Mark is playing flamenco style damped flick, at the same time as country and western style lead. I don't think anybody had tried such a thing until this, and why Sultans was such a facinating song.
It has a special airiness to it. ANY guitar player appreciates this music he is making. I never have played finger style...The problem is that I put my head down seriously to play from day 1 and didn't even hardly look up the first 10 years. Now after 37 years,..I wish I would have incorporated this and developed this into my playing.
@@robertl.fallin7062 Mark Knopler has actually played Les Pauls more than any guitar both live and in studio recording. Gibson even made a Knopfler signature model based from his 1958 Les Paul that was his favorite. ruclips.net/video/--60MjJLY6w/видео.html
@@stricknine8623 yeah and its funny beacause he created an iconic strat tone with sultans then created an iconic les paul tone with money, the man was truly a guitar god
Yeah, and that's just one of his great creations...while not under-"rated", I think he is under-"appreciated", in that many listeners recognized greatness early and stopped there.
@@rossturpin747 In this case the ghost notes are muted string plucks from the way Knopfler fingerpicks. Typically ghost notes are a percussion thing and don’t have a specific “musical” note.
Knopfler's style is unique and he made big influence for me to playing the guitar. This track sounds great like all Mark's tracks, BUT there are two tracks mixed together. In some places there are two sounds sustaining and are playing by two guitarists.
@@AWguitar2006 It was recorded in the studio. We are not sure if the second guitar is David's playing. The second track could have been played by Mark.
I rarely watch/listen to stuff like this from start to finish, but I did on this one. Loved the graphic representation of the music at the bottom as well.
Mark's dynamics & subtle ghost notes are superb. He's one of the most soulful guitarist ever with a killer ear for melodies. And what a songwriter too. Straits first album is a MASTERPIECE!
I’ve never heard the guitar isolated for this. It was really interesting. So many notes ending in a perfect little vibrato that I never noticed when listening to the whole track before.
This sounds like Mark did two separate tracks, one the chords and one the great fills. I am sure he could have done them both at the same time but the fills have a more treble clear sound and the chords sound like there is a slight shimmering Chorus effect on them making it necessary to have recorded two separate tracks to get two different guitar tones.
This track is worth all the money in the world, you can really hear the rhythm and undertones that dont really come out in the studio version. giid job putting this together.
this is the sound. this is what guitar can be. this is why i want to become better at guitar. the way he can stand there, and just do. just play, he doesent even think, he knows it every way because he tried it and thought about it. and it shows here. the guitar speaks to me. it speaks to all of us. that's what i want. and it is possible. he's done it. come on mr knopfler. thanks for reigniting my love for guitar
Strange listening solo I really head a Hank Marvin influence in his playing. Don't hear it with the rest if the band. This easily could be a shadows track if it was instrumental
I play this all the time and although I can never sound like knopfler this is how the song is played live alot. With some strumming in with the leads. I think that's what this edit was going for and to highlight his signature sound. Although I do totally agree with you.
Mark is one of my favorite players. And one of the things I like about him is every now and then playing live, he makes a mistake, and he plays right through it. He’s a great player and song writer. He’s very complex and simple, if that makes sense? The world thanks you Mark, and here’s to many more years of great playing!
That's insane! How the hell can you even think up this piece much less be able to play it? Just wish he would have shown up and played with the band at the induction!
I used this and the "official" recording to learn this song. I had to slow down to 1/4 speed in many places. My conclusion: this is two tracks. I'd say they isolated the lead and rhythm tracks, and muted the rhythm at every "lead" part. but there are a couple of places where there's overlap-no guitarist can play both sounds at the same time. examples 1:061:131:513:06. Check out my version ↓ I'm playing over Jose Churruca's RUclips backing track. Some flubs, but I got close. ruclips.net/video/oNq9GeDuew8/видео.html
I wonder: did he track the rhythm on a separate track from the lead parts? It sounds like the rhythm is fading in and out. He could have done that with the faders on mixdown? Or he's using a volume pedal to create the swell effect? Or he's creating that effect with his strumming? So fascinating.
I don't think this is just one guitar track, there are places where you can hear the chords and the licks overlap in ways that seem impossible to play. But no doubt a great isolated track to pick out all the finer details of the guitar playing. Thank you for this.
Still my favorite song on the guitar. The cleanliness in his tapping is phenomenal. I always assumed he had some compression with the Rhythm pickup selected to grab that thick twangy tone.
Love the organic, total on-the-fly feel of this in isolation....they could have gone in and cleaned up all the artifacts and extraneous "string" noise, but that would have killed the feel - knowing Knopf was in the zone and laying it down. Thanks for posting - this is awesome.
