The 12 days of riffmas: learn to play Money For Nothing by Dire Straits

By Rob Laing
published

Day 4: get to grips with the riff from a Mark Knopfler classic

The 12 days of Riffmas day 4: get your riffs for free here with the ZZ Top-esque 1985 classic that became Dire Straits' most commercially successful single. 

Rob Laing
Rob Laing
Guitars Editor, MusicRadar

I'm the Guitars Editor for MusicRadar, handling news, reviews, features, tuition, advice for the strings side of the site and everything in between. Before MusicRadar I worked on guitar magazines for 15 years, including Editor of Total Guitar. I've currently set aside any pipe dreams of getting anywhere with my own songs and I am enjoying playing covers in function bands.