A Mark In Time
Mark Knopfler Discussion => Almost Straits => Topic started by: quizzaciously on March 13, 2017, 09:23:42 PM
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Okay, so I've made a conscious decision to reopen this topic for the third time in a more appropriate place as many people suggested.
My name is Pavel, what I do is discuss Mark's songs on my channel in free form. I discuss chords, licks, techniques, tricks, trivia, my opinions, scales, modes, grooves, tabs, all what you can imagine. My goal is to create a lesson not for a guitarist, but a video which hopefully would be interesting even for a non-musicians. I believe that for a music lesson it's the most valuable form of a compliment when even a non-musician can appreciate it. I do it in my spare time and it isn't hard for me at all after long-long years of practice.
The important thing is that I really do have a contract with Mark's content management, so it adds a little bit of a confidence in what I do.
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On Every Street (1991): On Every Street (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMMX7JvT8V4), Iron Hand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zj3y5CucOk)
Golden Heart (1996): Je Suis Désolé (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjVSUNOlmxw)
Sailing To Philadelphia (2000): Sailing To Philadelphia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsaMy8GybcI), Baloney Again (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFBgOUrd0E), One More Matinee (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJBDgbTLTFo)
The Ragpicker's Dream (2002): Why Aye Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa2CIkPm7C4), The Ragpicker's Dream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfd-1ZYBqso)
Shangri-La (2004): 5:15 a.m. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozrsGsNlnCA), All That Matters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLOAXhgO1o), Back To Tupelo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dweN99qhi8), Boom, Like That (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovzZ-zD76FM), Song For Sonny Liston (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VXCQT97Uk), Whoop De Doo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqj78yp5MlM), Postcards From Paraguay (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5c543fU70)
Get Lucky (2009): Get Lucky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYEa15W3Y7M)
Privateering (2012): Privateering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA3BV3IydGw), River Of Grog (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyCC0KLnWn4)
Tracker (2015): Heart Of Oak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5SFX2lzI-U), Silver Eagle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-9mYiQFow)
Also, I have a note-for-note cover of Knopfler/Atkins Instrumental Medley: I'll See You In My Dreams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T7VUE_tv6s) & Imagine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpNt9ky8aDg) with lessons + tabs + backingtracks.
I try to work constantly on my English, because it's not my native language, bare with me here. But so far nobody complained much.
This list will be updated as new videos will arrive. I have no plans of retirement any time soon.
If you want a particular song for me to discuss, feel free to share it here. Thanks for watching!
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Je Suis Désolé
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjVSUNOlmxw
Iron Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zj3y5CucOk
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A really fast lesson today for a song about fast food. In total about 1 and a half hours in the making, I don't think if I'll manage to make a lesson this fast again, but anyway. It's called an inspiration, folks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovzZ-zD76FM
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I don't know why some people end up as victims in terrorist attacks and some people end up on top of the world. As they say, people on “Titanic” was rich and famous, but still all died. I think, luck is one of the most important things in life, and today I played on a black guitar in memoriam for all the victims of 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro attack and for my hometown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYEa15W3Y7M
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In order to keep everything in order and before the amount of songs would get out of hand, I created a dedicated website for MKSB (in deep beta):
www.mksongbook.tilda.ws (http://www.mksongbook.tilda.ws)
When the project will grow significantly, I'll buy mksongbook.com domain, but not the mksb.com, because it's for sale for $80,000 :lol
The funniest thing is that I was contacted by the management right at the moment I was looking for the source of getting all this information out of my head at last, and I was thinking about some kind of blog and tried to create different web pages on different platforms, but failed miserably.
And here these guys telling me — why not to do video lessons? It was an offer I couldn't refuse. I would never ever thought about video lessons.
So thanks to great people working with Mark and thanks to everybody for watching. I hope to do as many of these as possible.
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All That Matters can give you the feeling it was written 100 years ago or even more. Exhibit #18 of MK's composer genius right there, with a beautiful old-time waltz — a perfect song to sing with a friend. Thanks for watching!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLOAXhgO1o
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Back To Tupelo and Silver Eagle for today. First song is a great example of unusual songwriting with a peculiar rhythm and the second is just an amazing simple fingerpicking tune. Thanks for watching! :lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dweN99qhi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-9mYiQFow
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All That Matters can give you the feeling it was written 100 years ago or even more. Exhibit #18 of MK's composer genius right there, with a beautiful old-time waltz — a perfect song to sing with a friend. Thanks for watching!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLOAXhgO1o
Brilliant. Please keep it coming!
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All That Matters can give you the feeling it was written 100 years ago or even more. Exhibit #18 of MK's composer genius right there, with a beautiful old-time waltz — a perfect song to sing with a friend. Thanks for watching!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLOAXhgO1o
Brilliant. Please keep it coming!
I will! Thank you. I got 200 songs left in Mark's songbook :lol
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Wow I just was told about 10k views on my "Postcards From Paraguay" vid. Can't believe Mark's music is so popular. Timeless music that is.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTxBy_y5sxk
Walk Of Life... I tried to record this one on electric guitar, but it was nearly impossible to record at home, so I just took my old trusty acoustic and I get as much fun as playing it on electric.
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Hey foma, great job as always :thumbsup
and nice new avatar...did someone already tell you that you look very much like Harry Potter ? :)
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Hey foma, great job as always :thumbsup
and nice new avatar...did someone already tell you that you look very much like Harry Potter ? :)
Hey thanks JF!
No, if only on this photo. If you want real Harry Potter, check Josh Turner on YouTube ;D
He's the real Harry Potter, because I don't know how you can get this amount of millions of views for something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5SC1uIxXhk
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“Cannibals” and “Remembrance Day” for today. And today is the Victory Day, by the way. It always has been a bittersweet holiday for all the Russian people. But anyway, thanks for watching!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POK8PgljuUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnhFt_6nXOI
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In my opinion Josh deserves every single click! He is a highly talented Musician with great feeling, soul and a very good voice... and immense Musical knowledge and catalogue... Sultans was done just "like that" and not intended to be absolutely accurate... so no doubts about him!
LE
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In my opinion Josh deserves every single click! He is a highly talented Musician with great feeling, soul and a very good voice... and immense Musical knowledge and catalogue... Sultans was done just "like that" and not intended to be absolutely accurate... so no doubts about him!
LE
+1000 :thumbsup
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In my opinion Josh deserves every single click! He is a highly talented Musician with great feeling, soul and a very good voice... and immense Musical knowledge and catalogue... Sultans was done just "like that" and not intended to be absolutely accurate... so no doubts about him!
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Yeah, nothing wrong with him, I'm a fan of his from then he had only couple of thousands of subscribers, he went a long, long way!
I just kind of hate Sultans and all the hype around it and especially that Mark still plays it and refused to take it down... but he tried.
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In my opinion Josh deserves every single click! He is a highly talented Musician with great feeling, soul and a very good voice... and immense Musical knowledge and catalogue... Sultans was done just "like that" and not intended to be absolutely accurate... so no doubts about him!
LE
Agree 100%! I think Josh's interpretation of Sultans is great! :thumbsup
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I tried to contact Josh 3 or 2 years ago when he wasn't such a big star and I wanted to do a distant collab with him, but I didn't manage to get in touch with him, maybe email addresses was wrong or something. My point that there are many other great songs by MK and there's no reason in transforming him into one-hit wonder, when you have 5 million views of Sultans and 5000 views of The Ragpicker's Dream. It bothers me, it really does. That's why I do my "show", just to show the ingenious songwriting and how well the songs are put together.
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Just hit the 100,000 views mark for 23 of my lessons already. Just WOW! Give it a couple of years for a million, thanks everyone for watching.
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Brilliant this Madame Geneva's. Thank you so much for the inspiration.
Just made my requests last night. Hope to see it soon
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Bravo Pavel
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I'm back from my holiday with another video—“If This Is Goodbye”. How such a simple song can be such a breathtaking and inspiring masterpiece? Because it's not just a songbook, it's Mark Knopfler Songbook, and that's why. Thanks for watching!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plokcGFH-5c
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Golden Heart is yet another testament to Mark's incredible song writing skills. Here, he used not an everyday type of tuning and created a song, capable of being interesting for musicians and non-musicians equally. Dramatic, powerful, optimistic, romantic, there's lots of words to describe it. I hope I've made it all more clear in the lesson. Thanks for watching!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMFH8ODFAJ8
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Breaking news: the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. It's just hard to concentrate on my hobby in the summertime with traveling, good weather and lots of stuff constantly moving around. I hope you have a great summer, too, so I did a simple and quick one today. It's 3 songs done with the high strung Nashville tuning: What It Is, Golden Heart and Privateering. Thanks for watching! P.S. This tuning is perfect for smaller guitars like this Little Martin LX Black so I'm probably going to leave it as it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsLiGA5y5qI
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I just realised my first (and probably the last) interview was posted on Dire Straits Blog recently. As I give as little information about myself as possible in my videos, it's a great insight into where I'm coming from:
http://direstraitsblog.com/fanclub/dsb-interview-pavel-fomenkov-24-songs-already-knopfler-nearly-200-go/ (http://direstraitsblog.com/fanclub/dsb-interview-pavel-fomenkov-24-songs-already-knopfler-nearly-200-go/)
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I got many requests for "Hill Farmer's Blues". I don't know why, but here it is. A great deal of fun exploring soloing possibilities for 2-chord outro sequence, as well as satisfying verse and international topic. I guess I can understand why people love this song after all! Thanks for watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxdif5l2gQo
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Wow, today I did receive a message from a man from Australia, who love to play “All That Matters” to his two-year-old daughter (at her request, by the way). He asked if I have a TAB for the song, which I was too lazy to do. But thanks to the stories like that I obliged and created the complete tablature in 30 minutes. Thank you Mark, you're exactly the kind of person I'm working for. I also updated the lesson info and added a Guitar Pro tablature as well. Cheers, Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLOAXhgO1o
Tablature
Capo III: http://tinyurl.com/All-That-Matters-Capo-III
Guitar Pro: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/m/mark_knopfler/all_that_matters_guitar_pro.htm
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Title track from the album Love Over Gold is an epic ballad and it totally works on a guitar. There's around 30 chords in it, but if you take all the 28 songs I already discussed, there's only 1, yes, only one truly new chord. The majority of the songs utilise same chords over and over, it's just a matter of combining them in a slightly different order each time. Good luck and thanks for watching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d6Mml_2UCY
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Great work, Pavel. You nailed it again. I almost forgot how beautiful this track is, so underrated.
I've been listening to KTGC recently and I thought Scaffolder's Wife would be a nice song for you to dissect. Some interesting chords in that one. Perhaps you can consider.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
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Great work, Pavel. You nailed it again. I almost forgot how beautiful this track is, so underrated.
I've been listening to KTGC recently and I thought Scaffolder's Wife would be a nice song for you to dissect. Some interesting chords in that one. Perhaps you can consider.
Anyway, keep up the good work!
Thanks! Yes, I wanted to do Love Over Gold for a very long time, but only did a full review a week ago. I was afraid of the amount of chords and the complexity of the song, but as always it turned out being very logical, simple and perfect. It's pity Mark only played it in one tour and dropped the outro almost completely. Somehow I get a feeling he wasn't so much of a fan of this song himself... But this is the title track nevertheless :think
Scaffolder's Wife is a perfect way to go, thanks for the suggestion. I love 6/8 songs so much, they're extremely guitar-friendly.
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My suggestion: "Heart full of holes" is one of my favourite from the KTGC record, which happens to be my favourite MK solo record. together with GL.
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My suggestion: "Heart full of holes" is one of my favourite from the KTGC record, which happens to be my favourite MK solo record. together with GL.
I love this song soooooooooo much... I cry every time I hear it! Already tried that one, already know the chords, I'll do it in a series of Open G tuning songs.
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Last time I got some negative comments about my singing, which is insane since there's as little emphasis on vocals in my lessons as it can be. But with that said, the best option after that, I thought, would be to do one of the hardest Mark's songs in that respect, the one he gave to Tina Turner, who can sing indeed. But not me. Thanks for watching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM8TAsuOZ8k
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfI1pheUavc
The song №30 is Your Latest Trick. I promise more guitar songs and more recent songs in the future, but for now—a classic masterpiece with a lot of chords, unique jazz & bossa inspired rhythm and, of course, one of the most recognised saxophone lines ever. The riff is so strong people just can't resist to sing along to it on the shows. Thanks for watching!
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I'm working on a website tweaking it here and there every day. Just added the "Keys" section for sorting out individual songs by its key. Just IMAGINE what this place will become once finished. So far it's less than ridiculous 15% complete and slowly, but surely grows.
I have bought a domain name "mksongbook.com" and when the website will grow to a certain degree I'll go ahead and buy a $100 annual subscription plan for the website to go live on a proper domain. Till then it's up by this link: http://mksongbook.tilda.ws (http://mksongbook.tilda.ws)
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Without further ado I decided to launch the website mksongbook.com, because apart from being lazy I'm impatient, too. I said “lazy”, because I made a silent tour for it and there's not so many features and songs (yet), but I like it. All the videos are embedded, it's very useful. Of course, all the songs will be sorted out by album, name, difficulty level, capo and key signature. Funny, but initially all I wanted is to do a website like this, but for chords only. Luckily for me, things have changed!
The Mark Knopfler Songbook: mksongbook.com (http://mksongbook.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkdiZr2f79s
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The website gets better and better. Got around 50 new requests right away, it definitely helps to steer my decisions. Added "leave a message" functionality and made a dozen of other improvements (e.g., floating menu, buttons, rounded corners). By the way, 30 lessons already adds up to 6 hours of material. SIX HOURS. I can't believe it! Thanks for all the requests and thanks for watching. Pavel.
P.S. Looks like I'm going solo in this topic :lol
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Just wanted to say I enjoy the video's you make quizzaciously. Have watched most of them and will be keeping an eye out on for the new ones you put out. Website looks great too btw!
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Lovely work P! Thank you for creating and sharing. And you accent gets better and better.
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Lovely work P! Thank you for creating and sharing. And you accent gets better and better.
Thanks, this is the main reason why I feel uncomfortable about the whole thing. I wish I was born in some English-speaking country, but you got to work with what you have! Maybe in that respect it's even better to do it my way.
Just wanted to say I enjoy the video's you make quizzaciously. Have watched most of them and will be keeping an eye out on for the new ones you put out. Website looks great too btw!
Thank you, too. I tried to do two new songs today, but failed completely, something isn't right in my life at the moment anyway, but I'm sure I'll overcome all these things!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rKf201nPRk
Let's start the "second season" with something big. What about What It Is? It's funny, because this song is similar to the very first song that I took—Why Aye Man. Both have a similar call and response riff, a build up, quiet parts, both can be played with odd tunings and of course both was written by the happiest man in the world. I'd be happy too, if I wrote it!
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Why Worry? It's been almost 1 year (just two days left) after I uploaded my first video for this little project. I'm not the one who expects fast results, but some achievements have been made — nearly 300,000 total views, 32 songs, 6 and a half hours worth of lessons, own website. Not bad for a hobby! Thanks to every one of you for an overwhelming support, I would never even imagine the amount of support I've received and still receive. All I want to say is — thanks for watching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVcnIMlp8o
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great job as always :thumbsup
I love nd prefer the studio version : 3 guitars played by mark with a gorgeous tone
and it's in E
when you play it in D, arpeggios at the beggining of each verse sounds to much the same as if this is goodbye
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great job as always :thumbsup
I love nd prefer the studio version : 3 guitars played by mark with a gorgeous tone
and it's in E
when you play it in D, arpeggios at the beggining of each verse sounds to much the same as if this is goodbye
Thanks! To me B is the best anyway :lol
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We want 'In the Sky' ;D ;)
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MKSB January 2018 update: I'm working on multiple songs at the moment, one big hit and a couple of smaller gems, as usual not a single song works right away, it always takes a lot of time and lots of practice. Slowly but surely I'll get there. In the meantime, here's an ad I find very interesting, it's about masterclass on writing and it says it all, and I can relate to that one in regard of my lessons: stop reading this, start playing.
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Money For Nothing — new video on my channel. It took a while to make it, but hopefully it will shed some light on this fingerpicking awesomeness. It always hard to do songs like this, because there's no one single version of how to play it, but of course knowing what I know you can start to change it to make it, in some way, yours. Thanks for watching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-6cc0SCkY
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Really amazing songbook, Pavel... You really got it.
I'm still learning & performing my style with every video you post. Thanks a lot!
César.
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Really amazing songbook, Pavel... You really got it.
I'm still learning & performing my style with every video you post. Thanks a lot!
César.
:clap A pleasure, thanks for the recording by the way. And keep Knopflering! As I said, my job is just to show things, but I love it.
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Just for kicks and giggles tried to apply a couple of random emulated amps and pedals on my acoustic "Money For Nothing" riff and this is the result. A bonus track for your ears — Why Aye Man riff played on a real Les Paul a couple of years ago. Sounds ridiculous, well, because it is. Pavel.
https://soundcloud.com/pavel-fomenkov/mfnwam
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Did you record voice and guitar simultaneously or separately? Your playing is amazing as always but if you managed to sing and play this at the same time like MK does you have two brains. That’s cheating :lol :clap
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Did you record voice and guitar simultaneously or separately? Your playing is amazing as always but if you managed to sing and play this at the same time like MK does you have two brains. That’s cheating :lol :clap
Simultaneously and I talk about singing and playing in the Verse & Chorus section. It's not that hard! Although I must admit, at the first glance it completely blew my mind and I thought "How does he do that?!", but when you break down the vocal part it becomes pretty easy and goes along the playing smoothly. Another geniously put together song.
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I played and sang MFN several times in the past but never managed to sing along with the main riff. My brain and my hands never reached an agreement lol
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I played and sang MFN several times in the past but never managed to sing along with the main riff. My brain and my hands never reached an agreement lol
To me it's even easier than to sing the verse, because there's clear key words. Like, "that's" falling right on the top note in the first half oh the riff, "guys" is also a key word. Then "on" is a key word and of course "little" in the phrase "little finger". But if you can't do it in the 1 BPM tempo, then you won't do it in the normal tempo as well, so just develop it slowly. Not you in particular, I just describe my process. Once it "clicks" you can't get it out of your head even if you try.
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brillant, as always :thumbsup
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brillant, as always :thumbsup
Thank you JF! Do you have maybe some kind of a critical input on the quality or something? Because I'm feeling like with each video I get lower and lower in quality department and after this MFN one I couldn't sleep well because I still think it's a disaster of a video and I don't know why. Just couldn't stand it. I won't delete it simply because of 6-7 hours of making that went into doing this and I'm too lazy for redoing that one.
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No, quality is always excellent
what do you mean ? video quality ? sound quality ?
I didn't see or hear any kind of problem.
It's all clear. explanations are perfect. singing and playing as well.
the 2 close-ups are very helpfull because we can see both hands distinctely.
playing at slower tempo is also very helpffull to see what's going on both hands.
I am far far far away from your music/guitar skills and I learn a lot with each video you post
All I can say is don't change anything !
PS : regarding music therory in general, I just have a question about diminished and augmented chords. I never really understood why they are named this way.
To my ears it's the reverse :
a 5th augmented chord sounds "diminished" because the 5th augmented is the minor third of the degre one for me, so it's sound as the chord was a little bit "stepped down"
on the contrary, a diminished chord sounds "augmented" to my ears, because it's the root note that is 1/2 tone up.
I had thsi thoughts when "learning" how to play "please come home for christmas", like the eagles version
When the "dim Eb" comes in just after the D chord, in my ears, I hear a D7, with the root note changing into Eb. To me it sounds "augmented"
And when the E5 aug comes in, I hear the C note, which is the minor third of the song key A, so it sounds "diminished", not augmented
I understand the theory, and of course I understand well that the 5th augmenetd of E chord is the C note, and I aslo undersatnd that an Eb chord is "diminished" when you have the F#-C-A notes, but I find the choice for the names a little bit strange. what do you think ?
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brillant, as always :thumbsup
Thank you JF! Do you have maybe some kind of a critical input on the quality or something? Because I'm feeling like with each video I get lower and lower in quality department and after this MFN one I couldn't sleep well because I still think it's a disaster of a video and I don't know why. Just couldn't stand it. I won't delete it simply because of 6-7 hours of making that went into doing this and I'm too lazy for redoing that one.
If I may, it sounds great. I mean, I see you as a highly skilled and sensitive guitar player whose singing has room to improve but suits DS/MK material. And as far as sound, editing and image quality go, it seems pretty good to me.
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PS : regarding music therory in general, I just have a question about diminished and augmented chords. I never really understood why they are named this way.
To my ears it's the reverse :
a 5th augmented chord sounds "diminished" because the 5th augmented is the minor third of the degre one for me, so it's sound as the chord was a little bit "stepped down"
on the contrary, a diminished chord sounds "augmented" to my ears, because it's the root note that is 1/2 tone up.
I had thsi thoughts when "learning" how to play "please come home for christmas", like the eagles version
When the "dim Eb" comes in just after the D chord, in my ears, I hear a D7, with the root note changing into Eb. To me it sounds "augmented"
And when the E5 aug comes in, I hear the C note, which is the minor third of the song key A, so it sounds "diminished", not augmented
I understand the theory, and of course I understand well that the 5th augmenetd of E chord is the C note, and I aslo undersatnd that an Eb chord is "diminished" when you have the F#-C-A notes, but I find the choice for the names a little bit strange. what do you think ?
Thank you again and again! To be die honest, I'm not a fan of music theory at all and I don't really know a lot of it, I just know a little bit from all over the place. I know all the modes, I know the construction of a fugue and many other things, but nothing too deep. Same with chords. With that said, I'm now interested in this diminished/augmented difference and I'll take some time into learning it and will answer properly.
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If I may, it sounds great. I mean, I see you as a highly skilled and sensitive guitar player whose singing has room to improve but suits DS/MK material. And as far as sound, editing and image quality go, it seems pretty good to me.
Thanks for a reasoned feedback! Funny, but I also think of my voice as a disaster basically, but in its own right, which nevertheless can be applied to DS/MK material, but that's because Mark isn't really a singer just as well. I don't know who's crazy enough to call him a proper singer, although the older he gets, the better he sings and the songs like "Restless Farewell", "The Lily of The West" and others are masterpieces of the vocal performance. So it really depends, but I have even lesser range than Mark, so my voice is automatically "worse", which is a bummer :'(
Mark has rich deep baritone there as I can't sing anything lower than the ridiculous 5th string of the guitar.
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but that's because Mark isn't really a singer just as well. I don't know who's crazy enough to call him a proper singer
MK is not a proper singer ? really ?
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but that's because Mark isn't really a singer just as well. I don't know who's crazy enough to call him a proper singer
MK is not a proper singer ? really ?
Absolutely. He's a proper songwriter, but with calling him not a proper singer I give $1000 that even he himself would agree. Because he said it often anyway, but some people tend to think of it as being modest, while it's being honest more than being modest. It also true when he says he's not a very melodic composer, which also always get treated like modesty, but in reality it also is true. So in his interviews Mark never underestimate himself, but have a very realistic and consistent point of view, which only gives even more points to his personality.
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but that's because Mark isn't really a singer just as well. I don't know who's crazy enough to call him a proper singer
MK is not a proper singer ? really ?
Absolutely. He's a proper songwriter, but with calling him not a proper singer I give $1000 that even he himself would agree. Because he said it often anyway, but some people tend to think of it as being modest, while it's being honest more than being modest. It also true when he says he's not a very melodic composer, which also always get treated like modesty, but in reality it also is true. So in his interviews Mark never underestimate himself, but have a very realistic and consistent point of view, which only gives even more points to his personality.
Please... he also says he is not so good at the guitar...
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Please... he also says he is not so good at the guitar...
I understand where you're coming from, let me elaborate. He says that he's not so good at the guitar when he compare himself to the likes of Chet Atkins and others. And about singing he says he's not a singer when he compare himself to the likes of, in his own words, Dolly Parton and others, the people who are famous because of their singing or guitar playing. And I basically said that with people who think that Mark is a proper singer, one must be crazy to call him a proper singer, because in the list of his achievements singing would be not even in the first two hundreds.
It's vitally important to always know that at any point of life there's someone better than you, so as someone in the worse situation as you. So when Mark get asked about his guitar playing, he thinks of Chet Atkins being on top, and a beginner guitar player at the low point and rate himself above the average, because, well, this is the truth. And nobody here talks about individuality, character or sound. It's just pure self-evaluation.
To tell you the truth, I rate myself as being no guitar player at all. I can play something, but I make basically zero sense out of it. I don't play in bands, I don't write music, I don't teach. I only play for videos and for myself. So that's why I rate myself being on the very deep end of a big ocean of guitar players, because, in the end, it's true.
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To tell you the truth, I rate myself as being no guitar player at all.
Pretty strange to tell that to someone who as you know can't play at all because of an unknown disease
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To tell you the truth, I rate myself as being no guitar player at all.
Pretty strange to tell that to someone who as you know can't play at all because of an unknown disease
Yes, I know ;)
If only I could, I'd give my playing ability to you.
But I write it not to you personally, I write it on a public forum so everyone can see that. Please don't take it too personally, because a genuine fan is always a genuine fan and since we both don't have a solid career because of our playing (or no playing), we have nothing at all to fight for. If one day I'll can't play guitar, I'll just hang it on the wall and will do things I can do instead, because life is beautiful anyway.
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I'm going to attempt my first live stream event ever, so please be patient. I wanted to do that immediately, when I did receive a pack of Mark Knopfler TAB books today. I think it's going to be interesting and also short. But I already have a couple of things to say. The link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sl732s6osU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sl732s6osU)
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Guys, we're here because we are MK fans, not because we play or do not play the guitar. I used to play the guitar, I even recorded an album and stuff. I no longer play the guitar and... I'm still here:)
You're both saying the same thing. Mark's guitar playing and songwriting allow him to sing. I mean, if Mark was only a singer he'd still be writing articles or giving english lessons. That being said, I don't think anybody can sing his songs better than him. You can't say the same about Dylan, for example. At least that's how I see it - and that's what I think you both meant. I might be wrong though.
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I don't think anybody can sing his songs better than him.
That's what I meant, yes I agree, not sure if that's also quiz position since he says MK is not a proper singer
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I don't think anybody can sing his songs better than him.
That's what I meant, yes I agree, not sure if that's also quiz position since he says MK is not a proper singer
This is my position, too, I just dig deeper than that and try to see the big picture. Compared to Dolly Parton MK isn't a proper singer, but for his own songs he's the "properest" singer that there is. Nowadays he sings much better, but in the early days he was basically a rapper :lol
I'm not trying to criticise anybody, it's just seeing the big picture. In other words, not a proper singer compared to what?
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Maybe MK is not a amazing singer. But ... you try to sing "Industrial Disease" or "Milionaire Blues" (for example) without looking foolish :lol :lol :lol
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Maybe MK is not a amazing singer. But ... you try to sing "Industrial Disease" or "Milionaire Blues" (for example) without looking foolish :lol :lol :lol
Well, I don't get tongue-tied, but sometimes I get the lyrics mixed up and the less said about my Dr Parkinson impersonation the better! :-X
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Come back and see me later, next patient please
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Now imagine Mark mumbling (or rapping) the lyrics like that nowadays :lol
This is why he transfer himself now more into the "proper" singing territory.
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He would not cope with it.. I really wonder how he could do it ... the whole Love Over Gold project seemed to benefit from a total outburst of energy and creativity, never reached again before or after.
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It breaks my heart when one thinks that I'm trying to criticise Mark for his singing or playing abilities, I was never trying to say something like that. It's like when Mark says that for Bob Dylan music is just a "vehicle for his poetry" he doesn't mean his music is a complete garbage. Of course he doesn't think like that, it's just Bob Dylan's poetry is obviously superior than his music, which also got approved by his Noble Prize in 2016. I mean that for Mark his songwriting abilities it's like poetry for Bob with his guitar and especially the voice being a "vehicle for his songs" and that's it. I'm not the guy who you should listen to, because Mark himself said it many times about his playing and of course that "song is king".
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"song is king"
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"song is king"
If only the song ruled lengthy guitar passages with minimal use of pipes and whistles! ;D
I only heard Mark use that phrase when his live performances became less guitar orientated and the folkies took over. Funny that.
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I always thought that it was a cheap excuse.
Songs were also king in 1978, let's say. It looks that then kings were not as lazy like nowadays, lol.
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I’ll tell you what, if song is king means no juicy guitar solos I’m on song is plebeian team.
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Yes I never understood this "song is king" thing
why "you do'nt know you're born" would need a solo at the end, and not "hill farmer's blues" ?
why "sailing to philadelphia" should have a long outro and not "yon two crows" ?
is it due to lyrics ? theme, ? pace ? song duration ?.... of course not, it's just that Mark wants to play here and not there, that's all
Im tired with this excuse Mark. Just tell us that you didn't want to play more guitar on this song, but don't tell that you must suit the song rule. it's not the song who decides, it's you !
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Hey, hey, hey! Guys, if song wasn't king, there would be like 20 studio DS albums filled with crappy songs and 40 MK solo albums. It doesn't mean that the song doesn't need solos or something like that, just that the song really dictates MK's behaviour and if there's no solo, it's because the song demand it. And there's no song at all if it's not "the king" kind of song of course.
Pity that Mark decided his blues songs are "king" songs, because we know who's the king when it comes to the blues...
JF, you've listed all the songs I never listen the studio version of. Outro of the studio version of Sailing To Philadelphia is literally two notes.
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JF, you've listed all the songs I never listen the studio version of. Outro of the studio version of Sailing To Philadelphia is literally two notes.
I love studio versions for many songs, because of the general sound, the tones, the mix, because of the atmosphere, because of many guitar parts that can't be played live, etc...
I was listening to the STP album last week on bike, and there are really many many great "little" things I herad, that I miss on live versions.
And I LOVE What it is, Sailing to Philiadelphia and Baloney again studio versions
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I love studio versions for many songs, because of the general sound, the tones, the mix, because of the atmosphere, because of many guitar parts that can't be played live, etc...
I was listening to the STP album last week on bike, and there are really many many great "little" things I herad, that I miss on live versions.
And I LOVE What it is, Sailing to Philiadelphia and Baloney again studio versions
Well, you got me now... Yes, of course I love studio versions, too. You can't beat What It Is studio version, although live Philadelphia (09.09.09) I can't listen to the studio version anymore after this one, even with James Taylor's presence. And to me all the songs mentioned before is a testament to "Song is King" approach.
I know I'll upset many people, but I never looked at Mark as Guitar Hero (or Guitar King, please excuse the term), maybe when I just started on guitar. That's because on this project I'm focused on songs, rather than on solos. Solos comes next, first should come a great song.
And if I want to hear a great guitar player, I can go to so many places EXCEPT Mark's music, but he is phenomenal player for his songs.
You know you just can't take something one from Mark, you gotta take the whole package. Which is the song, the guitar and the voice.
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But wait, I contradict myself... Because there's examples when it's Mark's song and there's no his guitar or no his voice and it's still great.
Which is exactly the definition of this "song is king" motto.
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But wait, I contradict myself... Because there's examples when it's Mark's song and there's no his guitar or no his voice and it's still great.
Which is exactly the definition of this "song is king" motto.
Sometimes songs have different kingdoms, or kings... Hill Farmer Blues as a king hadn't any guitar solo, but when its kingdome got to a live stage, the king demanded a killer guitar solo...
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But wait, I contradict myself... Because there's examples when it's Mark's song and there's no his guitar or no his voice and it's still great.
