Black Magic Woman – Santana (thanks to Peter Green)

Structure

This is a 12 bar chord progression which gives a blues feel, with a couple of extra bits for excuses to play lots of solos. 

Chords

Here we’ve shown some ‘extended’ chord shapes.  The symbols above the lyrics just say Dm, but you can use a Dm7 to make a richer sound.  The same goes for the Gm.  If you want a simpler style then just use normal minor shapes.  We’ll be looking at some other possibilities in the lessons.

Lyrics

== INTRO ==

4 bars Dm.  

Then guitar solo over 12 bars of verse progression

Then keyboard solo for 8 bars over Dm

==  VERSE 1 ==

                   |Dm    2  3  4      |1   2     3     4    |A7  2  3  4 | 1  2  3   4
I got a black magic woman,                I got a black magic woman                 I got a
                   |Dm    2     3    4 |1     2   3       4      |Gm 2 3 4 |1  2  3   4
                    black magic woman   got me so blind I   can't see               I got a
                   |Dm    2     3    4   |A7        2      3     4     |Dm 2 3 4 |Dm      sh        sh      sh
                    black magic woman she try'in to make a devil out of me          Don’t turn your back on me ba-     


== VERSE 2 ==

|Dm    2  3  4      |1      2         3       4    |A7  2  3  4 | 1  2  3      4
-by,                  Don't turn your back on me ba-by                   Don’t turn your
|Dm      2     3    4 |1     2       3          4          |Gm  2  3  4 | 1  2  3      4
 back on me ba-by,      Stop messin' round with your tricks                      Don’t turn your
|Dm      2     3    4   |A7         2          3     4   |Dm 2 3 4 |Dm      sh       sh       sh
 back on me ba-by,     I might just pick up my magic   sticks               Got your spell on me ba-


== GUITAR SOLO FOR 2 VERSES finishing with the ‘Got your spell ..’ pickup ==


== VERSE 3 ==

|Dm    2  3  4      |1      2        3        4    |A7   2  3  4 | 1  2  3  4
  --by,                     got your spell on me ba---by                    Got your
|Dm       2     3    4 |1     2    3     4   |Gm    2  3  4 | 1  2  3  4
 spell on me ba--by,    turnin  my heart into stone                      I    
|Dm      2     3    4   |A7         2          3     4   |Dm 2 3 4 |Dm      sh       sh       sh
 need you so bad, magic woman I can't leave you alone


== OUTRO - GO CRAZY OVER D7 with C5, B5, A5-D5 riff ==