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MKGuitarStyle
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The supporting channel for the MK Guitar Style Yuku Community.
I've been playing the guitar for over 10 years. I started after messing around on a friend's rusty broken electric guitar at a time when my dad's copy of the Money for Nothing album (a Dire Straits compilation) had caught my attention. I had never heard any music before that had enthused and inspired me enough to learn an instrument until hearing MK on a guitar. His alternative tone and structure to previously heard plectrum based solos awoke me to another form of guitar soloing and I was hooked from then on. Stubbornly I wanted to play the guitar no other way and with other forms of guitar having little or no appeal to me. The first tablature song book I bought was Sultans of Swing after just a few weeks of playing. You can imagine the disjointed, badly timed, poorly fretted effort such a novice would have made. I was no exception and for some reason I was blind to how awful it really was. I thought I was playing really well but video footage of the time doesn't support that belief. That self-delusion was actually a good thing to stop me getting depressed and giving up but a bad thing for friends and family who had to endure it. 10 years on, never having had a formal lesson, I enjoy taking the style I'm so fond of and making music of my own. The style is also responsible for my general interest in music today. I've even occasionally play guitar with a plectrum contrary to my stubborn early days.

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Hometown: Ryde
Country: United Kingdom
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From the Wag the Dog soundtrack. Open E tuning with capo 3rd fret. Tab...   more
 
 
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A few pointers. Tab available at the forum.
 
 
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From the Wag the Dog soundtrack. Open E tuning with capo 3rd fret. Tab available...
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MKGS - A Few Romeo & Juilet Pointers.
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A few pointers. Tab available at the forum.
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A small montage of a couple of favourite bits from various MK live performances
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MKGS - A Brief Cannibals Lesson
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MKSG - Some Sultans of Swing Live Outro Bend Licks
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Some of those honking type licks Mark plays in his live outros for sultans of swin...
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Mark Knopfler on Tomorrow's World
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A clip bought to my attention by a member on the forum (mkguitar.yuku.com).
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This is my personal rendering of Sultans of Swing famous riff and performed on Alc...
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How to play Money for nothing riff and Knewborth solo
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[TRANSLATED] spoon guitar
[TRANSLATED] spoon guitar
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