Which is exactly the definition of this "song is king" motto.
Sometimes songs have different kingdoms, or kings... Hill Farmer Blues as a king hadn't any guitar solo, but when its kingdome got to a live stage, the king demanded a killer guitar solo...
yes exactly, that's why I never understood thsi excuse
if Mark wants to play a guitar solo he plays it, that's all. There's no obscure force that command him to play it or not !
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Sometimes songs have different kingdoms, or kings... Hill Farmer Blues as a king hadn't any guitar solo, but when its kingdome got to a live stage, the king demanded a killer guitar solo...
yes exactly, that's why I never understood thsi excuse
if Mark wants to play a guitar solo he plays it, that's all. There's no obscure force that command him to play it or not !
Solo in Hill Farmer's Blues on the studio version is a complete joke. It just about to start (drums cue anyway) and then it suddenly fades out the moment it starts... My version it's because the song was meant to be played live anyway and now on stage you can play solos lol! Studio vs. Stage solos is quite a battle in Mark's case. Good thing is that almost always he plays live better than on the record. I wish A Place Where We Used To Live also had longer solo on the studio version.
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My version it's because the song was meant to be played live anyway and now on stage you can play solos lol! Studio vs. Stage solos is quite a battle in Mark's case. Good thing is that almost always he plays live better than on the record. I wish A Place Where We Used To Live also had longer solo on the studio version.
yes but with this kind of rule, telegraph road and tunnel of love should have been shorter in studio and the outro added for the live versions, and it wasn't the case
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Hill Farmer’s Blues and Dream of the Drowned Submariner not having proper solos is beyond my understanding.
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I promised to do more recent songs, here's the most recent one—You Don't Want To Get You One Of Those. It's hard to find enough time just for now, but somehow I managed to pull it off the day before yet another business trip. I hope you like it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzbsVO2yTk
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I promised to do more recent songs, here's the most recent one—You Don't Want To Get You One Of Those. It's hard to find enough time just for now, but somehow I managed to pull it off the day before yet another business trip. I hope you like it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzbsVO2yTk
Well done, I like it
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I promised to do more recent songs, here's the most recent one—You Don't Want To Get You One Of Those. It's hard to find enough time just for now, but somehow I managed to pull it off the day before yet another business trip. I hope you like it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzbsVO2yTk
that is just utterly brilliant my man. i'm going to use this to learn the song.
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brilliant !
and there are these typical chords I was talking about : diminished one, which sounds "augmented" to my ears, and the reverse : augmented (aka 5th sharp) that sounds "diminished" to my ears
I know why theses chords are named that way. I know notes that compose these chords. I understand the "theory".
But it's just that I find the words not very appropriate regarding how they "sound".
I find that people who "invented" these chords should have named them the other way
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Here I should say something like "I'm not into numbers" or something like that. No. You should know that EVERY YouTuber regardless of their scale cares about this number and I can only say about it, that I'll never ever take a dark road of buying fake views and subs. It's hard-earned 4,000 of you and thanks for watching! P.S. My driving school with its lessons 6 days a week naturally comes to an end, so there'll be more content for me to make soon, I'm like on a low start.
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Happy to be one of them!
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Brothers In Arms is a truly unique song. Unfortunately, it is and always will be relevant because of all the bad things happening in the world throughout history. On the other hand, the message of dignity in Brothers In Arms is so powerful and strong, that it will continue to inspire people for generations to come. Literally anything I would say about this song won't do any justice at all, so I tried to be at least somewhat interesting and original. And if you want to really dig the song and solos, there's a great lesson for you by Justin Sandercoe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNZcgeijPV4
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Brothers In Arms is a truly unique song. Unfortunately, it is and always will be relevant because of all the bad things happening in the world throughout history. On the other hand, the message of dignity in Brothers In Arms is so powerful and strong, that it will continue to inspire people for generations to come. Literally anything I would say about this song won't do any justice at all, so I tried to be at least somewhat interesting and original. And if you want to really dig the song and solos, there's a great lesson for you by Justin Sandercoe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNZcgeijPV4
Fantastic job as always! :clap
Why isn't there a statue in your honor yet? :P
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Fantastic job as always! :clap
Why isn't there a statue in your honor yet? :P
yes fully agree ! :thumbsup
We could make a AMIT induction ! :) ;)
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Fantastic job as always! :clap
Why isn't there a statue in your honor yet? :P
yes fully agree ! :thumbsup
We could make a AMIT induction ! :) ;)
Thank you so much guys! By the way, I just realised I got more than a million views now. Of course by YouTube standards it's basically nothing, but it's a good start. Clearly I feel all the support and will try to improve my work in the future.
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You never fail to amaze me with your tutorials. Great job once again. Your vibratos are very smooth and expressive. Vodka, beautiful WTA players and Pavel, Russia at its best lol
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You never fail to amaze me with your tutorials. Great job once again. Your vibratos are very smooth and expressive. Vodka, beautiful WTA players and Pavel, Russia at its best lol
Man, you can write reviews ;D
Thanks! Yeah, vibrato is like the main ingredient in this salad called guitar playing. Leave vibrato off and it's just a MIDI track.
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I could write a new essay on Sharapova everyday lol
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMhvXI7cuU
In The Gallery was written by Mark after visiting a lousy exhibition with his friends. Usually an event like that would leave you in a bad mood, but Mark got inspired instead. So make sure to always turn your own dire straits moments into positive ones. This song has a very interesting riff, which is remarkably difficult to learn, but it is possible, so I hope my take on it will give you inspiration to play more. Because inspiration, as Bob Dylan puts it, is the highest purpose of art.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMhvXI7cuU
In The Gallery was written by Mark after visiting a lousy exhibition with his friends. Usually an event like that would leave you in a bad mood, but Mark got inspired instead. So make sure to always turn your own dire straits moments into positive ones. This song has a very interesting riff, which is remarkably difficult to learn, but it is possible, so I hope my take on it will give you inspiration to play more. Because inspiration, as Bob Dylan puts it, is the highest purpose of art.
Utterly brilliant, very well done
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Very interesting. with this kind of songs I always think how creative has to be someone to create a song with this kind of chords...
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Very interesting. with this kind of songs I always think how creative has to be someone to create a song with this kind of chords...
Thanks hola and jbaent!
Yeah, not only to create all these songs, but arrange them this way. I don't want to sound cocky, but only when you dive deep into the songs, only when you realise the magnitude of the genius behind MK's humble appearance. I'd be the happiest guy on the planet coming up with just one of his songs. And he's got hundreds of those! :clap
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Another homerun!
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:thumbsup :thumbsup :clap :clap
In the gallery is one of my fav DS/MK songs ! I love this rhtyhm part in typical Mark style !
Bravo Pavel ! You nailed it , as always. well done
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZgoNvi1cuM
Now my "Instrumental Medley Tribute" is complete, since I have played all the parts, recorded all the lessons, published all the tabs and tracks for it. This was a long way, but certainly was worth it, because it means for me that you can do anything if you want and it literally gave start to The Mark Knopfler Songbook. I wanted to do a full analysis of this little 1987 performance for years and finally, the last part of it is live. Bonus track — a little Q&A with the most interesting questions that I got. A lot of talking here, so I strongly recommend using subtitles and by the way — I have it for each and every of my videos so you can make out what I'm actually saying! Pavel.
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Current situation. Be safe and remember, that any bad situation could always be much worse. I won’t be able to play guitar for quite some time, so no videos in the near future. Everything will be fine! Pavel.
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God, what happened? Hope you are ok... that blood on your shirt looks awful!
LE
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Don't just stop there man! What happened? How are you? Will you be okay? etc... :o
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All the best for a quick recovery! Stay safe out there. :wave
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God, what happened? Hope you are ok... that blood on your shirt looks awful!
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I was in Finland filming on this DJI Inspire 2 drone and It suddenly attacked me hurting both of my hands. I got lucky (hehe), because all the tendons and bones remained intact, but I lost some of the nails and have a very big holes in my hands now being stitched together. So anyway, I won't play guitar for at least a month and I won't record any videos with my hands visible for at least half a year.
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All the best for you, Pavel. I hope you return quickly to your amazing activity about MK.
Best regards from Spain!!!
César.
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God, what happened? Hope you are ok... that blood on your shirt looks awful!
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I was in Finland filming on this DJI Inspire 2 drone and It suddenly attacked me hurting both of my hands. I got lucky (hehe), because all the tendons and bones remained intact, but I lost some of the nails and have a very big holes in my hands now being stitched together. So anyway, I won't play guitar for at least a month and I won't record any videos with my hands visible for at least half a year.
H*** F*** S*** !!! I wish you a quick recovery, mate! We'll need your tutorials when the new album comes out! Take good care of yourself and get well soon :thumbsup
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God, what happened? Hope you are ok... that blood on your shirt looks awful!
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I was in Finland filming on this DJI Inspire 2 drone and It suddenly attacked me hurting both of my hands. I got lucky (hehe), because all the tendons and bones remained intact, but I lost some of the nails and have a very big holes in my hands now being stitched together. So anyway, I won't play guitar for at least a month and I won't record any videos with my hands visible for at least half a year.
H*** F*** S*** !!! I wish you a quick recovery, mate! We'll need your tutorials when the new album comes out! Take good care of yourself and get well soon :thumbsup
Thanks Eddie! That's a really big question wether I'll be able to do something when the album would come out, so basically I'm sitting there hoping it will be out as slowly as possible :lol :lol :lol
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You are going to have at least two months, LOL, but honestly, I hope you recover before!
Best wishes from Spain!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlZwfRFlyng
You thought I can't play guitar anymore? But there's some songs in Mark's Songbook, that you can play even with your hand being stitched and bandaged. You can't play like that for a long time. But How Long? Let's see...
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Pavel, you are a star! ;)
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Pavel, you are a star! ;)
Legend, please...
:lol :lol :lol
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Can't keep a good man down.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlZwfRFlyng
You thought I can't play guitar anymore? But there's some songs in Mark's Songbook, that you can play even with your hand being stitched and bandaged. You can't play like that for a long time. But How Long? Let's see...
Nice attempt (the guitar playing in that condition) at destroying your hand forever but you have to work harder to reach me
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlZwfRFlyng
You thought I can't play guitar anymore? But there's some songs in Mark's Songbook, that you can play even with your hand being stitched and bandaged. You can't play like that for a long time. But How Long? Let's see...
Nice attempt (the guitar playing in that condition) at destroying your hand forever but you have to work harder to reach me
I know that's not a good idea, but I'd had bad sleep with this idea only in my head. And I was pretty close to not be able to see this world, let alone playing guitar. I got extremely lucky that I still can play. You can lose it any moment and by you I mean any human being. Keep safe people.
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Genius! :clap Django would be proud of you:)
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Pavel is not only a genius playing guitar, even more, he spend his time teach us how to play step by step these wonderful songs.
I'm learning a lot with his classes on youtube, so I'm really grateful to him.
Thanks again, Pavel. I hope you return soon to play with 5 fingers :-)
Regards
César (trullols)
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Done With Bonaparte... This one is a big request, despite being a rather simple 4 chord song. But I can get why it's so appealing — it's international, it's historical, it's not too simple, but with a twist, and not too difficult. The song lies somewhere in the golden ratio. That's why the album's called Golden Heart? 😅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfWNrbU1Kv0
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Got my first 1,000 of thumbs up ever on the video about the song Money For Nothing. Doesn't sound like a lot, but it surely means a lot and not so easy to achieve (try it and you'll know what I mean). I'm so flattered so many people care, and the response is always super nice and all the emails are totally inspiring. I'm always inspired and ready to work, regardless of any numbers, now I'm off to the next milestone which is the first 1,000,000 of combined MKSB views. Thanks for watching, Pavel F.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SNyNAh7ioQ
I have a song request form on the website and there's many requests for the song It Never Rains. I though — how on Earth you can play this? But as it turned out, with enough work you can actually play it and it's one of the most enjoyable songs I re-discovered lately. At first it's a complete mess, but as soon as you would get all the parts on its own and then put it all together, suddenly it sounds amazing. So I totally recommend this song for learning and transcribing.
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When You Leave from Mark's new album is a jazzy ballad, but it's more like a "regular" Mark Knopfler's song dressed up in jazzy clothes. Slow Learner is 100 times more jazz than this song. It's difficult to explain, but at least I tried. When You Leave is hard to play if you opt for playing the whole song including the piano chords. Piano chords always give guitar players some pain, but it's possible to play it in a more simple fashion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv7dgmXQ_6A
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Two new videos today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYVCaU16KtQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFV2uxQzgE4&t=610s
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I listened to the Mark Knopfler / Chet Atkins see you in my dreams cover.. it is spot on! great work!
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I listened to the Mark Knopfler / Chet Atkins see you in my dreams cover.. it is spot on! great work!
Thanks. Yeah, that was a hardcore project making me having 1,000,000 times more respect both for Chet and Mark. Top class!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uyUsx49vW8
“What I try to do with a song is craft it. I try to craft a song with pride and I try to make something that's going to last” — Mark said that in his A Life In Songs Documentary. This is true for a vast majority his songs, but In The Sky, being the closing track of his 2007 album Kill To Get Crimson, stands the test of time extremely well. I can't even start to discuss how masterfully this song is arranged, the beauty of lyrics, the exceptional sonic qualities of this recording. Everything's exceptional about it, including transcribing process. This song took too much time to learn, so it's time to stop. Yesterday I saw a poster saying “Done is better than perfect” and today I upload this on YouTube. I'm extremely displeased with the results, but it's the best I can offer anyway, so thanks for watching. Pavel.
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Fabulous work Pavel ! as always :thumbsup
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kEVFHjoLA
Sultans Of Swing. I thought a lot about this song. There's no reason for me try to beat all the great lessons on this song, all the good covers on this song, because this is the type of situation where I'm completely useless. But, with that said, I thought about summing up my thoughts about Mark's music in general and share it "as is". I know this video will upset many people, but for those who get it: thanks for watching! Pavel.
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Pavel :clap :clap :clap brilliant talking ! :thumbsup
can't agree more with what you said
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Two new ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hQTc7jNnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_myMd3lA4U
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Another easy strummer today, Piper To The End. I remember crying over this song 10 years ago when Get Lucky album came out, but I got the album earlier and listened to it while enjoying starry nights in August. Unforgettable experience, unforgettable song, always gets me. Can't believe it's been 10 years already, but life goes so fast. Spend your time playing, listening and learning great songs and thank you for all the support, it keeps me (musically) going. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5nwsyADvg
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Hi, Pavel,
Thanks lot for this amazing place.I'm still following you.
Best regards from Spain!
César.
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The song Communiqué has one of the hardest MK riffs yet, I even got a blister on my left hand index finger. I have a recording of me playing Communiqué riff about 11 years ago and needless to say it was terrible... It's much better now, but still could be better. How many times I've already said "it's one of the most enjoyable songs to play"? But it really is, another classic from Mark which is extremely enjoyable to play, the man just knows how to craft a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kccxRTuSrWY
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Working on it... LOL.
https://youtu.be/HksUYBaAKEY
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The song Communiqué has one of the hardest MK riffs yet, I even got a blister on my left hand index finger. I have a recording of me playing Communiqué riff about 11 years ago and needless to say it was terrible... It's much better now, but still could be better. How many times I've already said "it's one of the most enjoyable songs to play"? But it really is, another classic from Mark which is extremely enjoyable to play, the man just knows how to craft a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kccxRTuSrWY
Pavel, that's just damm brilliant!
ps/ As usual
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Song for today is Southbound Again, one of Mark's "geography" songs from the very first album. I've recorded two songs today, one is this one, from the debut album and the other is from Down The Road Wherever, from the latest album. Pretty funny if you ask me, jumping between 40 years of music. What stays is the quality of this music... You already know, that's why I'm here. Southbound Again is a very easy song, but with no evidence of live recordings done with studio arrangement it's hard to make it out. But to me it only adds challenge and I'm ready to deliver this song. Again, no evidence means that I'm not sure about all of it, maybe I'm 100% wrong, but this is part of the fun. Enjoy! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqAcO8VXDB8
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The song number 50 is Just A Boy Away From Home from Down The Road Wherever album. First, can you name another songwriter worth doing 50 lessons about his songs? I can't believe it myself, and it's only the beginning! Dozens and dozens of other great MK songs left. And this is another one of them. As this is sort of anniversary song for me, I wanted to do something special, and as I never force the ideas, the idea came fast and I just did what I wanted to do — recreate the song in Guitar Pro, the software I'm familiar with for half of my life. Especially with this song being a solo guitar highlight of the album. I just thought — I'd want to play this solo! So you take a guitar, learn the tuning, buy a slide, transcribe the song and play it, play it, play it. That’s the way that you live and learn. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCmEwoWdJRE
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Romeo And Juliet is the ultimate Mark Knopfler Song. It has… Signature acoustic guitar playing, signature guitar itself, signature electric guitar soloing, signature lyrics, the song is about love, it has obvious literary influence, musical influence, movie influence, it was written while “playing around shapes”, it has signature AABAAB structure, beautiful arrangement, one-of-a kind ending with rare modulation (to E Major), it has odd tuning, and the list goes on… No video can cover everything in this song, because it would take hours to cover every little detail, but of course the main source for inspiration is the famous and beloved National guitar part, and so I discuss it with all my passion, I hope you’ll find it interesting. Thanks for watching! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAcFY8lyq3s
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Many thanks once again!
Really like your take on these songs.
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Many thanks once again!
Really like your take on these songs.
Thank youuu! It's very important to me, because it's very natural for me to do it. This video was recorded right after my Birthday party, so no pressure at all :lol
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A russian guy with a golden ear
And a gibson jumbo - standard gear
He been helpin’ us for a few years
Wish I could offer him a beer!
Romeo, baloney or heart of oak
Knopflers tricks - he knows them all
Never for him a heavy toll
He makes us rock and roll!
Always seeking challenges to engage
Like Mark’s songs - better with age
But care, the guy’s no joke..
He’s on the official page!
Love you Pavel, best of luck to your projects
Really hope you do “the Boxer” next!
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A russian guy with a golden ear
And a gibson jumbo - standard gear
He been helpin’ us for a few years
Wish I could offer him a beer!
Romeo, baloney or heart of oak
Knopflers tricks - he knows them all
Never for him a heavy toll
He makes us rock and roll!
Always seeking challenges to engage
Like Mark’s songs - better with age
But care, the guy’s no joke..
He’s on the official page!
Love you Pavel, best of luck to your projects
Really hope you do “the Boxer” next!
Now that's funny! :lol :lol :lol
Thank you! I guess after that I have no excuses doing other songs!
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Even though I only make tutorial videos, I get inspired every day and The Fizzy And The Still lesson was probably the best example of pure inspiration in this whole year. It's not a popular song, literally nobody asked for it, but it doesn't matter as long as I love the song and as long as I have something to say about it. And, as always, I have a lot to say! Sometimes I re-record my videos because I'm not pleased at all with the result, and this was the case. But as the song is not popular anyway, I decided to leave it "as is", first take type of thing. I guess the performance and the information is the priority here, so enjoy! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Qq-VJZLh0
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Pavel, I'm a big fan of the Crimson album. I don't mind which song you choose from that cd, you'll please me a lot.
This one is one of my favorite from that record. Thanks!
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Pavel, I'm a big fan of the Crimson album. I don't mind which song you choose from that cd, you'll please me a lot.
This one is one of my favorite from that record. Thanks!
I love this album, a lot to love there... Great we have similar taste!
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Pavel, I'm a big fan of the Crimson album. I don't mind which song you choose from that cd, you'll please me a lot.
This one is one of my favorite from that record. Thanks!
I love this album, a lot to love there... Great we have similar taste!
Once upon a time in the west and Silvertown were Hugh surprises in this tour but for me the best surprise was Heart full of holes, which, together with Scafolders wife are my favorite. That's the song I enjoyed the most in all the concerts I attended this last tour.
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Great knopfler songs and lessons . Love his music and playing.....a pic of my My 62 strat.
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Great knopfler songs and lessons . Love his music and playing.....a pic of my My 62 strat.
Thank you! Wow, that's one drool-inducing guitar... A perfect Fender Stratocaster. Priceless!
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Pavel, do you have any tab recommendations for the studio version of Sultans of Swing? I can play it "half-a$$ed", but would like to finally work out the licks and solos.
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Another suggestion: Smooching.
Those jazzy chords are killing me. Maybe you could attempt a fingerstyle arrangement...? Just sayin'...
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Another suggestion: Smooching.
Those jazzy chords are killing me. Maybe you could attempt a fingerstyle arrangement...? Just sayin'...
I've already transcribed it, but I have to admit — recreating it in full is completely impossible (probably even for Mark himself) because two electric guitar tracks are glued together to the level it often sounds like 1 track :lol But the chords are insane, yes, and it's possible to approximate it so it's "enough". Will do!
Pavel, do you have any tab recommendations for the studio version of Sultans of Swing? I can play it "half-a$$ed", but would like to finally work out the licks and solos.
I thought Justin Sandercoe has a tablature, but it looks like he's not! So my only suggestion would be to go to paid services like this one: https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/25280/Product.aspx (https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/25280/Product.aspx) where you can buy sheet music + tab for the price of a coffee cup.
Because at least you get a better quality product! Of course any teacher will tell you don't use tabs at all, but I've actually used tabs when I started to play. Of course today I can pick out anything by ear, but that's only after years of practice and I loved playing tabs on early stages. Nothing wrong with that.
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Another suggestion: Smooching.
Those jazzy chords are killing me. Maybe you could attempt a fingerstyle arrangement...? Just sayin'...
I've already transcribed it, but I have to admit — recreating it in full is completely impossible (probably even for Mark himself) because two electric guitar tracks are glued together to the level it often sounds like 1 track :lol But the chords are insane, yes, and it's possible to approximate it so it's "enough". Will do!
That would be great, Pavel. Looking forward to your approximation! Even if you don't decide to do a lesson on it I would be interested in your chord interpretation if you ever care to share it.
Thanks!
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Thanks, Pavel.
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These 2 are pretty good,
you just need to mix the best parts of the 2 and you are almost there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlqdp8XDawQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RX1xHDcQHU
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These 2 are pretty good,
you just need to mix the best parts of the 2 and you are almost there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlqdp8XDawQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlqdp8XDawQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RX1xHDcQHU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RX1xHDcQHU)
Thanks, Pensa. The second one sounds really good. I like the sound of the neck pickup actually!
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Another suggestion: Smooching.
Those jazzy chords are killing me. Maybe you could attempt a fingerstyle arrangement...? Just sayin'...
I've already transcribed it, but I have to admit — recreating it in full is completely impossible (probably even for Mark himself) because two electric guitar tracks are glued together to the level it often sounds like 1 track :lol But the chords are insane, yes, and it's possible to approximate it so it's "enough". Will do!
Pavel, do you have any tab recommendations for the studio version of Sultans of Swing? I can play it "half-a$$ed", but would like to finally work out the licks and solos.
I thought Justin Sandercoe has a tablature, but it looks like he's not! So my only suggestion would be to go to paid services like this one: https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/25280/Product.aspx (https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/25280/Product.aspx) where you can buy sheet music + tab for the price of a coffee cup.
Because at least you get a better quality product! Of course any teacher will tell you don't use tabs at all, but I've actually used tabs when I started to play. Of course today I can pick out anything by ear, but that's only after years of practice and I loved playing tabs on early stages. Nothing wrong with that.
Heya Pavel, I would be really happy to see the jazz chords. I really like that stuff, but I’m finding it hard to place them properly in a chord progression, so checking out Mark’s work would be marvelous for me.
P.S. Still waiting for The Boxer. First lesson in this decade? ... :)
Cheers
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News is a song that features the famous dynamic range of Dire Straits. It has loud parts, long rests, quiet guitar fills. It's quite a challenge to play it on one guitar, let alone on acoustic, but I just did it in my new lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4z63XSw3E
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I always thought that what makes MK the best it's not the way he plays, but the way he composes what he plays.. the chords progressions, the fills... it's all of a very high creativity, even nowadays...
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I always thought that what makes MK the best it's not the way he plays, but the way he composes what he plays.. the chords progressions, the fills... it's all of a very high creativity, even nowadays...
That’s why I’m doing all this... I’ve played a lot of songs in my day (hundreds if not thousands), just picking out changes, chords and stuff, not completely transcribing. And indeed Mark’s work is by a head taller than pretty much any songwriter out there. Even if it’s not, Mark has way, waaaaay more good songs per square inch, producing not so many fillers or “not so great songs”. What impress me the most is the consistency, which is of course the hardest task for any artist in any field. Yes, it’s not Brothers In Arms level anymore, but maybe 5:15 a.m. level and my god it’s an extremely good song.
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If you count all the songs I tried to play or learned completely, it all add up... 200 Beatles songs, 200 MK songs, 200 jazz standards, 200 Sting, Simon, other artist's songs, many classical guitar (and not only guitar!) pieces, blues songs, folk songs. And still Mark takes the cake :lol
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Everybody Pays is the song #54. This is a ballad from Shangri-La album, which is filled with great songs. Everybody Pays seems easier than it really is, probably because it shifts the attention to the lead guitar, which is fabulous, but you can't play the song with just solo guitar, you need rhythm. And here the rhythm needs to be played in a very specific way to sound okay, the rhythm guitar part consists of pretty easy right hand strumming pattern (which is up and down with the thumb basically the whole time), but the left hand is a bit tricky. Anyway, better to see something once than to read about it, so as always I have a detailed talkless performance in the beginning of each of my videos. Don't forget I have every video transcribed with full English subtitles and sometimes I write the chords or the sheet music down. For this song I've written a chords sheet. Enjoy! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ahKd94sDE
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Quite enjoy this song. I can't listen to it though without recalling the embarrassing performance on the Belgian Flanders show on the promo tour when Mark completely forgot the words and Guy had to bail him out. :-[
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Quite enjoy this song. I can't listen to it though without recalling the embarrassing performance on the Belgian Flanders show on the promo tour when Mark completely forgot the words and Guy had to bail him out. :-[
I never knew that, interesting. Opening lines to verses is not the easiest thing to sing, so I understand, for instance: Yeah you ought to stay right where you are in sawdust land or Curl up inside a boxcar dream and disappear. I mean wow! Make just a slight mistake in the delivery and the whole line will be ruined. Same thing with What It Is and songs like that, that just not the easiest songs to sing, hence the ruined live performance.
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Quite enjoy this song. I can't listen to it though without recalling the embarrassing performance on the Belgian Flanders show on the promo tour when Mark completely forgot the words and Guy had to bail him out. :-[
got link? cannot remember that...
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Quite enjoy this song. I can't listen to it though without recalling the embarrassing performance on the Belgian Flanders show on the promo tour when Mark completely forgot the words and Guy had to bail him out. :-[
I never knew that, interesting. Opening lines to verses is not the easiest thing to sing, so I understand, for instance: Yeah you ought to stay right where you are in sawdust land or Curl up inside a boxcar dream and disappear. I mean wow! Make just a slight mistake in the delivery and the whole line will be ruined. Same thing with What It Is and songs like that, that just not the easiest songs to sing, hence the ruined live performance.
And this line from Sultans of Swing: "Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles." I think it is the use of the letters D and B at the start of 5 words in the line, and that it has to be sung quickly.
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The Trawlerman's Song... I can't believe it now, but I remember back in 2005 when I was first introduced to Mark's music, Shangri-La was his latest album and I was stupid enough to skip this song because I didn't like the introduction for some reason. Don't ask! When later I've decided to listen it in full I love it ever since. This is the song you can't skip, because it's the hardest easy song yet, while it has many signs of a beginner song, advanced players will be delighted with a bunch of interesting chords and voicings, especially people who've played this song with easy folk chords before. I was one of them actually, but now I'm (not) surprised about how well this song is composed. But why, given it's the song №55 it's almost a rule here! 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4Mo5qvyC4
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The Trawlerman's Song... I can't believe it now, but I remember back in 2005 when I was first introduced to Mark's music, Shangri-La was his latest album and I was stupid enough to skip this song because I didn't like the introduction for some reason. Don't ask! When later I've decided to listen it in full I love it ever since. This is the song you can't skip, because it's the hardest easy song yet, while it has many signs of a beginner song, advanced players will be delighted with a bunch of interesting chords and voicings, especially people who've played this song with easy folk chords before. I was one of them actually, but now I'm (not) surprised about how well this song is composed. But why, given it's the song №55 it's almost a rule here! 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4Mo5qvyC4
One of my favourite MK songs from first listening! Also Shangri-la, together with Crimson and Roadrunning is a favourite of mine, from the beguining until track 11 (All that matters) is a record that I play just skipping Paraguay, except of that song, I found the rest just perfect!
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Here's the first track from Mark's latest album for you. Simple little song in Open G tuning, that can be a great introduction to this tuning, but a very good exercise at the same time, because it requires a lot of strength in the left hand. I actually had a hard time with my fretting hand myself after learning this song, so I feel the need to pass the baton in that regard, haha. Stay tuned, more to come! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG9FcNPH1ec
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Here's the first track from Mark's latest album for you. Simple little song in Open G tuning, that can be a great introduction to this tuning, but a very good exercise at the same time, because it requires a lot of strength in the left hand. I actually had a hard time with my fretting hand myself after learning this song, so I feel the need to pass the baton in that regard, haha. Stay tuned, more to come! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtDpcXq0NPg
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Another mini series from me: Stealing Licks. Pretty self-explanatory title... In these short videos I'll cover some of the most memorable, tasty and desirable to learn things ever recorded, from Mark or maybe not only Mark. I'm not usually picking out solos, but when it's something like this one, or anything from Neck And Neck album really, it's worth picking out. I'll play it in normal tempo, then slowly, then extra slow, so no TAB needed. I tabbed it out, but I don't recommend using it, as much as I love tabs, that's not the way I learn, so I can't recommend it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLrE7ZsAIiY
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I edited this video in the same room I first heard "Border Reiver" back in 2009, when I was 19. I love to revisit it every now and again, love to play it. One of the best openers ever, sounds killer on live shows. A lot of Mark's signature folk and blues elements in here as well. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCsfGzYL5fI
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Floating Away is a great song from Mark's latest album, I liked it right away, so simple and beautiful. It's not always about fast tempo, lots of licks and crazy chords, but the tasty combination of all that in small increments. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp1vSSIjwOY
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This is a song I've been playing for a couple of months now, started to work on it in the summer, really wanted to make a video about it. Sometimes the idea for a lesson just comes like that, why not to try one of the most underrated Dire Straits songs? And here you have it. An amazing song from a weird EP, personally I count all the songs from this period being Love Over Gold outtakes. But anyway, I've had some severe syncing problems on this one, really thought that I really need a new camera, so hopefully, I'll be able to acquire one soon because syncing is a big issue I have and really struggle with from day 1. And managed to almost fix it somehow here, because I liked the take. Anyway, here's another one of 60 DS tracks — Twisting By The Pool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_fO1FWO_jY
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The bits of "twisting" at the Arena 80 documentary show very well the intrincates of the song, as you can se MK also explanining it while rehearsing...
I always loved this song, I always thought it was great because was a straight rock and roll, very different to the other DS songs, so simple and straight!
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The bits of "twisting" at the Arena 80 documentary show very well the intrincates of the song, as you can se MK also explanining it while rehearsing...
I always loved this song, I always thought it was great because was a straight rock and roll, very different to the other DS songs, so simple and straight!