Played this loud in my apartment and the neighbors now think I'm a genius on guitar.
Dear god. That's a great idea! Thanks Joe!
😎👍🎸🎶🍷...
....Hmmmm!
Good idea!
I ll do the same thing!
But how wrong they were.
The idiot savant
😂
This guy knows all the chords
strictly rhythm
It's cryin' and singing.
Has he still got a daytime job? Is he still doing alright? 😁✌️💚
He's got a day time job..he's doing all right..
also he can play the honky tonk like anything..
Mark is playing flamenco style damped flick, at the same time as country and western style lead. I don't think anybody had tried such a thing until this, and why Sultans was such a facinating song.
It has a special airiness to it.
ANY guitar player appreciates this music he is making.
I never have played finger style...The problem is that I put my head down seriously to play from day 1 and didn't even hardly look up the first 10 years.
Now after 37 years,..I wish I would have incorporated this and developed this into my playing.
Mark Knopfler is definitely one of my favorites.
Mark credited the 63 strat for making Sultons work. It didn't catch on with the band with other guitars he said.
@@robertl.fallin7062
Mark Knopler has actually played Les Pauls more than any guitar both live and in studio recording.
Gibson even made a Knopfler signature model based from his 1958 Les Paul that was his favorite.
ruclips.net/video/--60MjJLY6w/видео.html
@@stricknine8623 yeah and its funny beacause he created an iconic strat tone with sultans then created an iconic les paul tone with money, the man was truly a guitar god
Just this track alone is worth listening to
I’ve fallen asleep at night listening to this
Im loving every single second! 💪
I run across a few isolated or backing tracks on RUclips they were worth listening to as independent pieces. THIS is one of them.🤙🎸
@Dumble Door lol weak troll
So much Chet Adkins.
Shows the complexities of this song hearing it stripped back. How on earth does someone come up with something like this! Pure genius.
Yeah, and that's just one of his great creations...while not under-"rated", I think he is under-"appreciated", in that many listeners recognized greatness early and stopped there.
Im happy to announce that your comment reached 100 likes.
I was thinking that. I’ve been playing for years and can’t get anywhere near this.
Hypnotic.
You can hear a lot of ghost notes, supporting the groove, that in the full track get almost lost.
You don’t really hear them in the mix but it makes the song sooo groovy!
@@FlorentChardevel All 3 guitar tracks are very prominent in the original mix, listen again with a good set of cans or a good set of speakers.
Particularly in the solo
What is a ghost note? I’m guessing a note intentionally missed or expected to be there and isn’t?
@@rossturpin747 In this case the ghost notes are muted string plucks from the way Knopfler fingerpicks. Typically ghost notes are a percussion thing and don’t have a specific “musical” note.
Mrs Knopfler: did you play the twiddly bits at the end?
Mark: no, not this time
Mrs: well that's whats wrong. you gotta play the twiddly bits!
Lol...I use that term in the studio ever since I heard him say that
Haha I loved that video
I wish I had an isolated guitar track for every song that I try to figure out on guitar
Why dont you figure out a solution instead of moaning about it and sharing your damned wishes.
@@mjf857 lol
@@mjf857 someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed 😂
Get studio headphones. It is almost like an isolated track.
Tabs exist
5:26 - I can't describe that feeling, but I bet you felt it too.
what leads to the twiddly bits is the best part
definitely felt it
It's so surreal, I can't explain the emotions it makes me feel, but it's pure magic.
realmente é isso
Knopfler's style is unique and he made big influence for me to playing the guitar. This track sounds great like all Mark's tracks, BUT there are two tracks mixed together. In some places there are two sounds sustaining and are playing by two guitarists.
It is pretty much just mark however David’s guitar sometimes creeps in
@@AWguitar2006 It was recorded in the studio. We are not sure if the second guitar is David's playing. The second track could have been played by Mark.
Sounds like a chorus and/or a delay
Yep. The lead has a ton of reverb that’s missing in the strums.
@@c.k.185 I was just about to say that the track sounds chorused, which I never noticed before.
i love how you can figure the lyrics of the song just off the lick he plays in between the rhythm parts he plays
I rarely watch/listen to stuff like this from start to finish, but I did on this one. Loved the graphic representation of the music at the bottom as well.
Exactly what I thought
Mark's dynamics & subtle ghost notes are superb. He's one of the most soulful guitarist ever with a killer ear for melodies. And what a songwriter too. Straits first album is a MASTERPIECE!
