be pretty much [Am] _ a minor _ _ _
[G] And then G no no no no no no and then F could [F] either do a full
Barred F like [Bb] this or if you don't know how to do those
[F] Do this F chord _ _ _ or if [Bb] you don't know how to do that [Bb] one if that that barring is too hard just
_ put your index and middle finger on the top two strings and
then
Your middle ring finger goes on the second fret of the G [F] string.
So that's the easiest way to play F
[N] _ So, let me see.
So it's [Am] up to move and stuff.
You [G] shouldn't
Download it on down and [F] then _ _
The F or we just left off and [G] then G the poor is getting [Ab] and then
[E] _
_ _ On [Eb] that part you're gonna do an E chord with a G sharp in the bass
think of it as if you did a D a [B] regular D chord be gonna use your pinky and
[Bb] _ Ring finger middle finger to play this chord and then move it up
_ _ _ [E] The fourth fret [Eb] that way you have an E chord
[Bb] Then you take your index finger and put it on the bottom E strings fourth fret and there's your G [E] sharp in the bass
_ This is kind of like a nice setup.
So the verse [Gm] again
[Am] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
Then the second verse is gonna be a minor seven _
[C] No, no, no, no, no, no, [G] no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and then go to F
[F] Do-do-do-do-do-do-do and [E] then E seven and _ _ _
Then the E with G sharp in the bass and then after that there comes the rap with Wyclef and Carlos
[A] _ _
_ [Ab] Like I said the a minor chord [Bb] then after that then you need to do the chorus [E] and it's pretty much
_ _ _ [Bb] Like
the very [E] first [Dm] chorus
Except that we go from D minor
_ You're gonna skip the E.
Don't do the E chord.
Just go Maria Maria
_ She reminds me of [B] the West [C] Side Story
you go [Bb] straight to the a minor 7 so you skip that E chord and
_ [B] yeah, just play it through and
_ [Bb] _ _ Then you have
The third verse it's gonna be a minor [Am] 7 now
_ _ [C] _ _
And [G] go to G
_ _ And then F
[F] _ And _ [E] then E7
_ _ _ _ [Am] A minor _ _
_ _ [G] And then G _ _
And [F] then F
_ _ _ [E] And then E and
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _
It's basically a you kind of go back and forth [E] between
The verses and the choruses and the solos [Bb] the song ends with a solo
so you just hang out on the [Am] a minor chord and it's the
You [Gm] just kind of play that and when you want [Bb] to finish the song [Ab] the record fades out
But you could [Am] just kind of finish it with a minor strum
[Gb] So there it [Bb] is Maria Maria
So if you enjoyed this feel free to [Bb] request more songs [Ab] just you know shoot a comment _ [Bb] and
_ I'll check the songs out and we'll you know, try to try to teach them to you in the next coming weeks
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