Can Yngwie Malmsteen SHRED on ACOUSTIC Guitar?

[@ShredmasterScott]

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[@idk9637]

people can say what they want about yngwie but he really did revolutionize guitar playing. he learned from violin technique and baroque music. he created his own unique style using harmonic minor, phryigian, diminished chords etc in a world where pretty much every big guitarists was using pentatonic. people may dislike him but before him electric guitar was different. and his super economy picking style was insane at the time too (still is really).. not to forget that he essentially did for sweep picking what Eddie did for tapping. when yngwie came out everyone was trying to copy and learn from his style. everyone wanted to learn to sweep. they wanted to learn these new scales. people can hate him all they want but his importance to guitar is undeniable.

[@WesleyClark-j4f]

He is the king of neo classical alight of clones game out they didn't get the pSsion

[@augustoholme]

The orchestration was indeed did by Yngwie Malmsteen himself but the transcription to the orchestra instruments was made by David Rosenthal!!!

[@socrati10]

In Yngwies book he states that he composed everything from every instrument to every single Arrangement and the Japanese philharmonics were giving him problems because some of the arrangements were too fast for them. according to Yngwie

[@boyzen45]

Yes, and he had to go slap one of the Japanese girls playing violin and tell her Paganini would be ashamed of her because she is playing so sloppily😎

[@themedallostoryteller1105]

If you believe that (the last thing you mention) you don't have any idea of how well prepared classical musicians are. Most of the time a Philharmonic orchestra has to play for a Rock, Metal or pop band/artist is a bit boring for them, because it's zero challenging, you don't have idea the pieces a classical musician has to play through his/her carreer Probably the philharmonic told him some arragements were too fast not because they can't play it, but because they knew it might not sound good at the speed he was requiring In classical music one of the most important aspects is the sound, if something sounds sloppy it's the worst thing you can do, but Yngwie in the other hand, he priorizes speed even if it means playing sloppy or off tempo sometimes. Which in this case is funny, 'cause Yngwie stated that to look like "look at me, I'm so great even classical musicians tell me my arrangements are way too fast, they can't play them heeeheeheehee" But in reality all those musicians were like "damn, he sounds sloppy, he doesn't even put feeling on those phrases" the whole concert

[@DeathmtlVR]

Yngwie and the orchestra did a really good job, I enjoy that DVD many years ago. And for ME, my fav and best acoustic guitar player is Paco de Lucía, hope someone on comments also know about him))

[@fahlvfaust677]

Paco, john McLaughlin, de meola👍👍

[@80s_kid]

How can less be more?! It's impossible! More is more! - YJM.

[@justanish6966]

Dude is just an absolute MONSTER on the 6 string.

[@godetonter4764]

MORE is MORE!!!!! Pretty simple logic. How could MORE be LESS, that is impossible

[@milenalisa6097]

For me, Yngwie Malmsteen is a musical GENIUS! When I was a teenager I started with hard rock, then heavy metal, thrash metal, speed metal, then progressive rock and over the years I got into neoclassical metal. Yngwie is a musical Genius! I remember how this instrumental song stole my heart. I remember how that concert with the Japanese orchestra seduced my ears and my heart! This concert is of extraordinary beauty. Great and precise technique combined with an amazing feeling that flows from under the Master's fingers and the orchestra completes the whole. Yngwie Malmsteen is Paganini of nowadays! By the way @SHRED did you see and HEAR THIS ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmK9nZxth7qEqrc 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 OH MY GOD 😍😍😍😍

[@bumpofdeath666]

I was listing to this in dipparears before u knew what a guitar was I agree this is awesome. I was joking I love this music

[@frankaragona4222]

Roy Clark was the best shredder on Acoustic guitar 😎🤟🎸🎶💯 he played lots of instruments and was great at All of them most people on here wouldn't even know that 😎🤟😊✊👊✌️

[@zoso2850]

I would put him right up there for sure ..the guy was amazing

[@wrenchhead6840]

Or jerry reed

[@richardmitchell8213]

Trust me bro, I knew all about Roy Clark. He would put most Rock Players to shame. After 5 minutes they would be crying and want quit playing guitar altogether, that's how great Roy Clark was!!!

[@zoso2850]

@Mystical Pipes rolling stone doesn't think so..lol. 😂

[@KarklinPumpkin]

He was great but there are some flamenco players that would blow your mind.