I’ve never heard the guitar isolated for this. It was really interesting. So many notes ending in a perfect little vibrato that I never noticed when listening to the whole track before.
those are bends but sure
The guitar sounds unbelievably great what a beautiful sound
Super clean!
With no pick it has kind of a harp like sound, I think I like the finger pick sound better👍
@@Nucksfan1 yes I can understand that
Mark Knopfler not only plays this, sings it, wrote it, and became famous with it while still in his 20s.
This sounds like Mark did two separate tracks, one the chords and one the great fills.
I am sure he could have done them both at the same time but the fills have a more treble clear sound and the chords sound like there is a slight shimmering Chorus effect on them making it necessary to have recorded two separate tracks to get two different guitar tones.
This track is worth all the money in the world, you can really hear the rhythm and undertones that dont really come out in the studio version. giid job putting this together.
He's GUITAR GEORGE and he knows all the CHORDS
He said an old guitar, is all, he can afford
But mind it's not strictly rythm, he wants to make it cry or sing
He's just saving it up, for Friday Night.
And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't make the scene.
He's got a day time job, he's doing alright.
this is the sound. this is what guitar can be. this is why i want to become better at guitar. the way he can stand there, and just do. just play, he doesent even think, he knows it every way because he tried it and thought about it. and it shows here. the guitar speaks to me. it speaks to all of us. that's what i want. and it is possible. he's done it. come on mr knopfler. thanks for reigniting my love for guitar
2:32 the filthiest, spookiest fill
As fresh as the day it was played. What a moment of beauty
Just...wow. I have always loved this song and its sound. This really allows you to understand and appreciate his artistry as a guitarist and composer.
What a masterpiece
Even the professionals cannot play hundred percent clean
Now that’s a song! If a song is so good that I can literally remember and anticipate every note a split second before it is played it’s a classic.
Is there Chorus in this? I Feel like i hear chorus
Maybe ! 👍🏻
Double tracking here and there
Yeah sounds like chorus to me.
I love this more every time I hear it. Greatest rock song ever
Its in my top 5, but closer to 1 than 5 ;)
Strange listening solo I really head a Hank Marvin influence in his playing. Don't hear it with the rest if the band. This easily could be a shadows track if it was instrumental
I can play this thing note for note and I'm not even close. His style along with his feel is so hard to emulate.
We don’t have the Mark’s fingers 🤪
MK is left-handed playing righty
Mans does all this with his fingers. The technique used is beyond difficult to master.
Es una obra de arte . Cada nota , cada articulación , cada fraseo . Thanks Mark !!!
almost sounds like 2 tracks, one of his lead the other his rhythm and they overlap ever so slightly but mostly oscillating between one to the other
I play this all the time and although I can never sound like knopfler this is how the song is played live alot. With some strumming in with the leads. I think that's what this edit was going for and to highlight his signature sound. Although I do totally agree with you.
Because it is 2 tracks. These are not the original mastering tracks. It's a mix of Mark and David's tracks
👍🏽x1,000,000
This track is most likely lifted from Guitar Hero 5 where Mark's solo track is mixed with David's rhythm guitar.
@@MartinKrger74 Exactly!
So I’ll try playing the triangle I guess…
Incredible dynamics
This has blown me away! Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for posting this!!!
This is great. When you listen to this you can really see how his vocals and the guitar are really a call and answer. Incredible player and tune.
This is what a great master of the guitar sounds like free and soulful but then technically perfect in the last solo....sheer genius.
1:52 🤩😍😍😍😍🎯🏆
I never knew the rhythm guitar had chorus on it! That chorus sounds fantastic!!
I thought I knew this song inside out, but never noticed that too!
Mark is one of my favorite players. And one of the things I like about him is every now and then playing live, he makes a mistake, and he plays right through it. He’s a great player and song writer. He’s very complex and simple, if that makes sense?
The world thanks you Mark, and here’s to many more years of great playing!
Mike Judge has never sounded better.
I have no time for those who slag off Mark Knopfler's playing.
You can really hear the Dan Armstrong Orange squeezer , still convinced he’s on the middle pickup . Thanks for this ;)
Suuuuuuuuuuure....
I think I saw something where he said he was using middle and bridge but obviously on the old 3 position switch in the in-between setting
@@benjaminwoodrowmusic6070 Entirety possible and then binned the matchstick for the for the triplets in the solo ;)
His phrasing is amazing
Vim ouvir depois que o Andy Ferreira falou
I have been listening to this song for decades and I could still find a new lick at 6:05
That's insane!
How the hell can you even think up this piece much less be able to play it?
