How to play "Sailing to Philadelphia" by Mark Knopfler
 

This is a free tutorial on how to play "Sailing to Philadelphia" on acoustic guitar. I started a thread on my performance of this song HERE a couple of weeks ago.

The ultimateguitar.com chords and lyrics used for this song are HERE.

I hope this might be helpful to some folks here on the AGF. :)

- Glenn

Thanks Glenn. This will be fun. I just played that album (and other MK albums) on my cross country flight — and thought about adding that to my list. I really enjoy his music.

Thank you Paul!

I hope this is helpful!

- Glenn

Two others I have queued up are Postcards from Paraguay and Broken Bones. Ultimate Guitar has some decent TABs and Chord arrangements for those as well. Now I just have to sound like him!

Yes, Mark Knopfler has a magic way with guitars, both acoustic and electric.

- Glenn

Thanks, Glenn, for the update/tutorial. I've been picking away at this since you first posted. I like the extra note you toss in with your, for lack of a better phrase, Travis picking plus. I love the tone of your twelve fret slothead Martin. I have the mahogany version, a OOO-15SM, the tone of which I also love. Keep on keepin' on.

Thanks Glenn for sharing your talent. A wonderful lesson.

Mike

Hi OGG,

Thanks so much for your comments!

I, too, like the tone of the Martin 000-28VS, and I bet your 000-15SM sounds wonderful, too. There is something kind of magic about 12-fret OM size guitars, I think! :)

I hope this tutorial is helpful to you!

- Glenn

Thank you Mike!

I'm glad you had a chance to check out this tutorial! You probably don't need any help from me, but maybe the chords for this song might give you some insight! Thanks for all your videos!

- Glenn

That was wonderful Glenn.

Hi Sean,

Thank you very much for checking this out! I hope this might be helpful to you! :)

- Glenn

Beautiful!! and the guitar tone is too!

Thank you aknow!

I appreciate your listening and your comments here! I hope the tutorial might be useful to you in some way!

- Glenn