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Studio

Song · 1982

Private Investigations

Artist
Dire Straits
Released
1982
Guitar
Mark Knopfler
  • Acoustic
  • Fingerpicking

What makes the part famous

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

  • Acoustic

    Played on an acoustic guitar: a crisp attack and ringing strings.

  • Fingerpicking

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

Private Investigations 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
E minor
Chords
Em · Am · G · B · C

The progressions that come back

    1. Em
    2. Am

The chords and their fingerings

  • Em
    E minori · Tonic7fr×1342
  • Am
    A minoriv · Subdominant7fr×1342
  • G
    G majorbIII · Tonic7fr1432
  • B
    B majorV · Dominant7fr1342
  • C
    C majorbVI · Subdominant8fr1342

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

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