Hi,
I gives me a great pleasure to present my next cover recording to this respectable forum.
This time it’s Mark Knopfler’s Why Worry, a song that I’ve loved since Brothers-In-Arms was released.
I played two verses and the chorus, then I had lots of fun improvising over the Aadd2 - Gadd2 change (which is also present in the original). I tried to play that lovely Fender piano A mixolydian-based riff, but it sounded awkward, so I gave up.
The key is D major (E on the album, but later Mark played it in concerts in D).
I hope you’ll like it.
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Amazing Tomasz.
I can throw in some superlatives, but that pretty much covers it
Greetings
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This is wonderful - beautiful tone and every note crystal clear. Bravo!
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Love it!
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Well done, sounds really good. You played this on acoustic?
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@roger_holland @andyPlays @Floydianpsyche @Malz : Thanks so much guys for listening and the kind words confirming that what I do in music makes sense.
No. I play an acoustic guitar rarely, if ever. The backing track chords were played on my HB FusionT (a tele clone), while the solo line I played on my HB SC Gotoh deLuxe with Tesla humbuckers, with the selector in the middle position and a bit more trebles added. The amp/cab modelling and all effects come from my ZOOM G2Four multieffect.
Thanks again, Malz.
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Sounds good whatever.
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Really nice, Tomasz i love Dire Straits I am just struggling with Romeo and Juliet wow it is difficult man, cheers HEC
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Hec - thanks so much; I take it we have similar tastes in music 
Yes, Romeo and Juliet is really difficult; if you want to play it the way MK does, you need to use an open tuning (I forget to what root) and use a capo.
A Dire Straits song that I find extremely difficult and have never been able to learn the whole of it is Love Over Gold… Man, that song’s harmony consists of 20+ chords with weird timing here and there. But I don’t give up… Not yet, at least…
Yes, we do Tomasz, D G D G B D open G and Capo on third but still man the fingerpicking is very strange and hard actually to bind it together if that is the right expression. But I want to nail this so I keep at it, hopefully one day 
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Oh, yes, that’s it!
Remembering Tomasz, ha ha you will get hooked mate 
Hi Hec @Deltatyne , (and Tomasz)
Just to be sure, I’m posting this so that I can be sure that you know that Justin has a nice lesson about this song… I started it way too early, I’ll try again next week after a …year and a half or so??
Hope this helps 
Romeo and Juliet
Greetings
Hec - the reason I forgot the tuning was that I once tried to play that song, but I played it without any tutorial, on a nylon-string classical, in a standard tuning, with a capo on 3rd, and I played in D (that way I didn’t have to master completely new fingerings of the chords). It sounded not bad at all, even though obviously not exactly the way it’s played in the original version.
Yeah Rogier that is the one I have just started I have been on it for about two weeks in total now not every day but I am loving Justin’s lesson, Justin and I had a bit of a discussion about it last month when I had a lesson with him, I was struggling with one note ringing out, Anyway he is thinking about doing another cover with his Dobro i think he owns one now, So lets hope he pulls that off it will be good
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Lovely rendition, Tomasz
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I love that song. Beautifully played, smooth and soulful. Great tone as well!
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Beautiful Tomasz. This was on one of the first albums I ever bought. Thanks for the wonderful music and for bringing back great memories.
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@DavidP @Helen0609 @Eddie_09 Thank you for the kind words. If my playing brings good vibes and emotions to the listeners, I’m in heaven. It’s the best reward I could ever get for my work. I really appreciate your opinions so nicely expressed.
Grateful ‘Coda’ Tomasz
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One of my favorites, and you do it more than justice, and make it your own too.
As other have said, so clean. Easy to listen to, and yet–I need to think too.
Masterful!
My only suggestion is to have a better ending. It sounded like it just stopped
I’d prefer a song with this much emotion a more emotional ending.
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