Romeo And Juliet | Mark Knopfler Songbook | TAB

[@Lankymax1]

Pavel Fomenkov is doing more to make Mark Knopfler songs accessible to the world than everybody else put together!

[@waksomaniaco24223]

and we love it

[@PavelFomenkov]

Romeo And Juliet is the ultimate Mark Knopfler Song. It has… Signature acoustic guitar playing, signature guitar itself, signature electric guitar soloing, signature lyrics, the song is about love, it has obvious literary influence, musical influence, movie influence, it was written while “playing around shapes”, it has signature AABAAB structure, beautiful arrangement, one-of-a kind ending with rare modulation (to E Major), it has odd tuning, and the list goes on… No video can cover everything in this song, because it would take hours to cover every little detail, but of course the main source for inspiration is the famous and beloved National guitar part, and so I discuss it with all my passion, I hope you’ll find it interesting. Thanks for watching! Pavel.

[@haraouifouad565]

I m your fan pavel from Morocco you're welcome myfrient

[@danielouw9769]

Thanx for the wonderful video. I just love Knopflers music. It is so intense. Love his style of playing. His solos are out of this world. Romeo and Juliet is one of my favourites. Others are Sultans of Swing, Brothers in arms and Sailing to Philadelphia. Keep up the great work. Daniel.

[@jakeminor1967]

Agree with all you say. In fact, refreshing to find someone who agrees with me so thoroughly! Thank you for this.

[@aapddd]

I think it's the most perfect song ever played live.

[@WahrheitMachtFrei.]

Romeo and Juliet is so perfect it feels like it wasn't written, it feels like it has always been, sent from heaven and discovered by man.

[@ricardopadilla3360]

Pavel! You say playing this song is like therapy. For me, watching you play is therapy. I may take a crack at this song because of your excellent video!

[@arnoldpalmero]

this is such an illuminating tutorial and analysis... mark would appreciate this

[@landonparnell5593]

You are the best Knopfler teacher I’ve seen! Phenomenal!

[@uberjam-sam8512]

This is absolutely gorgeous. So sad and lovely. Thanks so much for this beautiful rendition.

[@harshitkhanna7688]

You are one of the best teachers on KZbin. The nuances you shed light on are very important. There are many ways to learn a song but to get a feel of the song, you have to dive deep. Really love your work Pavel!

[@nfrancab373]

You are really astounding dude. Mark Knopfler and the Dire Straits have been my favorite band since before I was old enough to know it. Year after year his music really holds a special place in my life and thanks to you I can work to play these songs myself. Thank you from me and the rest of us!

[@PavelFomenkov]

I'm in the DS club for almost 15 years now, perfectly understand you. This music is a friend for all your life for sure!

[@Gofel55]

dear Pavel, there is really nothing to critizise, not your singing either. You teach us the Songs so perfectly and you talk so sympatheticly about Marc and his Songs. My deep respect. Thank you very much from Southern Germany. Have a good 2020 in Moscow

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thank you so much! In Saint Petersburg though, not Moscow ;)

[@vetou20]

To use a frase from Mark "you have a wonderful soul for music"

[@ПавелСмоляк-т1ш]

Павел, ты молодец! Спасибо большое! Я сдушаю Нопфлера с 1996 года, и до сих пор он остаётся моим любимым исполнителем!

[@josecastro7121]

Incredible! It's one of the videos I've liked most in my life learning guitar. A different way of explaining the details. Absolutely great.

[@madarain]

Really enjoyed this...would love to nail just one of the ways to do the travis picking of this intro. Great job.

[@davereid8945]

You are great Pavel - your method of explaining things and attention to detail is perfect - many thanks.

[@coyoteceol]

Love your commentary and personal take on Mark. As a Knopfler fan I'm really enjoying it. Not-to-mention your lessons are top-shelf. Thank you.

[@RIDDLE0MASTER]

Gold! This is pure gold! Thank you very much, Pavel!

