Song For Sonny Liston | Mark Knopfler Songbook | TAB

[@markjurdjevic3647]

Pavel, I don't use the word 'hero' lightly, but a hero you are....

[@PavelFomenkov]

Wow! Appreciate you. I'm hoping to keep my level high.

[@knopflerfan7940]

Pavel,your music and your channel is a great gift. Thank you so much. Do not care about people that dislike your videos. Everything you are doing is good. Your playing is perfect in my ears. You give us 10 minute lessons, but behind that there are so many hours of pre- and postproduction. I´m sure. Thank you. We are living in different countries, but connected by the love for a great guitar player and his music. That is all i can say.So keep on knopflering.(Greetings from Germany)

[@PavelFomenkov]

A little update after I recorded and watched my own lesson: It's just one version of a complex riff, of course there are so many variations, so many possibilities. In the lesson I provide all the tools to build your own version of the lick while being respectful to original.

[@chielichiel]

Oh boy you turned playing Knopfler into a science, amazingly accurate. Even Knopfler himself would be amazed. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thanks for that science line, I’ll remember it!

[@2166G]

Could you make a video on his techniques in more depth? His right hand is where all the difficulty is.

[@carlvickers1947]

you have a gift of making something complex much simpler. Thank you.

[@organon9126]

What would I do without this channel? It makes my dreams come true.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Organon Same thing for me. Let's keep inspiring each other and keep Knopflering!

[@vetou20]

It would be awesome if you produced some tabs...i would buy them right now

[@PavelFomenkov]

For which songs? I think not every song deserve doing a tablature... some songs are pretty easy just to follow along, like All That Matters.

[@vetou20]

Well, maybe it's the fact that i'm quite a noob with the guitar but for example for this song having those licks broken down in a tab would be awesome and way easier to study them. B

[@vetou20]

And the fact that you say that all that matters is pretty easy makes me really feel a noob :D

[@rousyfan19]

Pavel, this is really wonderful. Every single lesson you do is highly enjoyable, to say the least. Truly a treasure for anybody who is in love with MK's music. And it makes me try harder, eventually bringing out more of my own capabilites on the guitar. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@smiffyd4041]

Another quality tutorial. Thank you my man 👌

[@conemas]

Pavel, thank u so much for the passion, it alowd us to understand the moves and the grove of knofler, it s a great job.

[@melcuer]

Wow! That double "bam bam" with the thumb on the main riff was a nightmare for me!!! Thank you!!!!

[@PavelFomenkov]

"Bam bam" is a great way to describe the effect! It was a nightmare for me, too, overall thumb work on this one, but it was well worth the efforts. Thanks!

[@carlMorgan71]

Amazing I love this, I have to say most people DO NOT EVEN KNOW just how hard this is. Congratulations, I vividly remember when I finally snapped this rhythm out. I thought I’d played it wrong for the 10,000 time an it just was a sonic boom with that A string.

[@NikolasSalter]

Love all the Knopflering going on here, my favorite channel. Also, your vocals are extremely reminiscent of Mark Knopfler, but have a beauty of their own.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Nikolas Salter Wow, thanks! Maybe I try extra to get the vocals close just for a sake of it, but anyway, it's close because we both can't really sing haha.

[@NikolasSalter]

I completely disagree, your voice has a very real dusty and warm quality, like Townes Van Zandt but much better, keep singing, love it. Just learned Postcards From Paraguay, first did it on my own as you recommended and then corrected (more than a few) mistakes thanks to you. I'm extremely appreciative, these are beautiful lessons, demonstrations and appreciations of his work.

[@migue7490]

Perfect as always, you really have been studying Mark's style! accuracy 100%. I already ask for a song some tutorials ago, I would like to see devil baby too :). thx for this amazing class.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Yes! Great acoustic song as well, will do that. Thanks for watching!

[@run4fred]

Well done... one of my favourite MK riffs.