I forgot they mentioned it in this documentary. Thanks, watched it again — what a fun this song is. I bet it was one of the favourites to play live, the energy is just bananas! Only dead would not dance :lol
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This is a song I've been playing for a couple of months now, started to work on it in the summer, really wanted to make a video about it. Sometimes the idea for a lesson just comes like that, why not to try one of the most underrated Dire Straits songs? And here you have it. An amazing song from a weird EP, personally I count all the songs from this period being Love Over Gold outtakes. But anyway, I've had some severe syncing problems on this one, really thought that I really need a new camera, so hopefully, I'll be able to acquire one soon because syncing is a big issue I have and really struggle with from day 1. And managed to almost fix it somehow here, because I liked the take. Anyway, here's another one of 60 DS tracks — Twisting By The Pool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_fO1FWO_jY
That's great! Even in acoustic it's a great song, full of energy.
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twisting by the pool was already played in 79, so it's not an outtake from LOG sessions ;)
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twisting by the pool was already played in 79, so it's not an outtake from LOG sessions ;)
Wow, I never knew that. At least it was recorded around this time!
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twisting by the pool was already played in 79, so it's not an outtake from LOG sessions ;)
Wow, I never knew that. At least it was recorded around this time!
to be accurate, it was recorded after the LOG album
Mark wanted a more straight and roots album, after the complex and prog-influenced LOG one
so he recorded the EP with Twisting by the pool, two young lovers and If I had you in october 82, juste before the tour starts
and it was first Terry williams session with the band
as for twisting played in 79, it was during the 2nd american tour, during autumn
https://youtu.be/Jr0Od5CscwA
https://youtu.be/WCHzfs6kX4Q
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I think Mark played this song with a pick
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the video in BBC Arena documentary has the particularity of showing both Mark's red strats ('61 and '62) at the same time.
one in his hands, and one in David's hand
it's the only time I know it happened
at 26:00 in the video
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6z1w71
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twisting by the pool was already played in 79, so it's not an outtake from LOG sessions ;)
Wow, I never knew that. At least it was recorded around this time!
to be accurate, it was recorded after the LOG album
Mark wanted a more straight and roots album, after the complex and prog-influenced LOG one
so he recorded the EP with Twisting by the pool, two young lovers and If I had you in october 82, juste before the tour starts
and it was first Terry williams session with the band
as for twisting played in 79, it was during the 2nd american tour, during autumn
https://youtu.be/Jr0Od5CscwA
https://youtu.be/WCHzfs6kX4Q
Haha, these versions are so raw! No wonder the song was recorded only years later, sounds like the song was unfinished and rushed as well.
I think Mark played this song with a pick
Definitely! And with fingers also, one of these songs, I think. I can clearly hear both fingers and pick approach in the song.
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Recently I was shocked listening to my old 2015 version of the song because my original upload was full of bizarre popping sounds all over the place and overall sounded quite bad. Believe me, I would never ever bounce and upload something like this and I'm very sorry for not noticing the mistake for all these years, it's extremely embarrassing. I thought it was a glitch with my headphones or monitors, never thought that ended up being a part of the actual recording. Must've been a YouTube's builtin compressor that did all that or something else. So the only thing I can do is to reupload it again with better audio. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlsFiod3Hw8
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Awesome. You've got the touch, that's for sure! :clap
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Awesome. You've got the touch, that's for sure! :clap
Thank you! I still can't imagine what Mark feels writing song of this magnitude. This song is ridiculously good.
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Very nice, Pavel. Adding these little tasty harmonica touches was spot on! The song about hobos just asks for it and you delivered.
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Pavel, which software did you use for this? Interested in both the video and the sound editing.
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Pavel, which software did you use for this? Interested in both the video and the sound editing.
I usually use Logic for audio and Final Cut for video, as simple as that... That's your advanced audio and video apps for mac. There's also Garage Band and iMovie which is also nice. I even play electric through Logic's amps, I'm fine with that, although I know this is highly unorthodox and could make some people cringe like crazy. But I don't care, that works for me. By the way, I'm not always using Logic for amps, there's some videos with 'real thing' and even valve amps in my videos and honestly I've completely forgotten where they were.
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New video! Our Shangri-La... One of my favourite Mark's songs, a fan favourite, a diamond, whatever you want to call it, it's a masterpiece. And a masterpiece, that's not hard to play! But hard to sing (I tried). I always loved this song since the day it was released, I hope to share some love for it with you. You can't say a lot about a simple 6-chord song, but surely it's not about how many chords are there. Anyway, hope you like it. And welcome to a new camera and 60 frames per second! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCc7tABKzew
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOuv3Z1cY0
Another new video update. Just wanted to upload this little solo from "There'll Be Some Changes Made", Mark Knopfler's 2nd solo to be precise, the one where Chet Atkins said "Pretty good but you're no Mark Knopfler". That line cracks me up every time and the lick Mark then proceeds to play is insane! Typical MK-style lick, always wanted to play it. And it's a great opportunity to test the new 60FPS video. Enjoy!
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I'm sorry for being a solo poster here, but just wanted to share a few behind-the-scenes things like this little video of me learning Sucker Row: https://www.facebook.com/mksongbook/posts/2907326969538973
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Don' t be sorry , I watch all your videos and always learn something :thumbsup :clap
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Don' t be sorry , I watch all your videos and always learn something :thumbsup :clap
Thank you! Judging by my statistics, more than 80% of views I have are coming from non-subscribers, just because I never encourage people to like and subscribe. So I already got used to all that a long time ago. I reckon if I shouted out in every video for people to subscribe, I'd had twice as many followers. Kinda peculiar to think about it.
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Yeah same here, I always watch your new posts, I don't always have time to comment though. It would be a compilation of "Thank, that's great again"
So... thanks again I suppose ;)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGXlhPbwcU
"Wanderlust" is a song that genuinely surprised me. I thought this is your simple strumming song, but it turned out more interesting in detail. Unfortunately, the song is terribly underrated and the video of it on YouTube has only 30K views. But if you love Mark Knopfler's music, you know that the word "underrated" always goes somewhere around this guy. That's life! Pavel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNOghttdILM
Sucker Row is one of the few songs left from the Shangri-La record, it's very similar to Song For Sonny Liston, which I play a bit better since the recording of my initial video on this song by the way. The most prominent thing about Sucker Row is definitely a bluesy riff that goes through the whole song, even appearing in the verses. This is a very hard song to pull off, took me a couple of weeks of mental and otherwise practice, don't recommend learning it, but I do recommend trying to at least play it to 5% of how it deserves to be played. Yet another underrated masterpiece, but this is Mark Knopfler, so what else you would expect? Pavel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFzNx7EnzTQ
Monteleone is a unique song because not for every song recording Mark would hire a 40-piece orchestra, and judging by the number of requests people really want to hear this song. And I recorded it fully and in one take. It's not hard, but I love the story around it, the whole art of songwriting and building guitars, songs like this are great tools to continue the cycle of inspiration. At first, I didn't know how to approach this video about Monteleone, but after I got some inspiration, here we are. Thanks for watching! Pavel.
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Very very nice Pavel. Congratulations. Always a pleasure to hear you and play so smoothy touch. :thumbsup :thumbsup
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Ah, Marbletown! The song I wanted to cover for a long time. But every time something would stop me. Not anymore. This was a rare occasion of me being actually happy with the way the video came out to be, though I managed to forget to mention some of the things I wanted to mention. Most importantly, that you can't play a song like this without a really strong attack in the right hand. You really need to dig in for this song to sound good. When I hear people playing Marbletown and they barely touch the strings, it breaks my heart. Don't do that! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxyiGk105fY
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Something different today! Playing 10 Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler Riffs on my Mini Strat in one take. People suggested I should go electric, and so I did. I bought a little practice amp and it's less than $500 in gear, but so enjoyable to play! I want to play more electric songs, not necessarily even MK stuff... Let's see what I can do. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNkgiqPc8A
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Thank You very much.... :thumbsup :thumbsup
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Something different today! Playing 10 Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler Riffs on my Mini Strat in one take. People suggested I should go electric, and so I did. I bought a little practice amp and it's less than $500 in gear, but so enjoyable to play! I want to play more electric songs, not necessarily even MK stuff... Let's see what I can do. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNkgiqPc8A
Absolutely 'Freakin' awesome as ever Pavel.......You are a great inspiration - keep up the much valued work my friend..... :clap :clap :clap :clap :wave
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Something different today! Playing 10 Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler Riffs on my Mini Strat in one take. People suggested I should go electric, and so I did. I bought a little practice amp and it's less than $500 in gear, but so enjoyable to play! I want to play more electric songs, not necessarily even MK stuff... Let's see what I can do. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNkgiqPc8A
Absolutely 'Freakin' awesome as ever Pavel.......You are a great inspiration - keep up the much valued work my friend..... :clap :clap :clap :clap :wave
Thank you! You really know how to cheer up! :thumbsup
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Beautiful tone and awesome touch! :clap
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Great playin, obviously its all about touch and feel.
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Thanks, guys! I only wish I'd play a big Strat because you can't get a great vibrato on those extra heavy multiple strings at the same time. But I hope to get more electric guitars in the future, so much fun.
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Wow, my latest video got 10,000 views in 2 days, that's a new record for me. And I made this whole video in less than an hour on my lunch break. That's life! Making proper lessons is another story, but this is a clear indication to me that people love actual music being performed. This is hard for me because I'm not the actual musician, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a musician in ANY part of that word, I'm not a songwriter, not a guitar player, and I don't have any gear whatsoever, but since I can play and teach at least something, I'll try to do just that. Pavel.
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Wow, my latest video got 10,000 views in 2 days, that's a new record for me. And I made this whole video in less than an hour on my lunch break. That's life! Making proper lessons is another story, but this is a clear indication to me that people love actual music being performed. This is hard for me because I'm not the actual musician, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a musician in ANY part of that word, I'm not a songwriter, not a guitar player, and I don't have any gear whatsoever, but since I can play and teach at least something, I'll try to do just that. Pavel.
Pavel
Just be yourself. Play what you like, with your own feeling, your emotions, your desires, ... And if the last video went well, it is surely that all this transpired through the notes that you played ...
Also, I never tire of listening to your playlist and I discover many songs that I appreciate but also old songs that I listened to when I was younger (I am thinking of the album "Year of the cat") ... Thanks to you Pavel and keep it up.
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Wow, my latest video got 10,000 views in 2 days, that's a new record for me. And I made this whole video in less than an hour on my lunch break. That's life! Making proper lessons is another story, but this is a clear indication to me that people love actual music being performed. This is hard for me because I'm not the actual musician, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a musician in ANY part of that word, I'm not a songwriter, not a guitar player, and I don't have any gear whatsoever, but since I can play and teach at least something, I'll try to do just that. Pavel.
Stop those crap words, it's offensive for the ones who really cannot play and for the ones who really don't have any gear
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Wow, my latest video got 10,000 views in 2 days, that's a new record for me. And I made this whole video in less than an hour on my lunch break. That's life! Making proper lessons is another story, but this is a clear indication to me that people love actual music being performed. This is hard for me because I'm not the actual musician, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a musician in ANY part of that word, I'm not a songwriter, not a guitar player, and I don't have any gear whatsoever, but since I can play and teach at least something, I'll try to do just that. Pavel.
Stop those crap words, it's offensive for the ones who really cannot play and for the ones who really don't have any gear
Almost anything could be offensive these days, I believe. By not having any gear I meant no fancy guitars, amps, and recordings techniques. Well, I have a Gibson and a Martin, but any decent acoustic guitar would do it for me, and a Gibson was gifted to me, and Martin I bought repaired with a huge discount. As for electric, I have less than $500 in gear (guitar + amp), so that can't offend anybody :lol
And for people who can't play, I already told you a million years ago, that if I'll not be able to play for some reason, I'll be fine with it even so because I'm not a musician, I'm just a music fan. I would remain a music fan doing nothing, but since I'm able to share my passion, I record my videos. And while I can do it, I will do it. Please, don't be offended Pensa, I really don't want more wars, bans, and whatnot again.
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Wow, my latest video got 10,000 views in 2 days, that's a new record for me. And I made this whole video in less than an hour on my lunch break. That's life! Making proper lessons is another story, but this is a clear indication to me that people love actual music being performed. This is hard for me because I'm not the actual musician, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a musician in ANY part of that word, I'm not a songwriter, not a guitar player, and I don't have any gear whatsoever, but since I can play and teach at least something, I'll try to do just that. Pavel.
Stop those crap words, it's offensive for the ones who really cannot play and for the ones who really don't have any gear
Almost anything could be offensive these days, I believe. By not having any gear I meant no fancy guitars, amps, and recordings techniques. Well, I have a Gibson and a Martin, but any decent acoustic guitar would do it for me, and a Gibson was gifted to me, and Martin I bought repaired with a huge discount. As for electric, I have less than $500 in gear (guitar + amp), so that can't offend anybody :lol
And for people who can't play, I already told you a million years ago, that if I'll not be able to play for some reason, I'll be fine with it even so because I'm not a musician, I'm just a music fan. I would remain a music fan doing nothing, but since I'm able to share my passion, I record my videos. And while I can do it, I will do it. Please, don't be offended Pensa, I really don't want more wars, bans, and whatnot again.
Congratulations for your magical world where you play a guitar but you are not a musician and are not a guitar player
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Wow, my latest video got 10,000 views in 2 days, that's a new record for me. And I made this whole video in less than an hour on my lunch break. That's life! Making proper lessons is another story, but this is a clear indication to me that people love actual music being performed. This is hard for me because I'm not the actual musician, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a musician in ANY part of that word, I'm not a songwriter, not a guitar player, and I don't have any gear whatsoever, but since I can play and teach at least something, I'll try to do just that. Pavel.
Stop those crap words, it's offensive for the ones who really cannot play and for the ones who really don't have any gear
Almost anything could be offensive these days, I believe. By not having any gear I meant no fancy guitars, amps, and recordings techniques. Well, I have a Gibson and a Martin, but any decent acoustic guitar would do it for me, and a Gibson was gifted to me, and Martin I bought repaired with a huge discount. As for electric, I have less than $500 in gear (guitar + amp), so that can't offend anybody :lol
And for people who can't play, I already told you a million years ago, that if I'll not be able to play for some reason, I'll be fine with it even so because I'm not a musician, I'm just a music fan. I would remain a music fan doing nothing, but since I'm able to share my passion, I record my videos. And while I can do it, I will do it. Please, don't be offended Pensa, I really don't want more wars, bans, and whatnot again.
Congratulations for your magical world where you play a guitar but you are not a musician and are not a guitar player
Are you cool with "amateur guitar player"? I think it's quite obvious that I'm an amateur, though sometimes I don't play for weeks, I never wanted to be a musician and never expressed this huge affection towards the guitar. I love songs and playing songs, and a byproduct of this is that I can sort of play something after learning thousands of songs. But if I told people I make a million mistakes in my videos, that, I think, could be a little bit offensive. But truth nevertheless, my videos are full of little mistakes.
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Not Mark Knopfler, but Chet was one of Mark's best friends, so it deserves to be published here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM
The idea to recreate “Jam Man” was spontaneous. A few days ago, after I bought an amp, I thought what about “Jam Man”? And I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized there are NO videos like this in existence for this Grammy-winning track! I thought I'll go on YouTube and see at least 4 or 5 videos with all the parts recreated, but nope. I thought, what about tablatures? And tablatures are also not popular and sometimes have major mistakes. And so I had to do it, even though the only electric guitar I have is my Squier Mini Strat. But I play everything on it, so why not this song? You can imagine the nightmare through which I had to go in order to make this happen. I don't have 50 years of playing behind me as Chet had at the time, I don't have any of the equipment needed, including a guitar, I don't know how to record it properly, I can't play it flawlessly in one take so I had to cut it in a couple of places. But I wanted to do it so bad I couldn't resist. I hope you'll like it. It was a lot of work! Pavel.
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Brilliant playing, brilliant sound, great song. Bravo Pavel! Sounds just like the original and now you can finally see how all the licks are played.
You should do Sneakin’ Around next ;)
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Brilliant playing, brilliant sound, great song. Bravo Pavel! Sounds just like the original and now you can finally see how all the licks are played.
You should do Sneakin’ Around next ;)
Thank you! While working on this for a whole day I was reminded once again how infinitely great Chet was. He composed and recorded "Jam Man" not just flawlessly, he recorded it perfectly. Even if I had the right gear, right guitar, and such, I won't even come close. You have to be Chet and have his half-century experience as a producer and guitar player to do it properly. But to at least try it is a very humbling experience.
By the way, I was stupid enough to screw one hard lick up and it ended up on like that on the record, but I like how it sounds. It's one of the triplet runs!
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I thought a lot about 'Private Investigations'. I wanted to do this song for a long time you can imagine, but I had a hard time coming up with the idea on which to build the video. Should I discuss the soloing, should I sing, blah blah blah. And I finally settled on making it really simple, and here's why. Because the most important songs, the biggest songs transcend the boundary of being just a great tune, they transcend everything. And it's more about inspiration than something else. While the soloing is great, and the singing is cool, as always, nothing I can say or play would do the song justice, so the only option is to keep it simple. Which I did! I hope not to upset a lot of you. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT40saeGTDQ
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One of the huge mistakes I made, and I talked about it earlier, was and still is — rushing everything. I even did it again with "Private Investigations" and edited the video immediately after the recording. And some time ago, if I recorded two songs at the same time, I would upload them both at the same time. This is absolutely not perfect from a YouTube uploading strategy standpoint. In fact, that's a huge mistake! Now I try to learn from my mistakes and have found a solution: I just posted another video on the song "Stand Up Guy" over on my Patreon! It was created just for that. And I gotta say, having Patreon really makes me work harder. When you know that you have a contract with people and you can't let them down, you always know that you need to work hard just to be on the polite side, so it really, really helps. Can't stress enough how much it helps, and again, if you love what I do and want to support me, you can do it starting with just 1 dollar a month on my Patreon. As you can see, it not only helps me buying amps and strings but puts more pressure on me and therefore inspires me to work. It's a two-way street! Pavel.
https://www.patreon.com/pavelfomenkov (https://www.patreon.com/pavelfomenkov)
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One of the huge mistakes I made, and I talked about it earlier, was and still is — rushing everything. I even did it again with "Private Investigations" and edited the video immediately after the recording. And some time ago, if I recorded two songs at the same time, I would upload them both at the same time. This is absolutely not perfect from a YouTube uploading strategy standpoint. In fact, that's a huge mistake! Now I try to learn from my mistakes and have found a solution: I just posted another video on the song "Stand Up Guy" over on my Patreon! It was created just for that. And I gotta say, having Patreon really makes me work harder. When you know that you have a contract with people and you can't let them down, you always know that you need to work hard just to be on the polite side, so it really, really helps. Can't stress enough how much it helps, and again, if you love what I do and want to support me, you can do it starting with just 1 dollar a month on my Patreon. As you can see, it not only helps me buying amps and strings but puts more pressure on me and therefore inspires me to work. It's a two-way street! Pavel.
https://www.patreon.com/pavelfomenkov (https://www.patreon.com/pavelfomenkov)
$1 a month donation ? are you behind with the rent ?
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One of the huge mistakes I made, and I talked about it earlier, was and still is — rushing everything. I even did it again with "Private Investigations" and edited the video immediately after the recording. And some time ago, if I recorded two songs at the same time, I would upload them both at the same time. This is absolutely not perfect from a YouTube uploading strategy standpoint. In fact, that's a huge mistake! Now I try to learn from my mistakes and have found a solution: I just posted another video on the song "Stand Up Guy" over on my Patreon! It was created just for that. And I gotta say, having Patreon really makes me work harder. When you know that you have a contract with people and you can't let them down, you always know that you need to work hard just to be on the polite side, so it really, really helps. Can't stress enough how much it helps, and again, if you love what I do and want to support me, you can do it starting with just 1 dollar a month on my Patreon. As you can see, it not only helps me buying amps and strings but puts more pressure on me and therefore inspires me to work. It's a two-way street! Pavel.
https://www.patreon.com/pavelfomenkov (https://www.patreon.com/pavelfomenkov)
are you behind with the rent ?
To tell you the truth, I've always been behind the rent. Unfortunately, here in Russia salaries are so low that I am seriously in need of money and can't afford ANY decent guitar, for instance. In Russia, you are either rich as a Sheikh of Araby, or poor like a homeless, there is no middle class here. So I can even seriously consider switching to Patreon and making videos, should I generate enough patrons. That could theoretically make more than my current job.
New video! Another gem from the "Shangri-La" album, the little drummerless song "Stand Up Guy". As always, it's enjoyable to play, it has great lyrics, and is therefore exciting to analyze. Simple and melodic, and, unfortunately, underrated. The great thing is that I only have now just 2 songs left on the whole album, one of which I'm ready to record but don't have a proper guitar. Two songs and I'll cover the whole "Shangri-La" record, that's serious folks! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuoW3lWSNto
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Hey Pensa, I really hope it wasn't you to hit a dislike on a freshly uploaded video, and also the previous one. If it was you, consider getting a life, man.
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Hey Pensa, I really hope it wasn't you to hit a dislike on a freshly uploaded video, and also the previous one. If it was you, consider getting a life, man.
it wasn't me, weren't you the one who don't like wars ?
so relax dislike hunter
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Hey Pensa, I really hope it wasn't you to hit a dislike on a freshly uploaded video, and also the previous one. If it was you, consider getting a life, man.
it wasn't me, weren't you the one who don't like wars ?
so relax dislike hunter
It was just a strange coincidence that I posted the new video on an obscure song in response and boom, two dislikes dropped when I can go to a few thousand views and weeks without a single one, you know. Again, if it wasn't you, so fine. I just know that you are generally extremely negative towards that I do, however, I never ever said anything bad about your situation and always tried to cheer you up. It's a combination of our communication history, so nothing personal, I hope you understand. I'm not starting a war, you can't start what's already going on for years :lol
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Hey Pensa, I really hope it wasn't you to hit a dislike on a freshly uploaded video, and also the previous one. If it was you, consider getting a life, man.
it wasn't me, weren't you the one who don't like wars ?
so relax dislike hunter
It was just a strange coincidence that I posted the new video on an obscure song in response and boom, two dislikes dropped when I can go to a few thousand views and weeks without a single one, you know. Again, if it wasn't you, so fine. I just know that you are generally extremely negative towards that I do, however, I never ever said anything bad about your situation and always tried to cheer you up. It's a combination of our communication history, so nothing personal, I hope you understand. I'm not starting a war, you can't start what's already going on for years :lol
I am very sorry that 1 dislike on youtube by an unknown ruined your life, how old are you ?
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Not Mark Knopfler, but Chet was one of Mark's best friends, so it deserves to be published here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM)
The idea to recreate “Jam Man” was spontaneous. A few days ago, after I bought an amp, I thought what about “Jam Man”? And I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized there are NO videos like this in existence for this Grammy-winning track! I thought I'll go on YouTube and see at least 4 or 5 videos with all the parts recreated, but nope. I thought, what about tablatures? And tablatures are also not popular and sometimes have major mistakes. And so I had to do it, even though the only electric guitar I have is my Squier Mini Strat. But I play everything on it, so why not this song? You can imagine the nightmare through which I had to go in order to make this happen. I don't have 50 years of playing behind me as Chet had at the time, I don't have any of the equipment needed, including a guitar, I don't know how to record it properly, I can't play it flawlessly in one take so I had to cut it in a couple of places. But I wanted to do it so bad I couldn't resist. I hope you'll like it. It was a lot of work! Pavel.
Great job, Pavel. Top playing and top guitar tone. That little Squier sounds really nice, I must say.
PS Don't mind PensaGhost.
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Not Mark Knopfler, but Chet was one of Mark's best friends, so it deserves to be published here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM)
The idea to recreate “Jam Man” was spontaneous. A few days ago, after I bought an amp, I thought what about “Jam Man”? And I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized there are NO videos like this in existence for this Grammy-winning track! I thought I'll go on YouTube and see at least 4 or 5 videos with all the parts recreated, but nope. I thought, what about tablatures? And tablatures are also not popular and sometimes have major mistakes. And so I had to do it, even though the only electric guitar I have is my Squier Mini Strat. But I play everything on it, so why not this song? You can imagine the nightmare through which I had to go in order to make this happen. I don't have 50 years of playing behind me as Chet had at the time, I don't have any of the equipment needed, including a guitar, I don't know how to record it properly, I can't play it flawlessly in one take so I had to cut it in a couple of places. But I wanted to do it so bad I couldn't resist. I hope you'll like it. It was a lot of work! Pavel.
Great job, Pavel. Top playing and top guitar tone. That little Squier sounds really nice, I must say.
PS Don't mind PensaGhost.
Hi Hunter
I've modified your post, no insults to fellow members please. :)
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Not Mark Knopfler, but Chet was one of Mark's best friends, so it deserves to be published here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM)
The idea to recreate “Jam Man” was spontaneous. A few days ago, after I bought an amp, I thought what about “Jam Man”? And I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized there are NO videos like this in existence for this Grammy-winning track! I thought I'll go on YouTube and see at least 4 or 5 videos with all the parts recreated, but nope. I thought, what about tablatures? And tablatures are also not popular and sometimes have major mistakes. And so I had to do it, even though the only electric guitar I have is my Squier Mini Strat. But I play everything on it, so why not this song? You can imagine the nightmare through which I had to go in order to make this happen. I don't have 50 years of playing behind me as Chet had at the time, I don't have any of the equipment needed, including a guitar, I don't know how to record it properly, I can't play it flawlessly in one take so I had to cut it in a couple of places. But I wanted to do it so bad I couldn't resist. I hope you'll like it. It was a lot of work! Pavel.
Great job, Pavel. Top playing and top guitar tone. That little Squier sounds really nice, I must say.
PS Don't mind PensaGhost.
Hi Hunter
I've modified your post, no insults to fellow members please. :)
Thanks. Well, I was surprised how this guitar sounds myself, I bought it for 90$ used and thought it would be a piece of crap, but it turned out to be my favorite guitar! And it sounds really impressive, for the price of a single Fender pickup this guitar delivers more fun than you could imagine. And I was so impressed I even recorded the video where I played 10 MK riffs and it also sounds pretty good.
And since it's my favorite guitar now that I play for hours every day, I modified it with decent tuners, bone nut and bought a great gig bag and it was the best purchase in my musical life. And because I can't afford more "serious" guitars, the fact that Mini Squier delivers so much is a true miracle.
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Not Mark Knopfler, but Chet was one of Mark's best friends, so it deserves to be published here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM)
The idea to recreate “Jam Man” was spontaneous. A few days ago, after I bought an amp, I thought what about “Jam Man”? And I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized there are NO videos like this in existence for this Grammy-winning track! I thought I'll go on YouTube and see at least 4 or 5 videos with all the parts recreated, but nope. I thought, what about tablatures? And tablatures are also not popular and sometimes have major mistakes. And so I had to do it, even though the only electric guitar I have is my Squier Mini Strat. But I play everything on it, so why not this song? You can imagine the nightmare through which I had to go in order to make this happen. I don't have 50 years of playing behind me as Chet had at the time, I don't have any of the equipment needed, including a guitar, I don't know how to record it properly, I can't play it flawlessly in one take so I had to cut it in a couple of places. But I wanted to do it so bad I couldn't resist. I hope you'll like it. It was a lot of work! Pavel.
Great job, Pavel. Top playing and top guitar tone. That little Squier sounds really nice, I must say.
PS Don't mind PensaGhost.
Hi Hunter
I've modified your post, no insults to fellow members please. :)
Sorry for using an insulting word. How about PensaGhost's incessant negativity and insulting content?
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Not Mark Knopfler, but Chet was one of Mark's best friends, so it deserves to be published here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM)
The idea to recreate “Jam Man” was spontaneous. A few days ago, after I bought an amp, I thought what about “Jam Man”? And I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized there are NO videos like this in existence for this Grammy-winning track! I thought I'll go on YouTube and see at least 4 or 5 videos with all the parts recreated, but nope. I thought, what about tablatures? And tablatures are also not popular and sometimes have major mistakes. And so I had to do it, even though the only electric guitar I have is my Squier Mini Strat. But I play everything on it, so why not this song? You can imagine the nightmare through which I had to go in order to make this happen. I don't have 50 years of playing behind me as Chet had at the time, I don't have any of the equipment needed, including a guitar, I don't know how to record it properly, I can't play it flawlessly in one take so I had to cut it in a couple of places. But I wanted to do it so bad I couldn't resist. I hope you'll like it. It was a lot of work! Pavel.
Great job, Pavel. Top playing and top guitar tone. That little Squier sounds really nice, I must say.
PS Don't mind PensaGhost.
Hi Hunter
I've modified your post, no insults to fellow members please. :)
Sorry for using an insulting word. How about PensaGhost's incessant negativity and insulting content?
The war is only in yours and quizzaciously's minds. I have written several times that quizzaciously's videos are good.
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Not Mark Knopfler, but Chet was one of Mark's best friends, so it deserves to be published here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM)
The idea to recreate “Jam Man” was spontaneous. A few days ago, after I bought an amp, I thought what about “Jam Man”? And I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized there are NO videos like this in existence for this Grammy-winning track! I thought I'll go on YouTube and see at least 4 or 5 videos with all the parts recreated, but nope. I thought, what about tablatures? And tablatures are also not popular and sometimes have major mistakes. And so I had to do it, even though the only electric guitar I have is my Squier Mini Strat. But I play everything on it, so why not this song? You can imagine the nightmare through which I had to go in order to make this happen. I don't have 50 years of playing behind me as Chet had at the time, I don't have any of the equipment needed, including a guitar, I don't know how to record it properly, I can't play it flawlessly in one take so I had to cut it in a couple of places. But I wanted to do it so bad I couldn't resist. I hope you'll like it. It was a lot of work! Pavel.
Great job, Pavel. Top playing and top guitar tone. That little Squier sounds really nice, I must say.
PS Don't mind PensaGhost.
Hi Hunter
I've modified your post, no insults to fellow members please. :)
Sorry for using an insulting word. How about PensaGhost's incessant negativity and insulting content?
Simple to report any posts that you believe to break our rules. :)
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Not Mark Knopfler, but Chet was one of Mark's best friends, so it deserves to be published here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-tRvG91KM)
The idea to recreate “Jam Man” was spontaneous. A few days ago, after I bought an amp, I thought what about “Jam Man”? And I couldn’t believe my eyes when I realized there are NO videos like this in existence for this Grammy-winning track! I thought I'll go on YouTube and see at least 4 or 5 videos with all the parts recreated, but nope. I thought, what about tablatures? And tablatures are also not popular and sometimes have major mistakes. And so I had to do it, even though the only electric guitar I have is my Squier Mini Strat. But I play everything on it, so why not this song? You can imagine the nightmare through which I had to go in order to make this happen. I don't have 50 years of playing behind me as Chet had at the time, I don't have any of the equipment needed, including a guitar, I don't know how to record it properly, I can't play it flawlessly in one take so I had to cut it in a couple of places. But I wanted to do it so bad I couldn't resist. I hope you'll like it. It was a lot of work! Pavel.
Great job, Pavel. Top playing and top guitar tone. That little Squier sounds really nice, I must say.
PS Don't mind PensaGhost.
Hi Hunter
I've modified your post, no insults to fellow members please. :)
Sorry for using an insulting word. How about PensaGhost's incessant negativity and insulting content?
Simple to report any posts that you believe to break our rules. :)
True, and fair enough.