[@nathanielifrah8140]

Awesome tutorial Pavel. Can't ask for more! PERFECT! ty 😎

[@francoisfeat1828]

These are definitely among if not the best guitar tutorial on the work of the Sultan Mark. Great work Pavel !

[@nicknewman7848]

Mark's classical origins show here and it's more simplistic than people think (like you said). The E minor being a good example.. he could have played a full chord with the base note but he knows the simpler, lighter way is enough and suits the delicacy of the song. A really sophisticated yet simple song.. my favorite type. Can't believe I only just discovered this channel.. great video.. really intelligent approach.. thanks for saving me so much time. PS Seeing as you asked.. 'too busy' is fine to use for your description.. 'too full' would be another way of putting it. Too full, less full, fuller, not full enough etc..depending on your needs. It's used as a descriptive term in classical music generally when talking about orchestration and it's application. Strangely the opposite in this case would be 'thin' not 'empty' but that's English for you.

[@gabrielarrigone3933]

Muchas gracias por compartir tu enseñanza !!! Saludos desde Buenos Aires !!!

[@dermotmcgann4696]

Pavel a great take on the ultimate Knopler classic great playing and thank you for for all the videos and info...been playing a long time ...it's all about timing and feeling ...great lockdown music to listen to and learn

[@RollingRizla]

Thanks for all your Knopfler work, I've learnt many songs from your clips, you are the MAN!

[@botesz20]

Oh my lord what a great lesson! What a great song... Thank you Pavel, you inspired me to pick up the guitar and learn songs after years of wanting.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Mark wrote this song. You inspire me to keep going. It’s a cycle of inspiration and I love this cycle.

[@jonathonrowley3535]

Amazing ! Great tutorial, your passion for the song really shines through. Thank you.

[@gastonmartinez4989]

Amazing!!!... One of the most beautiful songs from Mark . Thanks a lot

[@KentDorfman2024]

I’m so glad that I got to see him one last time this summer

[@PavelFomenkov]

Never say last ;)

[@stratlix1]

Wonderful. I love his poetry, singing and playing as much as you I think! Thank you so much for your teaching. Your video is SUPERBLY DONE! Many thanks 🙏

[@ianwhitelaw921]

Such a lovely lesson thanks so much 🙏

[@Rockies-yr1em]

Thank you so much for this lesson. It is amazingly detailed and I can’t help but feel wonderstruck every time I see you play this song. I watch the intro over and over it is amazing. I can’t say thank you enough for this work of art.

[@owenmanuela6949]

Awesome cover Pavel, I may just throw my guitar in the bin,it definitely a song that takes practice like anything I'll keep trying

[@remyvaartjes]

Thanks again for another great song to keep on playing over and over and over again! Very nice,

[@steveforesman1767]

You are a wonderful teacher!

[@grahamjenkin2882]

Fantastic lesson & clearly explained. Cheers!

[@davidturnbull100]

Pavel, I'm so glad you've done this song. I've been working on it for a while--like so many other things--but I love it so much, so I will persist until I get it. It has so many challenges, just getting that first bar down is hard enough to get really clean sound on all the individual notes. Thank you again. sorry I haven't had an email from you lately. Interested in what's happening in your life. great work, as always. you are a legend! I love that you are so down the earth in your explanations, and , particularly, that your love of Mark's music comes through loud and clear in every lesson.

[@donaldwalls5809]

That was fantastic. I wanted to work on this song, so I'll be watching this video alot thanks!!

[@davepratt3912]

Very nice sir. Gibson sounds great. Thanks for sharing.

[@markroylance1584]

Hi Pavel.... Stay safe fellow guitarist xxxx

[@kenarutunian499]

Definitely one of my all time fave's!!! Man, awesome job on the lesson. Cheers!!! May I get half as good as you playing this song!!!

[@PavelFomenkov]

It takes less than you might think to do all that! With playing Mark’s songs, taste, style and dignity is far more important than gear and technique.

