John Petrucci Blown Away by Yngwie Malmsteen When First Learning Guitar (Rockstars In Cars)

[@CosmoMusicTube]

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[@epic103]

I've been trying to tell people for years that all roads lead back to Yngwie. In my opinion Yngwie is in the pantheon of guitar gods like Hendrix, Blackmore, and EVH. His impact and importance is right up there with the greats because he is one of the greats. Yngwie brought technique in lead guitar playing to a new level. When he first hit the scene in 1983 there was nobody that played like him. His technique and vibrato was by far the best. He took them all out. He's a game changer like Hendrix and EVH before him.

[@alexz635]

this orthodox priest knows a lot about guitars

[@fly69doc]

Alexis Zikas lollll

[@tose917]

Alexis Zikas - he's got the kaborka!!! Lol!!

[@Gaff.]

Amazingly, the last videos I watched were an unrelated political video where I think someone referenced 'the other guy' from Seinfeld, and then I watched a Seinfeld video, and then I watched this and my first thought was that Petrucci reminded me of Larry Charles a bit, and here's a reference to the Kavorka. Funny how things work. Oh wait, and isn't this format sort of borrowed from Jerry's one with Comedians in Cars or something? Wow...layers and layers.

[@iggydisalvo]

Lol

[@smacman68]

Fuck yes! Put a miter and robe with a stole around his shoulders...perfect image. You sir have won the internet today for that observation!

[@Nedwin]

Yngwie inspired many of young guitarists we know today. But pfft..., John Petrucci, glad to know that he loves Yngwie too. ❤️❤️❤️

[@johnkatsoudas4767]

Yngwie Malmsteen is the first guitar player that really blew me away back in the mid 80's. I was barely 10 years old and I saw his video for I'll See The Light Tonight on MTV and I could not believe the amazing guitar playing from Yngwie. I eventually got everything Yngwie Malmsteen had done , and everything was phenomenal to me. The first and only studio album from Steeler, Alcatrazz's first studio album No Parole For Rock N Roll and the live album Live Sentence, Yngwie's Rising Force debut album, Marching Out, and Trilogy was everything Yngwie had done when I first listened to him. All these years later he has made many more amazing albums, and he is still my all time favorite guitar player ever. In the 80's Yngwie Malmsteen was easily one of the most famous guitar players, and his guitar playing style changed the world. That guitar solo that John Petrucci is talking about is Steeler's Hot On Your Heels song. It is in the beginning of the song and it lasts about two minutes. I can definitely see how that solo would amaze most when they first listened to it back in 1983.

[@darrenjohnson6833]

John Petrucci is so down to Earth, I respect him a lot!

[@XxSypherxX91]

Petrucci: yeah. Train of thought? Yeah I'm god. Yeah cool......yeah

[@alkinaydin]

I still say "My guitar doesnt do that." when I see Petrucci playing...

[@vladtheinhaler3610]

Petrucci is so fucking humble and chill.

[@Anidawehi]

Anyone who says Malmsteen is easy to play, doesn't play Malmsteen right. Simple as that.

[@Chillnote]

💯

[@sigiligus]

Not easy, sure, but one of the easiest as far as shredding since the 80’s. His lines are fast, but most of them are not particularly complicated, and they’re extremely pattern based. Listen closely to him play and you’ll hear it-most of what he plays are just variations of the same patterns. This is the real reason why people say they can’t listen to more than a few Yngwie songs in a row.

[@Hawking1969]

"You guys have been around longer than I've been alive." Keeps talking.

[@tonyjf64]

Petrucci: "So, you're saying I'm old. Thanks a lot man. Can I get out of this car now?"

[@CTE-6000EagleVeryHeavyFighter]

Petrucci has been there for the last 37 billion years

[@severalpaperclips]

Warning to all aspiring guitar gods: if you ever become as big a deal as John Petrucci, you will have to sit through interactions like that one thousands and thousands of times.

[@i_live_pain8420]

severalpaperclips Was thinking the exact same thing, takes so much to be a star especially a virtuoso. I know the guys in the back probably think of John as one of their heros but there is no way I could listen to his incoherent rant of likes and general annoyance. John is really humble here and shows you what it takes to be one of the few.

[@cosmogang]

What a painful, painful video.

[@RayDGoodwin]

Awesome! I had the honor to open up for Yngwie Malmsteen! It was an incredible show!

