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1. 

   The picture really is great but more than that I am impressed by the good sound quality coming from such a small camera. I would have expected some sort of sound-mud but it actually sounds pretty good.

   And you are SO right about the part in 0:30. I tried a real long time to figure out what on earth it is Knopfler is doing there but eventually gave up. Guess there are one or two things you just can’t copy

   Comment by Philipp — 24. September 2009 @ 09:34

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   The audio of the Lumix is only mono and only 16 kHz sampling rate, but in fact does not sound bad I think

   Comment by Ingo — 24. September 2009 @ 15:22

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   What a great cover!
   What is the secret of the “Knopfler-click-sound”? I mean for example 0:02 to 0:04 or 1:56 to 1:57.
   I do the Knopfler picking too but I think i do it the wrong way, because there isn’t this “click” sound.

   Comment by TheWizzard29 — 24. September 2009 @ 19:01

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   Not sure what you mean with click sound here, normally I would assume it means staccato licks or those muted “chick” sounds between some notes, but I can’ really find good examples for such a thing at the time positions you speciefied. Generally there is not really a secret except playing almost steadily with the right hand, which means often playing muted strokes between the ‘audible’ notes.

   Comment by Ingo — 25. September 2009 @ 11:24

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   Yeah, it is pretty hard to describe. I call it the Pensa-Suhr-sound, because I only noticed this sound on the Pensa Suhr. Just listen to the Basel version of Sultans of Swing or Telegraph Road, there is always a click between the sound. What you described as the muted “chick” sound is the downstroke.

   Comment by TheWizzard29 — 26. September 2009 @ 18:20

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   Ingo, great stuff again! Lick from 0.40 makes me always smile because it´s so great.

   Comment by Ville — 27. September 2009 @ 12:47

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   Hi Ingo,

   Nice video!

   “I played some of those staccato things from the Alchemy version at 0:30 – although it seems noone knows for sure how Knopfler did that exactly”

   Well I know how MK played that part.

   I will do a video when I have time and I will put it on my YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/angelofumarola

   Cheers
   AF

   Comment by Angelo Fumarola — 30. September 2009 @ 11:57

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   A friend of mine told me few years ago that some licks of the live solo of Sulatns made him thinking of Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
   You know, those staccato licks on the A and D strings, that are featuring in Sultans since Alchemy (or maybe 80-81 tour, I don’t remember), the ones starting at 4:33 on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re9qdd6GdTg

   OK, my first reaction to my friend was :” What ?! but no ! Mark is of course picking, more subtil, more clear, more…. and Allen Collins si more raw, more rock, even hard rock and so on…”

   But when I listen to Free Bird again, especially live version, well I must say there are some similitaries : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBNIiCMu7I
   and around 6:30-6:40, you can hear some licks similars to the famous ones at the end of Sultans. Of course, it’s not the same style , the same sound, but I think it has a same idea to play fast licks around the same pattern.

   Of course, I don’t think Mark has copying whatever, it’s just a remark.

   to precise : my friend is a drummer and like very much the DS 78-79 period, but don’t like the stuff after the arrival ok keyboards. He’s a big fan of Pick Withers and don’t like Terry Williams, so it’s also a reason why he don’t like Alchemy for example.

   Comment by Jean-François — 9. October 2009 @ 20:37

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   I just add this post to show that I’ve post one last week, and it didn’t appears in recents posts.

   Comment by Jean-François — 12. October 2009 @ 10:18

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    There is a spam filter to protect the blog from unwanted spam comments. Sometimes the filter mistakenly blocks real comments, especially when there are links in them. I need to approve them manually then, and sometimes I am not aware of blocked comments. Sorry.

    Comment by Ingo — 12. October 2009 @ 11:25

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    No probs Ingo,

    it was just to tell to the others, if they wanted to debate about the FreeBird- Sultans similarities

    Comment by Jean-François — 13. October 2009 @ 15:39

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    In fact that Freebird lick is similar. It is also a pattern in sixteenth notes, here over a chord sequence G – Bb – C – C

    The notes vary a bit but are something like f – d – c – d. A conceptual difference is that the lick remains the same over all chords while in Sultans it changes with each chords. In this sense freebird is not really an arpeggio approach like Sultans.

    The ‘climax effect’ is similar however, maybe Mark had something like this in mind.

    Comment by Ingo — 14. October 2009 @ 07:37

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    Comment by fxtrade — 19. November 2009 @ 05:32

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    yea i too cant figure out that clicking part he plays. I have tried figuring it out for awhile, When you play it at 0:32 it sounds spot on, are you doing anything different with your fingers when you hit the strings. I originally thought he would hit the string twice really fast with his thumb then index finger for every note but that stll doesnt sound very right.

    Comment by Kyle — 7. February 2010 @ 03:34

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    >>are you doing anything different with your fingers when you hit the strings

    diferent than what? than before, well, i do ome funny stuff there which i did not play this way some years ago, and today I already play it differently. I might make some videos demonstrating such stuff in the near future.

    Comment by Ingo — 7. February 2010 @ 19:45

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    Well I dont know, just wondering if there is a technique that gives those notes such a distinct sound at that part of the solo. You do play extremely well and the solo sounded great.

    Comment by Kyle — 9. February 2010 @ 23:10

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    Hi Ingo

    just found this site – very interesting. I love the sound you have got. Is there anywhere you know that I can get a TAB for the section on your video 55 to 1:10. This is the only part of the solo I can’t quite get right

    Comment by Mike — 5. September 2010 @ 12:59

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    Unfortunately I don’t have any tabs, never use them, but I think I have seen tabs of this part somewehere. I am sure you can find them in the web, or even some tutorials on youtube.

    Comment by Ingo — 5. September 2010 @ 14:04

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    Thanks Ingo

    I always try to work without tabs, butI have found this section hard to get close to. I only use some of the phrases and then improvise the rest but this part I find frustrating as I like how it sounds and you seem to have nailed it

    Comment by Mike — 5. September 2010 @ 14:17

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    That lick on the bass strings is basically something like

    d3 (pull off to)d0 a5 d0 … (repeat),

    occasionally I might substitute one of these four notes groups with

    a3 (hammer on to) a5 d0 d0

    Comment by Ingo — 5. September 2010 @ 16:10

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