Why do so many play this riff wrong? #2 | Greatest riff in rock history
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I'm clapping my hands for two days now. Still no Les Paul.
ale na zlocie knopflera będziesz ?:)
lol
worked for me, but i got a PRS "les Paul". maybe that does not count then ;)
Try clapping your hands together with your feet. I think that would work.
Hahahaha
Tried playing it your way but I got a blister on my little finger and a blister on my thumb
Lawrence Davis LOL you shoulda learned to play them drums.
You got to install microwave ovens!
🤣
Yeah but its money for nothing and your chicks are free!
See what u did there 😂
Money for nothing is the most badass riff ever created.
I agree
Oh yea dude.
It's amazing, i don't know how the fuck Knopfler came up with it but it's so badass, a true genius.
It really is.
Amen brother!
I’ve been playing along with this video for about a year. I am finally at the 15 second mark in that song,
Dam. Now I have to learn it.
😂😂😂
Thank you, Obi-Wan Kenobi, very precise and useful lesson!
Lol. The force is strong with him.
He is a bold one
Obi-wan wearing Han's Hoth outfit
@@vincenticyfiregeetar7656 Indeed.
No, this is Arthur Shelby
The one quote I’ll take from this is, “ Everyone starts off shitty and hopes to get better “. As a beginner, I often forget that the majority of players were probably once like me. Here’s to getting better !! 🎸🍻
Sometimes I feel I was good then got shittier with time. (Rusty)
Here here!
I haven't been able to play this song, but now I can so yes just let yourself love playing guitar. You WILL get better! Cheers 🍻
Man not probably once like you, we all were DEFINITELY shitty in the beginning and then after a while we become less and less shitty to ourselves. Keyword , ourselves. YOU and only you are the motivation to get better
Knopfler is such an amazing guitarist. His style is so unique and recognizable, a single lick or note is enough to know the master is playing.
2:24 Paul: Now look at them yo yo’s 👀
That's not how you do it!
OMG what a nice pair of... riffs! :)
Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera man. We could have some fun
I went to the comments specifically looking for this 😂
Laura Cox
This guy should be on beer adverts.
Michael McDermott “The most interesting man in the world!”
Probably the best guitar riff...........in the world!
Yes, that is a world class beard.
I don't often play a riff wrong.. but when I do it's right.
Michael McDermott I don’t usually drink beer but when I do I prefer dos x
"We all start off shitty"
-Paul Davids
Well said mate.
And some stay there... me
@@matthewreese7710 I think that about myself TOO MUCH.
The trick is figuring out (current) strengths vs weaknesses, and how to use the former, to help with the latter.
Sometimes, hell, lemme be honest, 98.2% of the time, looking outside the medium you're trying to improve is the best way to find solutions to problems.
You put a big smile on my face and made me appreciate Knopfler all the more. I've always been a sucker for those subtle, percussive clicks and clacks.
They're really fun to imitate with your mouth lol
@@olbluelips I was doing it ALL DAY at work today hahahaha you are not wrong, sir.
@@jonjonzz42 Badass nickname, mate!
@@MaffeyZilog well thank you
2:37 that dude passed away :(
Kiko Loureiro from Megadeth even tried to raise money to pay for that dude's cancer treatment.
William Lee, one of the best street musicians from Brazil.
"i wont see that pick again i guess" best guitar teacher/bro ever
I recently moved and i found 10 guitar picks. 10!
He's very humourous indeed
@@vaibanez17 wasn't that a line from old rose in titanic?
The FIRST time I've heard anyone nail this riff. So complex -- way to go, Paul!
No?
no, he misses the downstokes which make this riff so unique (outside knopflers discography). Check out pavel fomenkov's tutorial
I've never seen or heard this riff dissected in such great detail. Magical.
Everybody seems to miss the fact that Mark plays certain riffs with an up down motion of his index and thumb - hitting the low string on the way up with his upturned thumb's nail. You can definitely hear it in this song. Every offbeat is an upstroke which is less powerful than the downstrokes that are on the beat. If you manage to master that then the riff comes naturally. It also gives it a groove. If you just try and pinch both strings in the same manner each time you can get close but it'll never sound right.
PS. He actually has explained this technique on camera more than once before. He even explained who taught it to him and where he learnt it.
Yes! That’s the only part missing from Paul’s lesson video, but it’s crucial.
Perfect for the guitar perfectionist. The subtleties make this great song even greater.
My compliments to you - I've ALWAYS thought the on-line tabs / lessons for this riff sounded "hollow"...turns out there IS a LOT more going on in there than too many others have thought !! You are spot on with this lesson and it sounds GREAT with those subtleties crafted in - congrats and thanks for sharing !!