[@TheBimmerfan]

I really doubt there's any guitarplayer grown up in the 80s who haven't been really impressed and highly influenced by great Yngwie. The first time I heard Black Star I was eleven years old and this instrumental really smashed me. Nothing like 1984 ''Rising Force'' when it came, a timeless masterpiece that brought electric guitar to a higher level.

[@ItsNotaTuhmah]

No one played like that at the time, even Ozzy told the same thing, that there was a Swedish guy, like a teenager playing guitar like there was no tomorrow and many well known and influential players were totally blown away by that kid. The modern conception of shredding and even modern power metal exists thanks to Yngwie. His influence is totally underestimated. If John fucking Petrucci obsessedly practiced Yngwie's licks when he was studying, you know YJM was VASTLY influential.

[@dzre2087]

I'm shocked how UN-influential Yngwie has been in some areas. EX: name another metal band EVER who sounds like the metal-samba of "And Your Ships Are Burned". HOW did that influence no one??? (Metal usually has BORING rhythms.)

[@rongus2299]

TheBimmerfan Ya Yngwie and Mr Lynch.

[@dgrundman7499]

I agree, except for using the word 'influenced' . . . I was impressed, and wanted and attempted to try and play as well and fast, but I had no desire to play 'like' Yngwie, or write or sound anything like he did. Well, except for the hard rock part!

[@dorianponcela9680]

I remember an interview with Steve Vai saying that Frank Zappa told him "this guy really knows how to play", in reference to Malmsteen on his record "Rising Force". He was impressed and that's difficult to do with someone like Frank Zappa. Also, Steve Vai confessed he was a bit scared replacing Yngwie in Alcatrazz. I suppose Yngwie's technique caused that reaction on most of the rock guitar players in the eighties.

[@trentf4891]

youtube absolutely makes it 10x easier to learn advanced techniques.

[@andym28]

sadly most guitarists have terrible aural ability. I've taught guitar for 15 years and also include myself in that bracket.

[@jrgilbert]

+Andy M AMEN. You HAVE to develope your ear. Ugh. These young guitarists are missing that crucial step. Some have relative pitch naturally, but mortals have to woodshed and develope it.

[@lmeza1983]

and thats called evolution.

[@TheAgentAssassin]

I remember trying to figure out cathedrals in 1983 , I was like is that Ed's Dad on a some type of wind instrument . Of course now it's so easy but back then we were like WTF , trying to figure stuff out. The intro to Mean Street was another one.

[@alfahound664]

One problem , it does not teach emotion , that comes from the struggle , to want , pain , and agony , sleepless nights learning riffs , learning your favourite riffs ,chops , leads ..etc

[@keithveloso2822]

If I had a dollar for every time this dude in the backseat said "LIKE", I can finally afford a JP EBMM Majesty Guitar.

[@AswanthHB]

Keith Veloso . I just don't think EBMMM costs $27 ..

[@FirebrandVOCALS]

I know like 👍

[@nicosimioni7363]

Like, I think you could, like, share some of that money, like, so we could all, like, buy our own guitars. Like.

[@JamesMoore-un3cu]

That's a TOTALLY annoying trait to say "like" a thousand times in a conversation. Reminds me of Valley Speak....

[@hansoloist9756]

It’s like, social media generation like…dude like.

[@Yonder88]

That Steeler solo he's talking about is "Hot on your heels". Amazing track!

[@OrignalElidest]

One of the best tracks in metal

[@assiscarvalhoo]

Lord Yngwie!!!

[@mike1bravo845]

MELATONINA haydbb

[@RiqzahFTW]

only? not sure about this

[@jrgilbert]

Yes, in the 'most influential guitarists ever' his name is firmly added to Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen...Ynwie J. Malmsteen. Some may add others, I was talking in the realm of ROCK through the decades. These people, in my humble opinion, added completely new and fresh playing, technique, and style to the genre.

[@onpsxmember]

If you want something in that direction try Alex Maasi. He was one of the view that impressed yngwie. Maasi is also connected to Allen Holdsworth.

[@thepostma]

alpine medow My Last Farewell 2:50

[@austinpaul6428]

Yngwie playing is God like indeed! I too remember hearing Rising Force unworldly.

