How to play Money for nothing riff and Knewborth solo

[Totofan09]

Dovresti distorcere con POCO crunch+ un wah sempre aperto. Così fa Knopfler :)

[vremyanezhdet]

Hi! What guitar effects do you use here? Is it a flanger? Anything else?

[aborille]

@vremyanezhdet just an overdrive and a delay

[WianApple]

Could you please give me the tab , cuz its very difficult to learn this way!

BTW your a great guitarist ! Nice video.

[nebulanova1]

sei davvero grande, complimenti! riusciresti a pubblicare un video, per favore, in cui spieghi al dettaglio come utilizzi la mano destra su questo pezzo ed altri? aldilà di stumentazione/effettistica varia credo di poter dire che ciò che più caratterizza il suono del grande MK sia proprio la sua tecnica di strumming/picking, no? e mi pare che riesca a riprodurla praticamente identica! spero tu possa accontentare me e, con me, un altro sacco di persone. grazie comunque e ancora BRAVO!

[salvatorecomentale]

Mark Knopfler è sempre il migliore!! Comunque sei bravissimo, grazie mille per la spiegazione! :)

[Bowowman45]

english



[battuh]

ma io non capisco quello che voi dice! :-)

[8tgr]

Everything is in English and you start talking marsian, WTF!!

[aborille]

@8tgr Video is self explaining. Next time I'll write the notes in marsian too.

[Totofan09]

@8tgr Dumb, it is ITALIAN. I don't care if you did know it, it's the best language in the world.

[MMALEEHO]

Ciao amico mio, ma sai come si gioca sei solo tu con la chitarra

[bugsenbunny]

wtf are you talking about!!!@!@!@!@

[aborille]

@bugsenbunny read the subject.

[marcisgreatAA]

when you go from 5th and 7th to 3rd fret, try to do a pull of on the 3rd with both strings, sounds more fluently, more flutently then my english (which is not very hard)

[kenshin3002]

I like your video and how your teach. But a translation or subtitltes would be great!

[alex47465]

Bravo ottimo intro

[QuarS40]

OTTIMO....molto bravo....

[GAD568]

Molto bravo!! Es lo que buscaba, no encontre a nadie que lo explique mejor. Muchas gracias Alessandro!! Exelente trabajo....

[asticca]

bravooooo

[itsonlyrcknroll]

English or not, the language of music is global. Use your eyes and ears and figure it out. Brilliant lesson and playing.

[rohitmango]

awesome to the power of awesome!! BUT PLEASE DO AN ENGLISH ONE TOO!!

[lacerveza1977]

Nice work mate, even though i only speak english i understood totally a technique that baffled me for a long time. thnx

[vreeemdeling]

Thanks!Just like marcisgreatAA I only dont understandthe picking.

[marcisgreatAA]

i got evrrything the same except the picking :(, and some problems witht he high notes at ehe main riff.

[sirgerry]

Very good, congrats

[asticca]

sei molto bravo!!! il migliore on tube fidati!!!!

[luigicar71]

molto bravo. ho raffinato alcune sbavature dai tuoi video. sarebbe fico sentirti suonare dal vivo.

[cosimobardo]

questo video è stupendo!!!! Non ho mai imperato così in fretta! Era un bel po' che volevo imparare a suonare questa canzone(ho anche visto il suo video ma non ci ho capito nulla)

[guitardo2]

Very nice dude.

Positive vote (y)

(old 5 stars style)

Look in my channel my mix version between studio and "On the Night" version.

Thanks

[guitardo2]

Very nice dude.

Positive vote (y)

(old 5 stars style)

Look in my channel my mix version between studio and "On the Night" version.

Thanks

[superduperbiscuitman]

would be alot better in english

[aborille]

@superduperbiscuitman

i know but this video was not meant to be worldwide published in the beginning when I posted it.

[scrumpyj07]

@superduperbiscuitman : Just watch and Learn,

Nice play there ABORILLE. Bravo..

[lopont9]

Grande video. Molto utile, ho imparato da te a fare questo pezzo!

