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(Guitar riff cover) Dire Straits — Money for Nothing

vlaoladisvlaoladis
in Creations & Collaborations

Hey everybody!

I finally practiced this riff well enough to post it. Actually, this was the first thing I tried on a cheap METRO electric guitar 15 years ago. I found the Mark Knopfler interview and repeated it over and over. I don't even remember if youtube had speed settings back then. But my guitar was terrible. As I found out later, the frets were installed wrong, so the guitar was doomed to never be in tune :smiley:. So I soon gave it up and concentrated on the classical guitar.

Now I have an electric guitar again, so I felt I had to finally nail that epic riff.

Comments

  • erosseross

    sounds awesome! this is one
    of the hardest riffs to play.

  • vlaoladisvlaoladis

    @eross said:
    sounds awesome! this is one
    of the hardest riffs to play.

    Thank you very much 😊
    Yeah it wasn't easy to grasp all these nuances. Mark Knopfler is a genius of such detailed riffs. The harder one would be the riff from "Setting me up" which I'm scared of a bit. It sounds pretty simple at the beginning but it's really hard to make it close to the original

  • reezyglereezygle

    Great cover. Spot on. And finger picking like the master. Great job!

  • vlaoladisvlaoladis

    @reezygle said:
    Great cover. Spot on. And finger picking like the master. Great job!

    Thank you very much :smile:

  • GeoTonyGeoTony

    You nailed it… well done 👍

  • SquishySquishy

    Gnarly! Even got the tone pretty damn close. If I’m not mistaken (and I usually am), I remember knopfler saying even he couldn’t remember how to recreate that sound haha

  • vlaoladisvlaoladis

    Hi @GeoTony and @Squishy. Thank you very much for much :smile:
    Yep, I had another already recorded video that was blocked immediately (I used the original song as a backing track).

    And while I was researching how to avoid blocking and re-recording everything, I found a much better tone as well

  • Edward_AlexanderEdward_Alexander

    Great job, you’ve got it!

    I’m still trying to picture how frets could be installed wrong on your previous axe 🎸

    Nevertheless it looks like you’ve got yourself a nice one now.

  • insucedibleinsucedible
    edited June 6

    @Squishy said:
    Gnarly! Even got the tone pretty damn close. If I’m not mistaken (and I usually am), I remember knopfler saying even he couldn’t remember how to recreate that sound haha

    I seem to recall it was an accidental recording with mics in the wrong place or that they were hit or kicked down or something like that…

    Check this out, halfway through:

  • McDMcD

    I found it interesting that Knopfler started as a ragtime pianist which gave him a sense of chordal rhythms and voice leading that comes to the guitar as very unusual approaches. And with his excellent creative of distinctive tones it make him a new voice in the world of rock.

    Then overtime we can see he’s a creative acoustic finger picker.

    This particular riff was just so perfectly phrased and performed. The music video hit at the height of MTV and they played it non-stop as a free commercial.

    I think your studies of classical gave you the best lessons to master this approach to e-guitar where others would focus on C-A-G-E-D shapes and not learn to use their right hand as needed to get a crisp attack and release by damping as well as plucking.

  • vlaoladisvlaoladis

    @Edward_Alexander said:
    Great job, you’ve got it!

    I’m still trying to picture how frets could be installed wrong on your previous axe 🎸

    Thank you very much! I don't know what was it, but whatever I tried I couldn't make it to be in tune across the frets. And I didn't see any signs of the neck deformation. The next guitar I tried (my friend's one) was actually deformed, but was much more tunable

    @McD said:
    I found it interesting that Knopfler started as a ragtime pianist which gave him a sense of chordal rhythms and voice leading that comes to the guitar as very unusual approaches. And with his excellent creative of distinctive tones it make him a new voice in the world of rock.

    Then overtime we can see he’s a creative acoustic finger picker.

    This particular riff was just so perfectly phrased and performed. The music video hit at the height of MTV and they played it non-stop as a free commercial.

    I think your studies of classical gave you the best lessons to master this approach to e-guitar where others would focus on C-A-G-E-D shapes and not learn to use their right hand as needed to get a crisp attack and release by damping as well as plucking.

    Yes, it really helps. Though after classical guitar, where the posture is different, the right hand is arched and left hand should be very precise and doesn't care about muting, the e-guitar practice feels a bit like going against everything that you've learned in the classical school :smiley:

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