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Another song from the classic "Brothers In Arms" album, "The Man's Too Strong". I always get extremely nervous reviewing big songs, and this time it was especially hard since it's a strummer and you play it with a pick, and I rarely do it, so that was just a bit harder for me than usual. But I think the lesson turned out pretty good, I covered the hardest part a lot (which was the hardest part to me) and talked about strumming, major and minor transitions, which this song is kinda famous for. So I tried to sum all my thoughts about this song in 15 minutes, hope you will enjoy it! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLFdp4VWeE
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Absolutely amazing as ever Pavel.....well done sir :clap
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Really nice Pavel. :clap
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Absolutely amazing as ever Pavel.....well done sir :clap
Really nice Pavel. :clap
Thank you guys!
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It was the last day of summer... And I finally made a video on "Two Young Lovers"! This song includes Mark's signature Rock and Roll right-hand pattern which I'm still fascinated by even after 15 years. When I was a kid, I wanted to play like that so bad! I loved this groove so much, I loved the punchy nature of Mark's playing each time he played that riff. But I never understood completely how it's done. I still don't, but at least I think I got somewhat close after studying 70 songs. Think about it, just to START to sound close to the real deal one spend 15 years and study 70 songs. That's the music we're working on here. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsRW0fuChYc
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Another classic well covered - brilliant, well done.. :clap
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perfect job as always Pavel :thumbsup :clap
in your song list with this rhythm pattern you can add "No wonder he's confused" (from "Golden demos")
for "Twisting by pool", you are right about the studio version which features a fingerstyle part, but live, Mark plays that song with a pick.
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perfect job as always Pavel :thumbsup :clap
in your song list with this rhythm pattern you can add "No wonder he's confused" (from "Golden demos")
for "Twisting by pool", you are right about the studio version which features a fingerstyle part, but live, Mark plays that song with a pick.
Thank you! I think that's not the only song where he does that, but surely, if there's a choice of fingerstyle and pick, I'll always go with a fingerstyle version. The Man's Too Strong was actually harder to play with a pick for me :lol Needs more concentration than just to pick it with fingers. And some people said this to me as well so it's quite universal. That song actually sounds pretty good played with fingers, kinda like Privateering.
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perfect job as always Pavel :thumbsup :clap
in your song list with this rhythm pattern you can add "No wonder he's confused" (from "Golden demos")
for "Twisting by pool", you are right about the studio version which features a fingerstyle part, but live, Mark plays that song with a pick.
Ah, yes, "No Wonder He's Confused" is a pretty cool song! I wanted to do "Belle Starr", but since it's not Mark's song, "No Wonder He's Confused" would be a good replacement.
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"Quality Shoe" is a fun little song, always lifts my mood whenever I play it or listen to it, and I always play it on a uke. So I couldn't resist playing it on the ukulele in lesson #70 as well. Yes, that's the 70th video and I'm really proud of that. It's not a really big number, but each number represents a song, the unique way to play it, an army of people who loves it. And "Quality Shoe" is all about fun! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFINJACOYlE
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I always thought it's a great song, not only by the classic rock mood it has but also because of the lyrics, so funny...
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I always thought it's a great song, not only by the classic rock mood it has but also because of the lyrics, so funny...
Yes, and I love how a brilliant songwriter can take a random topic, or see a street sign (isn't that happened to MK with Quality Shoe? I can't remember) and write a song about it. It's like Paul McCartney's song about Picasso, which he wrote on the spot reading a newspaper or something and wrote a song as a dare from his friend, a great story. And Quality Shoe is not only a great song on its own but a great tribute to Roger Miller as well! And I wish I would add all this into my video, but I forgot about all this. Maybe for a reason, haha. It's a fun little song.
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... If you could use a change of pace
And be excused from the rat race...
Yes. Mark saw the sign 'good quality shoes' But they really were of poor quality. A song about human dignity because everyone deserves to have good shoes.
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The same approach as with Sultans. I never liked this song. It's well done and nicely written and all, but the style did not fit on. The album from my point of view. After Why Aye Man it was a huge letdown to hear this one after the tension of an announced new song.
LE
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Have to admit this part always makes me smile:
Now I wish you sunny skies
And happiness wherever you may go
But you got to realise
There'll be wind, there'll be rain
And occasional snow
For me this song is not really about shoes but about life itself. It mentions many situation of life that anyone would live, and our attitude about all those situations, and that part, "You got to realise there'll be wind, rain and occasional snow" is a clear reflect of some of the difficulties life have for you.
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:thumbsup Of course, the shoe is only a symbol of a certain metaphor
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Have to admit this part always makes me smile:
Now I wish you sunny skies
And happiness wherever you may go
But you got to realise
There'll be wind, there'll be rain
And occasional snow
For me this song is not really about shoes but about life itself. It mentions many situation of life that anyone would live, and our attitude about all those situations, and that part, "You got to realise there'll be wind, rain and occasional snow" is a clear reflect of some of the difficulties life have for you.
Oh yes! I think that's the main topic of The Ragpicker's Dream album, I like how Mark reflects on life itself and especially the working class there. It's astonishing to me how underrated his music is, but maybe, many years from now, it will get the attention it deserves. From the cover picture to every song, it's an absolute classic.
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Yes, it's about not being home in a way. The closest to a concept album from MK as it could get. Every song is about not being home, being away, wanting to get home, and the dream iin the title is exactly that.. Home.
LE
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Yes, it's about not being home in a way. The closest to a concept album from MK as it could get. Every song is about not being home, being away, wanting to get home, and the dream iin the title is exactly that.. Home.
LE
He used to say that KTGC was also thematic about old England, I remember he used to mention a certain decade but can't remember which one.
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He talked about times of war (Let It All Go) and much earlier (Madame Geneva's)
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Yes, it's about not being home in a way. The closest to a concept album from MK as it could get. Every song is about not being home, being away, wanting to get home, and the dream iin the title is exactly that.. Home.
LE
He used to say that KTGC was also thematic about old England, I remember he used to mention a certain decade but can't remember which one.
The 1950s
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
Yes indeed, MK has covered many aspects of ye Olde England....
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I always thought it's a great song, not only by the classic rock mood it has but also because of the lyrics, so funny...
I think it's really one of MK's finest tunes, agree with amazing funny lyrics - so underrated......
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
With regards KTGC, I'd also say the 1960's with the Shadows and especially Hanks 'Strat' sound which by the early 60's had that well known sound to it which MK liked and is evident on this album!!
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
With regards KTGC, I'd also say the 1960's with the Shadows and especially Hanks 'Strat' sound which by the early 60's had that well known sound to it which MK liked and is evident on this album!!
Oh yeah! As I calculated earlier, half of the album was played with a pick, and half of the album is waltzes. Such experimantal album!
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KTGC has gone from being one of my least liked albums to being amongst my favourites. Such a beautiful album! :)
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KTGC has gone from being one of my least liked albums to being amongst my favourites. Such a beautiful album! :)
Same with me here. It has grown on me year by year.
Maybe it has something to do with getting older ;)
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KTGC has gone from being one of my least liked albums to being amongst my favourites. Such a beautiful album! :)
Maybe it has something to do with getting older ;)
Could be. The lyrics of "We Can Get Wild" especially remind me of the 50s - Bert Weedon's "Play in a Day", the DA haircut and also "this rocking cat" which would be Elvis, I presume.
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
With regards KTGC, I'd also say the 1960's with the Shadows and especially Hanks 'Strat' sound which by the early 60's had that well known sound to it which MK liked and is evident on this album!!
That's true. A good example is the song We Can Get Wild.
"We'll be on our own Billy Fury on the gramophone...
Billy Fury recorded in the 1960s
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
With regards KTGC, I'd also say the 1960's with the Shadows and especially Hanks 'Strat' sound which by the early 60's had that well known sound to it which MK liked and is evident on this album!!
Oh yeah! As I calculated earlier, half of the album was played with a pick, and half of the album is waltzes. Such experimantal album!
Probably more of a homage to Hank with both the pick and sound.....
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KTGC has gone from being one of my least liked albums to being amongst my favourites. Such a beautiful album! :)
Always liked it, but like you this is now a huge favourite...
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
With regards KTGC, I'd also say the 1960's with the Shadows and especially Hanks 'Strat' sound which by the early 60's had that well known sound to it which MK liked and is evident on this album!!
That's true. A good example is the song We Can Get Wild.
"We'll be on our own Billy Fury on the gramophone...
Billy Fury recorded in the 1960s
Brilliant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
With regards KTGC, I'd also say the 1960's with the Shadows and especially Hanks 'Strat' sound which by the early 60's had that well known sound to it which MK liked and is evident on this album!!
That's true. A good example is the song We Can Get Wild.
"We'll be on our own Billy Fury on the gramophone...
Billy Fury recorded in the 1960s
Brilliant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury
Wow, this man sounded almost like every 50s and 60s artist. He had songs that sound like Elvis, The Everly Brothers, The Beatles ;D
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12th - 18th century
The 1930s
The 1950s
:)
With regards KTGC, I'd also say the 1960's with the Shadows and especially Hanks 'Strat' sound which by the early 60's had that well known sound to it which MK liked and is evident on this album!!
That's true. A good example is the song We Can Get Wild.
"We'll be on our own Billy Fury on the gramophone...
Billy Fury recorded in the 1960s
Brilliant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Fury
Wow, this man sounded almost like every 50s and 60s artist. He had songs that sound like Elvis, The Everly Brothers, The Beatles ;D
I was a fan of Billy Fury in my teens and Wondrous Place was one of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD5v85Z6yLQ
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It's "Lions" time! Can't say I never tried to include this song before in the catalogue, but the time was right, and I know this is a desirable song. But! It was HARD, Caps Lock hard, and I mean it. Hard to learn, hard to record, hard everything. The simplest songs for me to do is the ones with simple and clear guitar parts, but here, guitars go all over the place. So I had to make my own version of the song, largely based on the real deal. Not the first time it happens, but I can't see how else I can include a song like this. The song is very strange and unusual, but that's exactly why we love it. Anyway, I hope you like my take on it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_vCT36vi8
P.S. Guess what... I forgot to discuss the little part in the end when, before going to G to A section, it switches to Bm7 and F#m7 instead of Bm and F#m, making this part more gentle and sweet. You see, even after sitting on the song for so long, I still can find things to discuss. And I'm not even discussing solos in my videos and anything else. I've got enough to work with haha!
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It's "Lions" time! Can't say I never tried to include this song before in the catalogue, but the time was right, and I know this is a desirable song. But! It was HARD, Caps Lock hard, and I mean it. Hard to learn, hard to record, hard everything. The simplest songs for me to do is the ones with simple and clear guitar parts, but here, guitars go all over the place. So I had to make my own version of the song, largely based on the real deal. Not the first time it happens, but I can't see how else I can include a song like this. The song is very strange and unusual, but that's exactly why we love it. Anyway, I hope you like my take on it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_vCT36vi8
P.S. Guess that... I forgot to discuss the little part in the end when, before going to G to A section, it switches to Bm7 and F#m7 instead of Bm and F#m, making this part more gentle and sweet. You see, even after sitting on the song for so long, I still can find things to discuss. And I'm not even discussing solos in my videos and anything else. I've got enough to work with haha!
Oh wow Man, that's just awesome! You get better n better! Well done and thankyou :wave
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It's "Lions" time! Can't say I never tried to include this song before in the catalogue, but the time was right, and I know this is a desirable song. But! It was HARD, Caps Lock hard, and I mean it. Hard to learn, hard to record, hard everything. The simplest songs for me to do is the ones with simple and clear guitar parts, but here, guitars go all over the place. So I had to make my own version of the song, largely based on the real deal. Not the first time it happens, but I can't see how else I can include a song like this. The song is very strange and unusual, but that's exactly why we love it. Anyway, I hope you like my take on it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_vCT36vi8
P.S. Guess that... I forgot to discuss the little part in the end when, before going to G to A section, it switches to Bm7 and F#m7 instead of Bm and F#m, making this part more gentle and sweet. You see, even after sitting on the song for so long, I still can find things to discuss. And I'm not even discussing solos in my videos and anything else. I've got enough to work with haha!
Oh wow Man, that's just awesome! You get better n better! Well done and thankyou :wave
Thank you! Yes, after doing it for so long you, I became accustomed to it and my playing seems to get better, but every new song is a completely new set of obstacles. Each time is like the first time, especially recording.
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It's "Lions" time! Can't say I never tried to include this song before in the catalogue, but the time was right, and I know this is a desirable song. But! It was HARD, Caps Lock hard, and I mean it. Hard to learn, hard to record, hard everything. The simplest songs for me to do is the ones with simple and clear guitar parts, but here, guitars go all over the place. So I had to make my own version of the song, largely based on the real deal. Not the first time it happens, but I can't see how else I can include a song like this. The song is very strange and unusual, but that's exactly why we love it. Anyway, I hope you like my take on it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_vCT36vi8
P.S. Guess that... I forgot to discuss the little part in the end when, before going to G to A section, it switches to Bm7 and F#m7 instead of Bm and F#m, making this part more gentle and sweet. You see, even after sitting on the song for so long, I still can find things to discuss. And I'm not even discussing solos in my videos and anything else. I've got enough to work with haha!
Oh wow Man, that's just awesome! You get better n better! Well done and thankyou :wave
Thank you! Yes, after doing it for so long you, I became accustomed to it and my playing seems to get better, but every new song is a completely new set of obstacles. Each time is like the first time, especially recording.
All I can say is that all your videos are much appreciated....keep up the good work... :clap
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It's "Lions" time! Can't say I never tried to include this song before in the catalogue, but the time was right, and I know this is a desirable song. But! It was HARD, Caps Lock hard, and I mean it. Hard to learn, hard to record, hard everything. The simplest songs for me to do is the ones with simple and clear guitar parts, but here, guitars go all over the place. So I had to make my own version of the song, largely based on the real deal. Not the first time it happens, but I can't see how else I can include a song like this. The song is very strange and unusual, but that's exactly why we love it. Anyway, I hope you like my take on it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_vCT36vi8
P.S. Guess what... I forgot to discuss the little part in the end when, before going to G to A section, it switches to Bm7 and F#m7 instead of Bm and F#m, making this part more gentle and sweet. You see, even after sitting on the song for so long, I still can find things to discuss. And I'm not even discussing solos in my videos and anything else. I've got enough to work with haha!
Damn you nailed not only the song, but captured the whole atmosphere of it. Kid me not, you're a pro? ;)
:clap
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It's "Lions" time! Can't say I never tried to include this song before in the catalogue, but the time was right, and I know this is a desirable song. But! It was HARD, Caps Lock hard, and I mean it. Hard to learn, hard to record, hard everything. The simplest songs for me to do is the ones with simple and clear guitar parts, but here, guitars go all over the place. So I had to make my own version of the song, largely based on the real deal. Not the first time it happens, but I can't see how else I can include a song like this. The song is very strange and unusual, but that's exactly why we love it. Anyway, I hope you like my take on it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_vCT36vi8
P.S. Guess what... I forgot to discuss the little part in the end when, before going to G to A section, it switches to Bm7 and F#m7 instead of Bm and F#m, making this part more gentle and sweet. You see, even after sitting on the song for so long, I still can find things to discuss. And I'm not even discussing solos in my videos and anything else. I've got enough to work with haha!
Damn you nailed not only the song, but captured the whole atmosphere of it. Kid me not, you're a pro? ;)
:clap
Yes I'm in agreement with justme, Pavel....you are a secret Pro aren't you?
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It's "Lions" time! Can't say I never tried to include this song before in the catalogue, but the time was right, and I know this is a desirable song. But! It was HARD, Caps Lock hard, and I mean it. Hard to learn, hard to record, hard everything. The simplest songs for me to do is the ones with simple and clear guitar parts, but here, guitars go all over the place. So I had to make my own version of the song, largely based on the real deal. Not the first time it happens, but I can't see how else I can include a song like this. The song is very strange and unusual, but that's exactly why we love it. Anyway, I hope you like my take on it. Pavel.
P.S. Guess what... I forgot to discuss the little part in the end when, before going to G to A section, it switches to Bm7 and F#m7 instead of Bm and F#m, making this part more gentle and sweet. You see, even after sitting on the song for so long, I still can find things to discuss. And I'm not even discussing solos in my videos and anything else. I've got enough to work with haha!
Damn you nailed not only the song, but captured the whole atmosphere of it. Kid me not, you're a pro? ;)
:clap
Yes I'm in agreement with justme, Pavel....you are a secret Pro aren't you?
Haha! And you guys captured exactly my goal for all my videos and "Lions" in particular. I want to capture the atmosphere of the song. Often it means just to replay what Mark already played. Like many of his songs are because the song was already finished even before he recorded it. But sometimes I need to be more creative. With that said, that "Lions" rhythm is actually in the song, I just don't know whether Mark played the bass notes on the record. If I had the master I would know.
And no, I'm definitely not a Pro. If I'd be a Pro, you won't see my videos at all because I would be busy doing "Pro" stuff. Because I'm not a pro, I can afford to do whatever I want, without any stress and schedules. So I'm happy I'm not a professional musician or a teacher for that matter.
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It's "Lions" time! Can't say I never tried to include this song before in the catalogue, but the time was right, and I know this is a desirable song. But! It was HARD, Caps Lock hard, and I mean it. Hard to learn, hard to record, hard everything. The simplest songs for me to do is the ones with simple and clear guitar parts, but here, guitars go all over the place. So I had to make my own version of the song, largely based on the real deal. Not the first time it happens, but I can't see how else I can include a song like this. The song is very strange and unusual, but that's exactly why we love it. Anyway, I hope you like my take on it. Pavel.
P.S. Guess what... I forgot to discuss the little part in the end when, before going to G to A section, it switches to Bm7 and F#m7 instead of Bm and F#m, making this part more gentle and sweet. You see, even after sitting on the song for so long, I still can find things to discuss. And I'm not even discussing solos in my videos and anything else. I've got enough to work with haha!
Damn you nailed not only the song, but captured the whole atmosphere of it. Kid me not, you're a pro? ;)
:clap
Yes I'm in agreement with justme, Pavel....you are a secret Pro aren't you?
Haha! And you guys captured exactly my goal for all my videos and "Lions" in particular. I want to capture the atmosphere of the song. Often it means just to replay what Mark already played. Like many of his songs are because the song was already finished even before he recorded it. But sometimes I need to be more creative. With that said, that "Lions" rhythm is actually in the song, I just don't know whether Mark played the bass notes on the record. If I had the master I would know.
And no, I'm definitely not a Pro. If I'd be a Pro, you won't see my videos at all because I would be busy doing "Pro" stuff. Because I'm not a pro, I can afford to do whatever I want, without any stress and schedules. So I'm happy I'm not a professional musician or a teacher for that matter.
Haha Haha, well just keep up the good work!! :clap :clap
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Haha! And you guys captured exactly my goal for all my videos and "Lions" in particular. I want to capture the atmosphere of the song. Often it means just to replay what Mark already played. Like many of his songs are because the song was already finished even before he recorded it. But sometimes I need to be more creative. With that said, that "Lions" rhythm is actually in the song, I just don't know whether Mark played the bass notes on the record. If I had the master I would know.
And no, I'm definitely not a Pro. If I'd be a Pro, you won't see my videos at all because I would be busy doing "Pro" stuff. Because I'm not a pro, I can afford to do whatever I want, without any stress and schedules. So I'm happy I'm not a professional musician or a teacher for that matter.
Haha Haha, well just keep up the good work!! :clap :clap
I'm on a roll now probably thanks to my supporters on Patreon. It's not a lot of money at all, but it puts just enough pressure on me that I shall keep going. Just the idea of having a "contract" with my audience makes me want to work harder. And as somebody said, "working for free is a sin."
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Haha! And you guys captured exactly my goal for all my videos and "Lions" in particular. I want to capture the atmosphere of the song. Often it means just to replay what Mark already played. Like many of his songs are because the song was already finished even before he recorded it. But sometimes I need to be more creative. With that said, that "Lions" rhythm is actually in the song, I just don't know whether Mark played the bass notes on the record. If I had the master I would know.
And no, I'm definitely not a Pro. If I'd be a Pro, you won't see my videos at all because I would be busy doing "Pro" stuff. Because I'm not a pro, I can afford to do whatever I want, without any stress and schedules. So I'm happy I'm not a professional musician or a teacher for that matter.
Haha Haha, well just keep up the good work!! :clap :clap
I'm on a roll now probably thanks to my supporters on Patreon. It's not a lot of money at all, but it puts just enough pressure on me that I shall keep going. Just the idea of having a "contract" with my audience makes me want to work harder. And as somebody said, "working for free is a sin."
Any links you can share here for 'donations'??
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Haha! And you guys captured exactly my goal for all my videos and "Lions" in particular. I want to capture the atmosphere of the song. Often it means just to replay what Mark already played. Like many of his songs are because the song was already finished even before he recorded it. But sometimes I need to be more creative. With that said, that "Lions" rhythm is actually in the song, I just don't know whether Mark played the bass notes on the record. If I had the master I would know.
And no, I'm definitely not a Pro. If I'd be a Pro, you won't see my videos at all because I would be busy doing "Pro" stuff. Because I'm not a pro, I can afford to do whatever I want, without any stress and schedules. So I'm happy I'm not a professional musician or a teacher for that matter.
Haha Haha, well just keep up the good work!! :clap :clap
I'm on a roll now probably thanks to my supporters on Patreon. It's not a lot of money at all, but it puts just enough pressure on me that I shall keep going. Just the idea of having a "contract" with my audience makes me want to work harder. And as somebody said, "working for free is a sin."
Any links you can share here for 'donations'??
All the links are on my website, and YES, I have a website: https://mksongbook.com/support (https://mksongbook.com/support)
In fact, I have had it at least for 3 years or maybe even more. I just thought it's fun and convenient to have everything in one place, and also to have an eye on my progress. As you can see, I almost entirely missed Privateering, and Tracker, and Roadrunning for whatever reason, but I almost completely covered Shangri-La. It's fun! And shows just how many incredible songs are on their way to my channel. I've done 71 songs already, that's including 23 out of 60 Dire Straits songs and 48 MK Solo songs. That's not a lot, but on the other hand, that's 15 HOURS worth of lessons.
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Fantastic stuff Pavel, I'll take a look... :wave
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Brilliant Pavel as always :clap :thumbsup
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Here's "True Love Will Never Fade" for you. Just had one of the most inspirational moments in my time working on Mark's songs, hope it will make it into a good video. And it was one of the fastest videos ever, just a couple of days for learning, coming up with things to say, and recording. Speaking of inspiration, I still think that my main goal with my channel is to give people inspiration. From the emails that I read, from the comments I receive, I understand that I'm not a guitar teacher at all. And my videos are not "lessons", it's just me trying to share the inspiration that I took from 15 years of being a fan of this music and this is what I'm able to do and really proud of. I have inspiration in spades! And as Bob Dylan said, “The highest purpose of art is to inspire." Pavel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9bx6DLZRqs
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Here's "True Love Will Never Fade" for you. Just had one of the most inspirational moments in my time working on Mark's songs, hope it will make it into a good video. And it was one of the fastest videos ever, just a couple of days for learning, coming up with things to say, and recording. Speaking of inspiration, I still think that my main goal with my channel is to give people inspiration. From the emails that I read, from the comments I receive, I understand that I'm not a guitar teacher at all. And my videos are not "lessons", it's just me trying to share the inspiration that I took from 15 years of being a fan of this music and this is what I'm able to do and really proud of. I have inspiration in spades! And as Bob Dylan said, “The highest purpose of art is to inspire." Pavel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9bx6DLZRqs
I loved it! It's one of my favourite MK songs and your voice was pretty close to MKs! :thumbsup
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Here's "True Love Will Never Fade" for you. Just had one of the most inspirational moments in my time working on Mark's songs, hope it will make it into a good video. And it was one of the fastest videos ever, just a couple of days for learning, coming up with things to say, and recording. Speaking of inspiration, I still think that my main goal with my channel is to give people inspiration. From the emails that I read, from the comments I receive, I understand that I'm not a guitar teacher at all. And my videos are not "lessons", it's just me trying to share the inspiration that I took from 15 years of being a fan of this music and this is what I'm able to do and really proud of. I have inspiration in spades! And as Bob Dylan said, “The highest purpose of art is to inspire." Pavel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9bx6DLZRqs
I loved it! It's one of my favourite MK songs and your voice was pretty close to MKs! :thumbsup
Thank you! I wish I'd had a deeper voice though, but give it 30-40 years and I'll get there :lol
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TLWNF - awesome Pavel, well done... :clap
One of my faves to play myself.... :wave
Might just have to record myself playing the MK strat along with your recording!!
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Wise words, true love will never fade! And here I am, screaming out some powerchords on my axe, because of limited talent. Limited time could also count as an excuse 8)
However, beautiful playing as always. Stick to it ;D!
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TLWNF - awesome Pavel, well done... :clap
One of my faves to play myself.... :wave
Might just have to record myself playing the MK strat along with your recording!!
I'd play along with my own recording should I own more guitars, but I let this for others to do! :lol
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Wise words, true love will never fade! And here I am, screaming out some powerchords on my axe, because of limited talent. Limited time could also count as an excuse 8)
However, beautiful playing as always. Stick to it ;D!
Thank you!
It's funny because I do nothing but strumming on my channel. Occasionally I'd play some solos or pre-written stuff, but generally speaking, my goal is to celebrate guitar strumming as an art form. And so it doesn't require tons of talent to strum some chords, however, it does require a lot of taste!
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Guys, I'm not a fan of re-uploading my 7-year-old videos, but I had to do it because there was a major sound glitch on iOS/macOS platform that I have never seen before all these years, and I confirmed the issue through people I know and the problem was still here, so I had to reupload the video. That was the only solution. But I also managed to clear my copyrights issues and made an interactive tablature for my version. Comments for this arrangement are in the description. Here's the link to the TAB: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/user/tab/view?h=PRaddjeEXrIPxdnLR8umVnoL (https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/user/tab/view?h=PRaddjeEXrIPxdnLR8umVnoL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw7olyQ2xPY
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Guys, I'm not a fan of re-uploading my 7-year-old videos, but I had to do it because there was a major sound glitch on iOS/macOS platform that I have never seen before all these years, and I confirmed the issue through people I know and the problem was still here, so I had to reupload the video. That was the only solution. But I also managed to clear my copyrights issues and made an interactive tablature for my version. Comments for this arrangement are in the description. Here's the link to the TAB: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/user/tab/view?h=PRaddjeEXrIPxdnLR8umVnoL (https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/user/tab/view?h=PRaddjeEXrIPxdnLR8umVnoL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw7olyQ2xPY
Absolutely amazeballs!! Well done! Absolutely love it.... :wave :clap
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Guys, I'm not a fan of re-uploading my 7-year-old videos, but I had to do it because there was a major sound glitch on iOS/macOS platform that I have never seen before all these years, and I confirmed the issue through people I know and the problem was still here, so I had to reupload the video. That was the only solution. But I also managed to clear my copyrights issues and made an interactive tablature for my version. Comments for this arrangement are in the description. Here's the link to the TAB: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/user/tab/view?h=PRaddjeEXrIPxdnLR8umVnoL (https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/user/tab/view?h=PRaddjeEXrIPxdnLR8umVnoL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw7olyQ2xPY
Absolutely amazeballs!! Well done! Absolutely love it.... :wave :clap
Thank you! It's an old video but it holds up pretty well. A lot has changed since 2014, but the song's still the same, and that's great.
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New video: The Last Laugh. I'm a huge Van Morrison fan so it's one of my favourite MK songs for sure. It's very simple, but has some tricks up its sleeve, not as easy to play as it may seem! Very enjoyable to sing and play, so enjoy! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpT79xYKuG0
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great, Pavel :clap
I love this song too. I remember an interview where the journalist said "this song as 'welll worked' arpeggios"
And Mark replied : "yes. For the solo I used the 64 strat, like on thr STP song"
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I can only echo the above Pavel, again you have broken down the guitar parts perfectly and given an in depth analysis to a really lovely piece of MKs work - Thankyou...
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great, Pavel :clap
I love this song too. I remember an interview where the journalist said "this song as 'welll worked' arpeggios"
And Mark replied : "yes. For the solo I used the 64 strat, like on thr STP song"
Oh, it was a Strat? I would never think. I thought it was LP! But I never was too good at determining guitars used. Arpeggios line is great!
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I can only echo the above Pavel, again you have broken down the guitar parts perfectly and given an in depth analysis to a really lovely piece of MKs work - Thankyou...
Thank you! Well, I discuss only the rhythm guitar part, so I hope for a channel that would go more on solos because I'm not into solos too much :lol
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The Long Highway time! I think it's safe to say this song is a crowd favourite — people love that song. And ask me to include it all the time. The time is right since it just had its second birthday on Mark's recent Solo Albums Box. And with advanced songs, often happens that something clicks for me only after I recorded and uploaded it. And I never talked about how beautiful the intro sequence is in the sense it's only thumb + upstrokes and downstrokes all the time. This becomes apparent on the tablature which is pretty useless for this song, but I made it anyway. But you can see the upstrokes and downstrokes nature of the riff, and hopefully, will see it in my new 60fps video. So even if I'm not talking about it, at least I can play it! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0kXhco5zBo
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The Long Highway time! I think it's safe to say this song is a crowd favourite — people love that song. And ask me to include it all the time. The time is right since it just had its second birthday on Mark's recent Solo Albums Box. And with advanced songs, often happens that something clicks for me only after I recorded and uploaded it. And I never talked about how beautiful the intro sequence is in the sense it's only thumb + upstrokes and downstrokes all the time. This becomes apparent on the tablature which is pretty useless for this song, but I made it anyway. But you can see the upstrokes and downstrokes nature of the riff, and hopefully, will see it in my new 60fps video. So even if I'm not talking about it, at least I can play it! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0kXhco5zBo
You've smashed it yet again - really nice Pavel, well done my friend...... :clap :clap :clap
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Wow!
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I wanted to do it for a long time and I've just made it — the complete list of gear I use to make my videos, including a comprehensive review of a new Mustang Micro amp. Everything's now live on my MKSB website:
https://mksongbook.com/gear (https://mksongbook.com/gear)
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I wanted to do it for a long time and I've just made it — the complete list of gear I use to make my videos, including a comprehensive review of a new Mustang Micro amp. Everything's now live on my MKSB website:
https://mksongbook.com/gear (https://mksongbook.com/gear)
Well done you, will take a look.... :wave
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Easy song time! "Who's Your Baby Now" might not be a poetic masterpiece, but surely it's so fun and easy to play. In terms of strumming, it's even more straightforward than "True Love Will Never Fade" and easier to sing. Also, It adds variety to my channel. So nothing wrong with little strumming songs like this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7iGLiVbztc
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Easy song time! "Who's Your Baby Now" might not be a poetic masterpiece, but surely it's so fun and easy to play. In terms of strumming, it's even more straightforward than "True Love Will Never Fade" and easier to sing. Also, It adds variety to my channel. So nothing wrong with little strumming songs like this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7iGLiVbztc
You can't beat a good ol'e strum Pavel - nice work as ever.... :clap :clap
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Having fun with Fender Mustang Micro and Squier Mini! Pale Imitation Solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W2mrTa_HBE
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Just got mentioned via all Mark's social media platforms and that's a huge honour indeed. I wish I'd record 3 videos I wanted to record in November prior to that but hey, I'll do it soon anyway! Not a lot of pressure at all :lol
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Wow congratulations 🤩🎸
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Fabulous Pavel!! And not before time too!!!
