its not topping, its building on! one thing leads to another, old memories are jared, i am listening to ELP at the moment but the drums are bringing up Santana. true story. i thought i was going to be a rock star at one time, (did,nt we all?) I was cruising down the road with my guitar and was a guy playing on the stoop of his house. he saw me and invited me to play. ofcorse I was cordless cept for you basic majors and minors, but i thought i could just run the blues scale and that's all I needed, after about 15 minutes he gave me advise and sent me on my way. the advise? any one can play lead, learn your cords. turns out he was the rythem guitar player for santana in his early days.