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Sultans of Steel - Knopfler arpeggios for C6 lap steel

Posted: 13 Feb 2023 6:32 am
by Andy Volk
Musician-producer-commentator Rick Beato has a nice YouTube video talking about how, years ago, he first learned how Mark Knopfler used arpeggios in "Sultans of Swing" to outline the chord changes. Here are a few arpeggio licks he demo'd plus one of my own. These are really versatile for a whole bunch of rythmic feels and phrasing. I just did a "quick and simple" example.

Audio: http://sndup.net/tkfh

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Here's Mark knopfler's first solo on the original recording of Sultan's of Swing. You can see/hear a number of arpeggio licks similar to those above.

audio: https://sndup.net/nx84/


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