[@jeroenbrandsma285]

This is awesome man!!!!! Great lessons and thank you so much for taking the time to make these lessons and share them with fellow fingerpickers! CHeers (Y)

[@PavelFomenkov]

Appreciate you! Keep Knopflering and fingerpicking too ;)

[@marksmith8527]

An other mystery solved...Can't wait to try and learn over the weekend!!! Thank you!!!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Yeah! Very satisfying song to play when you know the rules before breaking them.

[@cv8135]

Great instruction....Perfection. Thank you Pavel

[@70picker]

Pavel,you do a gd service for us mk fans..respect and thx😊

[@arienboonstra358]

Man... These are the best lessons out there, thanks so much!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thank you! I'm really trying my best. See you in another vids!

[@Zigzagzo1]

Awesome as alyways! Thanks mate. Super high res video quality. Keep it up!!!!!

[@andersrandom]

Just found your channel and watched so many of your videos. Absolutely awesome dude 😎🤘

[@edgancarcik8856]

Pavel, Excellent video of one of my favourite songs by MK. By the way that is a wicked nice Advanced Jumbo you have in the video and boy do you make it sound great !

[@rdesutter76]

Strong work. I really appreciate your time and effort.

[@Blueslurch]

I always played this song in a poor and rudimentary version - and enjoyed it. But now I feel like a complete noob ;) Your video is brilliant and I'm looking forward to learn this song in the right way. Thank you for sharing!

[@BluesPlayer77]

Wonderfull lesson. I hope to learn this Song . It's fantastic.

[@PavelFomenkov]

I hope to learn it, too!

[@jonswoveland]

Excellent tutorial! Thanks so much for sharing this. Going to re-learn it right now.

[@crushercowley]

superb lesson,superb playing

[@EvgeniyNeutralMusician]

Excellent lesson, Pavel, well done!

[@nealcivjan9508]

Great song. Great lesson! Thank you very much.

[@jpalmonacid]

I made the same mistake when I tried to learn this song by ear. Grooving from the 5th to 3rd :D It wasn't sounding right to my ears. Great what you're doing with these videos. Thanks for your effort and keep knopfering! Greetings from Argentina.

[@TimH86]

Hello Pavel, thanks a bunch for sharing this as well. I've only discovered your channel yesterday but now already am playing these songs much more like I 'want to'. I made exactly the same mistake as you described, focusing on the A5 chord.. but the song sounded so dull compared to what Mark was playing - even in the acoustic versions of the song. Can't wait to work on those mutes and including the 6th string in there to finally get that punchy groove going! Thanks a lot!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Your comments are extremely inspiring, keep it up! I'm glad to find someone who appreciate the attention to detail.

[@BookerTDooku]

Massively appreciated. I'm nowhere near getting this yet - I find the middle finger strum and muting really difficult - but even just trying to get close to these techniques has brought out a lot of new ideas and possibilities. And it's really incredible how much tonal variation comes from the right hand, which I hadn't really consciously focused on properly. Thank you.

[@Crotalus87]

Great Lesson and as usual your attention to detail is impeccable. I had to watch a few times to start understand the involvement of the muted 6th string especially in the "index/thumb" hammer-ons from the 2nd and 4th bars of your intro tab. If Im not mistaken it looks like you are hitting the muted 6th string at the same time as each hammer on? Also Its tough to tell in the video, but to me it almost sounds like you hear a tiny bit of influence from the 4th string during the first hammer-on of the two "bam bams" in each cycle as well? I believe your tab shows the 4th string as muted there, perhaps thats what it means?

[@remyvaartjes]

Wow, sounds really cool! Many thanks once again!

[@paulcooper5748]

Brilliant love this song about charles sonny liston the bear awesome thanks for the lesson.

[@tempusfugit4545]

Brilliant .. thank you so much!

[@andersbacklund6224]

I think this is my top 3 MK songs ever! I Love your channel :D I would really like it if you taught us to play After the beanstalk. Can only find a couple of weird covers here on youtube. Best of luck to you and your channel!

