Here's a little (not so) secret thing about Mark Knopfler... he never really played a song the same way twice. Most of his riffs and fills were improvised in studio recordings. In live shows, he often improvised entire solos, for example, I'm fairly sure that the big solo in the Live Aid version of Sultans of Swing was made up as Mark went. That's what makes him so incredible, the ability to improvise on guitar like that is something that takes incredible talent, as well as years of hard work.
@@antonio4114that’s the genius of Knopfler. He creates instrumental songs that have an easy lyrical part for anyone. Look at Sultans of Swing for example
@@Deffectedyou dont even know the meaning of the song and your commenting things like that. The song is about conversation overheard where the workers at appliance store were talking shit saying that they dont work for there money they just play music and get all the chicks for free
"One mic was pointing down at the floor, another was not quite on the speaker, another was somewhere else, and it wasn’t how I would want to set things up… Nevertheless, whether it was the phase of the mics or the out-of-phaseness, what we heard was exactly what ended up on the record. There was no additional processing on that tune during the mix. Later on, we tried to recreate that guitar sound at the Power Station with the same amp, same setup and same models of microphone, but we could never get it.’"
He's NOT "under-rated." Under-rated means that nobody knows how good they really are. Where's EVERYONE knows how good Mark is, and appreciates his playing. You need to look up the definition of words BEFORE you start throwing them around, especially on the Internet... Where everything stays FOREVER! Now everyone will know what an idjut y'are from now 'till infinity....forever and ever and ever.... Y'know...? 😁 😎
Fair effort, but that's like saying "this is as close as I can get to exactly how Morbid Angel played it" & then just falling down the stairs off the side of the stage
The guitar sound for this song came because of ZZ Top. Knopfler asked Billy Gibbons how he got his guitar tone at the time and of course Billy wouldn't tell him. So this tone is what they came up with to emulate it.
True, yet story goes afterwards Billy complimented him and admitted he came pretty close.. Something with the wah set 3/4 open .. (and then some more..) And yeah those harmonics is a ZZ-TOP thing as well Love that lil ol band from Texas. Yet Mark made it quite his own here
@glp046: That's a funny story. It even sounds like Billy! It wouldn't surprise at all. I love Billy and the ZZ Top guyz, but they're hilarious, the kinds of things they keep "secret.". lol. 😎 Hahahaha! 😁.
That’s actually the he got that sound in the studio. He took a Morley wah and put tape on it to hold it at that spot he wanted. It’s a wah pedal not roll the tone knob back.
To get that tone, try using a wah pedal and try different locations on it to find that very specific tone. It actually works pretty well. I used a Jim Dunlop Cry Baby and I ran it thru a 20watt Orange amp and it sounds great
There's no way there's wah on the album version. The engineer has said there wasn't (and that it was accidental mic placement), and if you listen to the tone he gets with the wah, it's like a mimicry of the album tone, but it's not the same. Mark played the riff again on Weird Al's version, and there's clearly a cocked wah on that version, but it makes it pretty plain that there isn't on the original.
@@lapelcelery42the filtering on the album tone is likely done in the mix of the track and not part of the true recorded tone. People really don't like to acknowledge how often the tone of the final track is just as much, if not more, in the hands of the engineers.
I really enjoy coming across your clips. You are very knowledgeable and awesome at guitar. Makes me get excited about learning! Keep up the awesome work!
I have to credit where it is due. This is the first guitar riff that made me want to play guitar when I was a kid. I recorded it on a tape off of the radio, and wore out the tape listening to that intro over and over.
Money for nothing great song and i watching a program about it and one of them said that the microphone was all setup at night and when they came back in the morning they didn't notice that the microphone had slipped out of position so it was facing down. But it sounds very close to the Money for nothing sound .very good
money for nothing is a song that is almost IMPOSSIBLE to play perfectly. because of the amout of little nuances that Knopfler adds in there. it makes it absurdly hard.
My bass player was a studio engineer and musician for years with places like Southern tracks, Mussel shoals, Stax Volt, etc.. He would drag steel plates around that weighed hundreds of pounds for certain reverb effects and he even said that there're fluctuations in the atmosphere (even in a controlled studio) and the way a certain Amp set a certain way with a certain cable and certain guitar, etc. that will produce an amazing sound one day, then just be "eh" from the next day on. There's not always a predictable, scientific formula for repeatable tone and sound in a music studio, stage, etc.. That's just part of the magic of music! I can tell you that the sound from "Reelin' in the years" was done by running the guitar through a 20w "Pig nose" practice amp that was cranked up to 11, then mixed and ran through a Fender twin. That's how they got that unique distortion nobody else was able to figure out. 😀 (You're welcome!)
