Welcome to the forum Paul
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Bienvenue 
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Welcome, Paul. I’m currently learning Walk of Life, easy chords (after a year for me anyway). I doubt I’ll ever be able to play it like Mark, but it’s still fun!
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Welcome Paul
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Hi, Paul. Welcome to our community!
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Welcome to the community Paul!
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Bonjour Paul,
Welcome to Justin Community. You will find it to be a really helpful place and with lots of nice and encouraging people.
I took up guitar because I wanted to play a particular type of music but it’s been so much fun playing all different things that one and a half years in, I haven’t even started what I originally intended to learn. I hope you get to eventually play like Mark Knopfler but most importantly, make sure you have a lot of fun on the way.
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Hey Paul,
bonjour, bienvenue and g’day from Australia 
You are indeed in a great place for learning with JustinGuitar. Just keep following the lessons with patience and practice and you’ll go far, but most importantly, have a lot of fun!
This community is very friendly, helpful and supportive too 
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Hi Paul ,
Welcome here and I wish you a lot of fun 
Ooo yes, that’s a nice one, isn’t it… I sorted this one out a long time ago, but I’m still missing a number of important notes, the solo has come a long way after I learned that there was such a thing as pentatonic scales and I so you hit fewer wrong notes…thanks for the reminder 
Greetings,Rogier
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Welcome to the Community Paul you’ve found a great place to learn and loads of supportive folk to help you on your journey.
Might be worth checking these folk out as your in Paris. I’m over in Normandie but used them earlier in the year when let down by a large distributor. Really helpful and quick service.
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Nice to meet you Paul hope you have a great time cheers Hec
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Hello Paul & Welcome!!!
I hope you enjoy your guitar Journey & have lots of fun along the way!!!
Tod from New Mexico USA
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Hi Paul, welcome. Good you’ve started learning to play guitar. With Justin Guitar lessons you’ll be able to play many different music styles. If you cannot play right away the song you want to play the way you intend to do it remember that Mark Knoefler has been playing guitar much longer that you’ve been, even when he just recorded the song.
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Welcome aboard, JG is great. I first heard Dire Straits on MTV as a kid. Some how never matched the band togeather with the name knopfler until just recently at a live club lesson. 
Have fun with Justin’s lessons he is an amazing teacher.
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Bonne journée Paul, j’espère que tu vas bien! Bienvenue dans la communauté JustinGuitar, c’est un endroit idéal pour apprendre la guitare!
Hmmm Mark Knopfler’s style of playing is not an easy style to emulate; it’s not any conventional style, but almost a hybrid style. I’ve tried it myself and never really done it perfectly, it’s got a lot to do with touch as well as the technique.
Best thing is to get through the Beginner course and then concentrate on Finger style, get reasonably confident with it and then concentrate on his style. But in the meantime there’s no reason why you should look at it in an analytical manner, but always remember, if you get it not quite right don’t practice it that way - practice makes perfect (if it’s how it should be or not!).
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Bonjour Paul, welcome to the community forum.
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Thank you everyone for the welcome and the tips, I take note of everything. And glad to meet you all
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If you like knopfler , you should listen to JJ Cale , Cale influenced Marc’s way of playing
Love JJ Cale! Love Carry On and Cocaine. When I was kid, I thought he said “camion benne” (dump truck, in french)
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Bonjour Paul.
Welcome to JustinGuitar and this fantastic community. Please take your time to look around and get to know the wider space.
https://community.justinguitar.com/categories
We are a supportive and encouraging group of students and guitarists from across the world. Essentially, we are all here for music and to improve as players. We truly are a ‘community’. Members help and support one another and a friendly, positive attitude underpins this. We hope that all - young or old, experienced or new players - adopt and foster the pay-it-forward ethos that Justin personifies and embedded all those years ago when he started the website and forum.
Also, please make sure to read the community etiquette announcement for some important information and guidance.
Richard