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How Sultans of Swing Can Make You a Better Guitarist (Patreon)

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2026-06-19 14:20:29

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2026-06-19 15:22:16

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Hi all!

The new video is up, and it's Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits, but not in the way you might expect. Rather than a note-for-note tutorial, this one's about mining the tune for ideas and concepts you can take and use in your own playing: triads, arpeggios, double-stops, country bends, chord-tone soloing, the lot.

This is, to the best of my knowledge, the longest video I've ever put out at around 50 minutes, and I've also really gone to town on the tab - 9 pages of it, which you'll find below.

Whilst some of this is undoubtedly geared towards more advanced players, there's plenty here for guitarists of every level - the underlying ideas are things you can make use of however far along you are.

Hope you enjoy it!

-Adrian

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How Sultans of Swing Can Make You a Better Guitarist

Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits is a fretboard masterclass: triads, arpeggios, double-stops, country bends, and chord-tone soloing - it's all in there. Rather than a note-for-note tutorial, this video breaks down the concepts behind Mark Knopfler's playing and shows how to take them, reshape them, and use them in your own guitar parts, fills, and solos. This one of the most in-depth videos on my channel, covering a ton of ground across rhythm parts, fills, and soloing. Hope you enjoy it. Huge (9 page) tab workbook can can be found on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anyonecanplayguitar My in-depth course library: https://courses.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk My latest album: https://zodiactoys.bandcamp.com/releases SUBSCRIBE for more: https://bit.ly/3Efy0W3 Check out my website: https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk Social blah: Instagram (occasionally I post here): https://www.instagram.com/acpgtr/ Time stamps - Hi 00:00 My approach 00:22 How to embellish triads 01:54 Using triads for rhythm parts 9:48 Double Stop 6ths ideas 17:53 How to use arpeggios 24:23 The Knopfler approach to chord tone soloing 29:13 Country licks and ideas 34:47 Pentatonic ideas 41:55 Fast arpeggios 45:53 The Knopfler touch 48:26 Bye 51:06