A friend and I got to see an entire *live* concert for free on a widescreen TV after we turned it on after arriving in Sydney from visiting "Far North Queensland," an absolutely *stunning* place. More stunning than even that was this concert, which had better still be available online if there's any justice!
So about 3 years ago I was at a guitar lesson with 2 other people and I was trying to get the tone and I got it perfect until one of them fell over and their bass neck went through the middle of the amp. But I eventually found it again and the trick is that it doesn’t really sound good with anything but it and things similar to it
I added the drums in my head at the end.
Right on!
Same
Omg yes HAHAHAH METOO
Dududu dun dun dun dun psh
That’s the way you do it!
Here's a little (not so) secret thing about Mark Knopfler... he never really played a song the same way twice. Most of his riffs and fills were improvised in studio recordings. In live shows, he often improvised entire solos, for example, I'm fairly sure that the big solo in the Live Aid version of Sultans of Swing was made up as Mark went. That's what makes him so incredible, the ability to improvise on guitar like that is something that takes incredible talent, as well as years of hard work.
Jack White does a similar thing.
@@jwec9867 majority of great bands do. Page would never play a song exact to the studio version
@@jwec9867 Let’s not compare Jack White to Mark Knopfler
@@freddieelias6794 you beat me too it lol love Page
@@PapaShongo25 jack white makes it sound cooler
Probably the best guitar intro of all time.
@@antonio4114why?
@@muzarrothey're singing about renovations or something dumb. Colour tv's and refrigerators. I agree, the iconic riff is wasted on that track
@@Deffectedits about being rich with the premiere of MTV
@@antonio4114that’s the genius of Knopfler. He creates instrumental songs that have an easy lyrical part for anyone. Look at Sultans of Swing for example
@@Deffectedyou dont even know the meaning of the song and your commenting things like that. The song is about conversation overheard where the workers at appliance store were talking shit saying that they dont work for there money they just play music and get all the chicks for free
Truly one of the best guitar riffs of all time. Especially in the song, with the buildup, the drums kicking in, it's just an amazing song.
Spot on! Nice work! Harmonics were on point too!
Thanks!
I mean "spot on" is a massive exxageration but it was good! Really hard to come close to the original (I could never do it)
@@lordhuebishut up nerd, it’s very close.
You hit the harmonic! That’s the most important nuance, in my opinion. 🎉
When he played the first note, it sounded like can’t get no satisfaction. Idk why lol! Great vid! 😃
You’re not the first person to say that
i thought the same thing
Even if Knopfler didn't play it exactly like in the studio they did a bangin' live version when I saw Dire Straits 32 years ago.
He doesn’t even really try to play it like the original recording. It’s only CZcams geeks like us that pine over getting it exact
They were awesome at Knebworth....Eric Clapton was playing with them..
He uses a whah with the pedal just slightly engaged. He doesn't touch it after that. Saw him somewhere talking about it.
Yeah that’s what I did. As well as a few other little tricks
@@anthonyparkernearlifeexp would love to hear what those tricks are! I remember reading part of the sound were out of phase mics in the studio
"One mic was pointing down at the floor, another was not quite on the speaker, another was somewhere else, and it wasn’t how I would want to set things up… Nevertheless, whether it was the phase of the mics or the out-of-phaseness, what we heard was exactly what ended up on the record. There was no additional processing on that tune during the mix. Later on, we tried to recreate that guitar sound at the Power Station with the same amp, same setup and same models of microphone, but we could never get it.’"
Mark is one of my favorite guitarists and he is so under rated!
You're right, everyone thinks he's shit.
He's NOT "under-rated."
Under-rated means that nobody knows how good they really are.
Where's EVERYONE knows how good Mark is, and appreciates his playing.
You need to look up the definition of words BEFORE you start throwing them around, especially on the Internet... Where everything stays FOREVER!
Now everyone will know what an idjut y'are from now 'till infinity....forever and ever and ever....
Y'know...? 😁 😎
Fair effort, but that's like saying "this is as close as I can get to exactly how Morbid Angel played it" & then just falling down the stairs off the side of the stage
I use a tube screamer at about half gain and full gain overdrive on amp sounds pretty close
It was done direct with a Wah wah left 2/3rds to 3/4 depressed.