[@jasonrhodes5023]

Paco De Lucia: Favorite acoustic shredder. All Flamenco Guitarists pretty much

[@aaronquinn8241]

Been on a mad Paco buzz lately

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

The original score was notated by David Rosenthal (keyboardist for Rainbow, Billy Joel, and others) back when Yngwie first recorded these pieces as part of the Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra with the Czech Philharmonic. I agree about the tone of the Ovation he is using whether or not the added compression has any impact. I always preferred the Alvarez-Yairi acoustics he used to use back in the mid-1980s. He also used a Gibson Chet Atkins CE-1 'Electric-Acoustic' Classical for Trilogy Suite, Op. 5 from the Trilogy album and Dreaming from the Odyssey album. Both of those guitars are much richer sounding than the Ovation. As far as shredding on an acoustic, Al DiMeola is pretty damned fierce. I am not a big fan of his, but I appreciate that machine gun of a right hand that he has, and he definitely gets a far better sound out of his Ovations. When I saw him at GIT in the early-1990s, he was running them through a couple of rack-mounted Lexicon units (one reverb and one delay), and the sound was magnificent--It definitely was equal to what he was playing, which was a lot of Afro-Cuban/Latin rhythms interspersed with his trademark blazing single lines. Al was in a phase where he was trying to Jazz-Up a lot of, what was popular at the time, that Wyndham Hill Eclectic Sound where Folk met Third World rhythms and tonalities, and virtuosity was viewed as equally acceptable to playing simple pop sounds. Back to Yngwie, I really wish he would have continued more in this direction, working with orchestras and continuing to pursue a neo-classical repertoire that would further merge rock/metal and classical genres. I think that was a calling that he missed! To some extent, his work does kind of manage to exist in that space anyway: Look how many videos there are on YT of musicians on all kinds of instruments other than the guitar covering his tunes--He deserves to be viewed as a composer, not just a guitarist. As to his songwriting...That is a bit of a mixed bag, and I hold the opinion that his body of work proves composition and songwriting are two very distinct skill sets.

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

@Levis Strauss I hadn't heard about the theft, but I can believe it. He only used it for a very short time, and if you try looking for one to buy, you will be very lucky to find one for sale. Gibson apparently did not make a great number of them, and those who own one don't want to let them go!

[@orbithesun1]

The "bad tone" of the Acoustic Guitar is due to Paizo pickups, which are installed directly underneath the bridge. Hence the very bright, flat tone. I have the same pickup on my Ovation's and I hate them. LOL Malmsteen's acoustic work in his earlier albums were recorded with traditional miking technique.Those recording sound a lot fuller and dynamic. I don't know why Yngwie in this orchestra setting didn't go with using a microphone to record this performance? There should have been no feedback issue, no need to amp the acoustic in an all acoustic orchestra environment. Who knows? LOL

[@davidshafer6388]

The bad tone is caused by a guitar that is made out of plastic. He used to play the Alverez guitars with the same body shape, except they were constructed out of wood. The Idea of that body shape is to make the sound project. Ovation coppied Alverez except it was to hard for them to curve the wood, so they used plastic instead.

[@hamanotakashi]

Michael Angelo Batio shreds acoustic like crazy, highly recommended to review it and compare it to Yengwie Malmsteen

[@RafaelSilva-vl3uu]

Paco de Lúcia, Yamandu Costa, Rafael Rabello are my favorite on this moment.

[@EmmanuelLopez-km4wq]

Lo mejor acoustico que escuche de malmsteen fue cuando hizo el solo de guitarra acustica en el g3. Tengo la duda si la guitarra es ovation o godin.

[@epic103]

Yngwie is THE shredder.

[@joshhildebrand7085]

I would say, Al Di Meola would be in my opinion, the best shredder on guitar

[@CheekyPseudonym]

There's video of Papi Van Halen shredding a ukulele I can't wait!!!

[@TheRobTV]

Roy clark was an acoustic guitar madman.

[@bestofbuckethead2069]

Tommy Emmanuel is the steelstring shred sultan...

[@SplinteredCompany]

As I have said on a different video of his: Love him or hate him, you can't deny he's a good player.

[@Patrickcolwell80]

All three players for California guitar trio are really good on acoustic

[@bayurahmadi7754]

more and more from yngwie malmsteen, next different genre from yngwie flamenco diablo from album Anthology 1994-1999 or if you like al di meola you can hear album yngwie angel of love this all acoustic guitar song,pure feeling and soul

[@skjones91199]

Al Dimeola is just fantastic! Saw him a few months ago with his current trio. Amazing.

[@JuiceboxJrr.]

Dang that was beautiful.

[@FantasyFilms100]

Hahah really enjoyed this man!!!

[@rab46290]

Zakk Wyld is pretty awesome on accustic. Checkout stillborn accustic.

[@Efgand0894]

Malmsteen had to influence japan metal scene, just look at Jill (Unlucky Morpheus) playing "far beyond the sun" on violin

[@stacynortham376]

That's it. I'm going for my ballet shoes.