[@The35Angelo]

For how long was I waiting this one! It was actually one of the very firsts songs I wanted to learn. And I' mproud to say I play it quite well. I just couldn't find a good strumming pattern and some embellishments. Can't wait to improve my play with your vids. Thanks a lot

[@klauswucherpfennig7245]

Pavel,you‘re Great Fantastic🎸👏👏🎶

[@kuznetsovsergei_v]

Павел, браво. Iron hand благодаря вашему видео уже выучил. Это будет вторая песня. Спасибо

[@PavelFomenkov]

Спасибо! Это лучшая песня в открытом строе, которую стоит изучить всем гитаристам. Надеюсь, что мой не слишком подробный урок вдохновит разучить её.

[@kuznetsovsergei_v]

Уже вдохновил, добавил в закладки. На рождественских каникулах выучу! Спасибо ещё раз!

[@philipgoff2461]

Thank you Pavel. An excellent tutorial.

[@jaimeherrera7054]

Pavel you're the best MK cover player here in YT. Congrats on that! You should teach the outtro some day on an electric guitar, which is only played live.

[@samepate8540]

Great job ! What a perfect playing of MK songs. Thank you so much for your tutos . Sound great ! You ´re the best player of MK songs to me, especially because you always find the perfect way to play just like the studio recording. I would love to see you play "Marbletown" featuring on Ragepicker's dream record, with your great fingerpicking style.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Doing that song is my dream! I can’t wait to play it myself, just dread this moment for as long as I can since I know that one would be really hard to do.

[@genemccaa2053]

Thank you Paul, love the way you break it down, great job

[@nidannicigov8263]

So happy I managed to figure out 99% by myself.. great video tho, as always. Bless you Pavel

[@professorwhoopee]

Thank you for your contribution to my musical education. Nice work :)

[@MFDOOOOM]

awesome video i love you good sir, may you get many more views 😬❤️

[@domenicov_versus3789]

This masterpiece deserves to be played with a resonator. By the way beautiful lesson. Congratulations!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Yes, but Like the majority of people I don’t have a resonator and frankly don’t want to have one really. Not to play 1 song that’s for sure ;)

[@volvo240maniac]

@@PavelFomenkov I have a resonator, but can't play it nearly as good as Pavel, so...yeah I'll get there

[@volvo240maniac]

@@PavelFomenkov you can play Done with Bonaparte too 😉 oh and Fender Brown Derby resonator is outstanding and cheap, great cone, great neck...and really affordable

[@PavelFomenkov]

@@volvo240maniac Will try it one day!

[@domenicov_versus3789]

@@PavelFomenkov Mark used the resonator for others wonderful songs like Portobello Belle, Telegraph Road, The man's too strong, Donkey Town, Heart full of holes, The Fish and the Bird or the beautiful instrumental "in the Heartland" from the MK's soundtrack wag the dog etc. The resonator is a wonderful instrument with a distinctive and ancestral sound perfect for country and bluegrass. If you have the opportunity try it.

[@sy-ronja3613]

Awesome Pavel!

[@bah667]

Brilliant mate

[@merlinsdog4530]

I'm going to give this a go in the morning, thanks

[@davemarston]

I love your passion for great music. Peace for you and your people. Stop the war on Eukraine. Stop war now!

[@mybuom5010]

Super easy understandable, please do a Tut for Private Investigation and Telegraph Road 😄

[@yasmiiineee]

Pavel I am SO THANKFUL! I've been waiting for this one!!!!! i'll try to transcribe it first then will definitely check it out here because i trust you and your ear and your skills!!! thank you SO much!!! i hope you're doing well! Cheers!

[@magnussthre8519]

can you please do a tutorial on the strumming technique? This is such a good tutorial, you play the song beautifully, best on youtube, but i have huge issues with understanding and learning the strumming.

[@pedromelo35]

thank's for the lesson

[@ransbarger]

Brilliant! Thank you.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thank you for saying thank you.