Nice! Even the bulletting of the string.
The guitar sound for this song came because of ZZ Top. Knopfler asked Billy Gibbons how he got his guitar tone at the time and of course Billy wouldn't tell him. So this tone is what they came up with to emulate it.
Exactly ^ this isn’t “one of a kind” they were trying to copy another bands tone 😂
True, yet story goes afterwards Billy complimented him and admitted he came pretty close..
Something with the wah set 3/4 open .. (and then some more..)
And yeah those harmonics is a ZZ-TOP thing as well
Love that lil ol band from Texas.
Yet Mark made it quite his own here
@glp046: That's a funny story.
It even sounds like Billy!
It wouldn't surprise at all.
I love Billy and the ZZ Top guyz, but they're hilarious, the kinds of things they keep "secret.". lol. 😎
Hahahaha! 😁.
They are absolutely best classic song! money for nothing is masterpiece with best tone!
In my top 5 riffs ever. That riff is just crunchy
By far one of my favourite guitar riffs of all time
Who felt the drums kicking in? 👌✌️
Sounds like a Half cocked Wah pedal with high mids and a gritty distortion .
That’s actually the he got that sound in the studio. He took a Morley wah and put tape on it to hold it at that spot he wanted. It’s a wah pedal not roll the tone knob back.
This riff is so great! The first time I heard it, I couldn't believe it hadn't been created a long time before.
The riff from money for nothing is my absolute all time favorite.....just so badass.
EXCELLENT! Pretty darn close! You have a discerning ear my friend!
Great Job, Anthony!! You are right on.
🎼🎶🎵🎶🎸🎸❤❤
There are all these little serendipitous sounds in the recording that I think would be impossible to recreate.
Backing off the treble and adding more mids will help a lot.
Hell yeah, one of my favorites as a kid. So dope!
One of my favorite, for sure in the top 20 of all time.
To get that tone, try using a wah pedal and try different locations on it to find that very specific tone. It actually works pretty well. I used a Jim Dunlop Cry Baby and I ran it thru a 20watt Orange amp and it sounds great
This was the riff that inspired me to play guitar.
Mark rules. He takes that no1 spot when anyone asks my favorite player.
Legend!
It was many years ago my uncle played that to me on a good stereo and I was immediately hooked! Such a great intro!
He explains exactly how he did it
in a video. With a cranked Marshall and a wah wah pedal.
Also, he removed the Celestion Greenbacks and put in Electrovoice speakers.
@@5roundsrapid263 so it’s not that secret.🤝👍
Half open wah wah
There's no way there's wah on the album version. The engineer has said there wasn't (and that it was accidental mic placement), and if you listen to the tone he gets with the wah, it's like a mimicry of the album tone, but it's not the same. Mark played the riff again on Weird Al's version, and there's clearly a cocked wah on that version, but it makes it pretty plain that there isn't on the original.
@@lapelcelery42the filtering on the album tone is likely done in the mix of the track and not part of the true recorded tone.
People really don't like to acknowledge how often the tone of the final track is just as much, if not more, in the hands of the engineers.
ANTHONY YOU CAME TRUE WITH DELIVERING THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH ITS MY FAVOURITE SONG I REMEMBER ASKING YOUUUU
Amazing!
Absolutely a gorgeous riff ...
I try this with my ukulele but I can't seem to get the tone right.
Sounds great man
You damn near nailed that tone! Wah and lots of mid! Sounds great! Wish I could screw up my rig like he did the night before he recorded it!
Wooooooooooooo!!!! Thay was freaking awesome :) ima go crank this song now 😀
My favourite guitar riff ever. Great attempt.
I actually don't care for Money for nothing but they are a great band and he is a legend of course
Its literally one of the most generic lame songs they've ever done. There's so much quality musicianship they've produced that hardly gets recognized.
@@williep1626😅 I'm sure you've written better!
@@alan_davis I have yet to do so, but the moment I do...I'm tagging you in a CZcams comment.
That’s was awesome 👏🏻
excellent
I want my... I want my Anthony 😄
Hehe 😜 thanks
I read this in Sting's voice exactly lol
My favorite intro/guitar riff/solo of all time! Can’t help but to turn it up and rip the knob off!