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I don't think there is any greater recognition of one's work than to be designated by the master himself as a reference for learning how to play his songs, bravo Pavel, you deserve it, your perseverance and the seriousness of your work have finally paid off.
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Well done, Pavel! :clap
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJaQneIgC9E
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Well done! Looking forward to new stuff! :wave
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Very nice achievement :thumbsup
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Thank you guys! It was a bit unexpected though :lol I'd also want to continue to grow. 75 songs is cool, but I can do better than that.
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You know you're great of course even without MK's blessing, but of course it's nice to have.
Honest Congratulations, I am really happy for you! Who knows, maybe you will end up in a Knopfler song on your own. ;D
LE
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You know you're great of course even without MK's blessing, but of course it's nice to have.
Honest Congratulations, I am really happy for you! Who knows, maybe you will end up in a Knopfler song on your own. ;D
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Oh yes, absolutely, I could go on without blessings forever, but that's actually the point. Blessings or not, I just do what I like and get on with it.
And yes, the ultimate honour in MK world is a mention in a song (don't know about grey hair and Fenders, though), but I'm not "character" enough to justify that, besides, Mark already did that in Sultans with guitar George, he knows all the chords, so I'm definitely out of the question here. You don't want to mess with Guitar George!
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congratulations ! :thumbsup :clap
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Well, you had MK's blessing from the start, your videos are on his youtube channel from long ago, and nothing is done regarding MK without his thumb up!
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Well, you had MK's blessing from the start, your videos are on his youtube channel from long ago, and nothing is done regarding MK without his thumb up!
Correct, the playlist on his channel is almost as old as my little project is. I knew for a long time that MK is not necessarily against me, and they had plenty of time to take me down, so just the fact that I survived working behind Mark's name for so long means something.
I think this publication is not even targeted at me personally, to uplift me, because I know what I do, and I know that I won't butcher any of MK songs and will continue to work no matter what, but at least I'll have some arguments when talking to people who are sceptical towards my work. After all, I'm not just a guy who plays his songs, but I teach it, and that's a whole other story and this sometimes makes sensitive people a bit upset.
I'm happy that all that comes naturally to me and I'm not trying to jump over my head.
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What I mean is MK likes what you do, and that's the reason your videos are on his youtube channel.
So congratulations about that, and also because they are doing publicity of them, they want more people to know your videos!
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What I mean is MK likes what you do, and that's the reason your videos are on his youtube channel.
So congratulations about that, and also because they are doing publicity of them, they want more people to know your videos!
Thank you again! Though I feel I kinda reached the limit of MK fans. I mean MK isn't extremely popular in the first place (compared to The Beatles or Sting), and given that only musicians are subscribing to my channel, and only guitar players, it's an extremely narrow "market" so to speak. Even after the boost in all Mark's social media and website, and dozens of thousands of potential viewers I only got about 500 new subscribers and many comments from people that already know about me. I want to find a way to widen my audience but I'm so busy making MK videos that I honestly don't know how to do that.
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I don't play guitar but I admire your skills and congratulations too :)
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Basil time! My voice clearly has not fully recovered yet, but I figured why wait and decided to record this video. Also, just before the recording, I managed to slash my right-hand index finger, so you can see I'm quite busy! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaKyQWgUSfs
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Basil time! My voice clearly has not fully recovered yet, but I figured why wait and decided to record this video. Also, just before the recording, I managed to slash my right-hand index finger, so you can see I'm quite busy! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaKyQWgUSfs
It is known (as anytime I have the chance, I say it) that tracker is my less favorite MK record, exactly the last in my list, but Basil is one of my favorite tracks from MK career, a beautiful song that I love from the very first time I listen to it. Good approach to it, Pavel!
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To me, Basil is one of the most beautiful "new" songs. I can imagine the song sitting in his desk for years and years waiting to be finished. It feels like autumn, like Basil had been in the autumn of his life at the time. And besides the wonderful song, the outro licks consist of some of the most tasteful notes a Les Paul could offer.
And you, Pavel, are doing that song justice. Well done, once again! :clap
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"Pale Imitation" is a fun little song to play. A very enjoyable chord progression, great melody, fantastic solo. Everything's here, as always. It's one of the bonus tracks from Mark's latest album "Down The Road Wherever", so you may not even know about it. But it deserves attention, it's classic MK. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzPuIY1QXq4
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Excellent work, Pavel. This one is a real gem, sadly left out of the main album. Lots of interesting details in the song structure. I love the modulation part, it's surprising and delivered in a masterful fashion.
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One of the best songs from DTRW, sadly out of the standard edition. Maybe it was too personal to put it on that version.
Good work as usual!
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Excellent work, Pavel. This one is a real gem, sadly left out of the main album. Lots of interesting details in the song structure. I love the modulation part, it's surprising and delivered in a masterful fashion.
One of the best songs from DTRW, sadly out of the standard edition. Maybe it was too personal to put it on that version.
Good work as usual!
Wow, I never thought about that. Maybe it's true, it's certainly too personal. Maybe same thing with Heart Of Oak? These bonus tracks might have a proper reason for their existence, after all... Terminal Of Tribute is also too personal and I'm glad it's a bonus track.
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A very important song for me. Nice Pavel:)
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Tunnel Of Love! Yes, I can’t believe it myself. I wanted to do this song for years, and finally summed up all my feelings towards this masterpiece. It was truly, incredibly, exceptionally hard to pull it off. Happy birthday to me and this is my present to all the viewers. Thank you for watching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIasrNSTGaI
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Happy birthday :wave
I'll be watching that video later. Really looking forward to it.
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Happy birthday :wave
I'll be watching that video later. Really looking forward to it.
Interesting what you'd say, it was hard to do this video in every conciveable way.
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You've said it, it's like two or three songs in one. It's a masterpiece but Marks version is not bad either :P.
Tunnel Of Love - melting hearts since 1980.
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You've said it, it's like two or three songs in one. It's a masterpiece but Marks version is not bad either :P.
Tunnel Of Love - melting hearts since 1980.
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Well said!
I published the chords for my Open G version of "Tunnel Of Love" on the Ultimate Guitar website. Just by the looks of it, you can say this is a ridiculously hard song. I mean, at least 20 chords! And so many parts, that's insane. I'll update the chords for the next few days because you can't make it right, and some mistakes always slip through. But I hope it's helpful. Pro tip: by hitting the "Transpose" +3 button and "Use Flats" option you can get original no capo chords for the song. Also, I'd suggest trying to play it in standard tuning with a capo on the 3rd fret just for fun. Enjoy! Here's the link: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/dire-straits/tunnel-of-love-chords-3995041 (https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/dire-straits/tunnel-of-love-chords-3995041)
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I have 1 question, how does it feel to play ? I have no idea
I devoted myself almost every day since summer 1995 to finding a solution to my wrists but I failed,
my best chance to play again is to die and live again in another dimension
The answer is simple — you never know what you've got till it's gone. I guess it feels great to play. Some people can't live without music, some people never pick up a musical instrument in their whole life. If I'd be able to give you back the ability to play, I'd give it the first time I saw that you struggle with it, and everybody on this forum would do the same I'm sure, everybody feels your pain and wants you not to give up.
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I have 1 question, how does it feel to play ? I have no idea
I devoted myself almost every day since summer 1995 to finding a solution to my wrists but I failed,
my best chance to play again is to die and live again in another dimension
Back in 2018 I severely damaged my left hand and for a split-second thought that "maybe that's it" for my guitar playing. Though I was able to recover, and I do sometimes get that feeling when you can't do something you normally can do. Same when I got COVID, and I lost the ability to smell for more than half a year. Every meal was a miserable experience and so much fun were taken out of my life.
I think one should confront any obstacle in their life as an opportunity to grow and not an excuse to feel sorry for themselves. If I'll never be able to play, then fine, I'll do something else. Even people who are paralysed down their whole body or people on a life sentence in prison are often able to make do with what they have. If something Mark's music and life can teach us is the tremendous optimism, the glass half full approach.
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Took the liberty again to arrange one of the best of Mark's songs — Heart Full Of Holes. It's so good he even played it live in 2019! The high capo position and open tuning would always keep frustrating me, so I had to find another way to play it. And turned out the song sounds great in just Drop D. Next I'll try to play the song more like MK plays it, I promise, haha. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCJv_aWqHhQ
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Well to my ears, it sounds great in drop D. Great job as always
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Pavel, can't remember if you recorded a video of Scafolder wife, which is one of my favorite songs of MK. Did you? I checked your channel but didn't find it.
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Pavel, can't remember if you recorded a video of Scafolder wife, which is one of my favorite songs of MK. Did you? I checked your channel but didn't find it.
No, unfortunately, but I sure love the song! I covered 5 songs from Kill To Get Crimson record and plan to do more. The least covered album is still Privateering with just two songs and I covered 79 in total.
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Pavel, can't remember if you recorded a video of Scafolder wife, which is one of my favorite songs of MK. Did you? I checked your channel but didn't find it.
No, unfortunately, but I sure love the song! I covered 5 songs from Kill To Get Crimson record and plan to do more. The least covered album is still Privateering with just two songs and I covered 79 in total.
I think that Scaffolder's wife has some very nice rythmic guitars on it, and a lovely bass line to make that song sounds great. The vibraphone and the fulte adds something extra special and I think this song really shows how great are MK and Guy working arrangements.
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Pavel, can't remember if you recorded a video of Scafolder wife, which is one of my favorite songs of MK. Did you? I checked your channel but didn't find it.
No, unfortunately, but I sure love the song! I covered 5 songs from Kill To Get Crimson record and plan to do more. The least covered album is still Privateering with just two songs and I covered 79 in total.
I think that Scaffolder's wife has some very nice rythmic guitars on it, and a lovely bass line to make that song sounds great. The vibraphone and the fulte adds something extra special and I think this song really shows how great are MK and Guy working arrangements.
One of the many reasons why I think it was a shame that KTGC went so early in the vote.
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"Go, Love" becomes the 80th song in MKSB. And the songs keep going! "Go, Love" is an amazing song to strum away, to solo over, to sing, to learn, enjoyable from every conceivable angle. I think you'd be surprised to know how simple this song is. Hopefully, I explained it as elegant as the song was written, but if not, I'll take it. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhcY9nRjh0
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So, I made it to 80 songs! That's insane if you ask me. That's kinda serious. Go ahead, name another artist to make 80 videos about his songs, so that each song would bring something new and still be fresh and interesting and there are still dozens and dozens of songs left? Mark Knopfler's songwriting will never stop surprising and inspiring me. With this combination of strong songs, finely crafted arrangements and interesting lyrics, I've never seen the whole package being delivered like that. Pavel.
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Excellent work, congrats.
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Hey, jbaent! Here's "The Scaffolder's Wife" for you! :lol
This might be one of my best videos yet, I’m so happy with the way I made it. The song in question is “The Scaffolder’s Wife”. A request which I’m more than happy to oblige. It started from me being absolutely not knowing where to begin, not knowing what to play, to some of the most inspiring “a-ha” moments to date. This may be a simple and forgotten song, but it gave me a lot. I hope you’ll learn something new just like I did, again. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDL1MFOpwQE
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Thanks Quizzy, thank you very much.
I always loved this song, probably from the very first time, the chords Knopfler plays in this song always sounded to me like something unusual, and very moving. I also think the arrangements are so special, with those bass lines, the vibraphone, the flute... everything is crafted in such a delicate way.
You nailed, as usual!
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Thanks Quizzy, thank you very much.
I always loved this song, probably from the very first time, the chords Knopfler plays in this song always sounded to me like something unusual, and very moving. I also think the arrangements are so special, with those bass lines, the vibraphone, the flute... everything is crafted in such a delicate way.
You nailed, as usual!
Thank you! Yeah, and nobody cares about that song as usual :lol
I mean it has a few 100,000 streams on Spotify (not a lot for big artists), 2 covers on YouTube and a couple of 15-year old discussions here and on MKNews forum. Which is definitely a shame.
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I like the song a lot, Mark's vocals are quite gentle and soothing.
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Good luck, hope you get people wanting to learn!
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I shared on social media and my blog page. Hope it helps.
Take care Pavel
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I shared on social media and my blog page. Hope it helps.
Take care Pavel
Yeah, thank you! I hope it helps. Of course, I can't live off these donations, but they certainly can give me a few precious weeks of life.
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I'm back, thanks for your support! It's the song "Wag The Dog" from the movie of the same name. You can probably guess the reason I chose this song, and it's not a pretty one. But the song is great, it's the blues at its best. Extremely fun to play along with the recording and to train the left-hand thumb. I'll try my best to cover more music from this movie, so stay tuned. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK-rb8FoogU
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I love this song
thanks for the explaining about the thumb
great job as always :clap
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmO7B07ITEQ
Here's "Water Of Love" with a slide for you! The whole song in Open A with all the solos. That's too much fun. All this with less than $500 in gear, as always, I advocate the affordable way to have fun. If you have any questions, fire away. If you have any requests, share them with me. I'll try my best to deliver the answer. Pavel.
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I always liked more the studio version as, for me, the slide sounds better on the national than in the electric when he played live. In those live performances, there was something missing that made it less enjoyable for me
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I always liked more the studio version as, for me, the slide sounds better on the national than in the electric when he played live. In those live performances, there was something missing that made it less enjoyable for me
Yes, National sounds like a dream! Tho I love both electric and acoustic versions. I think should the electric version be properly recorded, and not in a live/demo situation, it would also sound nice. Like Mark's more recent song. By the way, Water Of Love is uncannily similar to Lights Of Taormina. Similar intro, slide, the vibe are almost identical, and both are great songs.
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Excellent Pavel :thumbsup :clap
regarding the studio version, it features two different lead guitars, played by Mark : one with slide on the Nnational (most likely the Tricone) and one on acoustic guitar, played "normally"
in concert Mark used to mix different licks, slide ones and fret ones, like you did in your video
but in studio, the National plays only slide licks, and the other guitar (seems to be a "normal" folk acoustic) plays fret licks
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Excellent Pavel :thumbsup :clap
regarding the studio version, it features two different lead guitars, played by Mark : one with slide on the Nnational (most likely the Tricone) and one on acoustic guitar, played "normally"
in concert Mark used to mix different licks, slide ones and fret ones, like you did in your video
but in studio, the National plays only slide licks, and the other guitar (seems to be a "normal" folk acoustic) plays fret licks
I think when combined it sounds awesome! And again, Mark nowadays does that in the studio as well, as in "You'll Never Walk Alone".
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The Bug Solo time! I break down the amazing solo from On The Night DVD, which I loved listening to for 15 years, but never played it. With this solo, I launch an entirely new section of The Mark Knopfler Songbook as I never discussed solos before. Now I do. This is even more challenging than playing Mark's songs, but I think I also have something to say about it. And I'll play everything on my Squier Mini, the cheapest electric guitar you can get, and on my Mustang Micro amp, the cheapest amp you can get. I think this is just another dimension of complexity! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4SsEPI_Kk
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Just brilliant, as usual. You made a solo something interesting to non guitar players!
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Just brilliant, as usual. You made a solo something interesting to non guitar players!
Thank you for this comment! This is exactly what I need right now. Actually, this is the best type of feedback I could ever dream of. I don't want to impress musicians, I just want to talk about Mark's amazing guitar work, which I do. Coming from a non-musician (professionally speaking), the main goal of my videos is to be interesting for non musicians and maybe, if I'm extra lucky, to inspire somebody to play more.
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Ooh, working just now but I'll be checking this out, I can 100% steal these licks for my band. :)
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Ooh, working just now but I'll be checking this out, I can 100% steal these licks for my band. :)
When watching the video I thought more or less the same, I mean, those licks, explained like that, are very useful as you can practice them and using them for your own playing, some of the progressions and changes are so damm good!
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Ooh, working just now but I'll be checking this out, I can 100% steal these licks for my band. :)
When watching the video I thought more or less the same, I mean, those licks, explained like that, are very useful as you can practice them and using them for your own playing, some of the progressions and changes are so damm good!
Oh yes! One of the most enjoyable things in life for me is watching musicians improvise because I'm not an improv type of a guy myself. I can learn something, and I can play something, or even teach something, but I don't have "a vehicle" to use all this stuff and I can't improvise at all, so I just share it.
An improvised solo of a great guitar player could consist of stolen licks up to 100%, or sometimes people even copy the entire solo (Django's, for instance, or Phil Palmer copying Eric Clapton's solo in front of him on stage to impress him). Licks exist to be stolen, that's life!
And signature licks, we actually can't even imagine how many times "signature licks" are being used. It's, again, a sign of a great improviser, when you hear a lick and can instantly recognize the player. And certain tricks good musicians use in nearly all of their solos. Django alone has hundreds of little musical ideas.
Beg, steal, or borrow!
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The Bug Solo time! I break down the amazing solo from On The Night DVD, which I loved listening to for 15 years, but never played it. With this solo, I launch an entirely new section of The Mark Knopfler Songbook as I never discussed solos before. Now I do. This is even more challenging than playing Mark's songs, but I think I also have something to say about it. And I'll play everything on my Squier Mini, the cheapest electric guitar you can get, and on my Mustang Micro amp, the cheapest amp you can get. I think this is just another dimension of complexity! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4SsEPI_Kk
Welcome to the solo dimension... the solo is 95% correct, well done.
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The Bug Solo time! I break down the amazing solo from On The Night DVD, which I loved listening to for 15 years, but never played it. With this solo, I launch an entirely new section of The Mark Knopfler Songbook as I never discussed solos before. Now I do. This is even more challenging than playing Mark's songs, but I think I also have something to say about it. And I'll play everything on my Squier Mini, the cheapest electric guitar you can get, and on my Mustang Micro amp, the cheapest amp you can get. I think this is just another dimension of complexity! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4SsEPI_Kk
Welcome to the solo dimension... the solo is 95% correct, well done.
Thank you! This is exceptionally hard for me as I'm not an electro guy at all. People sent me their versions and sometimes I feel like a fool, missing important stuff and realizing it only after recording. But that happens, fortunately (I think) one can't reproduce something 100%, and hence there is no such goal.
For instance, now I noticed I bend those 12th fret notes and play 2nd and 3rd strings, while MK more or less doesn't bend it at all and used the 3rd and 4th strings as I think. But messing with such details is more than I can stand :lol
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The Bug Solo time! I break down the amazing solo from On The Night DVD, which I loved listening to for 15 years, but never played it. With this solo, I launch an entirely new section of The Mark Knopfler Songbook as I never discussed solos before. Now I do. This is even more challenging than playing Mark's songs, but I think I also have something to say about it. And I'll play everything on my Squier Mini, the cheapest electric guitar you can get, and on my Mustang Micro amp, the cheapest amp you can get. I think this is just another dimension of complexity! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4SsEPI_Kk
Welcome to the solo dimension... the solo is 95% correct, well done.
Thank you! This is exceptionally hard for me as I'm not an electro guy at all. People sent me their versions and sometimes I feel like a fool, missing important stuff and realizing it only after recording. But that happens, fortunately (I think) one can't reproduce something 100%, and hence there is no such goal.
For instance, now I noticed I bend those 12th fret notes and play 2nd and 3rd strings, while MK more or less doesn't bend it at all and used the 3rd and 4th strings as I think. But messing with such details is more than I can stand :lol
Yes nobody can play MK 100%. Exactly, there's no bend at 12th. Also there's clearly a 2 string trick at 14th just a while after
the 12th one, which you don't play in the video.
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The Bug Solo time! I break down the amazing solo from On The Night DVD, which I loved listening to for 15 years, but never played it. With this solo, I launch an entirely new section of The Mark Knopfler Songbook as I never discussed solos before. Now I do. This is even more challenging than playing Mark's songs, but I think I also have something to say about it. And I'll play everything on my Squier Mini, the cheapest electric guitar you can get, and on my Mustang Micro amp, the cheapest amp you can get. I think this is just another dimension of complexity! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4SsEPI_Kk
Welcome to the solo dimension... the solo is 95% correct, well done.
Thank you! This is exceptionally hard for me as I'm not an electro guy at all. People sent me their versions and sometimes I feel like a fool, missing important stuff and realizing it only after recording. But that happens, fortunately (I think) one can't reproduce something 100%, and hence there is no such goal.
For instance, now I noticed I bend those 12th fret notes and play 2nd and 3rd strings, while MK more or less doesn't bend it at all and used the 3rd and 4th strings as I think. But messing with such details is more than I can stand :lol
Yes nobody can play MK 100%. Exactly, there's no bend at 12th. Also there's clearly a 2 string trick at 14th just a while after
the 12th one, which you don't play in the video.
That's certainly the hardest and the most controversial point in the whole solo, so thank you for joining me in this debate. I played it differently partly because it kinda sounds bad on a shorter scale, plus I don't get the way it switches to a lower voice. Personally, I want to hear this upper harmony. Besides, we've got some nasty instruments overlapping there, so it's a transcriber's nightmare. I'd really want to hear the guitar isolated, but probably not in this lifetime!
My decision was a pretty average one to my taste, a bluesy lick could sound like that and it's good enough for me. When I stumble across controversial places like that I usually go the intuitive route, as it's either not ever finishing the video or leaving it as is and doing something else. Even with my pace of content creation, I need to keep moving, so some sacrifices are inevitable, unfortunately. But I try to leave as few such places on my channel as possible.
As I revisited the solo I also got a few things that could've been improved, but hey, that's some really inappropriate perfectionism. I can go over any of my videos and find a million places where it could be better. Sometimes I feel pretty bad about it, but people's positive reaction gives me some hope.
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Your video remind me of one that Roberto Sanchez, the guitar player from the Spanish tribute "Alchemy band" made explaining a lot of things about guitars and, starting in 5.58 he starts talking about "Single-handed sailor", the two rythmic tracks from MK and David, and he explains the MK guitar solo.
The video is in Spanish, but the important thing for us is what he plays, so I hope you can enjoy his video anyway!
Roberto says that is the most imaginative solos Mk had done in his whole career, a solo that doesn't happens automatically but it needs to be planned, to think about what he wants to do and how, and plays it part by part.
https://youtu.be/FSNHJU9C9Y4?t=358
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Can I request the solo/licks from the start of the track please? :)
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Your video remind me of one that Roberto Sanchez, the guitar player from the Spanish tribute "Alchemy band" made explaining a lot of things about guitars and, starting in 5.58 he starts talking about "Single-handed sailor", the two rythmic tracks from MK and David, and he explains the MK guitar solo.
The video is in Spanish, but the important thing for us is what he plays, so I hope you can enjoy his video anyway!
Roberto says that is the most imaginative solos Mk had done in his whole career, a solo that doesn't happens automatically but it needs to be planned, to think about what he wants to do and how, and plays it part by part.
https://youtu.be/FSNHJU9C9Y4?t=358
Great playing! Miles ahead of me actually! But he's in a tribute band, after all, so he must know his stuff. And he was blessed with a bigger thumb that's for sure, haha. I don't know about "Single-handed sailor", to me any Mark's solo is a diamond. What an underrated guitar player he is... There should be more people trying to play this stuff because it's so amazing. But everybody's playing John Mayer nowadays :lol
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Can I request the solo/licks from the start of the track please? :)
Sure, I'll take a look at it and on other solos maybe. As I can see, the demand for this stuff is still obviously here (who would've thought, haha), so I need to get to work. I knew this lead guitar stuff is popular, to me it's just another level of responsibility, trying not to drop something totally wrong by accident.
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Thanks!
One of the reasons the intro is interesting to me is that MK re-purposes licks from one of the old blues tunes he does with the Hillbillies (can't remember the name right now) which goes back to your point about improvised solos repurposing other stuff.
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Your video remind me of one that Roberto Sanchez, the guitar player from the Spanish tribute "Alchemy band" made explaining a lot of things about guitars and, starting in 5.58 he starts talking about "Single-handed sailor", the two rythmic tracks from MK and David, and he explains the MK guitar solo.
The video is in Spanish, but the important thing for us is what he plays, so I hope you can enjoy his video anyway!
Roberto says that is the most imaginative solos Mk had done in his whole career, a solo that doesn't happens automatically but it needs to be planned, to think about what he wants to do and how, and plays it part by part.
https://youtu.be/FSNHJU9C9Y4?t=358
there are not only two rythmic tracks on single handed sailor, but three ! four guitars in total
https://www.mk-guitar.com/gear-on-all-songs-for-all-albums-wiki/gear-on-album-communique/
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Your video remind me of one that Roberto Sanchez, the guitar player from the Spanish tribute "Alchemy band" made explaining a lot of things about guitars and, starting in 5.58 he starts talking about "Single-handed sailor", the two rythmic tracks from MK and David, and he explains the MK guitar solo.
The video is in Spanish, but the important thing for us is what he plays, so I hope you can enjoy his video anyway!
Roberto says that is the most imaginative solos Mk had done in his whole career, a solo that doesn't happens automatically but it needs to be planned, to think about what he wants to do and how, and plays it part by part.
https://youtu.be/FSNHJU9C9Y4?t=358
there are not only two rythmic tracks on single handed sailor, but three ! four guitars in total
https://www.mk-guitar.com/gear-on-all-songs-for-all-albums-wiki/gear-on-album-communique/
And that's exactly why I dreaded recording solos for so long... The level of complexity is beyond any human level. I think if somebody except for MK himself (at least his younger version) would be able to recreate any of his songs with multiple guitar tracks exactly, he'd be a president of the world. I can confidently say that even with all my powers, I won't be able to even come close to the stuff MK did in his debut album. And I don't know how he found 10 trillion hours to develop all this stuff. I'm almost ready to give up playing every time I try to pick up anything the guy played, but it's 1% of a chance that I'll be able to play it that saves me.
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Brilliant playing as always! :clap
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Pavel, what are your thoughts about how hard to pick? I watched your last "the bug" video and then watched that guy Roberto and you both picked much harder than I would (or did). I think I read in a book (possibly in that official Mark Knopfler Guitar Styles) that he plays light, not hard at all. I also played light and if I put some deliberate attempt at picking harder I quickly gravitated towards light picking again.
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Pavel, what are your thoughts about how hard to pick? I watched your last "the bug" video and then watched that guy Roberto and you both picked much harder than I would (or did). I think I read in a book (possibly in that official Mark Knopfler Guitar Styles) that he plays light, not hard at all. I also played light and if I put some deliberate attempt at picking harder I quickly gravitated towards light picking again.
That's an amazing question actually. And a hard one, so please excuse me for the long answer. I think we need first to establish what "light picking" means. From my experience, often, extremely often I come across people who play too lightly, even including accomplished professional musicians! And I mean here more the "slow attack" or "fast attack", and not the raw force you apply to play a string. I think of it as the speed of fingers in the right hand.
The thing with guitar playing is, that the volume of your playing doesn't depend on the raw force you apply, it's more about how fast you attack the string with your fingers. If you'll watch classical guitar players, these guys usually have a perfect right-hand technique, but their fingers barely move, and the volume of playing goes all over the place: from quiet whispering notes to atomic explosions. How on Earth do they do that? They do that by changing the speed of the attack.
"Light picking" is actually a required skill in order to be a good musician because if you pick too hard, the excessive stress on the right hand will quickly drain your stamina and the hand might actually even get hurt in the long run. So picking should always be as light as possible and relaxed as possible, but the actual speed of attack may change.
From what I can see and hear, Mark has a pretty fast attack, he doesn't approach strings lightly at all. If you play his stuff lightly, it just doesn't sound like it's supposed to sound. Take "Marbletown" for instance. Mark hits those strings pretty hard in that song, he's not lightly picking it at all. So no, I'd say he plays really hard. But Mark is a big guy and I think this comes pretty naturally to him, so coming from someone like me it may feel like I'm forcing this attack. If you have big hands, chances are you will automatically pick harder.
So anyway, my view is that two things should co-exist somehow in guitar playing: the 100% relaxed right hand, but at the same time, the fast attack with fingers. But if you will force this hard attack, you'll lose your hand, and if you decide to play lightly overall, you'll lose the tone. So it's a fine balancing act and a hard, but crucial thing to develop in your playing, at least in my view.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brut8Xca938
Part 2 of my "Water Of Love" experience, where I talk about rhythm guitar. Playing solos is nice, but the best experience for me always has been and always will be playing rhythm, so I'll continue to dive into it more and more. This song is so simple, and yet, so captivating, that's the beauty of Mark's early songwriting. Fewer chords, fewer notes, but a lot of feel and atmosphere. Pavel.
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Another solo time — Speedway At Nazareth! A masterpiece of a solo, it’s difficult, but in a good way. As always, Mark never flashes his technique for the sake of it. This song demands some elbow grease from all the musicians in the band (look at the Drummer!), and Mark delivers this beautiful solo in his department. I’m happy to find this new format, I never thought breaking down solos would be so much fun. The best feedback I got for it is that it’s interesting even for non-musicians. That’s what I would call a success! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd8GhTPXfRU
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Now it’s the rhythm guitar part of “Speedway At Nazareth”. You know if your favorite MK song doesn’t appear on my channel is either because I still never tried to play it, or I played it and was astonished by its complexity. I wanted to do Speedway for a long time but always put it away. Now, having covered the solo part, I figured why not discuss the rhythm now. The stars must’ve aligned, lols. It’s a hard part, but also very “approachable” as well. There are levels and levels you can go deeper and deeper with this song. Starting with just outlining the chords, which is already a big endeavor since there are so many chords and variations, around 20 shapes and voicings. Then it’s strumming, starting with simple two beats strumming, then a more complex strumming, then picking. Then combining picking and strumming. Then learning the solo. I mean, it’s the whole world on its own, and with two videos, clocking in at 30+ minutes, I only started to, attempted to figure it out. It’s an iceberg! But don’t be the Titanic. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiv63ZUW7mg
As always, something becomes obvious after the recording, and another detail I missed is that the band usually plays Dm before G and Esus4, but as Dm/F on a guitar is technically the same thing as F6, it more depends on what other musicians are playing. If you really want to, you can emphasize F6 with an F on the 4th string and Dm with an open D string. I played both versions. And wrote it down correctly in the tablature.
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Another solo time — Speedway At Nazareth! A masterpiece of a solo, it’s difficult, but in a good way. As always, Mark never flashes his technique for the sake of it. This song demands some elbow grease from all the musicians in the band (look at the Drummer!), and Mark delivers this beautiful solo in his department. I’m happy to find this new format, I never thought breaking down solos would be so much fun. The best feedback I got for it is that it’s interesting even for non-musicians. That’s what I would call a success! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd8GhTPXfRU
Damn! That's sounding way too good! Awesome deconstruction of an epic solo.
And it works on those singlecoils also.
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Another solo time — Speedway At Nazareth! A masterpiece of a solo, it’s difficult, but in a good way. As always, Mark never flashes his technique for the sake of it. This song demands some elbow grease from all the musicians in the band (look at the Drummer!), and Mark delivers this beautiful solo in his department. I’m happy to find this new format, I never thought breaking down solos would be so much fun. The best feedback I got for it is that it’s interesting even for non-musicians. That’s what I would call a success! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd8GhTPXfRU
Damn! That's sounding way too good! Awesome deconstruction of an epic solo.
And it works on those singlecoils also.
Thank you! That's only my second solo deconstruction, I hesitated to do it because I only have a Squier Mini at my disposal and a practice amp, but you can make a lot of sound out of this combo it seems.