[@twclick30]

Austin Paul he is a man.. Ur trippin

[@irmasil3]

Yeah, a friend my mine gave a me a cassette around 1990 and said to me: "You think Kirk Hamett is good? Listen to this..It's Yngve..." And I was like what??? And I played the cassette which was Rising Force and I went the other day back and I said to him...That is an organ dude...its not a guitar.....its too clean....lol!

[@FEAROWNAGE]

@@twclick30 So is your mom.

[@karlstromvall4319]

Petrucci....Yngwie....you guys rock. still an inspiration whatever you do. hope y'all still human after your stellar stuff.

[@danmar007]

John looks like the world's best guitar playing caveman. :-)

[@severalpaperclips]

Everybody sing it together: "He used to be a caveman\ But now he's a guitarist \ Unfrozen caveman guitarist!!!"

[@johnguison5038]

Watching John petrucci trying to be polite is entertaining

[@Cigarsnguitars]

John Guison yes, he is very approachable. My son was in Philly for a show and recognized him and Mike Portnoy at the soundboard. He went over and talked to both about music. My son is in a band and Petrucci asked to hear some of the songs. He enjoyed hearing the music and passed along some contact info for record label. Guys like that are a gem. I've played for over 45 years so the only wisdom I can impart to my son is never forget where you came from. If someone wants an autograph, give it to them. Same for pictures. If they want to talk music or gear, you do to. Be pleasant no matter how your gig went. Thank them for coming out. All of this goes a long way in getting them to come back to see you play again. Michael Sweet does it this way and he has a huge fan base that is very loyal to him. People drive hundreds of miles to see him. That's what you want to be. The guy, the band that people come from hundreds of miles to see.

[@EdoSynysterfan]

It's hard to be polite to mere mortals

[@spare7400]

James Taylor is the same way. You go to a JT concert, and during the intermission he comes out and meets his fans. Class act.

[@reshpeck]

Barney Fike It's true, he doesn't have to try to be polite and humble, he just is. I attended a clinic of his once and he was really self-deprecating, describing his techniques as "cheating," like all his crazy playing is just a trick to make it sound like difficult but he's really not as good as everyone thinks he is. And he was serious!

[@williamsanders2348]

He's being nice, but he gives me the vibe that he'd rather be somewhere else. He doesn't usually come off that way to me. Who cares, he's still a God.

[@S69Classic]

The Steeler song that John is talking about where Yngwie plays that crazy solo with a Roland delay, just before the song starts is called Hot on Your Heels.

[@stevej.1428]

Yup. Hot on Your Heels was that to me too and when it came out and I hear it on the radio it totally floored me. That was like Eruption to me and Gary Moore's End of the World was another.

[@godgodgodzilla]

Thx man!

[@sinqros]

S69Classic Yup, Hot on your heels, that Solo i heard in 85, was trying to learn it, I had a cassette tape and a Walkman, & guitar. Old school, no Videos no youtube, no tab, John understands the old school struggle

[@DeathBringer769]

Yup, it was right when he first came over to the States and was like his "introduction" lol. It was basically Yngwie's version of what Eruption was for EVH.

[@T1hitsTheHighestNote]

Totaly relating to the comment about the first album you ever hear with any band, usually holds a special place in your heart.

[@johnkatsoudas4767]

I love this video!! John Petrucci was extremely cool to that fan in the back seat. Yngwie's guitar playing on Steeler's Hot On Your Heels intro is phenomenal!! It might not sound phenomenal now, but back in 1983 it was iconic. In my opinion other than Eddie Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen also changed the world on how guitar playing would be after he got famous with the bands Steeler, Alcatrazz, and his own solo band Rising Force. Yngwie Malmsteen is and has been my all time favorite guitar player since 1988. I saw his video for I'll See The Light Tonight on MTV'S Headbanger's Ball, and it was the most amazing guitar playing I have ever listened to. I was barely 10 years old, and that was when I really got into Hard Rock/Heavy Metal music big time.

[@ultimateclassic4092]

You could tell the guy in the backseat talking was excited and nervous at the same time, just kept going on and on about Stream of Consciousness. John was like, ''oh, okay, ah, alright, oh nice, yeah''. I probably would have acted the same though, I mean, how many of us get the chance to be in a situation like that with our idols?

[@brotherfiretribe9566]

because youre a bunch of little kids

[@EdmundRogersPhotography]

AWKWARD!

