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Once again Stitch you take something that seams complicated and teach it in a way that is simple and understandable to anyone! Your a gifted teacher,and I'm very grateful to have found your lessons! Thanks Stitch👊
These "In the Mind Of" series are the best thing ever. As good as it is to have a base of knowledge of scales and progressions, analyzing the greats really helps the application of it all. Thanks!
Thank you sooo much! You have no idea how much you have helped me. I liked guitar playing before. Now I love playing. With a couple of honest down to earth videos you touch the lives of others. All blessings
Hi Stich, greetings from England, as a fifty something yr old bloke who picked up a guitar twenty or so years ago and has been fumbling through chords and whatnot for years without much success, you have given me so many { lightbulb moments } that i'm compelled to say ''Thanks mate'' !!! You're a great teacher and thanks for sharing . . . . . .nuff said :)
Your really in-depth videos are always severely underrated. Things like this get no traction, but videos where you are breaking down more fundamental or vague concepts get lots of interaction. Thanks for the work you put in to make this easy to digest!
As I am a serious Mark Knopfler fan, you could not have explained this any better! I'm still a beginner but I followed your references from the pentatonic, scale, basic chord relations and the major scale! It paid ff to have worked off of your "Never Lost" etc. This" In the mind of.." really works for me!!! I watched this video with a big grin it was so well put together! Now I HAVE to make a few purchases to keep it alive and practice this and Pink Floyd ; Comfortably numb! thanks so much you are a master! WOW
I was just jamming out to this legendary song in the car on the way home and then I saw this video. Gotta love synchronicity. Great lesson as always, thank you.
You have a really nice manner and style. I usually have a guitar in hand when I watch videos. With yours, I just enjoy sitting back and watching/listening to you. Thanks for posting.
Hi Ian, Just a quick note to say that you and Sean Daniel have reawakened my love for guitar. Your clear, energetic and helpful explanations make the instrument so much more fun. Thank you!
I've said it a bunch lately but my playing has gone from a 1-6 or 7 in the past few weeks just because of your channel, it's incredible I can't thank you enough
Mark Knopfler is and will always be my favorite guitarist. Thank you for simplifying a guitarist I always thought was so far above my skill level I couldn't never replicate his playing. He still is, but thanks to these videos I'm getting closer.
I know I'm finally getting this stuff when I know what you are about to say before you say it. In this case that the Dm was the 6th in the Key of F. You are an amazing teacher. Thank you.
OMG, Thank You ! This is the song that made me fall in love w music as a kid. I struggled with the rapid arrpegio section and then I went back to your early videos and watched "Picking style for Accuracy and Speed" and that made that Sultans arrpegio SOOOOOO much easier. That 1 little change to how I hold the pick is going to change my guitar life and I have been playing for over 30 years now!!! Thanks again :)
Once again, no smoke and mirrors just the way it is. Just last few years I have really started to dig around in this . Key of F and no F chord in the song, always makes my head spin around. The first time I heard someone explain it I thought they were trying to make me look like a fool but ya ...... Thank you for all the hard work you do and again great lesson. Thanks J-J
Absolutely love this "in the mind of" series..and mn I love love love the way you teach..you really emphasize on the ingredients required to make the recipe also you remind me of Jorge Masvidal (UFC fighter)
man that was an absolutely wonderfull way of teaching such a beautifull song and ABSOLUTELY GREAT the way you incorporated the basics of music theory ex: pointing out the standard 1, 4 5 chord progression in F and determining the relative minor D, the arppegio notes in the solo run , well heck the whole thing you explained here, anyone (such as me) who is an amature guitarist trying to figure out a way to wrap all this up and get thier minds wrapped around these concepts should DEFINITELY hit the like button for this video. you can watch this many times hammering into your head the basics,, and using this as a basis for writing your own licks and progressions. thanks for giving us this man, again , ... GREAT JOB.
I had this saved in my favorites just after dirt was invented, sure glad I found it again, and once again thank you for simplifying something that sounds very complicated, got the download to look at for visualization, as always Stitch thanks for all your work J-J
I'm glad you mentioned that was your son because it's 4am and at first I had to check my sanity. Should probably still go to bed but I'm just loving these vids! I wouldn't be playing the guitar nor making near as much progress if it weren't for you
super helpful tutorial! as a guitar noob with thousands of options as far as lessons go, i almost always come to your videos because you teach in a way that is simple to follow and fun. would love more mark knopfler vids. bwt, are you familiar with roy buchanan at all?