[red54642]

Can You write down tabs? i've been searching this for a long time, but i can't find correct tabs for this riff. and, please, write how You use fingers, cause this is very important for this song.

[aborille]

@red54642 I'm sorry my friend, I'm posting videos just to avoid to write down tabs. I hate them, I think they can never describe the right metric. Try to focus on my hands and fingers, you should work it out.

[Maroan2]

Great video, thank you!

[CybeRocker17]

finalmente un bel video in italiano

[vtaminthc]

how about u speak engish if u title it in english

[aborille]

In the beginning it was produced only for a few friends of mine. Then I decided to share it on youtube, as it is. Maybe one day I will put the subtitles.

[josh1111111111111100]

@vtaminthc ...use your ear

[HusarzRP]

as US boy you should know spanish..there are so many mexicans and other latino ppl there.

[aborille]

Even if spanish and italian share the same roots I can tell you that they are soooo different languages! trust me. I can talk/write english and a bit of french too. Spanish is not part of my personal knowledge....

[itsonlyrcknroll]

He can speak in whatever language he chooses - focus on using your eyes and ears to see and hear what his fingers are doing - absolutely brilliant demo of the fingerstyle picking to open the song. A million thanks to aborille for posting this.

[builder60]

sono solo un dilettante ma.... grazie maestro!!

[KlausE99]

Great video! The only one I've seen where the picking seems to match Mark's (and he has said that's the key to the sound - in video v=aFMeez18PHU)! Please can you explain the picking in English?

[aborille]

Do you think It's enough if I add english subtitles to the video?

[KlausE99]

Sure, whatever you can do will be much appreciated! Does the thumb strum down then the fingers strum up, down, up then the thumb strums down again? Grazie mille!

[aborille]

Well, since the Walk of life technique is pretty much the same, check another video of mine "Various Mark Knopfler's Licks 1". You will find the subtitles there. I talk aboout Walk of life technique starting from 6:00. That's the key to play most of Dire Straits songs. Let me know if it's what you're looking for.

[localhero635]

Great video!

Thank you!

[TheFoOl2411]

hi great lesson, i think the only one that shows the proper right hand technique. do you know how mark plays those fast licks before the main riff? (he always does it when performing this song live)

[aborille]

Hey there, maybe you are referring to the fast intro to the song, before the main riff. In this case you can see the technique in another video of mine "Various Mark Knopfler's Licks 1" when I talk about the fast Sultans riff. Starting from 1:45 you will find I talk about the M4N fast riff at 3:00 more or less

[TheFoOl2411]

yeah thats one of the licks i was looking for. thanks a lot dude

[hockeyjockguitarist]

by the way, were did you find the tabs?

[aborille]

I don't use tabs. Everything by ear.

[hockeyjockguitarist]

would you mind writing them out? i've been looking everywhere for the right tabs but all of them seem to sound wrong

thanks

[nizo2050]

when you have used your ears, you have used the bridge pickup and not the neck pickup!

[aborille]

I think you missed the point of my video. If I had wanted to focus on the right sound and tone, I wouldn't have used a 12W transistor amplifier, nor I would have uploaded the video on youtube. Anyway, you're wrong. Check the Montserrat video for example. He uses the neck PU.

[nizo2050]

i will say you something:

you use the same pick up selection as mark knopfler did it

because:

1st MK played ah Pensa Suhr guitar with a EMG 85, and two EMG SA Pickups

2nd MK played in all of his guitar ah special pickup selection

a out-of-phase selection

3rd of the right sound you are miles away

[nizo2050]

and believe me i have talked with mark knopfler and i asked him about his secret of the sultans of swind sound, the money for nothing sound and the sound secret of his tours in 1979

at last i asked him something:"why it is so difficult to get your sound, when i don´t know your secret?"

he said:"first it is my finger picking, second i´m using special PU selections, third i´m using very simple effekts

[nizo2050]

for example the tours with dire straits around 1979, I used only an compressor, ah delay pedal and ah volume pedal"

if you don´t believe it, check the photo of my youtube page

i hope you understand it now

[aborille]