[@PavelFomenkov]

Wow, thank you! The most cool thing is that this is actually Bob Dylan's favourite song of MK's! I love to discuss rare songs, so thank you for a great advice.

[@awkipintee]

Pavel, great lesson! I have struggled with this lick for a while. I had it but not quite...I think you nailed it pretty well. Personally, I get the right hand going into the groove and let the left hand catch up. Thanks for the unequalled study of Mark’s unique style and for sharing. All the best to you from far across the Atlantic 🇨🇦

[@trustmac]

thank you for that video. you are awesome

[@maaikeroeleveld2415]

Pavel , I hope you don’t mind me asking a question. You are going over the A7 and diminished triad shapes pretty fast. What diminished triads are they exactly? My guitar teacher is teaching me triads at the moment and it seems Mark uses them all the time, so it’s great theory to learn if you want to learn to play Mark’s music or be inspired by (not copying) by his playing style. I do have the basic riff down (which is an achievement for me) and would love to see I can eventually get the whole song down….

[@sarram.1998]

Awwwwwwwesome ! You nailed it

[@freeelectron8261]

Excellent!

[@paulcooper3463]

Thanks so much for making this video i love this song thanks for teaching this.

[@daneven6428]

Great video, your playing is fantastic ! Maybe with practice I can play this.

[@davidwinter3749]

More great stuff. Thanks

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thanks! One more today, another great acoustic song.

[@ИльяГанихин]

Павел, спасибо большое👍

[@DarkWish98]

I want to learn this so much!

[@Pathological_Flyer]

well done 👍🏻

[@nitin1983ful]

Many Thx Brother Wanted to learn this so much

[@OddBeast]

Nailed it.

[@PavelFomenkov]

I hope ;D

[@johngreenwood1972]

You’re a good man.

[@pedrocesar65]

Very good.

[@ArturoGarzaID]

Mark plays it like this in an interview.

[@Tiago_007]

Great job! I love Mark Knopfler and this is a great tune! Subscribed! It took me 5 days to decode the pattern playing slooooow. Now I have to do it faster, so I can sing it. The song is so complex on the palming and the muting wow! How about Devil Baby! Subscribed!

[@mrivestubemaster]

Amazing

[@reviewproductionstm353]

Hi Pavel. Could you provide TAB to go along to this song?

[@babacool81]

Amazing!!!!! ❤❤❤

[@runnershigh7573]

Dear Pavel, which gauge of strings do you use? Cheers Roger 🇨🇭

[@AndiAFF]

Impressive!

[@pierrebrixhe7564]

Very good job Pavel, and amazing voice with the guitar playing, great blues spirit. How can I get the tab with notes? Is it possible to get it? Thanks for teaching

[@PavelFomenkov]

Thank you! Which part exactly are you interested in? I made a tab for one version of the main lick, but all the other licks seems pretty simple to me, so just try to pick it out without paper. Or you mean you want the sheet music with standard notation?

[@pierrebrixhe7564]

Exactly, if you want to send me the sheet music with standard notation

[@PavelFomenkov]

Okay, I'll try!

[@pierrebrixhe7564]

Thanks a lot Pavel

[@Markus-qe2kw]

Awesome! :)

[@SPiNiNf3kTiON]

Привет. Давно подписан на тебя. Какие струны на этой гитаре? Толщина и производитель

[@Dhammawitt]

Have you done a cover of his live version?? That's what keeps me playing electric.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Not a particular version, just my version. Although he has two ridiculously good acoustic versions of that song.

[@volvo240maniac]

excellent!

[@alefsousavasconcellos6738]

Perfect!! Nice

[@zoom9010]

Ottimo Lavoro,grazie

[@thoblaro]

Great!

[@Fingertipsable]

Love to See you Play it on a Pearlvibe

[@jeroenbrandsma285]

Hello Pavel, do you play te downstrokes only with your middle finger? Could you explain with which finger you play what? It's hard to see. Great lessons, I've been following you for a while and there isn't anyone who does better MK lessons that you. Keep up the good work and keep playing. All the best from the Netherlands.

