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" Private Investigations " is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits from their album Love over Gold . It reached number 2 in the United Kingdom (despite its length), and is one of their biggest chart successes in the UK. The track has appeared on the compilation albums Money for Nothing and Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits , and is the title track to the more recent 2005 compilation, Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler .
The song begins with a deep-pitched synthesizer orchestration, leading into a slow piano progression accompanying a classical guitar, followed by several spoken verses. The single edit removes the opening synthesisers, beginning with acoustic guitar.
After the verses, the song opens into a slow, bass-driven beat, with strident electric guitar chords at the end, before the gradual diminuendo featuring extended interplay between Mark Knopfler 's acoustic guitar and marimba played by Mike Mainieri .
On the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD , Mark Knopfler said this about the song: "It's just about the Private Investigations... "What have you got at the end of the day" – Nothing more than you started out with..." It is said the song was inspired by author Raymond Chandler . [1]
This song was also modified by Mark Knopfler into a film score for the Bill Forsyth movie Comfort and Joy in 1984, where you can hear the song broken up into portions and used for certain scenes.
It was also used in the video release of the 1984 film Against All Odds during the deleted scenes. A section of the footage cut from the final release dealt with the time spent on the run, in Mexico, by Rachel Ward’s & Jeff Bridges' characters.
The riff from the song was used in France on a Crédit Agricole advert in 1984, and on a BT advert in 1994.
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This is the second track on Dire Straits' 1982 album “Love Over Gold.”
It evokes the private detectives of classic film noir.
The song itself is mainly instrumental, with most of the song comprising of nothing more than a steady drumbeat, interrupted by guitar chords that are only more striking for their scarcity.
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Private Investigations - Best of Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler Paperback – Illustrated, March 1, 2006
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(Guitar Recorded Versions). A great retrospective featuring 22 transcriptions, including: Brothers in Arms * Calling Elvis * Going Home * Money for Nothing * Private Investigations * Romeo and Juliet * Sailing to Philadelphia * So Far Away * Sultans of Swing * Tunnel of Love * Walk of Life * What It Is * and more.
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To be honest, I haven't picked my way through too much of this book. I just sat down and played through Walk of Life, and that was correct and informative. I started to play Darling Pretty, and found two errors during the intro. These were unusual mistakes. In both of them, the standard notation was correct, but either the chord or the tab was in error. In one case, the chord was supposed to be A/C#, and the # was left off. The other one had an F# played on the high E string during an A chord. It's rare that I find obvious errors in tab books, so this stands out. However, there are some benefits to this book - the spacing is great. They've picked a very enjoyable and easy-to-read font for printing the book, so it's very easy to learn it by sight. This is a huge, huge benefit over older transcriptions of Money for Nothing and Sultans of Swing.
As I’ve gotten deeper into the book, I’ve realized that this isn’t much of a transcript at all. Multiple guitar parts have been condensed (or ignored). You get a tab of just one often not very good guitar. Walk of Life — Knopfler plays a shuffle unique to his style but the book just shows you the bass notes (what plays with his thumb). There is an effort to transcribe his licks. My biggest gripe? This songbook does not include all of the songs from the album. It has all of the most popular songs, but make sure it has what you want. Skateaway is one of my favorite songs and it doesn't appear in this book...
This was a disappointment. While not useless, it is not comparable to a real Hal Leonard Guitar Recorded Versions book, which have been pretty comprehensive in my experience. My main interest was Sultans and it only includes one guitar part, and the vocal line was a lazy effort - it doesn’t account for variations among the verses. So, not very impressive.
I bought this book for passages that didn't exist in the previous book I had for "sultans of swing" this book is lazy at best.. the tabs only last through the first verse and it assumes mark did a wash rinse and repeat for all the verses ... when in fact mark knopfler isn't that lazy, he serves different riffs for every verse making this book complete garbage.. it seems the tabs were autogenerated and reflect nothing of Mark's style and added notes are just thrown in willie nillie.. I've studied this song quite diligently and cant find where these ghost notes exist... too bad 0 stars isn't an option.
I've had a good look at the way the music is laid out. The tabulature looks fine to me. I can play along with the recorded music so that makes the book work. All I need is an automatic page turner.
I bought this for my husband for Christmas. It's a good book, but all he was looking for was guitar cords and words. He's a "play once in a while" guitar player and he doesn't read music so it's a bit over his head. Might work for a musician.
Doesn't really contain some of the songs I was really looking for and is kind of a duplication of another Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler tab book. It is good to have though.
I really don't think I will buy HAL LEONARD music books any longer. I've seen poorly written books, but this one is bad. The other two reviews liked the books. Don't know Dire Straights do you?!! For example, Sultan's of Swing is missing a good chunk of the tabs. Not lost pages, words but no music. The first row of words has tabs associated, but not the second row. Where is the Freakin' music?!? I would not have purchased this if I knew how bad it was. For what it's worth, it would appear what is there is 90% close, but just download Powertab of Purchase a tab reader and download the tabs. They will be more accurate and complete.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A decent book with plenty of tunes for the money but be aware of occasional variations from the originals in fingering.
Very detailed and accurate note-wise but the fingerings provided are sometimes suspect. For example, the transcription of 'Going Home' opens with a 'C' type CAGED shape at the second fret but if you watch Mark play this tune live, he employs a 'G' shape at the seventh fret which is far simpler and easier to play. Unless he used the given fingering for the recorded version and a completely different fingering when playing live, which is EXTREMELY unlikely, the transcription is simply wrong in this respect (edit: the author very graciously confirmed that this is the case and that he transcribed it solely from the audio). So, a decent book with plenty of tunes for the money but if you want to play Knopfler's songs the way that he himself plays them then you'll need to be alert to this issue and make some adjustments where necessary.
Has a good selection of hits from the band, includes a nice CD with some backing music to play to.
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Private Investigations
It's a great book, I've always wanted a Dire Straits book (even though I will be the first to admit it is WAY beyond my guitar ability) and it is great, has brilliant accurate detail of all my favourite songs, a must buy for any Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler fan.
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The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler
I found this book very frustrating to use ,the pages end in the middle of vital bars making it very difficult to learn songs unless you write them down on a separate sheet of paper , which defeats the object of buying the book.This book was not put together by a guitarist it seems.
4.0 out of 5 stars
in fact i was mainly interested by the tabs but i did some kind of adaptation for easier play but very good
hi , in fact i was mainly interested by the tabs but i did some kind of adaptation for easier play but very good book
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