I really enjoy coming across your clips. You are very knowledgeable and awesome at guitar. Makes me get excited about learning! Keep up the awesome work!
Love that riff
Such a smooth riff
Spot on, awesome!!
Awesome! 👏
That was totally awesome!
I have to credit where it is due. This is the first guitar riff that made me want to play guitar when I was a kid. I recorded it on a tape off of the radio, and wore out the tape listening to that intro over and over.
Iconic ❤
One of my top 5 songs of all time!!!❤
my favorite song from the 80’s
Sounds awesome
Well done, really nicely played
One of my favorites.
Awesome! Close enough for me !!
I’ve seen many people play the opening to money for nothing, but this is actually in my opinion the closest sounding to the original
Thanks !.
GREAT SONG
I appreciate your content and the info. That was an accurate rendition.
Hey man I really appreciate your video, I love the honesty, it feels real
i feel like this goes for Heartbreaker by Zep and the solo to We will rock you when the feedback kicks in you already know gotta love rock man
You nailed it.
What??? 😮
Nailed it
PERFECT !
Excellent
It is really true that tone control is in your fingers. Mark Knopfler is a master at it.
Best rock song ever!
Lovely 🎉that gitter sounds very well
❤
Money for nothing great song and i watching a program about it and one of them said that the microphone was all setup at night and when they came back in the morning they didn't notice that the microphone had slipped out of position so it was facing down. But it sounds very close to the Money for nothing sound .very good
Yeah the sound they got was partially a happy accident.
@@anthonyparkernearlifeexp so you heard that story too. Strange isn't it how a small accident or repositioning can make such a difference to a song 🤔
I had no idea that he admitted he couldn’t even replicate it, that’s insane!
Excelente !!! Felicitaciones y Gracias por Compartir !!!!
You just nailed it.
Awsome job buddy
Really great job was blown by your tone , awesome
Awesome
They was tight man!
pretty good!
Mark Knopfler is a fucking guitar God! Nobody sounds like him. Such a rare unique talent. Guy just nonchalantly picks away and rips.
Bravo!
Pretty close! I always though Mark had a wah wah slightly cocked to get that nasal tone
You are correct sir.
50% correct. The album version was a fluke of microphone positioning they've never managed to recreate live.
Los armónicos definitivamente son los que le dan el plus a este riff
Yes a MASTERPIECE
Mark showed how he did it using his Wa Wa pedal in one position.
😮
This song got a best guitar intro so badass🗿
Back at the time, I read that Mark had called up Billy Gibbons and asked him how he made a certain sound.
money for nothing is a song that is almost IMPOSSIBLE to play perfectly. because of the amout of little nuances that Knopfler adds in there. it makes it absurdly hard.
Totally agree. And he’s just doing it instinctively!
My bass player was a studio engineer and musician for years with places like Southern tracks, Mussel shoals, Stax Volt, etc.. He would drag steel plates around that weighed hundreds of pounds for certain reverb effects and he even said that there're fluctuations in the atmosphere (even in a controlled studio) and the way a certain Amp set a certain way with a certain cable and certain guitar, etc. that will produce an amazing sound one day, then just be "eh" from the next day on. There's not always a predictable, scientific formula for repeatable tone and sound in a music studio, stage, etc.. That's just part of the magic of music!
I can tell you that the sound from "Reelin' in the years" was done by running the guitar through a 20w "Pig nose" practice amp that was cranked up to 11, then mixed and ran through a Fender twin. That's how they got that unique distortion nobody else was able to figure out. 😀
(You're welcome!)
Love the Dead Milkmen shirt...Takes me way back
I've always wondered if the little harmonic was accidental in the original. Whatever, doesn't sound right without it! Nice playing!
A friend and I got to see an entire *live* concert for free on a widescreen TV after we turned it on after arriving in Sydney from visiting "Far North Queensland," an absolutely *stunning* place. More stunning than even that was this concert, which had better still be available online if there's any justice!
Nailed 👌
I just got that magic in the studio to. Had hard times figuring out the sound. And out of the sudent it got right
So about 3 years ago I was at a guitar lesson with 2 other people and I was trying to get the tone and I got it perfect until one of them fell over and their bass neck went through the middle of the amp. But I eventually found it again and the trick is that it doesn’t really sound good with anything but it and things similar to it
You rock bro!! Sounds pretty close!!
Look at this yoyo, that's the way ya do it
Excellent shirt in the background!!!