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Some Mark Knopfler licks using double-string bends
Posted in: MK guitar style and licks, easy stuff for beginners, understanding music by Ingo on October 19, 2008
What I mean with double-string bends are licks that are played on two or more strings and one or more of these are bent. Such licks appear in countless Mark Knopfler or Dire Straits songs.
The following video clip demonstrates how to use such licks, and their relation to the chords they are based upon. Note that the last licks (Once Upon a time and Sultans of Swing) were covered in one of my former articles.
Most stuff in this video should be self-explaining, so here it is.
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[...] this article for one of my youtube videos where I also demonstrate this [...]
Pingback by Unusual double-string bend in Sultans of Swing and Once Upon a Time | Mark Knopfler Guitar / More Knowledge about the guitar — 20. October 2008 @ 18:35
Hello would like to receive video lessons to learn playing sultans of swing …
I make the first version doissolos
but I can not make the improvisations that the mark is in the music mei
please help me
Comment by pallemberg gomes dias — 13. January 2009 @ 15:12
Hello would like to receive video lessons to learn playing sultans of swing …
I know how the two soils of the first version
but I can not make the improvisations that the mark is in the music mei
please help me
Comment by pallemberg gomes dias — 13. January 2009 @ 15:17