Chords for Mark Knopfler - Masterclass (Part 1)

[Em] Sometimes I think it's keyboard [G] players become keyboard players because their mothers made them practice, [B] you know
And _ [Eb] I don't know what [E] a guitar for me came out a rebellion more than anything else.
I think [B] against you know
The theory of piano and violin and all the rest of it and all that [E] stuff _
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about [G] 18 years started
_ When a friend of my father's used to come around a lot
Talk about JJ kale and every clapton and borrowed all these records
Yeah, I think I've still got a few and then me dad got me got me a friend of my birthday one
_ And then [Ab] I was supposed to learn how to play classical gasp
but [G] I never got around to [D] that because I got sidetracked into playing [G] blues _ and
I don't regret that though, but
_ Regret learning finger style guitar just well, I don't regret it
No, because it's got me to where I am now, but it's something that I'd like to get into [E] a bit more, right?
and if you're going to get into
As opposed to using a bit of what we're talking about here is you use a bit of plastic to play with don't you?
Please horrible things like [G] toenail, right?
Do you like it?
Do you like a thick crack?
Yeah, [Ab] quite thick ones.
Yeah.
Yeah
[G] Make a good racket these you know that the pick is actually the biggest amplifier _ _
that there is
_ [N] Which I found out at my cost, you know
Because I don't often use one I use [G] one when I want to play a rhythm part on a record or something.
But _ _ _ _ I
Actually got into a bit of finger picking and that's something in the so Rick if you're gonna learn finger picking you'd need to have
A guitar teacher probably wouldn't you know, I'd certainly [E] need pointing in the right [G] direction Yeah
Can you play us just a few bars or something that you've written?
I mean 20 seconds 10 seconds or something that you written just so people can get an idea of just something you
Just give us a few bars of anything [Abm] so we can kind of find something to [G] get going on _ _
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You know and it's really great that getting into that lay down
The low D.
It's a very [G] important thing in guitar playing.
[Am] Yeah, but also you've [D] got a lot of that
_ drone thing going on haven't you
_ _ _ which [G] is a basis of well pretty much at all in there _ and
[E] _ _ _ In a sense what [G] you're trying to do as well as a company yourself and you're getting a little bit of melody going
That's one of the great minutes that's the best thing do without knowing all the finger stuff
I suppose the fingering the bottom day gives you like a pad to to play on the top of it [D] exactly
_ and then if you play in that
_ within a card
_ [G] you get all these other [D] notes in the shapes and
_ _ _ That's your melody _ _ Yeah _ _ _ _
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_ [G] Yeah, let's can just have a look at that vibrato there
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Yeah, no shaking cards, yeah, I see you using you like to [G] use the
_ Whammy bar there never used to ever since I got this one
Yeah, [Em] I used to have another fender, but I never used to bother with this [D] and then when I got this one _ _
I'm going to like shaking cards a bit _ _
But _ [G] I mean there's no substitute really for _
_ [Cm] Shaking it with your left hand, you know, I'm [E] making it a bending it up a bit
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[G] Can't be that for me can't be that can be that for [C] me.
I must just you know [G] falling asleep doing all that, you know
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The art of falling asleep playing like that stuff [D] getting my bends and getting [G] the vibrato at the end of the bend.
Yeah
_ _ _ _ You've what you what the only thing that you've got to watch [D] for _ there is just that you're not [Dm] going sharp, you know, yeah _ _
[G] I think you were going up to it to a G there.
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[D] _ _ Yeah, that's [G] that's not
_ [C] _ bit of Rob you can and kind of thing but
_ Don Gibson wouldn't know him.
Yeah, and
_ Just _ _ playing as little as possible and [G] making him sing.
Thanks.
Absolutely
The thing about that is you can get to the note going through _ you're going through to you
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can actually go up just from one [D] which is really nice, you know to [G] on in that style from one fret below
_ _ [Ab] _ _ You know what I mean
_ [G] Because _ _ you're going to go [Bb] there [G] anyway
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[G] The only thing I would watch really is that that that never gets
_ _ _ There and then it just that
_ That's [Ab] a common thing Yeah
[N] And the other thing is that what a lot of players tend to do is they tend to get very excited they [C] play
_ Manic from I'm from a point one, you know, and it's a bit like when you know when you hear a really great singer you'll hear _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] You know, I know when I was younger I was certain I was just over over over trimming all the time, you know
Which it's just a thing.
It's just I
_ _ Don't know what it what it is
I mean, it's just I think it's really in cheer enjoyment of doing it, you know, they get tired in a lot