[@alexandrosioannidis7129]

What I find truly hard is the thumb with the index in the 6th string playing and muting the same time. It’s pretty quick and hard

[@PavelFomenkov]

It’s hard even for me. Truly it’s one of the hardest songs I discussed, so it could take weeks to get it to sound at least partially as good as MK...

[@alexandrosioannidis7129]

@@PavelFomenkov Indeed. However man you explain it very well, and thank you for posting this tutorial lesson!

[@montezumaheights8058]

Great guitar playing, thanks for the post, appreciate it. Old blues legends would use open chords, check it out. Gives another Bam la Bam to it. In this case open A. Just an idea. Peter

[@rooneykeith8923]

Never mind I found it thanks😂👍

[@amdhosni]

Great. Thanks for the video, I would suggest you explain the fingering more. There is too much digression in your videos.

[@volkySt]

This is one of mk solo song that i like less, however i love your tutorials and the part i enjoy the most aré the opinions while explaining

[@PavelFomenkov]

Eduardo Castillo Great point! Thanks. You can find something interesting in almost every one of Mark's songs. Songs are so well-written it's a pure joy to analyze them all.

[@deanransom2350]

Keep doing what you're doing, pay no attention to Guitar Man below. I would like to see you do "Done with Bonaparte" and "Are we in trouble now".

[@PavelFomenkov]

For sure! Added those to my list, thanks for a great recommendation.

[@DrazenCika]

Yes!!

[@MrRomung]

Hello. What's your guitar? Thx.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Gibson Advanced Jumbo, 1997 reissue.

[@ATTIKA17]

песня про санни листона от мк серьезно?) и такая есть?

[@PavelFomenkov]

Есть и это любимая песня Марка у... Боба Дилана. Серьёзно.

[@kyleguzzardo]

It might be because I’ve never played this song before, but I feel like the main riff, being the beating heart of the song itself, should be fleshed out a little more in this video. You explain what your right hand is doing for the beginning of it, then you kinda zoom through the rest and move on to the second part, making me have to rewatch the same 30 seconds of a 10 minute video over and over to scrutinize what’s going on. Not to say it’s not a damn good rendition of the song, I’d just like to know how to play it is all.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Hi Kyle, I can imagine looking at my own video that it can get frustrating at times. I'm not the best teacher in the world of course, I merely play my version and explain it a bit, with inspiration in focus, rather than precise analysis. With that said, if I can help with something in particular, feel free to ask. Sometimes one little thing, one little mute or fingering can make a huge difference.

[@oliverthorgrimson5883]

Gives me a Iron hand vibe, do not know why

[@dawin6710]

What you are doing sounds pretty good, but I have feeling it still is not it. There is still some problem in the rhythm, I can't tell exactly what it is. But you might be only a 16th away from the objective.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Sure, I feel like it, too. But I think it's much better to share something being 16th away from the objective, rather than 16 miles from the objective. Thanks for your input, I always love corrections more than approval.

[@dawin6710]

I'm not approving or disapproving. It's an action taken to stop the novice from wasting time and learning a false riff. In music, the most dissonance comes from very close notes and that is true also for the beat. I use a 5 dollar app for iPhone called "Riff Maestro". The correction I can suggest for the folks who want to learn this riff is to use it to slow riff down and learn it right. It is not as fun as a video but when I don't get any joy from KZbin I go to Riff Maestro.

[@PavelFomenkov]

Ah, I understand. The thing is, people who watch KZbin lessons for the most part don't want to use any apps, in fact, I don't want, too. I used to slow down songs, but I did that about 10 years ago when I was only starting, now I'm fine with picking out songs in normal tempo using regular music player. If you think my version is a false riff, say what you want, I'm fine with it. And if you know any tricks that I missed, I would love to try it out myself. All in all, I think I provide enough tools to learn this riff as close as possible, because you can't learn it perfect anyway, so extra-effrot is not necessary at all.