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Studio

Song · 1979

Lady Writer

Artist
Dire Straits
Released
1979
Guitar
Mark Knopfler
  • Riff
  • Fingerpicking

What makes the part famous

The techniques to work on to play it, each in one sentence.

  • Riff

    A short, catchy figure repeated through the song: the part everyone recognizes first.

  • Fingerpicking

    The picking hand's fingers pluck the strings one by one, bass and melody at once.

Lady Writer chords

What the studio found on the isolated guitar of the recording: the key and the chords, with fingerings that flow from one to the next.

Key
C♯ minor
Chords
C#m · B · A · G#m · E · F#m · Am

The progressions that come back

    1. C#m
    2. B
    1. C#m
    2. G#m
    3. F#m
    4. Am
    5. C#m
    6. A
    7. E
    8. A

The chords and their fingerings

  • C#m
    C♯ minori · Tonic4fr×1342
  • B
    B majorbVII · Dominant4fr××14
  • A
    A majorbVI · Subdominant5fr1342
  • G#m
    G♯ minorv · Dominant4fr134
  • E
    E majorbIII · Tonic4fr×1432
  • F#m
    F♯ minoriv · Subdominant××13
  • Am
    A minorbvi · chromatic2fr×11444

Automatic analysis: it can get a chord wrong, and your ear has the last word.

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