Did Dire Straits Create the Coolest Riff Ever? Yep

shows you my ear training course, that's really unusual, uh, that's very strange, super cool. Lick that Noffler game which is pretty much a finger, a lick that you would play with your fingers, I think with the right hand. it feels like a right hand finger playing lick, so I'm playing all that with the finger touching uh he's basically playing his D minor B flat arpeggio and then right there on the C7 chord or the C chord, so those lines like that are what really developed my ear beyond anything, this kind of solo learning. like this solo and solos that were out of the ordinary, like Brian May learning his solos uh that followed chord changes like in Bohemian Rhapsody that have diminished arpeggios and notes. that aren't just in the blues scale or people like BB King who would go from major blues scales to minor blues scales and combine them and use the flat seven or guys like Larry Carlton who would know that, uh oh my gosh, yeah I have a G7 chord using that flat seven flat the 13. um right, learning those kind of notes that you wouldn't necessarily um that you wouldn't necessarily hear or that Larry Carlton actually played looks like that but that's like BB King licked well, listen now, these they're just arpeggios that are D minor, that's how I learned that the guitar neck just took these arpeggios instead of taking a lick like this in B flat major, which is just a triad in B flat major.

B flat d f the theory behind that fundamental third fifth a major chord and then it goes to C major, it's hard to play at an angle like this with the guitar neck up, but that's a C major chord right there, just C major see add four C add four with a C9 flat seven arpeggio. I have all these arpeggios in my biato book,

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y arpeggio, you can think of all the fingerings of everything, they are all written down if you play the piano and you want to learn these arpeggios and everything, I have all the notes written down, what are they? , how to use them, how to go between different ones, you know, and then understand the theory of why Jimmy Page plays those F Naturals on Stairway to Heaven because it's a session guy and he knows that those are the right notes to play over those chords and It sounds more like he's actually what we call swinging and that was a term I first heard in high school, you're not swinging, man.

I wondered what that means to make the changes. What does it mean to make changes? That means playing the right notes on the chords Chet Atkins made the changes someone says I miss Chet Atkins um a big influence of Mark Knopfler was Hank Marvin okay um and a lot of these guys and uh uh guys like Jeff Beck okay Jeff Beck really was kind of a fusion musician, so, um, Jeff Beck's brilliance wasn't just his way of playing melody, but he played these really sophisticated licks that went beyond rock and into fusion and that. . there are some Jeff Beck licks that are just um that really opened my ears that opened my ears to this kind of stuff, just to hear what different combinations of intervals that I hadn't really heard before, uh, but this is making the changes when he plays these licks like this D minor D flat C he just plays the arpeggios so those little arpeggios things this song has so many things once you learn them once you learn these arpeggios so I would learn those things and I would learn an extra note, right, I would learn sounds like Eric Johnson when people listen to those things, those are just arpeggios, right, um, Jeff Beck also played arpeggios like that, um, and sometimes you start adding these different notes there, that major 7 there in the Chord from B flat I love that stuff, but thanks add the nine I just added the ninth on these hard to play things on this, wow, foreigner, those are really interesting sounds.

I love the sounds of those, right? Those ads, thank you, so this. I tuned into this particular tune when I met this guy on the bridge and he happened to be practicing and he was playing these Sultans of Swing solo and I didn't know any of them that played it and there was no YouTube, there were no books. or anything, the song had just come out and he was able to figure this stuff out and uh, and he was the one who made me say, "Okay, you can play Blues," since he was still playing Hey Joe and he was playing stuff like that and the stuff I mean, I was able to learn uh, you know, I played uh, what was Kid Charlemagne back then, but I didn't really know what Larry was doing, you know, I didn't really know what the theory was, thanks Adrian, what was the theory?

I was behind that behind that but uh uh when I started learning the theory behind this like what is that thank you uh Moscow luxurious best best Marx guitar solo playing around a track called in the gallery uh please play the track original audio. I have never heard such a beautiful and wonderful guitar in my life uh um uh uh I'm not sure I can play it right now if I can play it here I know I can play Sultans of Swing because uh um because I've played it's in my video that wasn't deleted, So I'm always undecided.

People ask me why I play certain things and why I don't play certain things. I don't play things I don't know. block or not, so I don't know, that's why I try not to deviate from the things here that will delete the video once I'm done doing it, that's a big deal. Here, then, the thing about all of this is that you have to have a good ear, you need to be able to understand what the relationships are, you have to be able to hear the difference between this and this, there's just one different note, there's a d f and there's a b flat d f and ce g and even when you listen to Stairway to Heaven, you hear there's no F in there and you know that's the right note, you know right there that he adds those F in there and just makes the solo sound.

It's not pedestrian, it makes it sound very interesting and it's making the changes one more time making the changes is um making the changes is playing the right notes on the chord that you're on at that moment if you go to that chord that I'm on there's if flat major and you want to be able to make the sound of that chord and knowing where those arpeggio notes are will get you out of the A minor, the D minor pentatonic scale. Wow, I just used some Stairway to Heaven. I love those sounds, so if you want to learn all the theory behind it, if you want to learn to listen to these things by ear or if you don't play guitar at all, or play piano, or play anything, visit my rickbeato.com. you can get my ear training course you can get my interactive biato book you can get my beginner guitar course you can get my quick lessons The professional course is actually more of an advanced or medium to advanced guitar course, it's hours and hours and hours Instructions.

Frankly, the ear training course that you can do for years starts lit, dead starts, um, dead beginners like how to match pitch and then it gets really complex, you know, 15 chapters and all, but there are hundreds of modules which will train your ear to listen to all these things so that you can figure these things out on your own, the whole idea of ​​a teacher is to be able to teach the student how to learn on his own, so that the teacher is not necessary and really for what he needs teachers is to evaluate your playing, so I always say you need a teacher, you should always have a private teacher, um, so they can listen to you play and evaluate, are you having a good time?, do you have a good rhythm?, do your curves?

Are they in tune? Are you playing? the changes: are you playing the arpeggio fingerings correctly? are you playing the scale fingerings correctly? or on your saxophone, or on your trumpet, or on your trombone, whatever you're doing on your violin, you need a teacher to evaluate your playing and it's best to do it. in person it's fine, you guys are the best, have a great weekend, this has been a lot of fun. I love Dire Straits, I love Mark Knopfler. I hope to interview him one day. I contacted him before you guys are the best. make it happen one of these days see you later take care