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New video: “Brothers In Arms” — On The Night solos. After the recording, as always, I noticed a plethora of mistakes, from microscopic to big ones. The biggest mistake I made is thinking that the last fast run is exactly the same as the run Mark played before, but it is not. And the funny thing is, I actually tabbed it out how it was supposed to sound, but still played it wrong. Now, here’s my take on it. You can spend a million years transcribing just one solo, and will eventually play it right, probably, but if you’re not going forward, you’ll never have time to do anything else. Should I feel bad for this big mistake? No, I don’t think so. I fear not the man who has learned one solo 10,000 times, but I fear the man who has learned 10,000 solos. I will make mistakes because I’m a human being and not a robot. I don’t want to re-record my videos because of little greenies like that because you take one mistake out and another one immediately appears from somewhere else. That’s why I hesitated to record solos for so long. Not only because I don’t have enough equipment, but because it’s so hard to master and there is a lot more character that’s going on compared to playing rhythm. It’s not how learning solos should work anyway. All, and I mean — all your guitar heroes never learn complete solos, ever. They steal little bits that they like and apply them in their own playing. So these solos videos are for “entertainment purposes only”, don’t take them too seriously, and learn from my mistakes as well, not only from my playing. We are brothers in arms. Pavel.
P.S. I’m actually partly right because that fast run is really VERY similar to another fast run, the difference is a matter of a couple of notes. The problem is that it’s not the same. But, it’s another testament to Mark Knopfler’s virtuosity, he never plays the same thing twice as any good improviser should.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkIF4LoCUfI
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I'll be live today at approx. 17:00 Moscow time (09:00 a.m. EST). Don't worry, it will be available after the stream! I just want to try this live streaming thing. No real reason for me to do it live other than to test my skills and courage. But it's a huge step for me. I'd never imagine doing live streams even a year ago. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsR0S2JgBL0
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Good luck! Playing live, even online, really helps in my experience. I did a live song every day for four months on Facebook during 2020.
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Good luck! Playing live, even online, really helps in my experience. I did a live song every day for four months on Facebook during 2020.
Thank you! Playing is one thing, but I need to do a lesson in a foreign language live, that's quite different. But yes, live sessions really speed up your learning process, that's for sure. Four months is insane!
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Good luck! Playing live, even online, really helps in my experience. I did a live song every day for four months on Facebook during 2020.
Thank you! Playing is one thing, but I need to do a lesson in a foreign language live, that's quite different. But yes, live sessions really speed up your learning process, that's for sure. Four months is insane!
Gave me something to do... I know a lot of songs anyway but was a good chance to learn new ones also :)
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THREE HOURS! I wanted to go live for 30 minutes, but it turned out to be 3 hours. I never thought I'll get so many comments and questions. Thanks, everybody!
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Hey Pavel, I wanted to find my question but the video is 3 hours long and It's really hard to find it, so I want to ask you here (but also the others), so you could elaborate it further perhaps
Here is my question:
Technique - MK and string muting during solos - since MK anchors the last two fingers down on the guitar body, he has to mute with the right hand, or what? How does he do it?
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Hey Pavel, I wanted to find my question but the video is 3 hours long and It's really hard to find it, so I want to ask you here (but also the others), so you could elaborate it further perhaps
Here is my question:
Technique - MK and string muting during solos - since MK anchors the last two fingers down on the guitar body, he has to mute with the right hand, or what? How does he do it?
But why does he need to? I don't think it makes much sense to block with the right hand at all. I think most of the muting is done through these:
1. Muting with the left hand (tip of fingers, unused fingers, thumb)
2. Muting something simply by not playing it (playing with precision)
Blocking with the right hand helps when playing on top strings to block bottom strings from ringing. But you just do it by sort of playing with a palm mute. Sometimes in Mark's solos you can even hear some of the notes being blocked by the palm.
Personally, I usually block the first string from ringing with my right hand. Mark has pretty big hand and fingers, I've been told, so it also helps with muting. But I think simply playing with precision and hitting only the stuff you need to play is the way to go, but it requires a lot of practice.
I think with blocking you need to keep in mind that most people usually play with a pick, and with a pick your right hand is usually flying up and down, you really don't have an opportunity to block anything. So in the best case scenario, you need to be able to block everything without using right hand at all.
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“Seattle” is song #85 in MKSB. Not an advanced song, at last! “Seattle” is a great slow ballad that grows on you, one may not appreciate it after first listen. But once you get in a certain mood and it starts to resonate with you, it feels so good to play it. Not the most popular song in Mark’s catalog, but it deserves to be on my list. As with any other MK song, haha. I hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhRjGAOAQQ
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I love when MK does this kind of songs, who needs the guitar heroe when he can do such wonderful songs... This, together with Radio City Serenade, The Scaffolders wife and similars are my MK solo favourite songs.
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I love when MK does this kind of songs, who needs the guitar heroe when he can do such wonderful songs... This, together with Radio City Serenade, The Scaffolders wife and similars are my MK solo favourite songs.
You read my mind... Once I "unlocked" MK — the songwriter, and I mean all the songs that are beneath the iceberg in his ocean of songs, I stopped regarding him as a guitar hero. Meanwhile, however, my whole channel has fewer views than many of the Sultans covers alone. So, I'm not saying MK is not a guitar hero. But my priority in enjoying his music is most certainly not the guitar hero part.
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I love when MK does this kind of songs, who needs the guitar heroe when he can do such wonderful songs... This, together with Radio City Serenade, The Scaffolders wife and similars are my MK solo favourite songs.
That is exactly who Mark is more and more, he has said many times he wants to think of himself as a songwriter, and I prefer these type of songs now, Mark has done the guitar hero thing and has moved on, that to me is the sign of a true artist, he could have quite easily just carried on doing the same thing for ever, but he made the decision to do something different.
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I love when MK does this kind of songs, who needs the guitar heroe when he can do such wonderful songs... This, together with Radio City Serenade, The Scaffolders wife and similars are my MK solo favourite songs.
That is exactly who Mark is more and more, he has said many times he wants to think of himself as a songwriter, and I prefer these type of songs now, Mark has done the guitar hero thing and has moved on, that to me is the sign of a true artist, he could have quite easily just carried on doing the same thing for ever, but he made the decision to do something different.
That is the reason why I still have hopes he could do gigs in the future, playing those kind of songs that are not guitar driven, I enjoyed a lot when he played some of them live.
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He has enough songs to do an acoustic only show too, that would be great.
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That's actually my favorite thing when MK performs his songs alone. I even had a little collection of radio broadcasts, interviews, and everything else where it was only his voice and guitar. There is some kind of magic in what's going on.
For this reason, I'm so happy that I record all his songs on one acoustic guitar. I wish I'd had that deep voice and these brilliant chops though! I'll never get there, but it's fun to try.
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Great work as always! I loved this song so much, from the moment I first heard it. The man is such a genius because the intro/outro is in the key of F-major (altering IV/V like the R&J outro), then the verse seamlessly transitions to C-major, and ultimately the chorus is in F-major again (but starting on the I instead of IV/V). It sounds like a simple song, but it's all very cleverly engineered.
One minor note: I think you missed the F#m to F#m7 at the start of the verse. It's very subtle (right before "but we're not watching it").
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Great work as always! I loved this song so much, from the moment I first heard it. The man is such a genius because the intro/outro is in the key of F-major (altering IV/V like the R&J outro), then the verse seamlessly transitions to C-major, and ultimately the chorus is in F-major again (but starting on the I instead of IV/V). It sounds like a simple song, but it's all very cleverly engineered.
One minor note: I think you missed the F#m to F#m7 at the start of the verse. It's very subtle (right before "but we're not watching it").
But I played it! In the lower position, not with the upper voicing, but I played it and wrote it down in my chords.
Great chord functions analysis, this is what I actually missed, but I'm not good at this. I can catch some things, but to go deeper you need some special knowledge. It's indeed a finely written song, can't expect different from MK!
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Another solo breakdown, this time — “You And Your Friend” from On The Night live DVD. On the surface, it seems like a simple blues, but the classic Knopfler touch makes it so hard to play right. Especially the “crying” parts, where Mark uses the volume pedal to turn the guitar into a second voice. But either way, I tried my best to explain what is happening in this solo. It’s only the 4th solo I’ve discussed so far, but already it’s too much fun! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ZNKKTD3a4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-hwkmYCQ88
I had so much to say about Mark’s wonderful version of “What A Wonderful World”, that made a 25-minute video about it. And I wanted to do this video for years. Hopefully, that’s not too tedious for my viewers, but to everyone who will watch the whole thing — thank you, I really mean that. Pavel.
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I recorded Sultans Of Swing! I can’t believe it myself. After 5 years of studying Mark's songs under the microscope, I’m finally ready to attempt playing his magnum opus, at least in the eyes and ears of his audience. Ask your questions about this song and I’ll answer them in a proper Songbook lesson. Obviously, not gear-related questions, please! It’s not easy to record, especially for a bedroom guitar player like me, so I chose the take with the least amount of mistakes. There are a few pretty unfortunate mistakes, but I like the way I dealt with them. How, you ask? I just don’t care! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9n0Npcxa2U
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Very brave!
:clap :clap :clap
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Very brave!
:clap :clap :clap
Yeah, thank you. I know I'll get a lot of flack for playing it on this particular guitar though. But I'd say just try it, play Sultans on the cheapest guitar on the market. It's a great challenge!
UPD: And the cheapest amp.
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Great man, wish i can play like you, well done!
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Great man, wish i can play like you, well done!
Thank you! Well, hopefully with my channel I help people to play better. I'll make a video on Sultans with tips on how to approach it.
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Let's start with the critics, lol
I think it would had been better if you recorded the rythmic by one side, and played the solos apart, this way is a little weird, as when playing solos, logically you stop the rythmic and is weird.
Despite that, again, congratulations, you have to be very brave to play his milestone song and upload, lol
So, you use a wireless with the amp?
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Let's start with the critics, lol
I think it would had been better if you recorded the rythmic by one side, and played the solos apart, this way is a little weird, as when playing solos, logically you stop the rythmic and is weird.
Despite that, again, congratulations, you have to be very brave to play his milestone song and upload, lol
So, you use a wireless with the amp?
I thought about this a lot, maybe recording an acoustic over, but at the same time, I felt there are too many versions of this on YouTube with rhythm already. And it made sense to me to play solo and rhythm as it's sort of a live setup, Mark always plays both rhythm and solos anyway. So I felt I needed to give this "naked" version a try.
Yes, doing it this way makes my playing extremely open and vulnerable, I cringe from my own mistakes like crazy. But I really don't know... It's on the verge of me not uploading it at all, to be honest.
It's a headphone amp! Fender Mustang Micro, that's the whole amp. You just connect it to the computer and record what's played, complete with effects and EQ.
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congrats Pavel ! :thumbsup :clap
I like the way you mix rhythm and lead, just like Mark
and I like your tone too !
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I plan to go live today at 09:00 p.m. Moscow time, so approx. in 6 hours from now (03:00 Moscow time). I want to talk about private lessons, custom videos, and transcriptions. Everything that's teaching-related, basically, and talk about the channel. The last time my stream went extremely well, the questions kept me going for 3 hours straight, but I think I'll make a shorter stream today. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0sQMhtqxs
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I watched a big part of it, really nice.
It always amazes me how much we have in common on musical tastes, I also like a lot "Practical Arrangement" from "The Last Ship", I was to say Sting's musical, but that song wasn't in the musical as the producers thought it didn't fit and asked Sting to write another song instead. I don't share that decision, as I think "Practical Arrangement" is a very nice song, heartbreaking, truly.
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I watched a big part of it, really nice.
It always amazes me how much we have in common on musical tastes, I also like a lot "Practical Arrangement" from "The Last Ship", I was to say Sting's musical, but that song wasn't in the musical as the producers thought it didn't fit and asked Sting to write another song instead. I don't share that decision, as I think "Practical Arrangement" is a very nice song, heartbreaking, truly.
Wow, thank you! I was extremely nervous for some reason, probably because I barely speak in my regular life, and needed to speak for 2 hours straight.
Yeah, Practical Arrangement and the whole album is great, I have very fond memories connected with this album...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zyKwJn-6I
I had to spend more than a month without a guitar but just enjoyed an evening with a viewer in Istanbul who let me play some of his amazing guitars, including this rare and beautiful Gibson. That's certainly the best guitar that I ever played!
Thank you Dr Hanzade: https://instagram.com/drhanzade
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Nothing sounds so powerful than a Gibson Les Paul, and it is also heavy!
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glad to see you in good shape Pavel, and with that lovely guitar
I am planning to buy a Les Paul one day, but I have to spare money...
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Just recorded a short instrumental piece Mark wrote as a part of the Metroland soundtrack. It's short and simple, and beautiful. I tried to record it with all the equipment I currently have: only a Squier Mini Strat and Mustang Micro Amp, my favorite combination. The link to the tab is in the video description if you fancy learning this little tune. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfN69uwH8E
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Metroland has, in my opinion, some of the most beautiful melodies written by MK for a film score, I specially love this one and I think it's a pity that when playing live he let the sax and piano play the melody and he didn't played a single note. In the record is MK who plays it but if I remember well, during the film you can listen that song being played by the piano, which is not in the record!
Good moment of the day chosen to record the video!
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splendid Pavel !
you should have recorded it with the Les Paul when you had the chance to play it some weeks ago :)
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Thank you jbaent and JF. Yes, having more guitars wouldn't hurt :lol
I was quick as always, trying to capture one of the last sunsets with somewhat warm weather, but my hands were already freezing :lol
Yes, it's quite a bummer Mark never played it on guitar live!
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I'm going live tomorrow at approx. 09:00 p.m. GMT. I'll answer your questions about the studio version of Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits, questions about my version of the guitar part from this song, and give an update on my plans, life, and music teaching work which I finally started doing. Pavel.
P.S. Today is the 15th anniversary of my YouTube channel. I registered there quite early but never uploaded regularly until the end of 2016, so technically it’s only 6 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZklxmpienw
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I'm going live tomorrow at approx. 09:00 p.m. GMT. I'll answer your questions about the studio version of Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits, questions about my version of the guitar part from this song, and give an update on my plans, life, and music teaching work which I finally started doing. Pavel.
P.S. Today is the 15th anniversary of my YouTube channel. I registered there quite early but never uploaded regularly until the end of 2016, so technically it’s only 6 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZklxmpienw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZklxmpienw)
Lots of good tips and insights, Pavel. I've been in a "Knopfler mood" lately and have played along to a lot of DS tunes. It strikes me how "economical" Mark's playing is. Most of his licks and runs happen around chords and "boxes" and everything feels very natural. You don't have to master weird and complicated things that people like Allan Holdsworth or Tommy Emmanuel play to figure out Mark's style. The technical part is fairly simple. It's more about getting the feel of it, particularly note choices / phrasing and dynamics.
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Lots of good tips and insights, Pavel. I've been in a "Knopfler mood" lately and have played along to a lot of DS tunes. It strikes me how "economical" Mark's playing is. Most of his licks and runs happen around chords and "boxes" and everything feels very natural. You don't have to master weird and complicated things that people like Allan Holdsworth or Tommy Emmanuel play to figure out Mark's style. The technical part is fairly simple. It's more about getting the feel of it, particularly note choices / phrasing and dynamics.
Coming from you that's quite a compliment! Thanks. Yes, the simplicity of Mark's playing and songwriting surprises me every single day... Well said.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CnzMI-Mwlk
And now it's time for another solo! It would be "Baloney Again", played by Mark in Nulle Part Ailleurs French TV Show back in 2000. Of course, I will do a more detailed review of this solo on my channel. The backing track is my own recording I did for practicing improvising. The sound is coming directly from my Fender Mustang Micro Amp, with no edits. For more solos renditions like this, consider supporting me on BuyMeACoffee or Patreon. For private lessons, email me at fffoma@gmail.com
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I'm gonna attempt going live today with a new Mark Knopfler Songbook real-time lesson at 11:00 a.m. mountain time or 21:00 Turkey time. You can prepare your questions about the song "Don't You Get It" from the Golden Heart album and leave it here or ask them via email: fffoma@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYV-kKWOtnw
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Calling Elvis Solo - Live Version from On The Night DVD. As always, it's a perfectly written solo, filled with Mark's little magic tricks and difficult parts. And so enjoyable to play! I'll discuss this solo in one of my next live streams. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69a1fYD2y4
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Reviewed my little mistake in my latest video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tTxcWeI7qg8
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I recreated one of my favourite moments in whole Mark Knopfler's career — Sailing To Philadelphia Solo, played live on 09.09.09 in London. Can't even describe how beautiful this version is, and the solo, and the band, everything's simply perfect. Check it out. This time, my mistake was not in the playing, but some video glitch slipped through towards the end. You simply can't live without mistakes! I wanted to use this first take simply because of the bird that came flying on one of the most impressive bits in the solo. Tab, as always, is in the description in multiple formats. Lesson pending. Enjoy! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml0p9yyCjrM
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When learning Mark’s songs, for me, this process has two types of outcomes: either it’s really hard to play, but probably played that way (like in the recently covered “Don’t You Get It” or “Sucker Row”), or it’s too hard or impossible to play, so it probably should be played differently. That happened to me in “Angel Of Mercy”, where I figured it must be Open G because it’s too hard to play in standard tuning. And once I got a thought like this, the song played itself. And what a happy song! And what a solo! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv_s06vlhDc
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Oh, OK, that's new! :o
12 string? Maybe, possibly I can hear something but I'm really trying to find excuses to be honest. Never in a million years I'd go "Aha!" except perhaps, now that you've mentioned it, during his solo there just might perhaps be something there, maybe!
I'll go listen to it for the 12th time tonight now.... :smack
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Oh, OK, that's new! :o
12 string? Maybe, possibly I can hear something but I'm really trying to find excuses to be honest. Never in a million years I'd go "Aha!" except perhaps, now that you've mentioned it, during his solo there just might perhaps be something there, maybe!
I'll go listen to it for the 12th time tonight now.... :smack
Well, I think the 12-string on "Angel Of Mercy" is a well-established fact. Apart from all the resources stating it (MK-Guitar, oneverybootleg), it's just obvious when you hear the song. You can't possibly mistake this sound for another, save for 2 guitars with standard and Nashville tuning. And it's actually quite astonishing that Mark can go to such lengths to serve a song. Take a 12-string, tune it in a weird tuning, compose a brilliant solo for it, and use it only once in a set or whatever, and nobody will think something strange has happened. The ultimate "serving a song" scenario.
And the solo actually sounds dull in standard tuning, so no wonder Mark wanted to spice it up a little. It sounds just fantastic on a 12-string!
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and in 1979, he played it live with a bottleneck on the 12 string burn baldwin !
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That's why I need you guys to point out the obvious when it's not obvious to me. :wave
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That's why I need you guys to point out the obvious when it's not obvious to me. :wave
You're welcome. It's all relative, though. I make a truckload of mistakes in everything I do, sometimes I get stuck transcribing seemingly "obvious" things, so nothing's really obvious in the world of music. If it's not a perfectly recorded single instrument with a video, mistakes will happen. Let alone when you have a tightly recorded track from the 70s with multiple guitar parts, barely any or no live recordings, no recording testimony and certainly no videos.
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The song for today is "When It Comes To You" from Dire Straits' final album. Keeping the Open G tuning vibe from the previous video, I tried to break down my approach to playing this little obscured/underrated bluesy tune. As I said in a live stream, if I would hear this song on my search for new songs, it would go to my collection 10 seconds in. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evfg6JLgRW0
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My YouTube shorts are all about spontaneous ideas, and here's one of them: quick transcribing and recording of the solo from the song "Prairie Wedding" from Mark Knopfler's "Sailing To Philadelphia" record. Just recorded this on my laptop after transcribing. I'm aware there are multiple ways to play that solo, this way works for my guitar. The lesson for the song is in the pipeline! As always, an amazing song from MK. What a master. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zeJ_CXrg9y4
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Here's a little glimpse of my work process on learning the songs, and it includes diving into history, digging up archives, gathering information, and most importantly — trusting the ear. Because if it doesn't sound good, then it's most certainly not the way it was played. Also, if you thought I only work on Mark Knopfler's songs, that's not true. I'm able to work on Mark Knopfler's songs because I dissected and played hundreds of songs like this in the video. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6IuM1_fzIQ
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I'm going live tomorrow at approx. 09:00 p.m. GMT. I'll answer your questions about the studio version of Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits, questions about my version of the guitar part from this song, and give an update on my plans, life, and music teaching work which I finally started doing. Pavel.
P.S. Today is the 15th anniversary of my YouTube channel. I registered there quite early but never uploaded regularly until the end of 2016, so technically it’s only 6 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZklxmpienw
On the twiddly bits in Sultans, here's a short Michael Britt comment about it that I recently found by accident.
https://youtu.be/JEzvCCbwYj8?t=1164
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I'm going live tomorrow at approx. 09:00 p.m. GMT. I'll answer your questions about the studio version of Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits, questions about my version of the guitar part from this song, and give an update on my plans, life, and music teaching work which I finally started doing. Pavel.
P.S. Today is the 15th anniversary of my YouTube channel. I registered there quite early but never uploaded regularly until the end of 2016, so technically it’s only 6 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZklxmpienw
On the twiddly bits in Sultans, here's a short Michael Britt comment about it that I recently found by accident.
https://youtu.be/JEzvCCbwYj8?t=1164
Thank you for bringing some activity into this thread which seems to be filled exclusively with my own posts :smack
Right now I'm teaching people online in private lessons and you simply can't imagine the amount of aha's and wow's my fellow guitar players get in discovering all the little details and hidden gems in Mark's playing. I will never get tired of revealing, learning, or relearning them. And I'm learning all the time! And NOTHING is obvious.
Speaking of twiddly bits, it's quite interesting that people assume it's a "triplet thing" when in reality it's just four 16th notes, no triplets. The fact that it has a pull-off in the beginning forces you to pick only three notes and hence everybody assumes it's a triplet, I guess. So it is a triplet, but not a proper one.
I think Michael thought the right-hand picking went something like this: middle - pull-off - thumb - index. Or index - pull-off - thumb - middle. Which is remarkably awkward to play, and can only be done with three fingers. And if you try to do it with just two fingers, it's straight-up impossible to play starting with an upstroke, so he definitely overthought this a bunch. Because it forces one to play two notes in a row with one finger, either thumb or index, which is too hard to execute, too slow and takes up too much energy.
Mark's approach to playing twiddly bits is in fact the most economic, effortless, rational, logical, beautiful, and consistent way to do it, can't even compare with playing it with a pick. But after all, he came up with it.
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A quick live stream on the song "Prairie Wedding" from Mark's "Sailing To Philadelphia" album. It's a beautiful and reasonably simple song, I can easily imagine somebody trying it out. Don't forget to count all those bars properly! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4tSqHFoLdI
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A quick live stream on the song "Prairie Wedding" from Mark's "Sailing To Philadelphia" album. It's a beautiful and reasonably simple song, I can easily imagine somebody trying it out. Don't forget to count all those bars properly! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4tSqHFoLdI
I prefer the studio version that the live ones, regarding both tone and playing
in concert, he turned the solo too much "major scale" feeling for my taste. I find that the studio version has a more "atmospheric" flavour, and I like it
my firend Denys who recently passed away illustrated the song with this drawing :
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I give "music history" lessons in a school, and in january we talked about Morricone's Once upon a time the west soundtrack, and also about MK.
A student said to me he thought that Prairie Wedding was based on the Leone's movie story : Jill arrives at the train station, and she wrote a letter to Brett before., but the difference is that they were already married.
I had never thought to that before. And I don't think it's that much connected.
But I said to the student that DS song Once upon a time in the west has some clues bout the film : "Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest"
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I give "music history" lessons in a school, and in january we talked about Morricone's Once upon a time the west soundtrack, and also about MK.
A student said to me he thought that Prairie Wedding was based on the Leone's movie story : Jill arrives at the train station, and she wrote a letter to Brett before., but the difference is that they were already married.
I had never thought to that before. And I don't think it's that much connected.
But I said to the student that DS song Once upon a time in the west has some clues bout the film : "Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest"
Great analysis and drawing! Kudos to your late friend. This is something I miss in my videos, a lack of information about the song's lyrics and connections. I'm happy focusing on music alone though.
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Great headphones :) Every time I watch your video I see the MK headband :D
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Great headphones :) Every time I watch your video I see the MK headband :D
Haha! Yes, I love them too. And it also reminds me of Mark's headband. It wasn't planned, however, I'm just a fan of red things, especially black/red things.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZAmavRrNDg
Well, just like the video’s title suggest… Mark’s music is beyond borders and money, so nothing can stop me from playing this solo while losing a couple of zeros from my guitar’s price. As always, a million small details make this solo so beautiful, and I’m sure I missed a few, but I hope you enjoy this. The tab is in the description. Pavel.
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This is the "Kingdom Of Gold" solo... A great solo from one of the recent tours. Showcases Mark Knopfler's signature melodic improvisation style, amazing tone, and unique selection of notes, as if he had a whole day to pick each one, and not in real-time. Truly an amazing solo! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WYfsmNi0Wo
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mti8I9MLlOk
TAB is the description of this short. Always wanted to record something on this stairway with great natural acoustics! Nothing could work better for this than Mark Knopfler’s solo in the “Layla” song I transcribed yesterday. This solo was played by Mark in September 1997 at the charity concert Music For Montserrat, with Eric Clapton playing rhythm on acoustic guitar and singing. One of the finest performances by both musicians and naturally, I get a lot of requests for this solo all the time. I’ll be more than happy to discuss it later. Pavel.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLfK7v_9EGo
I'm going live in a minute!
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Going live discussing CALLING ELVIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_5FHTSCEA
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I never intended to record “Wild Theme” because my friend and one of the best musicians I know — Alexey Samoylenko — already did it beautifully, and he was even kind enough to provide me with a piano backing track taken from his own performance. However, it wasn’t a complete backing track, but rather a collection of notes with velocity data for samples. So I had to find a way to fully reconstruct it, which I did. I painstakingly recreated the piano backing track to its full glory and in the process added even more details to the arrangement, like additional chords and occasional melodic lines. I also learned the melody itself, which, as always, is filled with magical Mark Knopfler’s guitar work. I was so mesmerised, the melody was just too beautiful not to record it, so I did. This was the first take, but I liked it. And now I need to figure out a proper way how to share it with my audience because I have piano sheet music, guitar tablature, and backing track for “Wild Theme” that I can’t wait to show and teach on my channel. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8y1KXlNg3U
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:clap :clap
perfect rendition of the studio version
do you play it in C ?
is it the case in the original ? I never paid attention to that, I always thought it was in D like live versions
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:clap :clap
perfect rendition of the studio version
do you play it in C ?
is it the case in the original ? I never paid attention to that, I always thought it was in D like live versions
Thank you! Yes, indeed, the original is also in C major. I think "Wild Theme" is in C, and "Going Home" is in D, so it's what differentiates the two melodies the most. I don't know why everybody assumes they are the one thing, to me the difference is huge. Wild Theme is in C, and a more subtle, and Going Home is in D, and more energetic. Chords and rhythm are different too. But the melody is kinda the same tho.
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Local hero theme in either of their versions were my wife's favourite song, because it was the last meaning the concert was about to end.
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Local hero theme in either of their versions were my wife's favourite song, because it was the last meaning the concert was about to end.
I remember this legendary joke/life story ;D
In all honesty, it's not hard to sit through Mark's show, as it's not exactly a 3-hour endeavour. I remember the last MK show I visited, in Lisbon in 2019, it was one of the smoothest and shortest shows I ever attended. Incredibly laidback, easy, modest and fast.
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:clap :clap
perfect rendition of the studio version
do you play it in C ?
is it the case in the original ? I never paid attention to that, I always thought it was in D like live versions
Thank you! Yes, indeed, the original is also in C major. I think "Wild Theme" is in C, and "Going Home" is in D, so it's what differentiates the two melodies the most. I don't know why everybody assumes they are the one thing, to me the difference is huge. Wild Theme is in C, and a more subtle, and Going Home is in D, and more energetic. Chords and rhythm are different too. But the melody is kinda the same tho.
well its't not THAT differenet. I bet the chords are the same, just in a different key
Live, Mark used to play the intro of going Home (so in D) and then the wild theme melody, also in D
To me, Wild theme is just the GH melody but played slowly, or if you want, GH is the WT melody, but played faster ;D
and yes, in a different key
I bet Mark composed one melody, and as it was used in a film score, he arranged it in differents paces, like every film-music composer does
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:clap :clap
perfect rendition of the studio version
do you play it in C ?
is it the case in the original ? I never paid attention to that, I always thought it was in D like live versions
Thank you! Yes, indeed, the original is also in C major. I think "Wild Theme" is in C, and "Going Home" is in D, so it's what differentiates the two melodies the most. I don't know why everybody assumes they are the one thing, to me the difference is huge. Wild Theme is in C, and a more subtle, and Going Home is in D, and more energetic. Chords and rhythm are different too. But the melody is kinda the same tho.
well its't not THAT differenet. I bet the chords are the same, just in a different key
Live, Mark used to play the intro of going Home (so in D) and then the wild theme melody, also in D
To me, Wild theme is just the GH melody but played slowly, or if you want, GH is the WT melody, but played faster ;D
and yes, in a different key
I bet Mark composed one melody, and as it was used in a film score, he arranged it in differents paces, like every film-music composer does
It's too confusing... "Wild Theme" on the soundtrack album is this lush Local Hero theme with fancy chords and more pauses and space, and no intro. In "Wild Theme" there are usually fewer instruments playing, sometimes just two (Mark & Guy, for instance), and so you naturally play it more slowly, lusher, with fancier chords, and with more pauses to keep it interesting. But in case of the band, you obviously don't need such embellishments and the full Going Home theme uses the simplest chords that this theme would ever allow.
So yes, it's fair to say that Wild Theme is just a slow and stripped-out Local Hero theme, and Going Home is a fast one with an anticipating intro.
But in versions like On The Night, you have a stripped-out performance, yes, but it's still a fast Going Home theme with a full intro, and yet it has some elements from Wild Theme, and it has just three instruments, so how to call that? They settled on "Local Hero – Wild Theme", so Local Hero means the intro then?
I wonder how Mark thinks about it. I can bet anything in the world that he's just like "Let's play this tune from the movie now".
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:clap :clap
perfect rendition of the studio version
do you play it in C ?
is it the case in the original ? I never paid attention to that, I always thought it was in D like live versions
Thank you! Yes, indeed, the original is also in C major. I think "Wild Theme" is in C, and "Going Home" is in D, so it's what differentiates the two melodies the most. I don't know why everybody assumes they are the one thing, to me the difference is huge. Wild Theme is in C, and a more subtle, and Going Home is in D, and more energetic. Chords and rhythm are different too. But the melody is kinda the same tho.
well its't not THAT differenet. I bet the chords are the same, just in a different key
Live, Mark used to play the intro of going Home (so in D) and then the wild theme melody, also in D
To me, Wild theme is just the GH melody but played slowly, or if you want, GH is the WT melody, but played faster ;D
and yes, in a different key
I bet Mark composed one melody, and as it was used in a film score, he arranged it in differents paces, like every film-music composer does
It's too confusing... "Wild Theme" on the soundtrack album is this lush Local Hero theme with fancy chords and more pauses and space, and no intro. In "Wild Theme" there are usually fewer instruments playing, sometimes just two (Mark & Guy, for instance), and so you naturally play it more slowly, lusher, with fancier chords, and with more pauses to keep it interesting. But in case of the band, you obviously don't need such embellishments and the full Going Home theme uses the simplest chords that this theme would ever allow.
So yes, it's fair to say that Wild Theme is just a slow and stripped-out Local Hero theme, and Going Home is a fast one with an anticipating intro.
