During the years I’ve played guitar in a Santana Tribute band, people generally assume that I’m a huge Carlos Santana fan. It’s true that I’ve always enjoyed his music (especially the first two albums, Santana by Santana and Abraxas), but since I didn’t really learnREAD MORE

My Writing Process, Part 1 Due to the widespread popularity of Amadeus, the movie based on Mozart’s life, it’s well known that Mozart was a prolific composer — the music pouring out of him as if by magic. In moreREAD MORE

Have you ever had an instant reaction to a piece of music, where the sound enters your ears and ends up in your soul? The song itself is translated into an emotion that washes over you, and you’re suddenly wistfulREAD MORE

A recent study found that, after piano, the guitar is the second most popular instrument to learn in the United States. Starting in the late 1950s, with the emergence of rock and roll and pop music, guitar became the principalREAD MORE

Undeniably one of my favorite kinds of both dance and music in the Latin genre, is salsa. Fast and energetic, its unrelenting rhythmic pulse is irresistible. However, trying to translate this style into a rock band format turned out toREAD MORE

Actually written before Savor was even on the drawing boards, Sambita began life as a jazz-influenced Latin song written for a 3-piece instrumental band: guitar, bass, and drums. Building the original arrangement Structured in a fairly conventional pop song format,READ MORE

SAN DIEGO, CA — Known throughout the Southwest United States for their stunning recreations of Santana’s music, Savor recently produced videos for several of their original songs. The goals: to help keep the band engaged with their listeners, and toREAD MORE

When I set out to start writing songs in the Latin rock vein, I was inspired by three different sources: Spanish-flavored jazz rockEpitomized by six string phenomenon Al DiMeola, this style of music was something I have been playing sinceREAD MORE

This is one of those occasions in which the initial song came to me very quickly. Within a couple of hours, I’d written the verses and choruses. Like most effective melodies, it’s simple. But there is a feature in theREAD MORE

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Savor lead guitarist, Michael Caroff, to discuss a short list of my favorite guitarists. With an intense love of the instrument and curiosity about music in general, Caroff is somewhat ofREAD MORE