No, I can't understand what's the point here. You are mixing a 1979 setup in this "money for nothing" thread, you talk about the Pensa Suhr PU setup while I'm using a Gibson like guitar. Again, this video is not meant to be a lesson about the right sound and tone. I hope you understand now

[nizo2050]

i won´t give you a bad voting

i have to say, that you have the best version whitch i have ever seen on youtube

i didn´t mix it, i only wanted to say, that he get his sound with very primitive things an without the latest effects

but you have passive humbuckers, and the pu in the pensa suhr guitar are aktive singlecoils with an humbucker

that i wanted to say

i hope you don´t missunderstand me

but your version is a great version!

well done! ;)

[aborille]

Ok, well he used both Pensa ang gibson guitars to play MFN. Honestly I prefer the gibson sound compared with the Pensa. You're right when you say that he doesn't use many effects. Some good reverbs and delays are pretty much all you need. Obviously a good amplifier is a must

[nizo2050]

the sound of his shecter an steinberger GL-2 is really good to

but he keeps right with not so many effects

what effects, guitars, amps, and some do you use?

[aborille]

I'm using a epiphone by gbson guitar. I changed the original pick-ups with two Gibson 58. On stage I use a fender twin rever amp, a doubledrive Tech21 OD, a compressor (sometimes), a delay (Boss DD3) and earnie ball volume pedal.

[nizo2050]

ahh

im using a fender jeff beck strat built in 1962 with custum brigde and some other parts, ah fender super reverb built in 1967, then two digitech pedals (delay, crossroads), a ibanez tube screamer ts 9 (no replica), a electro harmonix small stone phase shifter, a volume pedal (korg), and in a rack a roland gp-16 multi effekt board

[TheWizzard29]

How did you come to meet him? Meet and Greet tickets?

[nizo2050]

my neighbour was the culture manager of the ORF in austria, and you could win some VIP tickest of ORF radio vienna

and my neighbour had some kontakts, and ah woman adds me and my father at the list of the winners^^

hehe

thats the way i do it^^

[hockeyjockguitarist]

everybody, mark knopfler is scottish!

[guitardo2]

At the studio version I believe eu need to add wah in middle position, but congratulations, you play very well and have nice setup.

[DennisM93]

Mark Knoplfer is from Netherlands isnt he?

[aborille]

maybe in his preavious life.. who knows? :-)

[porrecat]

England

[aborille]

Let's say British, since he's born in Glasgow, Scotland ;-)

[sbenzardo]

Cmq riallacciandomi al mio ultimo commento...SUONO DA PAURA!!!!

[dyingfly]

I didn't know Mark Knopfler was Spanish

[aborille]

oh dude, he is not, neither am I. So what?

[sbenzardo]

Grandissimo come sempre

5 stelle :)

[dRaK0RaMone]

hey man, what effect do you use?? do you have the tabs for it or all is by ear??

[aborille]

the OD is a doubledrive tech 21. Plus just a bit of delay with a Boss DD3. The amp is a very old and cheap Marshall Lead 12W microstack, to be used only indoor (at my home). My standard amp is a fender twin reverb

[aborille]

I forgot to say...no tabs, everything by ear ;-)

[Laspere]

I've seen many vids to play money for nothing, but you've got it!

[Rocklife92]

Brav sei il primo italiano che ha messo un video decente su money for nothing su youtube. Bravissimo!!!

[jcshadow7237]

English man! haha

[aborille]

As explaned, this video was made as a part of discussion between some friends of mine (italians). One day I will put some subtitles.

[markknopfler92]

ehi perchè l'ultimo video, dove spieghi come suonare SOS non si vede???

[aborille]

porco giuda! e che ne so? io non ho fatto nulla.

grazie della segnalazione

[aborille]

Boh! adesso va

[master244]

I thought you were going to the lessons in english :P

[aborille]

I will add the subtitles...

[master244]

or i really need to learn spanish or something xD nevertheless i got it downn

[aborille]

Actually it's italian ;-)

I'm happy you worked it out. Anyway when I collect some spare time I will add the subtitles in english.

[localhero635]

Thank you.

[dany4kin]

Awesome.