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Tag: Bluebird

September 7, 2012September 7, 2012MK guitar style and licks, Understanding music

The opening lick of the last solo in Bluebird

In the following you will find a tab of a lick in the song Bluebird from Mark Knopfler’s last album Privateering. It is the lick the last solo starts with (2:40 – 2:43). I like this lick because I thought it sounds unusual and thus interesting  when I first heard it. While I often immediately know on what scale or idea a MK lick is based when I hear it, […]

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