Tag: playing techniques

Easy stuff for beginners, MK guitar style and licks

Songs that Mark Knopfler plays with a pick

  This  blog post was written by Jean-François. Thank you J.F. ! 🙂 [some comments by Ingo in brackets]   Mark Knopfler has always been associated with fingerpicking. His totally unique right hand technique has become his landmark since the first Dire Straits album in 1978. However, Mark also sometimes plays with a guitar pick – not only but mostly during his solo career. Among his childhood guitar heroes, Chet […]

Easy stuff for beginners, MK guitar style and licks, Understanding music

Interested in video tutorials or lessons to play the Mark Knopfler guitar style?

I often get emails from people who ask me for help with playing some particular Mark Knopfler stuff, for tutorial videos, or for personal video tutoring via e.g. Skype. In fact I have been thinking about this for some time but am not sure yet in which direction to go (DVDs, online tutoring,…), or how many fans are out there who might be interested in this. If you are interested […]