“It’s just picking that pattern, and you mask off a lot of the notes, try to play the right ones,” he explains. Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (Official Music Video) - YouTube Watch On“With that song, I was listening to a lot of ZZ Top, things like Gimme All Your Lovin. Boogie doesn’t really have an overplayed vibe, it just rocks.”As for the title track, the inimitable Brothers in Arms, well, it's all about the first four notes. “If you think about the first four notes I play on guitar – I’ve tried doing other intros live, and they just don’t work,” he confesses. “People have bought tickets and you can see them thinking, ‘That’s not Brothers in Arms.’ That’s not to say you have to play the guitar part the same way every time.