[@michaelferguson1625]

Sounds, and looks like he's shredding on nylon strings

[@zdesb_u_seichas]

Ben Woods with his Fla\m/etal аnd not only. And Lucas Imbiriba. Really great guitarists.

[@stephenkennedy6358]

Roy Clark is my pick for acoustic shredder.

[@TheNothing6]

I can SHRED on a mandolin! The freshly shredded cheese is so good!

[@richardmitchell8213]

Yngwie can play acoustic guitar. Maybe not quite as well as electric, but he can play it trust me. There is live version of Black Star on KZbin and it is very good stuff. Fuck anyone who has to critique every fucken note and try to say he is sloppy on acoustic guitar. He does it well enough for all intents and purposes.

[@armandomartinez2291]

I had a DVD with Al Dimiola John McLaughlin and Paco DeLucia (I can't spell sorry) it was just the three of them playing no band just them in front of the audience and they fucking killed it

[@TattooArtistOC]

Vicente Amigo, nino josele, tomatito, paco de Lucia. These are the flamenco gods!

[@Vujo357]

Is it usual to put nylon strings on non-classical guitar?

[@guitarmanplayzloud936]

Check out Paco de Lucia!! Fantastic flamenco player

[@krisotron5884]

Django on that album with Grapelli, probably spelt that wrong.

[@nerocaesar8301]

Came for the donuts, stayed for the wap juice.

[@ricobonifacio1095]

Zakk is a major shredder on the acoustic. Check out "spoke in the wheel"

[@Gustapsic]

Yamandu Costa you should check this guy

[@BatFan1]

The guy may be awesome on guitar and I would never be able to play like him, but his style just bores me to tears because basically it's the same thing every time. A billion notes a second.

[@martyndunn6337]

You should switch to Gilmour instead.

[@curtwehrmeyer124]

The steel acoustic intro the opening to Hot on your Heels will blow you away for the rest of your life. Kneel band.....

[@dannylynch7741]

Al Di Meola as you mentioned came to mind before you even said it

[@senseipaans]

Tommy Emanuel?

[@gusmateu]

Paco de Lucía. Best acoustic shredder

[@keithmitchell94]

Al DiMeola gets my vote

[@asherasator]

I like Yngwie, but I wonder if he takes off the compressor on his nylon stuff then see what it sounds like.

[@kevinhallvip]

I loved yngvie . At 4:13 he is the only one to make a guitar fart. Just click on the blue 4:13

[@tommyshane]

That song is the court of the crimson king by King Crimson....

[@coltrane1966]

I like Malmsteen, but Yamandu Costa would the sort of guitarist I would prefer for acoustic.

[@stephencooper7459]

Rodrigo and Gabrielle. They do acoustic very well.

[@chrismemphis8062]

He told the conductor to stop waving the baton so much lol

[@CarltonMelson]

He is playing Ovation, that's just how they sound. Plus it looks like a Classical guitar to me.

[@michaelferguson1625]

Whats up shred, Tommy Emanuel is a great acoustic player

[@Hope092]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIaVe4tjjbV1oZo at 38:05 he talks about how he composed the orchestra

[@joekaub]

Yeah Roy Clark I say too

[@stacynortham376]

Coconut. But nobody ever has them around here. Bear claws

[@asharma1775]

Fuck yeah 🤘

[@gkward1981]

Have you played one of his signature fenders, with the scalloped fret board? Those bastards are hard to play. You can’t play them with a light touch.

[@turdferguson2]

I love Yngwie's playing, his tone, his vibrato and his precision but he just kinda plays the same phrases over and over and over again.

[@bumpofdeath666]

I always give u thumbs these kids don't Evan know what a pencil is

[@kidik5461]

As much as i like yngwie,id still prefer vinnie moore.On another note,his acoustic sound in crying,discicples of hell and the 7th sign album were great.

[@ifeelsick258]

Emre Sabuncuoğlu of LA Guitar Academy.

[@Kpx1999]

he play the way he is

[@ToneMasterGeneral]

Esteban....pure savage

[@celebratedeth362]

Paco De Lucia is my favorite acoustic shredder.

[@beyondreamtime420]

For my point of view ! I think Buckethead is not bad on the acoustic

[@bonscott6353]

the composed sections of his concerto are great, the improv bits not so great and lets the whole thing down a bit. By far my favourite part is presto vivace/finale, is fast, melodic, fun and exciting, well worth doing a video on.

[@scottgarber4558]

Steel strings may have sounded better

[@davidshafer6388]

Is that one of those crappy plastic Ovation guitars? I thought he used to play the Alverez guitars with the arched back (Ovation copied the shape, but used plastic). That guitar looks like its plastic.