Wow. I haven't seen this since I started watching you. What a great video. I always that that run was Knopfler voodoo. Arpeggios. Who knew? Thanks Ian. You're kicking ass.
Cool bro, I play Sultan's too. I play it with a pick, so I have augmented the main riffs of the solos, but I'm getting ready to watch your video, so I can't wait to learn something new!😁
I'm like guitar george- I know all the chords- only I can't make it cry or sing!. Been trying to get my head around that outro solo for only about 20 years.Many thanks.
I have been playing minor pentatonic in the hip hop way for years and was fast loosing interest in the guitar. Your explanation of getting out of this trap has helped tremendously. Keep up the simple explanations and the advice on how to play blues etc it is a revelation. Cheers Stitch.
Greg Melita I agree! I noticed that on upstrokes, instead of lifting the pick, he pulls it back using the thumb joint. I always struggle playing notes fast. Maybe this is the key to it?
Another great video I am seeing for the first time! Quick question if you have time....For the Dm you use the notes 1, flat 3rd and the 5th, but then for the B flat you use the 1 major 3rd and 5th. Why do you use the flat 3rd over the Dm chord but the major 3rd over the B flat chord? Thanks
Great video, as always. I have your videos always coming up in my youtube suggestions - you make it seem so easy. Also, what kind of looper do you recommend?
The arpeggios you mentioned are sixteenths not triplets, 1 e and a, not 1 and a. You also find an eighth note on beat four of the Bb and beat four of the second bar of C.
what looper pedal did you get? I just got a TC electronics Ditto, it's so simple, no frills, I love it, just curious. . also can you do an "In the Mind of.." for Frusciante? like Anne(Curtains), Before the beginning (empyrean), Wayne(youtube single), or {my favorite} Look On(inside of emptiness) ?? just suggestions, I love everything you put out, so I'll watch anything you put out, but it'd be so cool to get a deeper look into one of those from your brilliant perspective! thanks man, Stitch on, Mr. Stitch!
Good stuff! But waaaaaaay beyond me. Enjoy listening/watching and wondering if I could ever get anyway near that kind of chord knowledge/change. Probably not. No. certainly not. But I do have a good time practicing... not playing; practicing. My question has to do with strumming. Is there in your list of RU-vid lessons one on strumming? I could simply search, but thought I'd ask. Thanks..........
You must mute with the fretting-hand fingertips. Broken down, the process goes like this: fret note -> pick note -> lift finger tip -> mute string -> transition -> repeat This is essentially the technique called "sweep picking" in it's simplest form. To practice this I'd recommend working with arpeggio shapes that utilize one note per string patterns and a metronome. Start slow, work from there. Once you get comfortable expand to 3, 4, & 5 string variants. P.s. If you solely rely on the picking hand to mute the strings your execution will suffer as there is much less control in the palm as compared to using your individual finger's tips. In fact, pick hand muting is not necessary at all to execute this technique cleanly and with precision.
StichMethod Guitar exaaaactly. this isn't a tab, bro, it's a step into the mindset so you can better understand the system used to derive the notes used, so that your guesses and improvisation on the song/style become more and more accurate. like understanding the root words in a language so you can extrapolate the meaning from context and content without reading the dictionary. all the analogous examples aside, by Jove, Stitch, you've done it again! this is why I keep coming back. you're the best man! keep em coming and I'll keep coming back.
Another great lesson. Went to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-leZ4T8kt-1o.html where Mark Knopfler is playing this song in what his wife calls "Twiddly bits" and, thanks to Stich, I could "kinda" play along when he came to the ending solo. Thanks Stich, great fun!
Nice video! So glad you did a Knopfler - he's my absolute favorite, and I have always loved Sultans of Swing. Great job! Some day I aspire to play that (I'm just starting to learn at 50). The other Knopfler that I would love to play is Telegraph Road, especially the last 3 or 4 minutes. The whole video is great, but it really starts getting transcendent here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q1Wp2ASqyxI.html.
Hey Ian, I'm almost with you but your answer stopped after "645 progression, but" ... I get it that it resolves to the D minor, but that is the 6 chord. How do I understand resolving to the 6th chord instead of the 1 chord. In any event, excellent stuff!!!!!
