Original guitar track of Mark Knopfler during "Sultans of Swing". 

We must stop playing on words !! I summarize once and for all in order to no longer receive stupid comments ! All these comments that I get as: "we hear several guitars" or "MK is playing all the parts at the same time" etc ... so I'm going to shut it all down once and for all ! You have to think a minimum, YES it's an isolated track from Mark Knopfler, YES it's indeed from the recording of 1978, YES we mean by moment the second guitar which plays in rhythm , YES it's the isolated track of his guitar but at rare moments we hear a second guitar of a second track (maybe played by MK himself on a second audio track), YES this track is well taken from a video game. This audio file is a gift for guitarists who want to work the Knopfler style. I'll say it again, but even like that, while reading new coms I get the impression that some people don't listen, or don't want to understand, much like those who try to convince the rest of the world that the earth is flat. No the earth is not flat and no there is not a single audible track here. These are 2 tracks ! I have been a guitarist for several decades, without bragging, I consider myself a specialist in Knopfler Style and it only takes me 2 seconds to distinguish the 2 tracks. Listen to the plan at 0.30, you hear the bend on the G string in 4 fret with which it relaxes and bends again quickly, we clearly hear this little solo and the rhythm at the same time, the bend on the G string in 4 th fret while we hear the rhythm on the chord of ”A major” in the 2nd fret and we hear the note ”A” of the G string in the 2nd fret. Explain to me how we can play the note ”A” on A chord on 2th fret in rythm and make little solo with a bend at the same time on the same string in the 4th fret while hearing the 2 notes AT THE SAME TIME... IMPOSSIBLE NO ? Yes it's impossible, We agree ! There are also many other moments where you can clearly hear the 2 guitars AT THE SAME TIME in very different places on the neck. I made the tablature of Sultans, Alchemy and other Live versions, I made covers of Sultans and I affirm it, WE HEAR 2 DISTINCT TRACKS !! I hope everything is clear now, so stop the coms to say everything and anything ! So, Are you going to stay on the side of those who think the earth is flat ? Yann

Genius. This man took a clean Strat tone with no effects added, beside the minor reverb, and wrote one of the most iconic guitar rock songs of the ‘70s.

Wow!!...He is playing the rhythm and the lead on one track. So clean and smooth

There's originally 3 guitar tracks . One rhythm guitar played by David, the one played by Mark and an other one rhythm guitar recorded at very low volume that fills the space on the left side of the stereo field. You have that 3 guitar system on almost every Dire Straits albums.

this man is a guitar god

Thank you dear Mark, for sharing your beauties with us....for sharing such sweet moment with your lovely babyson on guitar.... God did his best when created You my love..❤

I just had an idea. Turn your amp up to full blast, play Sultans of swing intro as best you can, then turn this on full blast. Neighbours think you're a genius.

Mark Knopfler....best guitarplayer EVER! Period.

Single handedly (pardon the pun) the greatest piece of music ever. Stunning

J'adore ce son de stratocaster, typique de MK à ses débuts !

I hope @MarkKnopfler knows how much we all love love love his stuff !!

his timing! damn.

I came for the solo, stayed for the guitar

Just the sound of that guitar. Incredible.

MARK knopfler is the BEST musician( guitar) in the world..i love DS and MARK knopfler..🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🤟🤟🇵🇹

FANTASTIC.

I bet he put on new strings for this ;] The subtlety captured in the original recording is incredible..like 4k video for the ears.

His guitar track is like the whole song. Almost don't even need rhythm, bass, or drums.

Such a unique player.

That is, and will always be, one beautiful piece of music.

