Calling Elvis

I was listening to some Dire Straits, and Calling Elvis came on. I was just thinking of how I though it was just an "ok" song when suddenly Mark Knopfler launched into the guitar solo...

...and I remembered how much I actually love this track! I headed over to Google to find some tab, and promptly found this.

So I picked up my under-used Washburn MG-34, and gave it a go.

OK, I was hardly up to speed, but it sounded mostly accurate, but not quite right. I loaded the song up into Audacity, found the section I was interested in, and halved the speed. There were a couple of errors which I corrected, and voila!

--10>7------7----------------------------------------------------------
-------10>7---10>7---7------7------------------------------------------
-------------------9---9>10---10>9>7---9>7---7-----------------7-------
-------------------------------------9-----9---9>7-----------7---9vvv--
---------------------------------------------------9---7>8>9-----------
----------------------------------------------------10-----------------

Now I've just got to learn to play more than 4 notes a second...

Posted by Jim at May 19, 2003 10:26 PM