I have learned. This is not something I can always say after viewing TH-cam videos. I agree with your philosophy and I admire your assiduous attention to the subtilties of the "Greatest Riff in Rock History"--which I first heard (and very carefully listened to) whilst moving refrigerators and moving color TVs in 1985. I have a Line 6 James Tyler Variax, which means I CAN clap my hands and get a Les Paul. Your comments on tone and amp head are very helpful, and the rest has earned you a new subscriber.
Seriously one of the best walkthroughs of why this riff is so amazing, and considered so difficult! Respect man!
3:04 Instructions unclear. Ended up with a Rickenbacker bass.
The way he jumped when he saw the girl I laughed my ass off 😂
I mean why wouldn't he. The guitar was really something to look at. It really drew the eyes and was shocking.
She's got it...
Very impressive couple of top notes.
@@protostargaming3972 the guitar had great curves
“Pretty good”
3:04 " First we definitely need a les paul", i guess I'll show myself out....
Wow! The dynamics are everything in this riff. Amazing that you are teaching these secrets. You're a very talented guitarist Paul.
Sincerely one of your best format. You propose a very good riff and it's really challenging to play it 100%
Personnal summary :
0:38 SAMPLE 1
3:11 Effects
3:54 1st Step
4:12 2nd Step
5:55 3rd Step
6:18 Recap of 1 2 3
6:37 4th Step
6:58 5th Step
7:12 6th Step
7:35 Recap of 4 5 6
8:08 7th Step
8:19 8th Step
8:16 SAMPLE 2
8:56 SAMPLE 3 (SLOW)
(.)
Pin this shit on top - its great
You forgot 2:24 Bewbs
Havent any better to do?
@@luanmendonca2517 better than playing guitar?
Regarding Paul saying at the end that you will learn more by learning a song EXACTLY the way it's recorded, I recall an interview with John Frusciante of the RedHCPeppers and he said that he forced himself to learn a really hard Zeppelin song absolutely note for note as a way of getting into game shape before he went on tour... so yeah, Paul's got a point.
2:55 LMFFFAAAOOO 😂😂😂😂
I'll definitely try to summon a Les Paul though
Love this riff so much! Underrated by many!
Your pursuit for perfection really transpire a sense of admiration and respect for the artist. You are a great teacher!
Great speech at the end and it's why I love this riff so much, so much rawness and chunk to it
Thanks for this awesome explanation! I've found for many years that all tabs dont cover these dynamics. With your help I now can play this song correctly, well almost :-)
That's the way you do it!
You play the guitar on the TH-cam?!
That ain't working
Money for nothing and your hits for free
she got it stickin' in the camera man
What's that? HAWAIIAN NOISES?!
drEAm1ine hell no!
Bro.. out of all TH-camr (guitarists) you are delivering the best and the most minute detailed stuff .. thanks a lot and keep showering your lessons on us 🙌🏻🤸
One of the best and most accurate breakdowns of this song that I have ever seen. Great work!
I learned new things from this video! Thanks a lot for posting this! You really wrestled this riff to the ground, especially the nuances in between.
Finally a guy who appreciates the unique style that Knopfler has.
Been to the first concert in my country
and it was great.Thanks for showing how to play this song.
Love this video. Saw Mark live twice on the down the road wherever tour, and hearing this song live twice was unbelievable. Super underrated master guitarist to me. I have a video of one of the performances where mark makes a funny (extremely rare) error in this song.
Great stuff. Your lessons always educate players that sounding good is more than just the right notes at the right time. Nuance and dynamics are equally important. Again, solid lesson my friend.
Love the detail in this. Thanks. Totally agree with what you say at the end. I know everyone is always keen to learn their favourite rock riffs or whatever. But taking that little extra time to play it CORRECTLY as intended really makes it more worthwhile and you'll feel good knowing it's 100% accurate and no short cuts 👍👌
Perfect ! How the heck did Mark ever dream this up ? What a master .. and you have mastered perfectly what the master played. I wonder if Mark will ever view this ... I am sure he would be proud of the study you did here.
Tried clapping my hands till my fingers bled. Maybe I need to wait till summer?
Matt Allen even my own Les Paul would not appear ....
Matt Allen please donate
Mine didn't appear either :(
I've been clapping for weeks and still no Les Paul
Read the comment before watching the video and thought maybe it was about Blood Red Summer
I can't help but grin with sheer pleasure every time you pause, realising you've nailed the tone. It's a beautiful moment of self-appreciation :D
You can tell he had so much fun editing that opening bit
2:37 his name is William Lee from Brasil and he died recently . R.I.P great guitar player ...
Tobias Oliva wait WHAT??? is this the same guy that played sultans of swing downtown?
Damn just googled it. I've seen him live more than once, he was very talented
Wow... Damn! Checked out some of his stuff, his Sultans of Swing rendition is amazing! R.I.P. brother...