OMG !!! so glad I found this again :)

BTW, This is NOT the "original" guitar track, this is actually the guitar "stem"(premixed and taken from the bus) from the rip from either "Rock Band" or "Guitar Hero". Notice how the lead punches silence the rhythm guitar? That's a typical Guitar Hero mix. In both games, they mix the lead and gutar tracks so the player plays the rhythm when there is no lead. When the lead comes in, the rhythm fades. The reason these games use "multitracks" is so when the player messes up, they can inject the "bad note" sound which in turn, silences the track, but the band keeps on playing. This set of multitrack stems (yes, you can get the whole band), is available in several places on the net, along with many more (like as in hundreds more). I have this set and have worked with it recently, which is the reason I know exactly where it's from.

I was lucky to come across this !!! Fantastic! Unsurpassed GENIUS !! ❤🎸🎸🎸🎸✌✌🙋‍♀️🇷🇸❤👋👋

Pure gold

Absolutely AMAZING!!!!! What a piece of history!!!

The best. This music is the best. This solo is amazing.

Love this song. Some little nuances I didn't know he did come through on this isolated track.

There are 2 guitars that are well recorded. Thank you for posting this video

FANTASTIC! I'll never listen to the song the same way again....great insight to a classic.

The riff at 0:57 is so simple and yet I can't play it. The timing and the rhythm plucking he does in addition to the clear notes... good god.

Amazing

Timing and cadence on the notes and gbends...like Mitch Hedberg standup. Such accent, and a small window to make it perfect

The more it’s isolated, the more beautiful it sounds

So beautiful Mark ❤❤❤❤

Unbelievably good, the transition from rhytm and lead is exceptional, such a fluid motion of sound.

Professional and number one❤

How precious is this?

👍😊🇫🇷Merci !

Great to hear the bare original guitar track. Some chorus, compression and a big reverb. Doesn't quite make sense some of this though. There are some bends that are still ringing and he goes back into full chord strumming...

Ohhhhh my god...soooo wonderful... thank you my dear Mark..❤️

Artwork doesn't just come through just sight but also sound and this video is living proof!

Suenan muchos acordes tipo flamenco, gran canción, gran creación de Mark Knopfler

Awesome and special !

Has always been one of the best.

These are clearly a rhythm and lead guitar track put together, which is probably from "Guitar Hero or Rock Band" . You can here at 0:30 the bend in the lead guitar and the strummed rhythm at the same time. So clearly, this is two guitar tracks put into one.

Maybe it's Australia being down under. Something in the latitude. They produce some really good guitar players.

Classic masterpiece staple for study! It’s a submix of multi-track. Thanks for posting!

thank you, for uploading ,great job!

Thanks for posting this!

Ce son... Un vrai plaisir !

WOW SO GOOD ❤❤❤👍

He played while sang, imagine if he just played.

So clean and simple. Just fingers on guitar strings.

Thanks, brilliant and much appreciated addition to the online appreciation of this song and artist. Well done!

Thank you for this...

C'est toute ma jeunesse :-) c'est Excellent Yann en plus on peut chanter dessus,trop cool :-)

Thanks for the insights and clarification. Indeed you are VERY CORRECT on many, many points here. These ARE the VERY ORIGINAL tracks! The dealio is, for the "Guitar Hero" game, the producers & developers were given what we call in the industry as "sub-channel tracks", in order to "minimize" the guitar sounds. What more than very likely happened here, was that the original, 2-inch, 30 inches per second, 24-track session tape spool from 1978...owned by Warner Brothers...was accessed and "remixed" in such a way that MARK Knopfler's LEAD guitar track and his brother DAVID Knopfler's RHYTHM guitar track were combined, or better yet, DAVID'S parts were mixed into all the "quick holes" were MARK was not doing his leads. Pretty plain; very simple. It had to done that way, because the "Guitar Hero" game software COULD NOT handle 24 tracks of loseless .WAV audio. Impossible. Hence also, the drums...the engineers during the recording process back in '78, probably had up to EIGHT microphones on PICK WITHERS drum kit, but ALL those microphones HAD to be "sub-mixed" down to a stereo 2-track for "Guitar Hero". I understand your frustration of alot of the commenters ripping on you, I know how crappy that can feel, however the reality of "original production mixes" AND "subsequent interactive mixes" are ALWAYS altered per the application. AND, in order to limit the guitar track...BOTH...were morphed together into one full stereo-2-track mix. Thank you for presenting them here; it would be a great loss if you take them down. I encourage you to retain this upload. BCRadio Audio Sound & Recording Engineer 1979-2019

He is a wonder. I enjoyed this SOOOO much. Thanks

Cierro Los ojos e imagino haber estado en El estudio cuando se grabo esta obra de arte. Larga vida a Knopfler.

