When I started about 10days ago I was tempted to say it was impossible for me and found myself numerous times shouting into the screen " WOW - HOLD ON ! " as you have quite a demanding way of teaching ! . Now , having nailed it and enjoying putting the polish on I have much gratitude towards you . I am sorry that I cannot send any money as I am unemployed and poor as a church mouse but I just wish to say a huge THANK YOU , you are an excellent teacher and a brilliant guitarist .

Well I finally got there ... this is the old guy (75 yrs) from Yorkshire England ... who says they can't teach old dogs new tricks - they can when they have an excellent video teacher like you ... I can now play the whole song through - I have only to learn to sing it and play it at the same time now .... thank you for doing such a good job ... Bruce.

@MagicMephisto

9 жыл бұрын

keep it up ;)

@sohumbasu8810

6 жыл бұрын

RECORD A COVER GRAMPS! would love to see you play

@Bonksy42

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@ak_7293

3 жыл бұрын

How you doin Bruce?

@RUARI-mi1yt

3 жыл бұрын

hows it going mate. you still with us

I always considered sultans an impossible song to learn since I started 12 years ago but until a few weeks ago your videos and your simple, detailed lessons taught me to fully get the song down. Can't thank you enough for taking your time to teach everyone freely like this. Your page is always my go to now. Mainly because of the way you teach. 🤘

I can now play this song note for note thanks to you. You're an amazing teacher. Keep em coming, cheers.

I am 66, trying to upgrade from a 3 chord strummer to learn some leads and licks while I still can. This is by far the most ambitious song I have tried to learn, but your lesson(s) are so detailed and concise, with a little patience, I have learned all the individual pieces, now I need to pull them all together... thanks so much for this!

omg---cause of you I can now play to myself this legendary song, outro included...wooow...I never thought I could do this...you have my subscription good sir

didn't think learning this song was possible until I watched your lessons! great job buddy!

Thank you very much Carl! Since I discovered your excellent lessons, my guitarskills have improved more in four weeks, than in the past four years... Finally I can play Sultans of Swing. Oh, yeah!

I play this with a pick, but your vid sure helped me anyway. Greetings from Sweden!

Love this lesson. It's a great explanation of Mark Knopfler's style. I still can't figure out how to play those Dm-Bb-C arpeggios on the 10th/12 so fast! Thanks.

dude i just have to say thank you so much i have watched every video to this lesson and i can now play the entire song thanks to you, it has been quite a journey and i thank you.

Got it! Thumbs up to all parts!! Thank you so so so much für this! Greetings from Germany👌🏽

Carl, you’re awesome!! I love your tutorials. I became a member of your lessons because you are the best I’ve seen out there!!!

Excellent!!! I'm a player of 50 years and many busy bands. Sultans is one of those "someday I'll get around to it" but your intuitive explanation of techniques made it very simple. You provide clear and concise instruction. Thank you.

4:04 blues lick 5:20 little phrase 6:20 cool little phrase 7:58 and then 8:35 fade out

Thanks Carl! Made this solo a hell of a lot easier to learn. It's one of those solos that sounds super tricky and impossible... until its broken down into sections and licks, very appreciative. Cheers

Out of all the teachers you are by far the best that I have ever seen. YOU don't stop until it sounds exactly like the real song. THANKS A MILLION KEEP ON KEEPING ON. SCOTT

best tutorial ever watched, awesome.Good Job

Thankyou for this lesson Carl, you did an excellent job explaining how to play the song step by step. Your videos are by far the most comprehensive ones on the net! good job!

EXCELLENT TEACHER! Lots of licks from Knopfler! THANK YOU!

Awesome guitar lesson. Thank you so much. It made this song so much easier to play.

Thank you so much! I can now play the entire song because of you!

Thanks so much Carl, you're a treasure! :) Slowly getting there thanks to you!

if you've made it this far, congratulations! a much more accessible song to play than I though it was.

Excellent teaching and instruction. Very detailed and articulate. Thank you so much, I can now play Sultans of Swing!

After days of practice it’s finally complete. Thank you

Thanks as always. The best guitar tutor online.

Wicked video!! Couldn't have learned the song so accurately without!! thanks

AMAZING WORK CARL! BRAVO!

Thanks for the best tutorial on this ive seen. Very well broken down. Jj

Awesome! First time I've been able to learn this song.... excellent lesson. Thanks so much!

MADE IT I CAN DO IT !! Thank you so much

I really appreciate your disposition to provide this lesson....it is a great tutorial to rely on. it is amazing the break down you do on this song...you simplify things... Thanks and keep the great work....

Thank you so much brother. I made it here. So grateful that you made it easy for us to catch onto this. God bless love from New Zealand 🙏

As always- great job!

Excellentooooooo. So much uniformly done.Thnx is less for your cordial efforts

Magnificent! Thank you so much Carl 👍🙌

Really excellent many have tried but you have nailed it thanks for sharing

Another great lesson! Thanks Carl!

we made it. done all parts & just about to start the outro !!!

Thank you so much you're a great guy !!

Great great lesson.. Thank you very much!

Great lessons! 😊

Thanks a lot for this. A great effort and really useful. Bless ya. 👍

i don’t know why this is so funny but the way he moved his hand at 7:27😂

Excellent lessons. Thanks

Thanks mate. Just finished... took me 2 weeks to go thru your vids. Cheers

super fun series of lessons !

thank you man! you´re GREAT!

this is fantastic

Great lessons,hard to play but now approachable.Thanks

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you !!!!!!! Great Teaching !!

if you couldn't this and checking the comment section, then Cheers mate, we are on the same boat for a while

Thanks a ton, Carl. Your lesson was a huge help.Uma

Thank you so much, you are a great teacher

Thanks man you are the man!! thanks so much

Now, if you want a real challenge ... Try playing this on an acoustic guitar. I am using D'Addero phosphor bronze, medium strings, on an amplified Alvarez, model AG60SCN guitar. My fingers hurt!

