A crack at playing like Knopfler with cheap tones

I've always loved his playing but never really had a good listen to how he's doing some of his stuff until these isolated guitar videos started appearing on Youtube. This gives a chance to really listen closely but also there's videos with the guitar removed so you can literally have a crack at being Mark . 

It's a long way from being Mark Knopfler but great fun to have a go ... guitar is very cheap partscaster and amp is the little Nux MP2 ... so a very cheap tone path

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWn5UB6binE

If you want a go here's the video with no guitar 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0uv6yhtcSI

You could at least make it look a bit harder to play...?  B)

Very nice. I've been on a let's rip off knopler path, working on brothers in arms and money for nothing. You need a les paul.

slacker said:

Very nice. I've been on a let's rip off knopler path, working on brothers in arms and money for nothing. You need a les paul.

I will be moving on to that but really getting stuck in to some of his chicken picking right hand technique at the mo. With these isolated videos I can actually hear the detail I couldn't before. Credit to people who did suss that stuff out without the luxury of what's available now. 

Youtube is great for showing technique. I generally use fingers so knopfler is a good case study.

Very good!

Rarely was a "Wow" more deserved.  Enjoyed that rendition - excellent playing.

It was Knopfler, Gilmour and Rothery who inspired me to take up the guitar, but I have to content myself with slower paced pieces. High speed dexterity is beyond me. 

Man, you really have it all. Not only do you know how electricity works but you utilise it with taste, skill and dexterity.  :)

Thanks for the kind comments . just listened again myself and my guitar is a bit loud really but as it was played live straight to the webcam I can't change that now so will have to live with it 

Lovely playing Danny, this is one of my all time favourite songs, my efforts at playing it is very poor (on a good day).

Really nice playing. I recommend the app "Moises" if you'd like to create your own isolated tracks. You feed an audio file in and it isolates the individual instruments for you, so you can mute the lead guitar and jam. It also auto detects the chord progression and time signature

Recognisable but not identical note for note, very good.
I recorded a similar video for my mum's 75th birthday using my old 45 rpm single as a backing track, but the turntable speed fluctuated so unpredictably that my video ended up in the comedy section. 

Really nice playing, congratulations.