This week we're looking at a guitar riff that occurs a few times in Dire Straits' 1978 debut track, 'Sultans Of Swing'. The riff is a typical example of guitarist Mark Knopfler's 'thumb and two ...
'Sultans Of Swing' was the song about a small band with a big name would push Dire Straits into the international limelight. In this technique focus video lesson TG explains one of the song's trickier ...
Some of the most enduring songs are the ones that completely buck tradition and convention, that is, they’re songs that a publisher would laugh you out of his office over if you were pitching. It’s ...