Brasil
oh, so sad! How did he die? I really enjoyed his work. and thanks
Well done Paul. You've found the nuance that makes this so great. Wish I had your dedication. Keep it going. Mark is a genius and unlike you, I could never emulate that talent. I'm a happy plonker....and know it
Fantastic. Love those in-depth analysis of why *this* sounds so much right. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for keeping it real. It has nice combination of dynamics, leverageable open notes, harmonics and groove. You are adding value by pointing these out. He wrote this after visiting an appliance store in NYC and the guy in the back was watching MTV and making these comments.
Well done! I've heard a few different versions of this on live recordings, and even Mark himself sounds different in many of them. I agree with you about tryign to learn in others' styles. You aren't copying their sound when do this. You are simply adding more colors to your own palette!
Sadly, I will have to go home and practice this on my old Kramer Focus, or maybe my Ibanez Strat style guitar. I don't have a magic Genie that will grant me a Les Paul when I clap my hands. (Although I do plan to buy one if I can play enough to earn it...)
I just love when you dig deep into the riff to be as accurate as possible, some people would probably said that it's too much and it kills creativity but I think it's exactly the opposite. It's a great work to do
So true! It actually helps to see a reallife expample of how to use harmonics and muting in a practical sense, for me at least :p
I think it’s interesting that no matter how similar you play it and how similar the tone is, there will always be «something» missing compared to the original. It seems like it is totally impossible to replicate riffs like that 100%, it will just never be as good as the original for some reasob
And those people would be right. Many riffs aren't played exactly the same way twice.
@@epipick when you are yourself the composer of the riff, yes you can play it in many many ways and we can see that it's often the case with the artist. But when you learn the riff of someone else, I think this is more interesting to learn the riff very precisely to break your habits.
Most of the time you end up improving your skill in addition to learn a new riff. And when you did that, nothing stop you to do it your way, obviously.
Really impressive explanation of how to play this riff properly. I enjoy the teaching style, too. It's not just instructional. It's also engaging and fun. A born teacher.
I fully agree with you. It's great to hear the exact replication of the riff. Don't let the haters get you down.
I've seen a few covers where people play "Eye of the Tiger" with a wrong note (I'll let you figure that part out). It's a pretty simple riff so there may not be much you can teach about it, but this series reminded me of that because I learned how to play that song carefully and now see some people doing it wrong...
"That was is very nice" 4.50 - one of my favourite quotes, facial expressions and just glee in passing on such a valuable piece of learning.
The is the best description of this riff I have ever seen! THANK YOU!
Excellent lesson! I couldn't agree more regarding learning the subtleties of how a lick or riff is played.
In interviews, Mark Knopfler admits that he was screwing around with the opening of the ZZ Top riff: LaGrange
Reasons for subbing ; guitar(50%) majestic beard(50%)
One of my favorite videos yet! Thank you... So good!
That's it brother :) good job...I been wanting to see someone show this 100 in detail. You are the first i found on youtube who actually nailed this. You have some talent. God bless you man.
This riff, and (Here comes the sun) are a few favorites I see you play.
No one could say that attempting to emulate Mark Knopfler on guitar is a not good thing, albiet almost impossible! Great video, man!
LOL! at 2:24 your expression!
3 days old? :thinking:
YTIsTakingOverMyLife patreon user
that was my expression too
Fever van Roode Yep, sad to say it’s unusual to see a woman playing a guitar, let alone as well or better than the other examples played by men, except for Paul, in this video. Unfortunately it’s not unusual that her attribute that gets most - or maybe all - of the attention is her breasts. I really like Paul’s work, think he’s a great musician and teacher, subscribed here and on Patreon. But including the wide-eyed reaction is kinda demeaning and unnecessary.
+viv2199, well, in fairness to Paul, I think there's a reason why she wore that top.
Been playing guitar for decades. You hit on a very important point. It’s the the dynamics, nuances, subtleties etc that usually make a riff great and this is the perfect example. I play in a cover band and make it my mission to learn the guitar parts as close to the original as possible and frankly, as you imply, my playing has improved over the years because of it.
Brilliant idea for a series! Keep em comin!!
That is a confoundedly simple riff. Knopffler approached the guitar differently, that’s for sure. Thanks for the lesson!
I’m a professional bassist who also plays and writes on guitar: this riff always reminded me of *almost* a slap style bassline in terms of technique. There’s a groove of muted/quieter notes between the obvious ones, and it’s essential for that infectious groove to translate. Once you get it going you don’t want to stop playing it! Fantastic breakdown of an iconic riff that is all about the subtlety and Knopfler’s distinct approach
You nailed it... it’s a great combination between power chords and subtlety
Closest I've ever seen. Masterful. Congrats sir!
I've never been able to nail this riff, which only heightens my appreciation for Knopfler as a guitarist.
Paul is such a perfectionist and, I think that is great. Thanks for showing us the real way to play this. Awesome video.
