Hit the Tone | Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler) | Ep. 59 | Thomann
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This episode covers the introduction of the song Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits. Hope you enjoy and see you next week 🙂
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0:00 : Intro and playing
0:40 : Presentation and Guitar setup
2:08 : Amp and pedal setup
3:54 : The SOUND
4:26 : The Lesson
5:15 : The fretting hand
5:59 : The picking hand
7:28 : Conclusion
7:56 : Outro playing
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Originally posted by UCtvgPVBJ_r1vjN4mRuHCbog at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=417FT_xO5jM
Man, this is not a song of Enanitos Verdes or something like that, first learn the right hand technique like Dylan Guitar, please search him before think Im am idiot instead of the guy you are seeing
Improve your videos by having the camera angle viewing the guitar neck from the bridge position not from the headstock position, because the backhand sideof your hand has your fingers blocking the view of your fingertips on the fretboard.
You nail it!!!
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Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
Probably too much reverb (although it sounds nice). But I think the key is the second position into a Fender amp. I have heard so many people try to get this tone with all kinds of amps and pedals and it's really absurd. This is great.
He used "Music Man" amps a lot in the beginning. (also by Leo Fender ????}
I play it with a pick and you are 100 percent correct about the sound. I cant finger pick for anything. Its one of my greatest regrets not being able to really get the sound down because of it.
Could you pls do the calling elvis sound. And maybe money for nothing and brother in arms sound. I really want those sounds
I played this with my band for years. It doesn't get old. Of course, I used a Strat on the #2 position (bridge and middle pickup, out of phase). All went fine for a long time. We played it well and were satisfied until one day I missed the #2 position, (my Strat had a three-way switch) and I unknowingly played it on the middle pickup. It sounded better than ever and we all wondered what made the difference until I discovered the pickup switch in the middle instead of in its usual place stuck between the bridge and middle pickups.
The amp I was using was a Vox AC-15 which characteristically produces lots of mids and upper-mids that enhances the sound of the middle pickup.
Anyway, I suggest that this tune be played that way. See if maybe it sounds better or at least as good.
Cheers.
P.S. I just saw a vid of Knopfler playing Sultans. The pickup switch of his red Strat was set on the middle position.
Yeah really god tone
There is another consensus which i share in which he changed middle pick up with an FS1 Di Marzio
He might have used just middle pup for last solo as well as neck middle …orange squeezer
i don't think Marks compressed sound was added later like you said. I think he used a compressor in real-time. When using a compressor you play different because the attack is different. Good point about the finger picking style.
Playing this song in a band and around for years, I realized there's some kind of chorus on it. Like 70s chorus not quite 80s. And also ever so slightly tremolo.
NiCE clickbait ! Where is Mark
Last train home, John Mayer!
Great video man, definitely is marks tone live. However with a lot of research and videos i have looked at I believe the pickup used on the record is the middle pickup. Still a great video and the tone is awesome????????
You should give it a go with SRV`s Lenny that he wrote for his wife. You will find that this melody is one of the worlds best bluesballads ever. Some of the most beautyful guitarplaying. And last. millions try to find Stevies sound. No easy task to hit 100 %
First off… Thank you. You got it right. All of it. It's yours. Now it's up to me. If I want to make it mine….? I need to go to work. Later!
Less talky more playing..getting so sick or guitarists just fuckin babbleing
Funk 49 – James Gang
Guillaume – did you not know that you can only nail the sound of Sultans Of Swing just when wearing a neon hairband??? – hahaha.
But seriously – cool playing and explanation – thank you! ????????????
Challenge: comfortably numb tone 2nd solo from the Pulse live version!
Anything of metallica
Still missing some Clapton tunes!
Next Song, no joke, the title melody of the animated series "super Wings" in the German version. That would be funny????
Nailed it. Would love to see some Buckethead.
Billy gibbons should be Nice Guillaume , continue ton bon travail 😉
Wearing a bonnet above a T-shirt is so 'COOL'!
Great tone!
I think the rhythm sounds good but is not 100 per cent accurate as Dire Straits played some kind of rumba.
You can find isolated tracks from the original recording here on YouTube. When you listen to it you will hear what I mean.
Nailed it, veeery nice. I think, the beauty of learning song like this is, that every repetition is easy to accent and phrase differently, while staying musical.
Anything by the “Hives” would be amazing! Cool video, thank you
Great lesson. Next, do Apostle or Albatross by Peter Green.
Show de bola
Anyone ever asks me what people mean by strats having “bell like tone” I just point them to Dire Straits. ????
pretty carolina by jontha links