[@stevenelson6895]

Unreal... I’ve been waiting for this to land ❤️❤️👍 Thank you Pavel, keep it up..and you sing it so well ✌️

[@hatemghars1517]

wonderful interpretation.it truly reflects the original song and its depth though the real one is not that accessible.good w

[@pr0th0masNL]

instantly added it in my playlist of songs i need to learn. Thanks! NEED MORE :c Can you make a video about ''Dream Of The Drowned Submariner''' By Mark ofcourse.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Will get to it eventually! Romeo is the most enjoyable song to play, every guitar player should check it out...

[@greghutch7471]

Nice job, very pretty sound. Good job!

[@eliasamiand299]

The BOSS once again

[@thecockysucker6578]

Fabulous work ... huge thanks!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thank you Cocky Sucker!

[@garyreeves4710]

excellent sounds great. well done

[@zoom9010]

Un'altro bel lavoro,grazie

[@robgray9620]

Great lesson Thank you

[@Rockguy29]

Great voice and strumming

[@volvo240maniac]

Brilliant, I'm almost there, but your video always helps to get it just right! Thanks

[@PavelFomenkov]

Yes, I love the details!

[@imajeenyus42]

That is so beautiful, well done, and thank you for doing the song! I really must try learning this. I've played open D/E but never G, looks fun. It's such an iconic song. Whenever I'm in a guitar shop, I usually see if they've got a National and try playing R&J on it 😂 (in C, normal tuning). But I could never afford such a guitar, that's the trouble! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

[@PavelFomenkov]

I gotta admit I played National guitar once and it was an unbelievable experience. The thing sounds like the most beautiful sound on Earth. You pluck just one note and you're in Heaven. Yes, I'd love to afford it, but thankfully it doesn't mean I can't play the song haha.

[@mikedeverson1181]

Great job and a great lesson bro,thank you😃

[@josephmecca9920]

fantastic! Thanks!

[@miguelalho8140]

Damn ! So good. Thank you

[@russlgtr]

This is amazing, thank you. What do you think of amy ray of indigo girls version of Romeo and Juliet? It is simpler but so expressive and good

[@picklerick405]

Great play, man

[@attiylanen]

I love it!

[@xavierferre899]

Hello Pavel, congratulations for all your work on Mark Knopfler, you are very strong !! I know you have a national style O14, I have one too and I really like playing Mark's different finger picking in open G titles like: “portobello belle”, “wild west end”, “telegraph road”, and this wonderful "Romeo and Juliet ", I don't play them as well as you do, but I work and hope over the years to improve myself thanks to your videos. Mark does not play bottleneck on his 1937 O14 a lot, I think there are some songs like "water of love" with a bit of bottleneck. Do you know which brands of strings he uses on his O14, and especially which gauge ? Personally on my National O14 I started by installing michael messer 013-056, they sound great but it's hard to keep up with "romeo and juliet" and as I don't play bottleneck I told myself “why not try a less strong gauge ?”so I just fitted “ d’addario phosphor bronze in 011-052” on my O14, of course they press less on the cone, and the sound is less dry but less beautiful than the michael messer 013-056 , but the game is easier ... can you tell me if you have tried several strings and gauge yourself and which strings do you use finally ? thank you so much !! Xavier

[@PavelFomenkov]

Hi Xavier! First of all, I don't own a National style O, that's just too expensive. Mark uses extremely heavy strings for his National, namely a mixture between 14-59 and 13-56 gauges.

[@PM-yz8fx]

So nice to see somebody that really gets what musicality and subtle things are, and deeply understand the gifts that Mark has given to us all...and thanks for not just beating the shit out of your guitar, trying to imitate somebody ahem...To_y E..el

[@AndiAFF]

Amazing!

[@haraouifouad565]

Fantastic music

[@PavelFomenkov]

It is.

[@huylong71]

Pavel bro pro. Tks😮!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thank you Huy Long!

[@haraouifouad565]

It's my favorite song tks pavel

[@PavelFomenkov]

I love it too!