Just wish he would have shown up and played with the band at the induction!
Very clean!!! This is fabulous. Thanks!
Listening to hear the 12 string on the rhythm parts now. What a great guitarist!
what?
His brother played the rhythm
I think you're hearing the JC-120 chorus, not a 12-string. He used three amps on this track, including a JC.
This is one of the extremely rare cases an isolated track doesn't need anything else
listen to the isolated bass track. precision playing perfectly supporting the guitar work.
jimi was a good case of that too
It's more than one track. That's not a single guitar playing everything.
@@georgeburns8447 well, the main track by itself doesn't need any additional ones, that's what I meant
@@unacuentadeyoutube13 ok
What a take! Jaw-dropping!
I used this and the "official" recording to learn this song. I had to slow down to 1/4 speed in many places. My conclusion: this is two tracks. I'd say they isolated the lead and rhythm tracks, and muted the rhythm at every "lead" part. but there are a couple of places where there's overlap-no guitarist can play both sounds at the same time. examples 1:06 1:13 1:51 3:06. Check out my version ↓ I'm playing over Jose Churruca's RUclips backing track. Some flubs, but I got close.
ruclips.net/video/oNq9GeDuew8/видео.html
thats because the rhytm guitarist plays the rhytm over the lead parts
which i guess was david
4:09 sounds like Sitar
That's an unmistakable lick in the song
Omg amazing masterpiece of Mark Kopfler♥️will be listened till end of a the universe! Rhythm, chords, tone is amazing no one can ve better than him
Just beautiful
5:31 the G string ringing out
That is not a single track. There are at least two tracks. The strumming chords is separate from the lead playing.
I could listen to this all day.
I hear a lot of chorus
Its A Double Track where Two guitars are player the same thing but one track is delayed by 20 to 30 milliseconds.
Apparently this was an old 70s musicman amp. I can’t remember what model but I seem to want to go with a sixty five. Neat amps v crystalline
Can you made one of Lady Writer?
And now, I love it even more...........
Amazing. I could find out some more of what I was missing when I play this song. Thanks.
What a great opportunity to learn the song in detail!
Is this the real Mark Knopfler recording or a very good cover?
This sounds like the original guitar track with all other stuff filtered out. It’s that good.
I wonder: did he track the rhythm on a separate track from the lead parts? It sounds like the rhythm is fading in and out. He could have done that with the faders on mixdown? Or he's using a volume pedal to create the swell effect? Or he's creating that effect with his strumming? So fascinating.
I wonder how many people realize this is all fingerpicking?!
5:23
P E R F E C T I O N. My ears and soul thank you.
I don't think this is just one guitar track, there are places where you can hear the chords and the licks overlap in ways that seem impossible to play. But no doubt a great isolated track to pick out all the finer details of the guitar playing. Thank you for this.
Yes, the mixer riding the fader is working very hard
I think he's a genius a naturally gifted guitarist, in my opinion The BEST
5:23
Mark Knopfler is a master of his craft and one of the most unique to play
A signature tune of Dire Straits and Knopfler. Live in 70s, early 80s they brought this sing on another level..
Still my favorite song on the guitar. The cleanliness in his tapping is phenomenal. I always assumed he had some compression with the Rhythm pickup selected to grab that thick twangy tone.
There's no tapping in this song?
I always thought it was a slide at the end of the first solo and it is a bend
Shows how clean his bends are
3:33
Go Mark the guitar master!!!!!!
jesus this man is good!
This is two guitars, right? Or is he going from strumming to picking throughout?
Amazing
Frikkin beautiful!
So many new sounds in this track. Thank you for this.
Great sound. Mark masterfully done !!!!!!!
By Odin....this is just like gift after gift from the gods with every note...
Holy fuck there was a lick at the end of that I'd never even heard before
Just imagine being able to play air guitar, except for real.
Incredible sense of timing.
The timing is extraordinary.
I have a 212-HD and an orange squeezer circuit, now how do I get this sound?
Texas special - fender pickups.
@@djjmc hmm, I'll look into that, thanks
What an amazing tune!
Makes me proud to be a Geordie also.......
Love the organic, total on-the-fly feel of this in isolation....they could have gone in and cleaned up all the artifacts and extraneous "string" noise, but that would have killed the feel - knowing Knopf was in the zone and laying it down. Thanks for posting - this is awesome.
0:37 to 0:38 I always loved the sound of that bright sounding chord.
Its a F
This is what art does, explains the inexplicable
It's all in the fingers!❤
Maestro!!
3:39 and 5:10
wow thats a pretty sexy sound