[@davidshafer6388]

I think he plays much cleaner/ less sloppy on accoustic

[@jamesdragonforce]

FYI this is a nylon string. Steel string is harder on the finger tips.

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

I'd love to see him try this shit on a dreadnought hahaha

[@kagekapermadi1962]

Yngwie genio

[@kevinmaillet4712]

Best acoustic shredder? Listen to Elliot Fisk playing Paganini's caprices on classical guitar

[@elpablosky6300]

Yngwie when play slow on the classical guitar sound better and when he going fast sounds s little bit fail . He on guitar rig rundown said about his classical guitar :" is a different instrument, you can't play on the same way " But he always start playing fast he's not like Ritchie Blackmore ( he play on another way slowly like a classical guitar) .

[@nathaninostroza7655]

Blackmore s acoustic playing is an entirely different universe itself from his electric playing, and that just proves how much of a great musician he is, with his head in the right place, his guitar skills aside, wich may bore some folks, but one thing they overlook, i feel it in my bones, is the nuances, thats why Ritchie s so uncopyable, even with the right gear. I know yngwie s musical understanding is much broader than ppl think, but he strikes me as a bloke so jealous of his own style therefore seldom he's playing any different, a thing many ppl who don't know him closely can't claim they know for a fact about him.

[@damont67]

Al DiMeola for sure... both Ovation players, coincidence? The best shredders play Ovation

[@desotopete]

Ynwie... OK, I'l do the concert but I need a mirror to look at myself. And a pirate shirt. A puffy one.

[@douglasnisbet1189]

Roy Marchbank

[@michaeljames2142]

Totally agree he didn't compose and arrange everything himself. I think we're giving the guy a little too much credit. You think he wrote the entire score for every instrument? Don't always believe the credits. It's like Ozzy taking credit for writing lyrics.

[@tonygunk86]

You’ve guys obviously haven’t heard classical guitar, it shreds. On an acoustic with nylon strings

[@blaisecastelli7672]

Zakk wylde guitar center acoustic show. Watch now!

[@davidvanberkel5599]

Great comment here

[@dimitrisx5424]

Yngwie plays with nylon strings....so, is not an acustic guitar,its classical& amplified guitar......by the way,i dont like eather his sound! BUT!! THE ONE AND ONLY KING YNGWIE!!!!

[@drcidd8153]

This channel in a nutshell. WAP juice, 666mph, fingering G string, liberal usage of the word 'rollercoaster', and masturbation references. Pretty entertaining though.

[@mekayyoutube51]

Al di meola is a great acoustic shredder

[@longdark4ever]

Yngwie is an amazing acoustic player and would be better without that crappy ovation acoustic, I don't know why but he continues to use them, they don;t do his playing justice tbh

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Maestro can shred on Hello Kitty guitar without strings.

[@lornegreen412]

Roy Clark

[@carlosalfaro1777]

Paco de Lucia is the best. acoustic shreder .

[@nathaninostroza7655]

Nah, his technique domain at shredding was massive but his musical delivery and vocabulary was simply not on par, it's evident when he jammed with Jan Akerman, Jan knew everything he was doing musically and played his technique cards quite precise and kept it musical, whereas Dimeola and other non flamenco based extraordinaire players sounded too pyrotechnique while Paco was in the zone in flamenco direction, therefore the music suffered and it's direction went out of the window. Great acoustic shredders is still a grey area, since some ppl don't like yngwie s approach with a plectrum and some ppl who fingerpicks arent a well rounded examples beyond speed marvels, and i'm a fan of fast speed guitar playing. Tommy Emmanuel s a great shredder but he strikes me as a bag of tricks and a talent to match instead of a better understanding about the styles you wanna cover and it's musical rules, therefore everything sounds limited to how much your technique s can be stretched instead of getting rid of it so much precise phrasing can take place. Musical styles are clearly distinctive contexts a guitarist no matter how ridiculously talented they are shouldn't lightly break and be called a great for that, thats poor judgement, while having so many examples of ppl who can morph musically to match certain style and, with the understanding of such, come up with the right phrasing. Tomas Gubitsch, Lenny Breau, Buster B Jones, etc.

[@travisbeckner6849]

His playing didn't sound bad, but that guitar just sounded like schisse

[@aaronquinn8241]

Paco De Lucia best acoustic shredder hands down 💯💯

[@MordorMelkor68]

ZAKK WYLDE

[@stacynortham376]

Let's get some donuts

[@yman4918]

He's doing that on a nylon string guitar..

[@mehurar]

I hate donuts! have not had one in decades!

[@cahayaati9063]

Yngwie Malmsteen Black star budokan best👍

[@LucOggel]

Just ask Al diMeola. John McLaughlin. The real deal.

[@chadmilan]

That means he composed for them.