But in versions like On The Night, you have a stripped-out performance, yes, but it's still a fast Going Home theme with a full intro, and yet it has some elements from Wild Theme, and it has just three instruments, so how to call that? They settled on "Local Hero – Wild Theme", so Local Hero means the intro then?
I wonder how Mark thinks about it. I can bet anything in the world that he's just like "Let's play this tune from the movie now".
to me, the mention of "Local Hero" doesn't have anything to do with the intro or not, it's just the name of the soundtrack (and of course of the movie) and they decided to mention it on the credit, because it's not a "regular" DS album
yes indeed, in 91-92, in 97, in 2000, 2001, in 2005, he played Wild theme but with the going home intro. I bet he thought that he could merge the two.
and, in 96, he played GH (the "fast" one) but at the end of the solo, he played a lick which features in the WT studio version, but not in the GH studio version
I talked about wild theme and Going home in my chronicle about the soundtrack : https://textes-blog-rock-n-roll.fr/il-y-a-40-ans-mark-knopfler-sortait-sa-premiere-musique-de-film/
a funny thing : on the STP maxi CD, it's Wild theme, but it's credited Going Home
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This month’s results are not so great on paper, but I challenged myself first with “Calling Elvis”, a monster of a song, and then with “Wild Theme”, both of which took weeks to learn and prepare mentally for, and edit in case of “Wild Theme”, and added some missing chords and tabs to my catalogue of MK’s song. I’m also working behind the scenes, teaching all the time, and trying to fix my life while at it, so not so bad, not so bad. Also, just dropped a little tour of my live-streaming setup on my channel. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtohviEpM1M
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Do you know the total number of different chords Mark has used in the songs you have so far covered?
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Do you know the total number of different chords Mark has used in the songs you have so far covered?
Yep, definitely. So in 90 songs that I covered, Mark used at least 35 different chord types. Though I must add, that chord naming can be subjective and not everybody will agree with my name choices, and also many of these are used just a few times, if not only once. But the list goes like this:
5add9 chords, 6#11 chords, 6/9 chords, 6maj7 chords, 6sus2 chords, 6th chords, 7#5 chords, 7b5 chords, 7b9 chords, 7sus4 chords, 7th chords, 9#11 chords, 9th chords, 13th chords, add9 chords, add13 chords, aug chords, dim chords, Hendrix chord, m6 chords, m7 chords, m7b5 chords, m7sus4 chords, m9 chords, m11 chords, madd9 chords, maj7 chords, major chords, mb9 chords, minor chords, mMaj7 chords, no3 chords, power chords, slash chords, sus chords
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Thanks for the info, what song did he use the mMaj7 in?
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Thanks for the info, what song did he use the mMaj7 in?
Yon Two Crows and Heart Full of Holes. Also Monteleone and Terminal Of Tribute To, but there the major 7 is more in the bass I think.
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Thanks.
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in which song does he play the Hendrix chord ?
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in which song does he play the Hendrix chord ?
Lions - and the more bluesy/jazzy stuff like Love Over Gold, Your Latest Trick, Nobody Does That, etc.
I forgot about Rudiger btw, which also has the mMaj7 chord very notable.
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I take being able to play like this for granted, but people keep telling me I should stop, so slowly but surely I indeed try to rethink my strategy a little bit. This is the solo taken from the song “Layla” played by Mark Knopfler as a duo with Eric Clapton on rhythm guitar. It was performed at a charity concert Music for Montserrat in 1997, the event was organised to raise money for the Caribbean island of Montserrat after the Soufrière Hills volcano eruption. The island was home to Sir George Martin’s famous recording studio AIR Montserrat, where the Brothers In Arms album was recorded, but the studio eventually had to close. The full breakdown of the solo is on my YouTube channel. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSfXLzO0iog
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Always thought I needed to do this song, and it's great to see the one and only Justin doing more MK songs, finally! Man, I miss my acoustic guitar. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVoW3ODyCyY
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Pretty remarkable that Mark sent him the raw guitar tracks!
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Pretty remarkable that Mark sent him the raw guitar tracks!
Yeah, it was so nice of him. Mark probably did it because he knows that even having isolated tracks it's still damn hard to figure his stuff out :lol
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Another masterpiece of a solo courtesy of Mark Knopfler, this time from the 2012 song “Occupation Blues”. A brilliant song inspired by the book “Naples ‘44” by Norman Lewis, a classic book about the horrors of war, occupation and determination to survive in 1940s Italy. And a hidden gem from Privateering album, it’s a bonus track after all. But the taste, as always, is the name of the game when it comes to Mark’s playing. Each note has its place, each motion is there for a reason. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FRZi-5JnlIg
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Another masterpiece of a solo courtesy of Mark Knopfler, this time from the 2012 song “Occupation Blues”. A brilliant song inspired by the book “Naples ‘44” by Norman Lewis, a classic book about the horrors of war, occupation and determination to survive in 1940s Italy. And a hidden gem from Privateering album, it’s a bonus track after all. But the taste, as always, is the name of the game when it comes to Mark’s playing. Each note has its place, each motion is there for a reason. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FRZi-5JnlIg
That song was played live once, and I was there. Hehehe
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Another masterpiece of a solo courtesy of Mark Knopfler, this time from the 2012 song “Occupation Blues”. A brilliant song inspired by the book “Naples ‘44” by Norman Lewis, a classic book about the horrors of war, occupation and determination to survive in 1940s Italy. And a hidden gem from Privateering album, it’s a bonus track after all. But the taste, as always, is the name of the game when it comes to Mark’s playing. Each note has its place, each motion is there for a reason. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FRZi-5JnlIg
That song was played live once, and I was there. Hehehe
Good On You Son ;D ;D ;D
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2.07.2016 Chalke Valley History Fest
Privateering
Haul away
Mighty man
Sailing to Philadelphia
Done with Bonaparte
Occupation blues
Piper to the end
During "Privateering" Mark also mentioned the book?
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2.07.2016 Chalke Valley History Fest
Privateering
Haul away
Mighty man
Sailing to Philadelphia
Done with Bonaparte
Occupation blues
Piper to the end
During "Privateering" Mark also mentioned the book?
Yes, but Privateering was inspired by the books of Patrick O'Brian it seems.
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2.07.2016 Chalke Valley History Fest
Privateering
Haul away
Mighty man
Sailing to Philadelphia
Done with Bonaparte
Occupation blues
Piper to the end
During "Privateering" Mark also mentioned the book?
Yes, but Privateering was inspired by the books of Patrick O'Brian it seems.
Just like "Haul Away"
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I always wanted to learn Mark’s song “Imelda” from his debut solo album. And after numerous vain attempts over the years, it finally seems to “click” for me, hopefully. I just learned it today and want to share my raw feelings about this song. And I’ll need to go and heal my fingers thanks to sudden bursts of intense playing. Sometimes I’m not playing for weeks, and sometimes play for hours, it’s incredibly inspiration-driven, and that’s why I destroy my fingers from time to time. But for a good reason! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLVLUbfgaKU
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The song for today is "Dream Of The Drowned Submariner". I get a lot of requests to discuss this song, and no wonder why — it has time signature changes, unusual chord voicings, muting, fingerpicking solo, and quirky structure. I have no idea how to do a song like this justice in my format, but hopefully, it's enough information to start with. Some things I forgot to mention. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rABA__HEEH4
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It seems I uploaded my "Redbud Tree" video too fast last time, just a couple of days after Submariner, and the video got neglected and crushed by the infamous algorithm. Hopefully, now the situation will be better. The moral of the story — uploading too often is a bad idea, don't do that. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUtJG-AQyK8
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The new solo is from one of Mark's blues songs—"You Can't Beat The House." While the chord structure is primitive, as blues should be, the solo is the complete opposite. Quite challenging, in fact. Lots of muting, tricky bends, two types of rakes, fast runs in triplets, a trill, and everything in between. Good luck! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_mm8zU-b-c
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And if I remember well, that song was a first take. As an amateur drummer I recognised a few things that when playing a first take you change suddenly to fit with the music, a change, the bridge etc
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And if I remember well, that song was a first take. As an amateur drummer I recognised a few things that when playing a first take you change suddenly to fit with the music, a change, the bridge etc
Mark says it's the take one at the beginning ;D Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. And it's kinda beautiful that way, too. Mistakes and all.
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the song structure is not that primitive
https://www.mk-guitar.com/2010/04/16/mark-knopfler-you-cant-beat-the-house-variations-of-the-standard-blues-scheme/
don't you think that "ready Chuck take one" was added afterwards ? :think
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the song structure is not that primitive
https://www.mk-guitar.com/2010/04/16/mark-knopfler-you-cant-beat-the-house-variations-of-the-standard-blues-scheme/
don't you think that "ready Chuck take one" was added afterwards ? :think
Sure, the song's structure has Mark's turn to it, but the chords are still your typical blues! Thanks for the link.
Don't know about Mark's remark on "take one". It surely feels genuine. What bothers me is the absolutely perfect playing by Mark, these solos... It's interesting was it comped or played completely live? But if anything I learned doing this project is Mark is THAT good. I don't think he would leave such an epic behind-the-scenes thing on the album if it wasn't genuine. How else are you gonna prove it was really take one? :lol
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And if I remember well, that song was a first take. As an amateur drummer I recognised a few things that when playing a first take you change suddenly to fit with the music, a change, the bridge etc
Mark says it's the take one at the beginning ;D Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. And it's kinda beautiful that way, too. Mistakes and all.
Never understood what MK mumbled at the start lol, but I got that feeling from Ianto drums, a few things here and there that are very tipical you do when trying to quickly adapt to a change or trying something that suddenly come to you as more natural that what you were doing.
MK is, or was at that time, good enough to improvise a solo like that full of things of high quality.
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Never understood what MK mumbled at the start lol,
I hear "you' re ready Chuck ? take one" am I wrong ?
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Just got mentioned on Mark's website and social media for the second time. Thought a little video with my reaction won't hurt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cw-U6n5x4w
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Very well deserved!
Thank you for your lessons.
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It's great that you are doing it with lessons, and earning a living despite all the bad things you had to leave and still leaving.
You know you have my support!
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It's great that you are doing it with lessons, and earning a living despite all the bad things you had to leave and still leaving.
You know you have my support!
Thank you! Yes, it's tough and really costing me a lot of nerve cells, can't go anywhere from this submarine though. I just do my best.
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Congrats!
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Cannot praise you enough Pavel. Congratulations!
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Cannot praise you enough Pavel. Congratulations!
Thank you, guys! It still feels strange of course. I mean who am I to be endorsed by Mark Knopfler himself? But hey, I embrace it and run with it.
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Big congratulations from me :)
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:thumbsup
:clap
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well desserved Pavel :clap
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Just saw this now on markknopfler.com. Well done, man. Congratulations.
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My wife’s birthday is today, and what better way to celebrate it than with a solo from one of Mark Knopfler’s finest love songs? Darling Pretty is another essential Mark Knopfler song. With its Scottish intro, great lyrics, astonishing guitar work, and solo to dream about, it’s a perfect song to play on a loop or strum your heart away. Thank you, my own Darling Pretty, for being a constant source of inspiration for more than 10 years. I had goosebumps while recording this solo, what a masterpiece. P.S. I know the solo is too short. Please, pass your questions on to Mark. Thank you very much. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jryDOORoMg4
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My wife’s birthday is today, and what better way to celebrate it than with a solo from one of Mark Knopfler’s finest love songs? Darling Pretty is another essential Mark Knopfler song. With its Scottish intro, great lyrics, astonishing guitar work, and solo to dream about, it’s a perfect song to play on a loop or strum your heart away. Thank you, my own Darling Pretty, for being a constant source of inspiration for more than 10 years. I had goosebumps while recording this solo, what a masterpiece. P.S. I know the solo is too short. Please, pass your questions on to Mark. Thank you very much. Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jryDOORoMg4
:thumbsup Regards to your wife :)
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Some of you already know what happened, but I'll drop it here just in case.
I was mentioned on Mark Knopfler's social media for the 3rd time, and it was too much for some of my fellow guitar YouTubers, who unleashed their dark side on me. Rivalry, competitiveness, and desire to measure certain body parts have won, and they attacked me for what it's worth.
The musicians I'm talking about are Kfir Ochaion and David Levi, and I'm especially sad about the latter, as he seems to be a nicer chap and player than kfiro. But I can't stand BS and will defend my work from attacks like this.
Mark's music is deeply infused with this rivalry among guitar players, where everybody thinks he's the best at it, just like in racing or sex, and if anything, after Mark promoted me, my job would be to iron down this sportsmanship attitude towards his music. MUSIC IS NOT A SPORT!
More info on my IG page: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwaTc2RKnCK/
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Some of you already know what happened, but I'll drop it here just in case.
I was mentioned on Mark Knopfler's social media for the 3rd time, and it was too much for some of my fellow guitar YouTubers, who unleashed their dark side on me. Rivalry, competitiveness, and desire to measure certain body parts have won, and they attacked me for what it's worth.
The musicians I'm talking about are Kfir Ochaion and David Levi, and I'm especially sad about the latter, as he seems to be a nicer chap and player than kfiro. But I can't stand BS and will defend my work from attacks like this.
Mark's music is deeply infused with this rivalry among guitar players, where everybody thinks he's the best at it, just like in racing or sex, and if anything, after Mark promoted me, my job would be to iron down this sportsmanship attitude towards his music. MUSIC IS NOT A SPORT!
More info on my IG page: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwaTc2RKnCK/
Keep doing your work and ignore them. It doesn't worth. You are valued by the man himself, that's what's worth.
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Keep doing your work and ignore them. It doesn't worth. You are valued by the man himself, that's what's worth.
Thank you! Of course, nothing is changing for me, but I had to respond to such harsh behaviour from such famous people. They have more followers than Mark himself! Of course, Mark has more fans overall, but it's a completely different game. I could never imagine I'd be humiliated by a 2M YouTube channel.
Promoted by Mark Knopfler, but hated by real stars.
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Jealousy, pure and simple.
Rise above it.
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Jealousy, pure and simple.
Rise above it.
Hey Dusty, of course, I'm above it. But I think I did the right thing to raise some awareness. I know it would be cool to not respond, but people I know in person were offended, and the legitimacy of Mark's page was questioned, so I had to respond. I think I'm going to stop any further promotion on Mark's side as it could lead to a revolution.
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You did the good thing to respond
it makes things clear for all your followers
but now, as Jbaent and Dusty said, don't waste no more time with these two poor people, they don't deserve that you have to care about their miserable attitude.
And in the end, Mark himself, and his real fans, knows that you're doing a great job for several years. That's the most important.
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Kfiro wrote an apology. I take my words back.
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The message:
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You knew you were right from the start so the fact he recognised to be wrong is good.
But if that wouldn't had happened you would be right anyway so keep doing your good work and ignore those people!
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You knew you were right from the start so the fact he recognised to be wrong is good.
But if that wouldn't had happened you would be right anyway so keep doing your good work and ignore those people!
Thank you jbaent! I received an interesting message from a guy. He said that even if a work of somebody like me being mentioned by Mark Knopfler evokes so much negativity, if anything, it makes him NOT want to share their music online, as sensitive people are easily offended by harsh critics like this. I agree and don't think it was a good idea to share my work in this way, as too many groups of people are getting offended at the same.
It's just the nature of the world where we are living, and people are getting offended even by a 30yo song mentioning the word "f****t".
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How is it even possible for someone to be that suspicious and/or jealous? What's wrong with people?!
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How is it even possible for someone to be that suspicious and/or jealous? What's wrong with people?!
It's only the tip of the iceberg, man. The guy got a million messages from real people but waited for Mark Knopfler’s manager to interfere, and only then changed his mind and released an apology. What kind of behaviour is that? With an ego like this, I'm surprised he won't wait until Mark himself would call him or kiss his ass.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fu6yI9v4Bg
Telegraph Road: 2nd Solo on a Squier Mini Strat + Mustang Micro Amp. This solo reminds me of the iconic “What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, the rhythm guitar part. Listen closely and you’ll know what I mean. Similar arpeggiated chords, similar vibe, and similar greatness. In this solo, the solo itself isn’t the hardest thing, but what’s played underneath it. I spent most of the time recording different versions of the backing track and picking the right chords, not playing the solo. But it also has some hard bits, like this bend leading to the second part — Mark played it perfectly, I can’t do it. You need a guitar with more sustain in order to do that, but still, I squeezed the most I could out of my travel guitar. Enjoy!
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New songbook entry: "Beachcombing" from All The Roadrunning album. A great little song with some fine vocal harmonies. I go through the rhythm guitar and also discuss individual harmonies from Mark and Emmylou, I also transcribed and wrote down each vocal line so it's easy to learn. Try it! And I'm using a new setup — thanks to the new MacOS Sonoma, now I can stream with just one camera and adjust the angle on the fly. Good stuff. I'll upload a tablature video for the song on my Patreon, I already have some exclusives there. Consider joining, or you can buy me a coffee — it really helps me continue to work on these songs. Thanks! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwUJ7px9Nc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU3hfXpyt7c
This is a very, very challenging set of solos. As usual with MK, the difficulty comes not in the form of notes but in what’s between them. In this performance, Mark masterfully nailed all the nuances and even got lucky with happy accidentals like picking hand pinch harmonics and left-hand natural harmonics, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs. And sang it too!
So many little details, that it’s impossible to list them all, let alone recreate them. Let’s not take for granted how lucky we are to have songs and performances like this. The tone is also to dream about, and people who requested me to cover this particular performance say it’s one of the greatest Les Paul tones they ever heard, and I agree.
The elephant in the room is Mark’s so-called “mistake” towards the end of the song, where he played a rather awkward open E-string and pull-off to the 13th fret of the 2nd string which is indeed out of the E chord. But it sounds so good. All mistakes are intentional — as Chet Atkins used to say. And I’m glad I added a few greenies of my own.
And yes, this version is more difficult than the 1992 On The Night version, which I also transcribed.
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Great one! Superb playing, I know this version, I know I do (I remember the "mistake" at the end) but I can't seem to place it. What version was it, that you played here?
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Great one! Superb playing, I know this version, I know I do (I remember the "mistake" at the end) but I can't seem to place it. What version was it, that you played here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRJT2ebvAk
This is the version! I hope I understood your question correctly.
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New songbook entry: "Beachcombing" from All The Roadrunning album. A great little song with some fine vocal harmonies. I go through the rhythm guitar and also discuss individual harmonies from Mark and Emmylou, I also transcribed and wrote down each vocal line so it's easy to learn. Try it! And I'm using a new setup — thanks to the new MacOS Sonoma, now I can stream with just one camera and adjust the angle on the fly. Good stuff. I'll upload a tablature video for the song on my Patreon, I already have some exclusives there. Consider joining, or you can buy me a coffee — it really helps me continue to work on these songs. Thanks! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwUJ7px9Nc
Wow. This is one of my favourite songs from one of my favourite MK records and it sounds so weird that naked. If I would had heard that chords without you giving the reference of the title I would had spent quite some minutes to identify the song
It's amazing what the arrangements of others instruments can add to a song that maybe when MK showed it to the musicians sounded quite different to what ended sounding.
Great work, as usual.
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New songbook entry: "Beachcombing" from All The Roadrunning album. A great little song with some fine vocal harmonies. I go through the rhythm guitar and also discuss individual harmonies from Mark and Emmylou, I also transcribed and wrote down each vocal line so it's easy to learn. Try it! And I'm using a new setup — thanks to the new MacOS Sonoma, now I can stream with just one camera and adjust the angle on the fly. Good stuff. I'll upload a tablature video for the song on my Patreon, I already have some exclusives there. Consider joining, or you can buy me a coffee — it really helps me continue to work on these songs. Thanks! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwUJ7px9Nc
Wow. This is one of my favourite songs from one of my favourite MK records and it sounds so weird that naked. If I would had heard that chords without you giving the reference of the title I would had spent quite some minutes to identify the song
It's amazing what the arrangements of others instruments can add to a song that maybe when MK showed it to the musicians sounded quite different to what ended sounding.
Great work, as usual.
Thank you! If I played it on acoustic, you'd probably have more chances of recognising the tune. The arrangement is indeed fantastic, one of my favourites too.
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Great one! Superb playing, I know this version, I know I do (I remember the "mistake" at the end) but I can't seem to place it. What version was it, that you played here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRJT2ebvAk
This is the version! I hope I understood your question correctly.
yeah, thanks, I found it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bxh8e1dbis
Can I play cool guitars for a change? Yes, I can! When visiting @yigittop76 in Istanbul, for instance. To be honest, it’s quite difficult to record not on your gear, as you’re not used to it, and I hoped to record 10 or 12 solos, but decided to make just one and concentrate on that to sound good. Video and audio recorded through an iPhone — not the most professional approach, but you do what you can. Tabs as usual in the description. Enjoy!
Equipment
Guitar: Suhr Standard Legacy
Amp: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III
Edited in Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro
Camera & Microphone: iPhone 11 Pro
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Great job and a beautiful guitar!
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Beautiful!
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Great job and a beautiful guitar!
Thank you! The guitar is really impressive. Great stainless steel frets, flawless electronics, remarkable build quality. And great sound too!
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Another beautiful solo I managed to record back in Istanbul was Sailing To Philadelphia on MK Signature Stratocaster. The amp is Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III. And I’m happy that despite my very short meetings with these guitars, especially Gibson MK Les Paul, I still recorded a little postcard with these great instruments. Thanks again to @yigittop76 for an amazing guitar and the opportunity to record something! Pavel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqgVuRhmqc
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Great job and a beautiful guitar!
Thank you! The guitar is really impressive. Great stainless steel frets, flawless electronics, remarkable build quality. And great sound too!
I'm shure it's a great guitar, I noticed they made a (somewhat) limited series of them recently, both the quilted trans caramel version (only not carved top) and also black. Both of course inspired by what MK was playing back in the day and since you don't have to custom order it they are a bit more affordable. And they come with or without floyd rose. I'm not exactly sure why Mark suddenly started using Floyd rose. I loved the look of that thing back then though.
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Great job and a beautiful guitar!
Thank you! The guitar is really impressive. Great stainless steel frets, flawless electronics, remarkable build quality. And great sound too!
I'm shure it's a great guitar, I noticed they made a (somewhat) limited series of them recently, both the quilted trans caramel version (only not carved top) and also black. Both of course inspired by what MK was playing back in the day and since you don't have to custom order it they are a bit more affordable. And they come with or without floyd rose. I'm not exactly sure why Mark suddenly started using Floyd rose. I loved the look of that thing back then though.
I think it was just down to tuning stability. I hate tuning issues like any other musician who is obsessed with recording things precisely. Chet Atkins would often talk about how tuning stability has always been one of his "problems", meaning he cared about being perfectly in tune unlike anyone else. As they say, a guitar player spends half of his life tuning guitar and the other half playing guitar. The electric guitar is an especially difficult beast because of constant bending.
Floyd Rose with its locking mechanisms and micro adjustments is perfect for this job of delivering the most stable guitar possible. Looks like somebody was annoyed not only with constant guitar changes but tuning issues as well because it's obviously easier to just install a hard-tail bridge than a Floyd Rose, let alone maintain it. And icing on the cake is the fact Mark never even used it like it's supposed to be used, MK-1 always had a fixed bridge, but they fixed it for the auction.
It's great that guitars of this magnitude are somewhat affordable, unlike Pensa, that are seems to be on another lever for established professionals.
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That's the thing, he had it blocked anyway.
Out of interest, I think Mark had mid boost as a push/pull option on one of the knobs, did you perhaps check if this one has that as well?
As far as I can tell a Suhr is every bit as good a guitar as Pensas are. And most likely better than those old Pensa-Suhrs. They are just making many more of them than Pensa is which could affect desirability. But shouldn't. I don't know who plays a Pensa guitar, I've only ever seen an odd Suhr on stages from time to time, not once a Pensa (except of course with MK) and Pensa-Suhrs are probably more collector's items now anyway.
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That's the thing, he had it blocked anyway.
Out of interest, I think Mark had mid boost as a push/pull option on one of the knobs, did you perhaps check if this one has that as well?
As far as I can tell a Suhr is every bit as good a guitar as Pensas are. And most likely better than those old Pensa-Suhrs. They are just making many more of them than Pensa is which could affect desirability. But shouldn't. I don't know who plays a Pensa guitar, I've only ever seen an odd Suhr on stages from time to time, not once a Pensa (except of course with MK) and Pensa-Suhrs are probably more collector's items now anyway.
Nothing to me indicates any mid boost and other alternate configurations on these "stock" Suhr guitars, it wasn't present on a Suhr that I played as well. I think these are extremely specific things one can do after the fact or with a custom order, things like reverse polarity, kill switches, mid boost, Floyd Rose to be frank is also an option not everybody needs considering maintenance.
Judging by serial numbers and how active Pensa is on social media, uploading new guitars nearly every day and having multiple guitar builders, it's not like they are so rare after all. I think Marco Caviglia has a Pensa, as well as some guy named Mark Knopfler, and... That's it. So yes, not an impressive list of people, yet a lot of people have a Suhr. Everybody I know plays a Suhr, including JustinGuitar, and nobody owns a Pensa.
Pensas are just so expensive they filter out everybody who thinks about getting it but not buying it even if they can afford it, that's why I said it's mostly a niche professional instrument. Especially if you're just an MK fan dabbling on guitar from time to time. It's like buying a vintage Maserati just because Mark has one. A Suhr, on the other hand, is just a humble Mercedes ;D
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Chet Atkins would often talk about how tuning stability has always been one of his "problems", meaning he cared about being perfectly in tune unlike anyone else. As they say, a guitar player spends half of his life tuning guitar and the other half playing guitar. The electric guitar is an especially difficult beast because of constant bending.
And that's why MK has always Glenn Saggers at hand :lol
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Nothing to me indicates any mid boost and other alternate configurations on these "stock" Suhr guitars, it wasn't present on a Suhr that I played as well. I think these are extremely specific things one can do after the fact or with a custom order, things like reverse polarity, kill switches, mid boost, Floyd Rose to be frank is also an option not everybody needs considering maintenance.
Went to check a review and yes, there is no mid boost.
In any case, keep up the good work with your channel, be it using Pensa, Suhr or just a petite Squier. It's in the fingers after all, I've been told. ;D
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Nothing to me indicates any mid boost and other alternate configurations on these "stock" Suhr guitars, it wasn't present on a Suhr that I played as well. I think these are extremely specific things one can do after the fact or with a custom order, things like reverse polarity, kill switches, mid boost, Floyd Rose to be frank is also an option not everybody needs considering maintenance.
Went to check a review and yes, there is no mid boost.
In any case, keep up the good work with your channel, be it using Pensa, Suhr or just a petite Squier. It's in the fingers after all, I've been told. ;D
Thank you, sir! I'll consider it a birthday wish ;D
Yes, the fingers are important, but I have to admit, after playing the guitar as nice as Suhr Legacy, and through an amp as nice as Mexican-made tube Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III... I had a hard time switching back to my main axe. Fingers are important, but they still need to play an instrument, and if the instrument is great, you can't argue with that.
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Only Rocks And Water - Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Solo - From Local Hero Musical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNsIruRqzvk
I remember recording a lesson on Mark’s most recent song 5 years ago, back then it was “You Don’t Want To Get You One Of Those”, but what about his most recent solo? This solo is taken from a track not everybody is even aware of, a Local Hero Musical song “Only Rocks And Water” sung by Damian Humbley and written and played by MK.
For this solo, I recorded two passes of acoustic guitar: one with a capo on the 5th fret played with fingers, and another strumming with a pick and no capo. I also tried the state-of-the-art AI separation tool to separate bass and drums from the original recording, I think it sounds pretty good for the first try.
Pavel
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It sounds amazing...
The Local Hero musical has some wonderful jewels hidden to most of the fans that didn't attend the Edinburgh or Chichester representations, as there is not any official release of this, further than two audience recordings, one from each run.
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Yes, I like this song from the first moment but Mark would sing better ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKW48Xqc3g
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Yes, I like this song from the first moment but Mark would sing better ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKW48Xqc3g
I'll try to look up how I can make AI sing this song instead of Damian Humbley. It's possible to extract the voice, and potentially just replace it with Mark's, but the downside is you won't get his "touch" voice-wise, which is a bummer, and why I most likely won't be doing this.
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It sounds amazing...
The Local Hero musical has some wonderful jewels hidden to most of the fans that didn't attend the Edinburgh or Chichester representations, as there is not any official release of this, further than two audience recordings, one from each run.
Thank you! Yes, my favourite song is "Numbers", but I haven't figured out how I can use it on my channel. YET ;D
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quizzaciously
You really have talent and you feel the guitar. Respect and congratulations :)
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It sounds amazing...
The Local Hero musical has some wonderful jewels hidden to most of the fans that didn't attend the Edinburgh or Chichester representations, as there is not any official release of this, further than two audience recordings, one from each run.
Thank you! Yes, my favourite song is "Numbers", but I haven't figured out how I can use it on my channel. YET ;D
Which version of Numbers, the one from Edinburgh or Chichester? I guess you mean the one from Chichester which is the one that has more MK guitar things...
I would say that the better songs for your channel from the musical would be "A barrel of oil" from Chichester, that have many and varied guitar things, "Houston we have a problem" and "What a life" which are the typical MK ballads, which I consider as very very beautiful and part of my favorite songs of MK ever.
About how you can use it in your channel, maybe a post about the Local Hero Musical in general in which you talk about a selection of songs, explaining the scenes (I can help with that if you need) and play the chords and licks from that songs. Could be nice to explain this new side of MK as composer, less known to the public in general.
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Yes, I like this song from the first moment but Mark would sing better ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKW48Xqc3g
Not really, this song needs a voice with a perfect modulation, something that a high profile singer with a perfect voice.
I think that MK would sing very well "What a life" probably, maybe "Houston, we have a problem", but not the rest.
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Yes, I like this song from the first moment but Mark would sing better ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKW48Xqc3g
Not really, this song needs a voice with a perfect modulation, something that a high profile singer with a perfect voice.
I think that MK would sing very well "What a life" probably, maybe "Houston, we have a problem", but not the rest.
You are certainly right. I haven't seen the musical. I was only thinking about Only Rocks And Water. I have a little problem with the singing actors:)
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Tears - Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - Pavel Fomenkov & AI Cover
Time for another big project — recreating “Tears” by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler. In the past couple of weeks, I learned, transcribed and recorded both parts of this instrumental composition written by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, and recorded by Mark and Chet in 1990, to the best of my current abilities. Also, helping me is no other than Mark O'Connor, or to be precise his brilliant fiddle playing that I extracted through AI from the original record. The bass is also original, but both guitars are recorded from scratch. Lessons, tablatures, interactive play-along videos, everything is incoming in the next few days or weeks. It’s going to be great! P.S. Feels good to release a new video when Mark’s new album was announced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHa-L0DP2-U
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I really discovered Django and Stephane with the metroland score and became a fan immediately...
Bireli Lagrene did a great record called Djangology which I totally recommend.
Great performance Pavel, as usual, I bet you enjoyed it a lot.
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I really discovered Django and Stephane with the metroland score and became a fan immediately...
Bireli Lagrene did a great record called Djangology which I totally recommend.
Great performance Pavel, as usual, I bet you enjoyed it a lot.
Yeah, I know it's a cliché, but Neck And Neck is such an underrated album. From all I played on my channel, the stuff Mark did with Chet was always the most challenging. I'll See You In My Dreams, Imagine, and Tears combined required something like 100 takes to get at least into the "uploadable" category. Unbelievable chops. Mark can say how much he wants about him ending up recording an album with Chet almost by chance, all I know is — "he played before". And indeed it's enjoyable to play all this stuff, despite all the challenges.