@dinoricco3438

3 жыл бұрын

Ahaha

Thanks for the lesson.....you're awesome!

I’m learning this song because I really like doing karaoke on cruise ships, but I’ve become much more self conscious in my adult life, and I think I’d rather go with something that doesn’t require a lot of singing ability. That said, there’s a couple of guitar breaks in here and i have a habit of picking songs with solos, so I’m figuring out the solos so I can play along instead of just stand there. I like performing, I’m just not in the right profession to do so. And this is my way of getting to do a party trick once every couple years. This completed my learning of the song, and I greatly appreciate it

Excellent lesson thanks a lot,,Paul.

Excellent lesson thanks a lot.

SEI UN GRANDE GRAZIE MILLE

you the best teacher sir i love ur video really helpful . indonesia here :)

Nice work...... Carl thanks

you the best on you tube

amazing tutorial, I will try to learn it.

Awesome!!!!

Thank you Sir

Yes well explained many thanks 👍

Nice teaching

Valew! muito bom... consegui tocar de boa! :)

Excellent

yeaahhh. thnk for your lesson broo. 🤘🏾🔥

Thank you.

Carl, first THANK YOU for doing what you do! You have single handedly provided to me what it takes to learn and play any instrument let alone the guitar and that is interest and fun! If I may make a suggestion? At the beginning of each "tutorial" it would be awesome AND help tremendously if you would play first what you are going to teach. Some times you do this but most times you don't: it helps, me anyway, to hear it played to speed then I can mentally reference your tutorial to what you had just played. Does that make sense? Anyway, I cannot imagine that I would be the only one to find this helpful. Buddy, keep doing what you are doing, PLEASE-lol you're one helluva guitarist and one helluva an instructor-thank you!!

@metalmig

6 жыл бұрын

Sometimes if he plays the song as a demo youtube could block the video because of copyright

awesome

God bless you

Ok in learning this

Very helpfull! Thanks a lot. Last lick (at 8:59) last note should be on the fifth string (not fourth) 15th position.

i learn in 3 days 😍

Worked my way up to this outro solo. whole song works just fine except this part. Any advice how I can practice this fast part? ive always been struggling with those triad things or whatever they´re called in english. Great way of teaching though. This helped a lot. Thanks

Carl,do a lesson on Lady Writter please

This lick at the 04:01´ it's the most hard to me. It stuck me for years since 2011 till now. I can't playing it performing 149 bpm like original recording.

Hey Carl, can you do a video on Alchemy Live version of Sultans pleeeeease?

what guitar effect do you use for this song?

Im only 14 and i learnt it!!!!

7:00 I have a hard time with pinky hammer on. It is too silent because it's too weak. Do I lack technique?

7:50 im having a hell of time trying to do that hammer pull.. would it be okay of i just barred the first two strings without having to roll my finger to them?? that little movement is screwing my over

@user-lb3jm7ul7x

3 жыл бұрын

I’m having the same problem.... did it work out for you? Barring the 2 strings?

you are teaching ver well, I love it. However, it's best if you could show us the tablature so we could see and play.

What pedals do you use

Hi! I’m so excited to play this for my talent show- one question, do you have the full song play through on your channel? I can’t seem to find it. Thanks! This sounds amazing

@GuitarLessons365SongLessons

3 жыл бұрын

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Brilliant set of tutorials for this song, the best one of the web even eight years later! thank you! As a contribution - near the end of the fast bluesy run described at 4.55 the video says there are two pull offs on the D string 12 to 10 - If you listen carefully I think it's one pull off as described and then a pluck on the 10th fret and hammer on the 12th. It's slightly loose because of the speed but I think that's what MK is trying to play and it sounds much more melodic played like that...

Learnt the entire song thanks to you,except this part,I feel like,I just can't get it down,,anyone have any tips? Specifically for the hammer ons?

@josshhyboy

8 жыл бұрын

+JustForFunMan dunno if you've figured it out yet but what i found to help was bar my index over the 1oth fret on the high strings hammer on with the pinky on the highest string to 13 and then use my middle finger to hold down the 11th fret on 2nd string and then just slide your hand up to frets to 12 on the 1st string and 13th fret on the 2nd string

@TheCrankProject

8 жыл бұрын

+joshua thomas Thank you sir, that's what I've been doing , but Mark completely takes his finger off the frets to switch to the B string. Guess that's just Mark though, considering he's one of the best of all time. Check out his '79 performance of this song at Rockpalast! Thanks friend!

@kleibuzo5734

5 жыл бұрын

It's now been 3 years how much have you improved

I fuckin love guitar :)

Thank you VERY MUCH. You saved me a TON of time and frustration. Hope much good karma comes to you!

damm you are crazyy

Any tips on getting this up to speed? I can play it up to about 80% with a pick then it falls apart!

@worldwidewonderful2023

7 жыл бұрын

Knopfler loses the pick

@jamiebullock52

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know, but I use a pick, so... One thing I discovered is I can play it faster on my Tele, which has a lower action and generally faster neck than my strat.

Thought it was easy until I realized that it's played without a pick :D

@wildboar1911A1

4 жыл бұрын

that’s what made it easy?...

@kensalazar5066

4 жыл бұрын

It's easy if you try...

Lmao my fingers after learning this in one night smh

I'm guessing this would be a lot easier with an electric guitar? my pull offs sounds so quiet that you can't hear the notes that you need, especially for the ending solo