Mark Knopfler's Right Hand Technique Examined...
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Mark DEFFO uses a delay especially as his career advanced.
My list of Knopfler ESSENTIALS, if you’re interested in playing his typical styles, as opposed to all that cocked-wah, ‘Money For Nothing’ stuff, which never really did it for me, as his cleaner material is so much more dynamic and expressive, is as follows:
S-type guitar. I like his Pensa-Suhr era guitars, but am not in a Pensa Suhr income bracket, so I play a G&L Legacy HSS , where I’ve replaced the bridge humbucker with a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck with a coil split.
Fender amplifier, either all-valve or hybrid (with a valve preamp). I own two such amplifiers-my first was a Roc Pro 1000. This line of amps were absolute gems; I dunno why they stopped making them. For a very reasonable price, (well below $500), you got a 2-channel, 100W amp with an effects loop and a proper spring reverb tank-not to mention that amp could get out on the road and take a beating and keep working like an absolute monster. Now, for the same thing, you have to pay $800+ for a Princeton, or more, for a Deluxe Dual Reverb (‘65 reissue, which I also own) or whatever. OR, if you want t to go the affordable route, you end up in digital amps, which-I acknowledge that some of these amplifiers , like the new Katana 3, do sound bloody good; however, I ALSO get the feeling from these digital pedals/amps that not only would an upper-atmospheric nuclear EMP completely melt down the CPU , but so might the vastly weaker EMP of a lightning strike up the block.
So-whilst I recommend an all-analogue amp, even if the power section is all MOSFETs, you gamble with your money as you see fit. The only important part is a lovely, chimey clean channel with a lot of headroom.
Pedals: Easy. A compressor (ideally an Orange Squeezer or an Orange Squeezer clone, such as the Mooer Yellow Comp), an overdrive that can double as a slightly dirty boost (Mark used the Crowther Hot Cake; they usually sell for ~$230, new. I purchased a clone for $70. It may have come from a kit, or is someone’s homemade, reverse-engineered copy, as it’s in a plain yellow enclosure with no branding on it anywhere. It definitely fills a void between the world of transparent boost pedals and low-gain drive pedals. I’ve never played anything that quite does what it does. If that ever sh!ts the bed, I’ll just have to buy the real thing. Finally, you’ll want a volume pedal; Mark does a lot of dramatic volume swells that are much cleaner and more precise than he might get from just the volume knob on his guitar.
That’s an interesting take on what is a unique technique. I’ve always described it as a modified “Clawhammer” . Clearly he’s been influenced by many players , even Billy Gibbons on Money for nothing. IMHO it’s the percussive nature of his right hand that is so unique. I’ve had years of fun trying to copy him, oh and Lindsay Buckingham 😍
Mk style is so unique. a mix of absurdity percussion effects. Awesome right n left hand technique. It will never be coveres. But it s fun to try and eventually ppl might get their own unique style as well.
@@gentx2160I’ve seen some PERFECT covers of M. K. solos online; however, there’s no one out there making NEW music, using that same kind of technique.
Great video/lesson, well done, thanks!
GREAT vid, thanks so much...
It's just what I needed
I have been a big fan of Knopfler's for many years and I ended up abandoning a pick and eventually ended up using only my thumb and the flesh of my fingertips . Recently however, I have started to employ the pick again especially for certain solos and heavier riffs. I actually found it awkward and tricky to play using a pick again after having neglected it for all of those years !
Humbucker. Interesting. I have discovered (after too many years) it's best to perfect a range of right hand techniques to have at one's disposal, for different songs, applications etc. Eg. flat picking, thumb picking, pick and fingers...
@@maxwellfan55 I agree. I actually found that the pick would rotate as I attempted to hold it securely between my thumb and finger ! At this stage I am using the nail of my index finger as an immoveable pick ! lol
@@TheHumbuckerboy Thanks for reply. I'm mainly an acoustic guitarist/5 string banjo player, some electric.
Guitar wise, I've been hybrid flat picking for many years but recently perfecting thumb and 2 finger style using both thumb pick and two nickel National finger picks (bit like a banjo), alternate picking and more, and it's working ok. This is partly because I need to balance the sound of the guitar against my fairly quite vocal when performing live. Most of my guitars are dreads, fairly loud, plus I tend to hit em hard, so people have been saying they can't hear the vocal melody. The thumb and finger picks also give slightly more reach across 6 strings than hybrid flat-picking, although less good for muting.
I've been using triangular shape Dunlop "Ultex" flat picks for quite a while for tone, and when moistened tend to grip the thumb/finger well, less slipping.
I certainly like the thumb and finger technique Ramon demonstrates, especially effective for slide as well as the Knopfler style. I also watch and admire J Beck's right hand technique on electric, a lot.
@@maxwellfan55 I also like Richard Thompson's approach to playing both electric and acoustic guitar. For the first lot of years I played only electric guitar but since getting an inexpensive 2nd hand Yamaha dreadnought acoustic a whole other world has opened up ! I have also been playing in DADGAD tuning and I love it ! Jeff Beck has been one of my favourite lead players for decades with Blow By Blow and Wired being my favourites .
Thank you so much for this. Mark Knopfler has such a great toolbox. I appreciate your including the practice exercises
Great lesson, thanks.
Good to check these different styles out. They lead onto to other things, open new doors. Cheers Ramon.
Peasure!
He definitely does the last technic you show with the percussive ghost note on the Telegraph Road song intro.. Interesting tuto..
Great video! I don’t know if you take video suggestions, but could you maybe do a video about the history of mark’s guitars?
@9:04... "I said come in... the door's open"
I've got the 'back fingernail' thing but my chicken pickin' has never had the bite I crave...
Prolly just need to practice but it's so cool you posted this as I was just thinkin' about it and trying to dig up your previous vid on the subject...
Great Video
That’s awesome! Thanks Ramon
Pleasure bro
You could put a tortoise shell cover over the pickup hole (?)
...or maybe a 'wide range'?
Thanks Goose that was cool. Mark is the King
Pleasure Bill
A lot of folks on youtube play the money for nothing riff very static like a straight melody but I'm pretty sure that is entirely based around that boogie strum as well. A year or 2 ago I took the time to look at this snippet: ruclips.net/video/OG__SwkV3wg/видео.htmlsi=JeQYqaJhk4DXd3pq&t=349 over and over again also using the slower playback speed option on youtube and I got to something that is very similar to what I think Mark does with that boogie feel although I can't get the dynamics quite right (but Mark is probably a master at that or his right hand is more able to palm mute while playing like that at the same time, my hands are small so...). Anyway if you're interested in that riff it's worth looking at that bit.
Yep. The funny one is the why does everyone play riff wrong video where he throws the plectrum away… then plays is wrong.
Thumb, two fingers together. Sometimes the thumb and first finger are playing same string at the same time e.g the very first G5 power chord….maybe you already got that. And good string muting…
Bit late to the party on this video but just wanted to say thanks for an excellent breakdown, demo, and lesson on Mark Knopfler’s right hand technique. You mentioned a continuation of this video looking further at Mark’s technique but I can’t see any links or other videos. Did you do a follow up video? I’d love to see more on this.
thanks new video coming soon
1:40 please write that names in text (don't understand speech)
Richard Thompson
Great video
Many thanks
@7:56... "Come in?"
Not many would/could take this on - fair play
Amen!
It's A lot harder than it looks kids...
Ill do another video on MK very soon! Thanks
Might wanna start by spelling his name right.