[@chrisc.4517]

ReMixMaster you're right

[@alexacosta2140]

Petrucci doesn't give a fuck about anyone in that car LMFAOO

[@dubenstein6347]

Alex Acosta hahahaha He's thinking about the next shit concept album Rudess is gonna write

[@andrewdavid3219]

Yngwie is a legend, king of the 6 string

[@smacman68]

When you can only hear a piece of music and cannot see how it's being done, your ears are being trained and that is a rare skill these days. I can go to KZbin, see it being played, then go and download the tabs, download a backing track and I am off to the races. Figuring it out all on your own will make you a better musician. It just takes too fucking long

[@Hilariumosis]

Yngwie is a shadow of himself and a singular player post-crash. He's stuck in his ways. Though people always encourage to do what you do best so how it's so bothersome idk. He does his thing and he doeas it well, to still play that fast at his age is crazy. But his contribution and legacy is undeniable. Many great guitarist that has past and still around to thank him for.

[@professorellisaki]

That is way so cool! A concert conversation in methinkins' Thank you whoever had the idea to video this!

[@chrispeterson9447]

This is definitely the best time in history to be a budding musician. The amount of resources available for free or very cheap to learn anything and everything you'd ever want to is just amazing.

[@mafiashpagety]

Now Petrucci can play covers of ZZ Top ;)

[@DarwinArredondo]

jajajaja, your coment is funny!

[@1967mdavis]

JP could play ZZtop with his feet....

[@merqury5]

totally true about discovering one's first album making a huge impact.

[@pablocruise678]

I’m 48 this year... and that album still RULES!!! I even have it on disc in my truck just in case the nano fails.

[@JonIsFrench]

I share the exact same memory and experience with Yngwie, my uncle told me “You want to hear cool guitar check this out”. Plays Hot on Your Heels from Steeler(The song JP is talking about) and my mind was blown. I haven’t put down the guitar since

[@hansdumbf7608]

he is so cool! "yeah!, uhu!, sure!, yeah! right! cool!, uhu! dude says : "it was too hard, i couldn't do it" - john: "yeah... i know, i know..." priceless!!! :D

[@severalpaperclips]

I think we should cut the guy in the back a little bit of slack for being so excited/anxious (as John clearly does), though this is pretty painful at times.

[@stevej.1428]

Learning guitar like John and many of us did back then was so different than today. KZbin in a way - although it makes it easier for people to pick up on and learn parts -takes the experimentation/guesswork out of it that many times makes you a better player and unique, even though you are trying to play the same thing. The learning process back then was to simply hear it and figure it out and this was even before tabs were available for everything so if you didn't really read music, you had only your ears and imagination to figure everything out best you could and mistakes often led to other great things. I learned so many ways to play things that weren't maybe technically correct at the time, but led me to other discoveries and techniques that I wouldn't have come across any other way. I still like to think the best way to learn (maybe not the fastest or most efficient) is by ear, and it helps you become a better musician as well IMO, instead of a person who plays music (if that makes any sense). They used to call it woodshedding, when you kinda just locked yourself in a room with some tapes and a guitar and figured it out, and after a while your ear got good enough and your techniques improved, that just hearing it and playing it became instinctual. It's sort of like learning how things work and how to make them by taking them apart and reassembling them, versus building it with instructions.

[@nicolashrv]

JP is like "oh, so you wanted to play guitar......ya.......nice........ok"

[@FIRE-LOTUS]

In the world of Neoclassical guitar - spanning to the genres of neoclassical/power metal/symphony metal/ prog metal/ death/black/and gothic metal. It's amazing how Yngwie's Rising Force, listening to that in 1984 was some revolutionary shit for young guitarists of the 80's. Taking what John Lord and Uli did but pumped up in steroids by 10x. But not only did he brought classical music to the forefront in metal and how he presented it and fused it but his skill was at a pinnacle. Those were goals for future great guitarists as well.

[@kevincasals2008]

Everyone is blown when listened to yngwie

[@VasilBelezhkov]

My first touch with Ingwie's music was the song 'Rising Force' with was the 1st track in a CD with various rock & metal artists. I was about 16 years old at that time and I had no internet, no computer, no electric guitar. I made a cassette copy of that album and I transcribed the entire guitar part (after a couple of rewindings) of that song - just me, the paper and the pensil. No slowing down programs, no computers, nothing else... It was great experience.

