Money For Nothing Guitar Lesson - Dire Straits - Famous Riffs

Subscribe for new songs every week! Check out my theory and technique channel! Take Lessons With Me! Follow GuitarLessons365 on Twitter! Please help support my lessons on Patreon. Click here for my Dire Straits playlist featuring ALL of my Dire Straits song lessons! The opening guitar riff to Dire Straits’ Grammy award winning number one smash hit “Money For Nothing“ is probably the most recognized guitar riff of the 80’s except for maybe the intro to “Sweet Child O’ Mine“. Adding to this riff is the guitar sound in which guitarist/singer Mark Knopfler apparently tried to emulate Billy Gibbons’ of ZZ Top guitar sound. That combined with a unique fingerstyle approach makes this riff one o