Hey buddy, man these videos of yours have helped me a lot, I've evolved a lot, you pass the music and the way you play, Very Fantastic people like you in the World.

Un petit trésor ! Grand merci!

OMG THANK YOU!!! Now I properly learn the solos correctly because I now realize how many wrong notes I had in my cover, thanks for the upload, you hero, new sub.

This is great and I love it! But there are two guitars here! One is being faded out as soon as the other comes in. They are called overdubs.

Sólo un auténtico GENIO puede crear un tema como éste. Only a true GENIUS is capable of composing a song like this ❤

Un grand merci Yann. C'est génial ... Bonne journée Amitiés Gérard M

Fabuleux !!!! Merci infiniment, Yann le chercheur d'or !

Now you can really hear that chorus effect in the chorus.

THAT'S AMAZING!

Es uno de los mejores guitarristas que e escuchado!!

Fantastique!

this is his lead track and one of the rhythm tracks that he played not his brothers but its being faded out when his lead track has notes playing then faded back in when his lead has a space with no notes

Very nice track

VERY GOOD !!!!!!

genius, and well informed

merci

👏🏽 👏🏽 excelente!!!

coooooool nice score

Sensacional!🤟

Un gars sympa, j'aime beaucoup la musique française, les romantiques La plupart du temps, Fracoise hardy, christophe et etc ... mais je suis un grand fan de Jean Michel Jarre, vangelis, génial, sont les magiciens du clavier!

I'm actually shocked that it got that ending licks :0 (the very last seconds) like howww

Now I'll play the voice soundtrack and the guitar soundtrack to realize how it is.

What I don't get is how they came up with a full song lyrically from this rhythm and fill playing. Pretty amazing.

heaven

For a great acoustic version of sultans look up yoni sultans of swing. Great version

Awesome stuff!!😀 Listen to the isolated guitar only from MONEY FOR NOTHING. This guy is a guitar genius in this genre.

Merci Yann

5:16

Amazing! No different at all.

4:05 tho it makes my life complete

I found all the tracks via file sharing. I like to hear them. You find punch-ins, bleed through, and many other gems and interesting things. A good example is "Ain't no Mtn High Enough" where the bass sound is muffled and there are 2 drum tracks but put together is wonderful. The Sultans Of Swing tracks show how there were punch ins and such.

👏👏👏👏

Excellent cheers from Canada... How to get the Rhythm style playing with a Pick??? Tres difficile

It’s the most perfect soloing - like JS Bach in terms of not a single wasted note

WOW - legendary. Where d'ya get that from?

The BEST that has ever picked one up.....nobody can replicate the tone and harmonies. I want him to pick up a slide piece and cover Duane Allman a little. I think even Chet would tell you, he's better than me and Jerry Reed put together.

He sings looks like a Bob Dylan, plays rhythm and the lead guitar on one track. Genius,

Do you have the rhythm guitar track for this (specifically the rhythm guitar part during Mark’s fills and solos)? If so could you please upload it? Thank you.

It doesn't matter Mark is still King get over it people and these people who call him a god need to read the Bible there's only one God Mark never from what I have read about this man never really wanted the limelight he just want the music to speak for itself he's a visionary and storyteller who puts his words into music end of highly excellent music!! so stop arguing over semantics please and enjoy! 🙋💕

Son dos guitarras grabadas, una base marcando el ritmo (muteada cuando toca la guitarra principal) y la otra principal haciendo los arreglos y solos.

Chorus comes in half way which is odd but nice