[@haraouifouad565]

Thank you so much my best friend I m guitarist

[@mouradboucherima1202]

Great Channel... +1 suscriber. Just one comment, I heard Mark Knopfler in a video, saying he is playing it in an open D tunning. Perfectily played anyway. Keep it up. Cheers.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thank you! It can’t be, since this song is in Open G and that’s a universally acknowledged fact, one of the most famous songs in the Open G tuning. Mark have songs in Open D, for sure, but R&J is not one of them.

[@mouradboucherima1202]

@@PavelFomenkov I might have misunderstood then... Great lesson... time for me to tackle it

[@mariottmm]

Superlike ! 👍🏼

[@The35Angelo]

The more I watch your right hand, more I think it has magic in it. On your strumming they're dancing on the strings I'm so jealous. I can't figure out what it is? Is it thumb, down stroke, index up, thumb and so on?

[@PavelFomenkov]

It's not too far from the regular strumming, I'll try to explain it in words and update this comment.

[@noudvanmelick1194]

+1 sub! Your chanel is so good. How are you at 10k subs? You deserve 10 million!

[@PavelFomenkov]

It’s just what it is! Thank you so much.

[@robertowatsiano]

Nice

[@remyvaartjes]

While we're still in G tuning, this might the right moment for... Telegraph Road? Best song ever!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Why not ;)

[@remyvaartjes]

@@PavelFomenkov Would be an easy one ;) But a nice version that can be played with one guitar would be fabulous!

[@plus-tom]

WAUUU. Thank you. nice!

[@themusiccovenant]

Guitar God

[@robertobelotti3285]

I would like you to explain more slowly how play the intro, if you please!

[@tiegert1]

hi pavel, i'm trying to learn the intro part and i can't really figure out how to play the 8th bar in the tabs. what i get is, that you strum down and up on the G, and at the end you strum down on the A. But what do you do with the A inbetween? do you pick these three notes?

[@PavelFomenkov]

Interesting, because before you asked I never thought about it haha. On A chord there it's what I call "thumb downstroke". It's when you don't pick a single string with the thumb, but rather brush it across 2 or 3 strings, hence "downstroke", but frankly playing just one note bass would work nice, too.

[@tiegert1]

​@@PavelFomenkov thanks for the very fast answer, that was the only part i was unsure how to play :)

[@pauldendleguitar]

Hope your safe Pavel.

[@anitajohannadrost]

👍😁🇳🇱🍂🍁🍄thank you!

[@chrisaitken6015]

Hi mate, Amazing as always!! What strings do you use?

[@chrisaitken6015]

& what exact equipment do you use for recording? I'm struggling to get the nice tone you have :-(

[@PavelFomenkov]

Hi Chris! For strings this time I tried D'Addario XT Acoustic Phosphor Bronze 12-53, great strings. I also use Martin Retro strings. My equipment is very easy... Two large diaphraghm microphones for guitar, one instrumental mic for my voice, it all goes into Zoom H6 card and gets recorded on my MacBook Pro. That's it! The guitar is Gibson Advanced Jumbo, 1997 model year. Regular model, no Custom Shop, no Brazilian Rosewood, not a collector's choice, just a regular jumbo and it sounds like a dream!

[@chrisaitken6015]

Awesome thanks mate! Amazing videos to learn from 👌👌👌

[@rafraf9876]

Perfect ! please teach us The Dream of the Submariner

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thanks! Okay, it’s in the list.

[@rafraf9876]

@@PavelFomenkov Cheers brother !!

[@lechu4829]

Oh yea, amazing :)

[@PavelFomenkov]

Rare comment from you! :D

[@lechu4829]

Last time was in... Done with Bonaparte ? :P but I like your videos. In this video I can hear sounds similar to Redbud tree, Sultan, Dream of drown submariner... (5:38-5:40)

[@owentaylor7905]

Cool

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thanks, I tried my best.

[@gabrielepaoletti1716]

❤

[@oebanista]

💙