Brilliant Paul! I record guitar for a backing track company in the UK and have to dissect original guitar parts to this level. Some times I love it and other times not so much, but it's a great way of developing your own style by drawing on those influences. Thanks mate!
I love Paul’s objective but firm advice at the end to challenge oneself and learn the nuances from a master. Very Fatherly yet Friendly.
2:52 LOL OMG WE LOVE YOU, DUDE Genius touch.
I am sure it has been pointed out.
But check out...
Mark Knopfler - guitar stories -Trailer - clip #3.
Where Mark Knopfler himself says the tone was achieved with a Marshall amp and Wah Wah set in a fixed position. ✌
Ahhhh yes a person who has actually watched his guitar stories! He actually used a Marshall JTM-45 to be precise so yeah the Marshall part is spot on and yeah he did use a Wah pedal but everyone is oblivious to that and think the best way to get the tone is roll off the tone using the guitar tone knob but that is wrong and it annoys me, Paul here has used a Wah Pedal but thinks it's the wrong way to achieve the tone when he is actually using the right way and sounds most like him I'm my opinion
Great playing and That kemper profile is righteous!
I concur wholeheartedly, sir. Your lesson is precise and informative.
Thank you.
Paul: you definitely need a les Paul to play this
Also Paul: plays It with a telecaster
Hahaha
i didnt know Gibson telecasters existed
So many people play this song wrong bc Mark Knopler is so tough to emulate. His playing is alien to most, including me as I've always either used a pick or with pick and fingers. Playing with no pick in my hand just feels odd after 30 years of playing with one. Mark also plays chords I've never seen before. He's a one of a kind player and one of my top 10 players of all time.
Good job Paul. This video was a great help thank you. keep up the good work
great guy, ultra likeable, super chill, awesome musician and videos are super well produced - What more can you ask for, great job thank you!
2:54 This reaction got my imediate thumbs up hahahaah
that's a beautiful LP the top is awesome
This is the third time that I've learnt this and *finally* it's starting to sound great! So many thanks Paul.
I enjoyed the comedic parts in this video, I genuinely made me chuckle ☺️
2:51
I haven't had a good belly laugh like that for months!
Instant Sub! And excellent videos
That clip of you at 2:50 was great, haha
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Nice work Paul. Love the channel 👍
I love your face at 5:05! This is how us, guitarists cherish these little notes, man, I can certainly relate to the feeling! Cheers!
Tone tip: I play this on my Strat with the tone switch set "out of phase" between bridge and middle pickups. On my gear that approximates the tone pretty well.
Having read through most of the comments, I have to say . . . You have nailed it Paul . . But only Mark has this style of playing. It is his own composition, and is pretty unique. Nobody else should be expected to replicate it, so they cannot be accused of playing it wrong. Thank you for highlighting the nuances though. I bet even Mark doesn't think about how he does it! It is just his own style. Play one of your own tunes . . and lets see who can't copy it. ; )
This level of nuance is completely awesome. Love it!
This is an excellent video, lad. Knopfler is an amazing player, you're an amazing player, and you're showing others how they can be an amazing player. I feel like this helps with training your ear and little tricks you can do that add extra spice to your sound. Once again, great stuff.
DANKJE! I had this almost my self instead i STARTED the riff Blackmore like with a G over D chord!
I clapped twice and Gibson went bankrupt
HEYO!
J mine appeared...but with robotuners... using it as kindling wood now
TOO SOON MAN TOO SOON
Random question: Would a Gould Spectre 'Les Paul' be classified as one? Does it have to be either Epiphone or Gibson to be a real Les Paul?
Sadly, under the leadership of Harvard MBA, CEO Henry Juszkiewicz GIBSON BRANDS INCORPORATED is becoming a misguided, soulless behemoth of a company whose primary mission is to separate you from your hard earned cash while alienating its dealer network and its customer base. Orville Gibson is spinning in is grave.
GREAT tutorial on this Paul Davids by the way 👍
Awesome, man! Keep it up; cheers Richard from Paris
Why is there no Mark Knopfler songs in your fingerstyle videos? Heart of Oak, Postcards from Paraguay, intro to Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet, Get Lucky etc.
th-cam.com/video/JYGF0KsVw5k/w-d-xo.htmlm49s
*Because there is!* Check it out...
monteleone?
one of my recently discovered favs
Paul, I'm a drummer by trade, but I love your videos. Like you've said it's ok to bring your own thing to a riff or a complete tune, but there are some iconic riffs that, if not played correctly, will just ruin the tune. Love your humour too, keep it up!!
Man I really appreciate your tuto you are very good and very precise on your description. Thank you for your help keep rock on!
These riffs and many others made me buy an electric guitar . The pandemic and lockdown is offering me a great opportunity to practice the piano and guitar. What a beautiful guitar too ! Thx for this master class, it’s all in the subtleties and dynamics indeed.