anyone know how to play "Money for Nothing" on the guitar?

[Alex]

all tabs i found on the net are crap and at the most only partially correct (which qualifies as crap, actually)

does anybody know how to play this song?

 

[nihil]

that's the way you do it. your money for nothing, and your chicks for free.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

That's a great song!

nik

 

[Scootin159]

I'd write tab for ya if I could remember how the song goes.....don't have the mp3 here

 

[Alex]

<< I'd write tab for ya if I could remember how the song goes.....don't have the mp3 here >>



i could send it to you...

i'm quite desperate!!

bump!

 

[yakko]

I can't play anything on guitar.

 

[littlezipp]

If you can play that song, you are awesome!
That is one of the coolest songs!

Bump for "money for nothing and your chicks for free!"

 

[Alex]

bump for anyone other than scootin who knows?

 

[Fritzo]

<< If you can play that song, you are awesome!
That is one of the coolest songs!

Bump for "money for nothing and your chicks for free!" >>



It's actually a pretty easy song to play (it's basically a petatonic scale), but the hard part is getting the timing right. If you don't time it right, it doesn't sound very good. Use a flanger on some clean distortion and you can get that exact guitar sound they use too.

 

[Alex]

oh the timing and distortion is not the problem, its the actual chords

 

[Alex]

bump

 

[GTaudiophile]

No, I don't. But, I bet Mark Knopfler knows how!

 

[Alex]

<< No, I don't. But, I bet Mark Knopfler knows how! >>



whose that?

 

[Entity]

<< whose that? >>


You don't know who the lead guitarist and vocalist is for the band that wrote the song?

 

[UberNeuman]

"He's bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanse... Look at that! That ain't a workin'!"

 

[Entity]

http://www.mytablature.com/direstraits/money_for_nothing.html

 

[Ramsnake]

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<< No, I don't. But, I bet Mark Knopfler knows how! >>



whose that? >>



i believe its someone whose name was used to name a dinosaur

 

[bugsysiegel]

I used to know it, but I haven't picked up a guitar in well over 16 years.

 

[Alex]

<<

<< whose that? >>


You don't know who the lead guitarist and vocalist is for the band that wrote the song? >>



oooops

now i feel dumb!

isnt that song by dire straits? neways my mom loves it so she asked me to learn it for her...

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: Entity
http://www.mytablature.com/direstraits/money_for_nothing.html

i hadnt seen that! nice link! thx!!