Bireli, as I like to put it, inspires me to stop playing guitar. How anyone can become so great at the instrument? It's insane!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFzZIArP0q8
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Funny enough, I listen very much to that album during the last weeks and although I have no clue about guitar playing and not the right vocabulary, I can fully understand what you say. The whole album is just pure joy, a lovely record (and the vinyl very good sounding, I know I go on everyones nerves with vinyl bla bla, but it is the reason MK made a big comeback in my life.) I had this record lying around and cleaned it properly, it was hardly never spun before and it sounds phantastic.
I would however not agree with Neck & Neck being underrated. It got lots of prices, didn't it? The collection of songs is so nice, and even if the recording process itself was achieved in a rather uncool and not very "anaolog" and "live" way, the result is nearly a perfect record. Blimey, I think I will spin it now once more.
LE
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Funny enough, I listen very much to that album during the last weeks and although I have no clue about guitar playing and not the right vocabulary, I can fully understand what you say. The whole album is just pure joy, a lovely record (and the vinyl very good sounding, I know I go on everyones nerves with vinyl bla bla, but it is the reason MK made a big comeback in my life.) I had this record lying around and cleaned it properly, it was hardly never spun before and it sounds phantastic.
I would however not agree with Neck & Neck being underrated. It got lots of prices, didn't it? The collection of songs is so nice, and even if the recording process itself was achieved in a rather uncool and not very "anaolog" and "live" way, the result is nearly a perfect record. Blimey, I think I will spin it now once more.
LE
Of all Chet Atkins collaboration albums I heard, and I heard a lot, Neck and Neck is certainly the best one. I'm sure he loved it too. When you combine Chet's knowledge, virtuosity, humour, and connections with Mark's taste, perfectionism (not regarding album covers, apparently), unique style, and personality, it's a match made in heaven. And of course, the album was famous for its simple production and low budget.
Later in the same decade, Chet recorded an album with Tommy Emmanuel and you immediately can see it's not up to Neck and Neck standards. Funny, once Mark recorded with Tommy, the latter was also put under Mark's charms and produced a fine recording of a simple song in very limited circumstances. It's a crime they never did more recordings, though Mark said numerous times he would want to do more with Chet until he died in 2001. What a "slow learner" he is.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8E93EaYT90
I apologise for re-uploading the video, it had a critical editing mistake I somehow missed, so had to redo everything. I make a lot of mistakes all the time, and there are mistakes I can skip, but it wasn’t one of them. Pavel.
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I had the great pleasure to interview Bireli two years ago for his album "solo suites" :
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/jazz/bireli-lagrene-seul-avec-sa-guitare-sur-son-nouvel-album-solo-suites_5119942.html
and saw him live with JL Ponty and K Eastwood : https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/jazz/le-trio-ponty-lagrene-eastwood-a-vienne-une-virtuosite-aerienne_3290599.html
an amazing musician, and a very nice person
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oh and BTW, great work Pavel, as always :thumbsup
what a bunch of tricky chords ! :o
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I had the great pleasure to interview Bireli two years ago for his album "solo suites" :
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/jazz/bireli-lagrene-seul-avec-sa-guitare-sur-son-nouvel-album-solo-suites_5119942.html
and saw him live with JL Ponty and K Eastwood : https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/jazz/le-trio-ponty-lagrene-eastwood-a-vienne-une-virtuosite-aerienne_3290599.html
an amazing musician, and a very nice person
Amazing stuff man! To be fair, he's a prodigy and has been playing guitar and studying jazz pretty much since he was born, so we mere mortals can't relate :lol
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oh and BTW, great work Pavel, as always :thumbsup
what a bunch of tricky chords ! :o
Thank you! Since we mentioned Bireli, his comping on "Sunny" gives me the desire to burn all my guitars all at once, then I remember I only own just a couple of guitars and calm down :lol Certainly stuff like Tears is small potatoes compared to what these gentlemen can come up with... ONE THE SPOT :o
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I think I'll be slowly wrapping my activity on this forum and deleting all my messages, as the amount of scolding and inadequate replies I get just because I post often and just because my opinion usually goes against the grain exceeds any reasonable amounts. Some folks can open champagne bottles and launch their confetti — a lot of you, good for you (GFY).
It's not the "last post" message, just me wanting to share this information on my topic. I understand people who ignore social media and online discussions. And find it hilarious that I've been a constant source of burning butts and personal attacks for such a long time. Folks, I just play the guitar and say what I think, if you can't handle this, again, GFY.
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I think I'll be slowly wrapping my activity on this forum and deleting all my messages, as the amount of scolding and inadequate replies I get just because I post often and just because my opinion usually goes against the grain exceeds any reasonable amounts. Some folks can open champagne bottles and launch their confetti — a lot of you, good for you (GFY).
It's not the "last post" message, just me wanting to share this information on my topic. I understand people who ignore social media and online discussions. And find it hilarious that I've been a constant source of burning butts and personal attacks for such a long time. Folks, I just play the guitar and say what I think, if you can't handle this, again, GFY.
No ones opening confetti P, just post your messages, after all this is a forum, if people agree or don’t agree
Oxford:
a meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.
"we hope these pages act as a forum for debate”
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No ones opening confetti P, just post your messages, after all this is a forum, if people agree or don’t agree
Oxford:
a meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged.
"we hope these pages act as a forum for debate”
Yeah, that's the idea of the forum, right? But turns out nobody's interested in detailed analysis, or digging for the truth, whatever it is. Usually, you post something and some guy says "You are 100% wrong" (nobody can be 100% wrong, even Hitler was a vegetarian), or goes personal on you if he lost all his arguments.
I feel bad for guys who post a nicely articulated, yet negative review or reply and in most cases just being ignored, or if it's somebody like me, who can defend their opinion, gets scolded. It's not an idea of a good peaceful discussion. It really does feel like you need two separate forums for sceptics and die-hard fans.
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I think I'll be slowly wrapping my activity on this forum and deleting all my messages, as the amount of scolding and inadequate replies I get just because I post often and just because my opinion usually goes against the grain exceeds any reasonable amounts. Some folks can open champagne bottles and launch their confetti — a lot of you, good for you (GFY).
It's not the "last post" message, just me wanting to share this information on my topic. I understand people who ignore social media and online discussions. And find it hilarious that I've been a constant source of burning butts and personal attacks for such a long time. Folks, I just play the guitar and say what I think, if you can't handle this, again, GFY.
Just ignore those messages, your contributions are always welcomed and if you leave we are all losing. Please stay.
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I think I'll be slowly wrapping my activity on this forum and deleting all my messages, as the amount of scolding and inadequate replies I get just because I post often and just because my opinion usually goes against the grain exceeds any reasonable amounts. Some folks can open champagne bottles and launch their confetti — a lot of you, good for you (GFY).
It's not the "last post" message, just me wanting to share this information on my topic. I understand people who ignore social media and online discussions. And find it hilarious that I've been a constant source of burning butts and personal attacks for such a long time. Folks, I just play the guitar and say what I think, if you can't handle this, again, GFY.
Anybody is free to do what they want but if you leave I'll be sorry to see you go.
The whole reason for setting up this unofficial forum was to allow full and free comment on MK, including criticsm.
I'll remind everyone of one of our fundamental rules here:
When we register to be a user/member of A.M.I.T. forum, we agree that we will not post any messages or topics that are threatening, hateful, obscene, vulgar, inflammatory, disrespectful or in violation of any laws/codes of conduct. In other words: - Be nice when you visit. Respect other user/ members, and all of the Administrators/moderators. Personal, attacks, Inflammatory-postings and stirring, will not be tolerated. Treat everyone here the way you expect to be treated yourself.
If anyone is subject to a personal attack please report to the mods and action will be taken as this is a clear breach of the rules that we all agree to when we sign up.
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This I'm leaving event is getting really boring...
I think your ideas and videos are one of the most interesting parts of the forum. But you, who sometimes give unnecessarily positive praise to Mark, have recently started to criticize Mark unnecessarily negatively in almost every thread. What is the reason for this sudden change? If it's just to annoy the "lickspittle" members, you're doing the man an injustice.
I think everyone should be able to express their opinion and debate. You shouldn't say this is a fan page and prevent discussion.
I look forward to watching your new videos and reading your opinions :wave
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This I'm leaving event is getting really boring...
I think your ideas and videos are one of the most interesting parts of the forum. But you, who sometimes give unnecessarily positive praise to Mark, have recently started to criticize Mark unnecessarily negatively in almost every thread. What is the reason for this sudden change? If it's just to annoy the "lickspittle" members, you're doing the man an injustice.
I think everyone should be able to express their opinion and debate. You shouldn't say this is a fan page and prevent discussion.
I look forward to watching your new videos and reading your opinions :wave
Thank you! Also, I never changed a bit. If you see a lot of criticism from me, it's merely a coincidence. If I'm commenting on a topic that's already full of praise over the lid, I don't feel like contributing even more praise. If anything, praise makes me mad. Praise is pointless, including praise towards my own work and activity. What drives me forward is reasonable criticism, pointing out my mistakes, and analysis of my failures, if I happen to have one. If I'll ever have a YouTube Silver Button award, I'll hang it in my WC.
I'm not strictly "leaving", just demand more tolerance and mutual respect from all the forum members. I really wish this forum would have a like/dislike counter on posts, so you would have fewer "I agree!" and ":thumbsup" messages clogging up the threads, and leaving only relevant discussion in place. Either way, I'm not a fan of when AMIT at times transforms into MKNews Forum. It's an independent forum as dustyvalentino pointed out, so freedom of speech shall not be violated.
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I think I'll be slowly wrapping my activity on this forum and deleting all my messages, as the amount of scolding and inadequate replies I get just because I post often and just because my opinion usually goes against the grain exceeds any reasonable amounts. Some folks can open champagne bottles and launch their confetti — a lot of you, good for you (GFY).
It's not the "last post" message, just me wanting to share this information on my topic. I understand people who ignore social media and online discussions. And find it hilarious that I've been a constant source of burning butts and personal attacks for such a long time. Folks, I just play the guitar and say what I think, if you can't handle this, again, GFY.
I feel adressed in a certain way and would say something. Just need some time for it as I am at work, but I think that you indeed have dramatically changed over the last two weeks. I will come back to it later today.
LE
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I feel adressed in a certain way and would say something. Just need some time for it as I am at work, but I think that you indeed have dramatically changed over the last two weeks. I will come back to it later today.
LE
This is my thread, so if anyone has any questions for me, I'm willing to answer them and have a reasonable discussion. Your messages in particular are one of my favourite parts about this forum, if not the favourite, and yes, I was surprised to see even you going personal with me. I got scoLdEd. Looking forward to hearing your opinion.
Another point about praise. I felt genuinely bad when MK promoted my work on his social media as all this praise and love started pouring in. I would be happier if Mark would go and say "This guy is nuts, everything he's doing is wrong" because at least I respect the guy. But I felt so bad I had to ask them not to do it again.
Part of the problem is Mark's absence on social media and I feel like I'm getting more than I deserve, another part... And you see, I'm already falling into this negative loop of thinking about the problem, overthinking it and drawing conclusions. Yes, I am a chronic overthinker, and yes, I feel ashamed to draw attention.
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It's pretty easy. Nothing against strong opinions, nothing against many posts and often posting. Your contributions are among the most valuable in this forum, no doubt about that. You are as funny and intelligent and fast and eloquent as ever, extremely talented and have immense knowledge about all sorts of things and especially music of course.
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BUT in the last two weeks I detect that you lost the momentum somehow... you are TOO fast thinking, posting, .. you seem to be over the top. You state meanings as facts, turn things around and do totally wild assumptions. Going far too far above what iniitally was meant. Everything seems to trigger you. For example yesterday that friendly post about the auction made you attack not only the poster but MK, Christie's, the whole world and the new single. Why is that? Do you need a long holiday or two weeks of a good sleep? I really wondered if you are on any substances, imagine that! I hope you get my point. It is not you as a person or your opinion but how you lately communiquate. Overthinking you called it yourself. That's true and I wonder what made you going on higher levels of heavily overthinking almost everything lately.
If you were my brother, I would invite you for a meal and have a serious talk with you and trying to figure out what's wrong.
And it also not about being against MK or not. It is about a certain level of compromise, and being able to accept certain things as they are.
Please read your posts from the last three weeks and tell me if I am totally wrong. And again, it is not your opinion. It's your style of posting against almost everything LATELY! And it's me worrying about you, not hating you or bullying.
LE
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Now THIS is what I'm talking about, this is called discussion. Thank you, LE, you did not disappoint. No double-talk, no passive aggression, concise and down to the point. I have a few theories on how to explain my behaviour. Of course, it's a complex matter and can't be explained in a single sentence.
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First, I want people to understand that I'm not mad. I'm an ordinary guy living an ordinary life in the middle of trucking nowhere. If you think I'm crazy or on crack, you again shift the attention from my opinions to my personality. It's never about "me", it's always about "the thing", whether it's a song, topic or anything else.
The thing is — I have a lot to say. I think fast and I write fast. I know it can be frustrating to see so many of my (in 99% of cases) long posts, and I know how it paired with my insane posting pace can trigger some of the less tolerant members of this forum (cough cough). For this, I'm sorry.
The stupidest thing about hunter's obsession with offending me is that it's pointless since I have absolutely nothing against him apart from his attacks on me, and I even agree with most of his posts. This conflict has no substance to it, it's entirely a psychological misunderstanding/intolerance thing. It's literally nothing.
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Second, I'm not sure about stating meaning as facts. Facts are facts, meanings are meanings. For example, I don't understand dustyvalentino's obsession with trying to make me think that David G and Mark K are equal in popularity, when every number, every video view, every guitar auction, and every single fact works against it, even including their behaviour. David resurrected Pink Floyd in 2014, David recorded Pink Floyd singles in aid of Ukraine with hip young artists. I am almost ready to conduct real research asking random people about it, but I'm just so sure about the results that yes, I state it almost as fact. My bad.
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Third, I understand that I simply don't belong to a forum full of die-hard fans of a legacy celebrity with my excessively radical nonconformist approach. I don't care whether it's Mark, his fans, a child, or some random guy from Bangladesh — I take everybody as equal, I look at facts, their words, and their decisions, analyse them and come to my conclusions. Luckily, I have several vehicles where I can use my obsession with facts, analysis and writing.
Yes, I'm not an easy person to talk with, and yes, I do have a lot of psychological problems, now show me who does not. I'll wait.
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Second, I'm not sure about stating meaning as facts. Facts are facts, meanings are meanings. For example, I don't understand dustyvalentino's obsession with trying to make me think that David G and Mark K are equal in popularity, when every number, every video view, every guitar auction, and every single fact works against it, even including their behaviour. David resurrected Pink Floyd in 2014, David recorded Pink Floyd singles in aid of Ukraine with hip young artists. I am almost ready to conduct real research asking random people about it, but I'm just so sure about the results that yes, I state it almost as fact. My bad.
Seeing as my name's been brought into this I'll respond. I never said that they are of equal popularity. I just (1) said I don't think any difference (if there is one) is as big as you think it is and (2) there's no way of proving it either way, so it's kind of pointless anyway. The guitar auction doesn't really prove that David Gilmour is more popular than MK generally. It just proves he is more popular with rich douchebags.
Anyway, I'm apparently the second reason for you wanting to leave so if I've said anything that offends you I'm sorry. I thought it was just a discussion which is fair game, not a personal attack.
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Second, I'm not sure about stating meaning as facts. Facts are facts, meanings are meanings. For example, I don't understand dustyvalentino's obsession with trying to make me think that David G and Mark K are equal in popularity, when every number, every video view, every guitar auction, and every single fact works against it, even including their behaviour. David resurrected Pink Floyd in 2014, David recorded Pink Floyd singles in aid of Ukraine with hip young artists. I am almost ready to conduct real research asking random people about it, but I'm just so sure about the results that yes, I state it almost as fact. My bad.
Seeing as my name's been brought into this I'll respond. I never said that they are of equal popularity. I just (1) said I don't think any difference (if there is one) is as big as you think it is and (2) there's no way of proving it either way, so it's kind of pointless anyway. The guitar auction doesn't really prove that David Gilmour is more popular than MK generally. It just proves he is more popular with rich douchebags.
Anyway, I'm apparently the second reason for you wanting to leave so if I've said anything that offends you I'm sorry. I thought it was just a discussion which is fair game, not a personal attack.
No man, it's just an example I tried to explain by misbehaviour with. Because it falls into a negative loop: I feel like I have a lot to say about the topic (and I can go on and on coming up with facts almost about anything), writing more posts, more text, people see all this and think that I'm getting crazier and crazier in defending my arguments, and the whole thing goes nuts. It's like a nuclear war — you don't have a winner, you've only got survivors.
I guess it's just a bad topic to discuss, and I am indeed too defensive about my arguments in this case and engaging not in the best of discussions, so overall it's undoubtedly more my fault than anyone else's. On the other hand, with a man as mysterious and as private as MK, almost everything you can do — is guessing anyway.
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Sorry (again), you know what it's like, you see your name mentioned and you automatically go on the defensive!
Anyway, I really hope you stay, too many good people have left this forum already because of pointless disagreements.
It's times like this with lots of activity where the forums really come into their own. Social media has all but killed forums off but for me they are no way to discuss all these (important?!) issues.
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Type less, type slower, think before you post, and you'll be good.
You say it yourself: You have a lot on your heart. On every topic. On almost every post. The world and this forum will not go to hell if your voice is not heard several times on every page. And you don't have to create 300-word speeches all the time either.
You say "it's not about me". Yes, very often it is about you. You start writing about whatever topic, then you very often feel the need to link it to your own experience. Why?
Also – excuse me for my directness – but your tone is very often the one of a know-it-all. And you can be rude af. I mean, the way you engaged with Chris is just ... I have no words.
I'm not saying this because I dislike you personally or because I'm an a-hole. You have a lot to bring to this forum. You're super talented, smart and dare to go against the current.
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Type less, type slower, think before you post, and you'll be good.
You say it yourself: You have a lot on your heart. On every topic. On almost every post. The world and this forum will not go to hell if your voice is not heard several times on every page. And you don't have to create 300-word speeches all the time either.
You say "it's not about me". Yes, very often it is about you. You start writing about whatever topic, then you very often feel the need to link it to your own experience. Why?
Also – excuse me for my directness – but your tone is very often the one of a know-it-all. And you can be rude af. I mean, the way you engaged with Chris is just ... I have no words.
I'm not saying this because I dislike you personally or because I'm an a-hole. You have a lot to bring to this forum. You're super talented, smart and dare to go against the current.
Can I just say, Quizzy can choose to take this "advice" or not. Anyone can post whatever they like here as long as it doesn't break any rules. If you don't like anyone's tone or how they use their personal experience to make a point, just move past, or challenge without insulting them.
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Type less, type slower, think before you post, and you'll be good.
You say it yourself: You have a lot on your heart. On every topic. On almost every post. The world and this forum will not go to hell if your voice is not heard several times on every page. And you don't have to create 300-word speeches all the time either.
You say "it's not about me". Yes, very often it is about you. You start writing about whatever topic, then you very often feel the need to link it to your own experience. Why?
Also – excuse me for my directness – but your tone is very often the one of a know-it-all. And you can be rude af. I mean, the way you engaged with Chris is just ... I have no words.
I'm not saying this because I dislike you personally or because I'm an a-hole. You have a lot to bring to this forum. You're super talented, smart and dare to go against the current.
Can I just say, Quizzy can choose to take this "advice" or not. Anyone can post whatever they like here as long as it doesn't break any rules. If you don't like anyone's tone or how they use their personal experience to make a point, just move past, or challenge without insulting them.
Absolutely. Which why I use the ignore function. But apparently it's not only I who have taken issue with his behavior/attitude lately.
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Type less, type slower, think before you post, and you'll be good.
You say it yourself: You have a lot on your heart. On every topic. On almost every post. The world and this forum will not go to hell if your voice is not heard several times on every page. And you don't have to create 300-word speeches all the time either.
You say "it's not about me". Yes, very often it is about you. You start writing about whatever topic, then you very often feel the need to link it to your own experience. Why?
Also – excuse me for my directness – but your tone is very often the one of a know-it-all. And you can be rude af. I mean, the way you engaged with Chris is just ... I have no words.
I'm not saying this because I dislike you personally or because I'm an a-hole. You have a lot to bring to this forum. You're super talented, smart and dare to go against the current.
Can I just say, Quizzy can choose to take this "advice" or not. Anyone can post whatever they like here as long as it doesn't break any rules. If you don't like anyone's tone or how they use their personal experience to make a point, just move past, or challenge without insulting them.
Absolutely. Which why I use the ignore function. But apparently it's not only I who have taken issue with his behavior/attitude lately.
Again, and I really can't emphasise this enough to everyone, if there is a post that you think breaks the rules, please use the report function before doing anything else.
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Type less, type slower, think before you post, and you'll be good.
You say it yourself: You have a lot on your heart. On every topic. On almost every post. The world and this forum will not go to hell if your voice is not heard several times on every page. And you don't have to create 300-word speeches all the time either.
You say "it's not about me". Yes, very often it is about you. You start writing about whatever topic, then you very often feel the need to link it to your own experience. Why?
Also – excuse me for my directness – but your tone is very often the one of a know-it-all. And you can be rude af. I mean, the way you engaged with Chris is just ... I have no words.
I'm not saying this because I dislike you personally or because I'm an a-hole. You have a lot to bring to this forum. You're super talented, smart and dare to go against the current.
Can I just say, Quizzy can choose to take this "advice" or not. Anyone can post whatever they like here as long as it doesn't break any rules. If you don't like anyone's tone or how they use their personal experience to make a point, just move past, or challenge without insulting them.
Absolutely. Which why I use the ignore function. But apparently it's not only I who have taken issue with his behavior/attitude lately.
Again, and I really can't emphasise this enough to everyone, if there is a post that you think breaks the rules, please use the report function before doing anything else.
You can be well within the limits and yet be a nuisance. He wonders why his posts get little or negative response. It's not because he's breaking the rules.
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If someone isn't breaking the rules then whatever they post is fine. Just don't read it, then you won't find it a nuisance.
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Type less, type slower, think before you post, and you'll be good.
You say it yourself: You have a lot on your heart. On every topic. On almost every post. The world and this forum will not go to hell if your voice is not heard several times on every page. And you don't have to create 300-word speeches all the time either.
You say "it's not about me". Yes, very often it is about you. You start writing about whatever topic, then you very often feel the need to link it to your own experience. Why?
Also – excuse me for my directness – but your tone is very often the one of a know-it-all. And you can be rude af. I mean, the way you engaged with Chris is just ... I have no words.
I'm not saying this because I dislike you personally or because I'm an a-hole. You have a lot to bring to this forum. You're super talented, smart and dare to go against the current.
Can I just say, Quizzy can choose to take this "advice" or not. Anyone can post whatever they like here as long as it doesn't break any rules. If you don't like anyone's tone or how they use their personal experience to make a point, just move past, or challenge without insulting them.
First, thank you (hunter) for accepting my reasoning and answering some of the questions I rightly (I think) had for you, and please excuse me for acting somewhat aggressive at times. But as Dusy said, when you see yourself being attacked in any way, shape or form, you react, and I'm not the one who can leave it as is. In this message, I'll tackle my so-called rudeness.
With all fairness, Chris right away has proved not to be the guy it's easy to argue with either. Literally ANYTHING you throw at him is either thrown back, barked at, or answered with short messages with a very condescending attitude. I'm sorry, but if something's messed up, something's messed up and I don't care if it's Chris Whitten, Mark Knopfler or the Pope.
I love Chris, he's a great drummer, and he's a great photographer/historian, and it's a piece of insane luck we have him on the forum, it's just I can barely talk with the guy online. At one point he just said "It's irrelevant" in two words answering to a quite neutral post of mine (especially by my standards). I was like WTF is wrong with you man? It's not how you talk to people.
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Edit: Response to dusty's post above.
Again, which is why I use the ignore function. The ignore function doesn't cover quotes, though, and yesterday I "slipped". I guarantee it won't happen again.
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Again, which is why I use the ignore function. The ignore function doesn't cover quotes, though, and yesterday I "slipped". I guarantee it won't happen again.
You are talking about me being rude, a know-it-all type, and looking at things from above, but doing the same things yourself. Your message can be approximately translated to "I still think you're an a-hole, and will think you're an a-hole, deal with it". I don't want to fight with you, it's just a forum, it's just the internet. You don't know me, I don't know you. Let's just be a little bit more respectful and tolerant of each other.
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With all fairness, Chris right away has proved not to be the guy it's easy to argue with either. Literally ANYTHING you throw at him is either thrown back, barked at, or answered with short messages with a very condescending attitude. I'm sorry, but if something's messed up, something's messed up and I don't care if it's Chris Whitten, Mark Knopfler or the Pope.
I love Chris, he's a great drummer, and he's a great photographer/historian, and it's a piece of insane luck we have him on the forum, it's just I can barely talk with the guy online. At one point he just said "It's irrelevant" in two words answering to a quite neutral post of mine (especially by my standards). I was like WTF is wrong with you man? It's not how you talk to people.
I agree. His replies have surprised me (negatively) sometimes. But - how often do we get to engage directly with someone who was there? That alone should be enough to let a few things pass. Plus, because of his status as a top-class session man who's played with the greats AND because he's a good deal older than you (25? 30 years?), you should choose your words differently than when discussing with someone who is your equal. Disagree, but with respect. That's just common courtesy and exactly why I came out "retirement" to call you out.
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Again, which is why I use the ignore function. The ignore function doesn't cover quotes, though, and yesterday I "slipped". I guarantee it won't happen again.
You are talking about me being rude, a know-it-all type, and looking at things from above, but doing the same things yourself. Your message can be approximately translated to "I still think you're an a-hole, and will think you're an a-hole, deal with it". I don't want to fight with you, it's just a forum, it's just the internet. You don't know me, I don't know you. Let's just be a little bit more respectful and tolerant of each other.
My response was to dusty. I forgot to include him in quotes, and you replied before I hit Post. It was not meant to be a rude response to your post.
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With all fairness, Chris right away has proved not to be the guy it's easy to argue with either. Literally ANYTHING you throw at him is either thrown back, barked at, or answered with short messages with a very condescending attitude. I'm sorry, but if something's messed up, something's messed up and I don't care if it's Chris Whitten, Mark Knopfler or the Pope.
I love Chris, he's a great drummer, and he's a great photographer/historian, and it's a piece of insane luck we have him on the forum, it's just I can barely talk with the guy online. At one point he just said "It's irrelevant" in two words answering to a quite neutral post of mine (especially by my standards). I was like WTF is wrong with you man? It's not how you talk to people.
I agree. His replies have surprised me (negatively) sometimes. But - how often do we get to engage directly with someone who was there? That alone should be enough to let a few things pass. Plus, because of his status as a top-class session man who's played with the greats AND because he's a good deal older than you (25? 30 years?), you should choose your words differently than when discussing with someone who is your equal. Disagree, but with respect. That's just common courtesy and exactly why I came out "retirement" to call you out.
Yeah, I perfectly understand what you mean, and it's called tolerance. Some details are attached seamlessly, some wiggle around like on a Trabant. Fortunately (or unfortunately for some) my tolerance for BS is extra high and I'm not adding additional points for being famous, younger or older, especially on the internet where we are all "equal". A post from a toddler, a post from a celebrity and a post from 80yo will all look the same. It's human interaction distilled into zeros and ones. That's why it's especially important to be respectful and wise with what you say, your messages are your face.
I don't think the ignore function is working great here as it's not like Instagram where you just ban someone and his pictures won't appear. Because we're interacting here and using quotes and stuff, you're basically bound to bump into your ignored vis-à-vis at some point. It's like trying to ban somebody in your family, or at work. This is exactly why we need to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knJrTZumv0k
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I agree with you, but it all changes when we know something about the person behind the avatar. And in Chris' case, we know a lot. And because of his standing and his unique insight, I think it's wise, for the sake of the whole forum, to be less confrontational and more diplomatic. It doesn't mean one is compromising with one's principles, but you give some and take some.
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And continuing my conversation with LE... My mental health might not be in the greatest shape and it certainly affects me and my grumpiness. You can already imagine the trouble of being a young adult Russian and what amount of mental shit I need to go through because of this alone. I've just spent more than a year god knows where doing god knows what like in a prison, and jumped through so many emotional hoops I lost count of it already.
And I'm still doing something I never imagined doing and trying to feed myself with personal guitar lessons. While remaining pretty much an amateur bedroom musician. Impostor syndrome overload. And due to Mark's insane popularity (sarcasm), my channel also grows slower than he releases live albums. It's such a mess of frustration, high hopes, tears, laughs, heartbreak and occasional victories, I am surprised at how well I'm doing despite all this.
I can't say I'm suffering, no, just undergoing this never-ending contrast shower for the past 2 years.
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Very well said. Keep up doing what you do. It is true that one over here in Germany tends to get used to those circumstances that for you are existential and that changed your life so drastically. Let me assure you that I never doubted your mental health, only your present condition of grumpiness. Better think of this gift of yours, and it really is one. Mark's music seems to make you a better man. I hope to see many more of your videos, and especially a lot of after April 12th.
LE
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Thought you might like this Quizzy, Ronnie Wood jamming on a little red Squier last week. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JuN1Zbcu6k
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Thought you might like this Quizzy, Ronnie Wood jamming on a little red Squier last week. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JuN1Zbcu6k
Awesome stuff! Thank you for this gem. Obviously, don't get me started on cheap guitars... Squier is the best value for money on the market, period. I can't even understand how they can give you so much guitar for so little money, it's simply ridiculous. So the more these cheap guitars are played by these legends, the happier I get ;D
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoB-2aDCfD0
Ah, ‘Song For Sonny Liston’. I feared playing one of these solos, any one of them, for years. Like a boxer scared of a match with his most frightening opponent.
If the riff is unbelievably hard to play, then the solo is outright impossible to play. I thought this solo was unplayable, and I’m not happy with the way my 2017 lesson for this song came out to be.
But since I got lucky with a couple of new findings with the riff, I was allowed to enjoy more of the solo, which I did, and seems like I’m finally ready to tackle it. And update the lesson! Bingo.
Here’s AVO Session 2007 Version solo played on my trusty Squier Mini Start through Mustang Micro headphone amp.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoB-2aDCfD0
Ah, ‘Song For Sonny Liston’. I feared playing one of these solos, any one of them, for years. Like a boxer scared of a match with his most frightening opponent.
If the riff is unbelievably hard to play, then the solo is outright impossible to play. I thought this solo was unplayable, and I’m not happy with the way my 2017 lesson for this song came out to be.
But since I got lucky with a couple of new findings with the riff, I was allowed to enjoy more of the solo, which I did, and seems like I’m finally ready to tackle it. And update the lesson! Bingo.
Here’s AVO Session 2007 Version solo played on my trusty Squier Mini Start through Mustang Micro headphone amp.
great ! :clap
then you realize that this song don't even need a bass ! :lol :lol
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Live Stream alert! I’m planning to go live tomorrow, on Sunday, 20:00 Moscow time, 5 pm London time or 10 am Pacific time.
Anyhow, if you can’t attend it, leave your questions anywhere, here in the comments, on YouTube or email me, and I’ll see it.
Ask me anything about playing guitar, Mark Knopfler or teaching. I’ll try not to touch politics too much in this one. Peace!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVyIi5_nIs