[@sgmpsgmp]

"kids can see it now, and they copy it" Even In slow motion Petrucci's solos can't be seen :D

[@johnroberts165]

damn right.we played 14-15hours a day.it was our own world.imagination, and we had no reference point.but the ones ahead of us,same thing.seeing Eddie live changed my life.5150.yngwie took it to another level. so yeah,it's so much easier to learn today.all it takes is discipline, determination, and hunger.rock on boys!

[@Bricklinsv1970]

Kids are spoiled these days. Alex Skolnick is the man!

[@severalpaperclips]

Cranked ADA MP-1 forever. lol

[@bassinblue]

Your comment is so stupid. Every single generation says this about the next generation when they start getting older. Change the fucking record.

[@Bricklinsv1970]

I guess 23+ people that liked my comment thought it was stupid too.

[@bassinblue]

***** As a 20 year old, I'm astonished to see you so called ''adults'' act like children. Maturity usually doesn't follow age.

[@Bricklinsv1970]

Ill never sell my ADA MP1 it is the best Pre Amp ever.

[@saddamhussein9075]

"I try to stretch my hand...oh I can't do that" "I know.. I know..." 0: 28

[@vrominatorx2668]

Awake got me hooked back in '94...... been a fan ever since.

[@c-LAW]

guitar in the 70s and 89s were magic tricks

[@acj1000]

So true John Petrucci! Thanks for sharing🎸👍

[@ctgblue]

That's the exact same solo, from the Intro of Hot on Your Heels, that trapped me at an ATM in the mid 80's. I'd never heard it before, I got my cash out as it came on, and I literally just sat there and listened to the whole thing before I was able to drive off. Then I went out and bought all his solo albums looking for it, only to find out it was on the Steeler album.

[@OZRIC1985]

That's a trip that John mentioned hearing Yngwie play that solo on the Steeler album for the first time and being blown away by it. When I was first learning guitar I heard that solo too (on a cassette tape a friend borrowed from another friend in high school in 1983). When I heard it I was thinking that I HAD to try to learn to play like that! So, I practiced my azz off trying to play those blistering fast harmonic minor solos until I got pretty decent at them. After that, I had to try to force myself to slow down my playing sometimes so I would be more melodic rather than just trying to shred all the time...lol. Anyway, I love John Petrucci's playing, and although he looked up to Yngwie back in the old days, he really surpassed him because he can play in so many different styles and is so creative and melodic...and can absolutely tear up the fretboard with blistering (yet very creative and innovative) runs as well. I have been a huge Dream Theater fan since I first heard them in 1989, and their music always inspires me. :)

[@SoCalVipers]

Great interview. It must be so awesome for young people now. You have no excuse!

[@leonardoc6504]

Petrucci having a ride in a Tesla Car... what a beautiful combination, somehow they are in harmony

[@yousalesskhunt-bassist6177]

Yngwie is one of those that blows you away until you meet him. After a couple few yngwie encounters i started to question the meaning of life.. And who i ought to be idolizing.. He just isn't the guy you want to mirror yourself after if you want to work the mainstream of music. John Petrucci on the other hand is one hell of a guitar role model.

[@irmasil3]

So honest....I still remember the first time I heard Yngwie. Up until then Dave Murray was a God to me, and then I was like....this is NOT of this earth....Aliens have probed my cassette player.

[@sinqros]

Met Yngwie just before his Car accident, I was already trying to learn his Chops, & I was working at Carl’s Jn, Woodland Hills Ca, this was Waaaaay back in the mid 80s “ he walked in with Black Spandex pants, & Patent leather Red Boots in chains, & a Yngwie shirt, I got his autograph, I think the Song John was talking about was Steeler (Hot on your heels)

[@Mysticbean54]

first album i ever heard by dt is octavarium

[@natemongosa9161]

Mine was Black Clouds & Silver Linings and i had ironically lost my stepfather so hearing Best Of Times was rough. The whole album brings me right back to 2010 and discovering them thanks to learning The Rev of A7X listed Portnoy as an influence and he was doing the tour with them...

[@mr.lysergic3240]

Images. And it’s still their best

[@dimitri.safronov3246]

Images and Words

[@euphemist2721]

Mike portnoy was exactly this for me, with his old school VHS drum videos. Truly inspired an entire generation of drummers man. I'm 29.

[@UrThysis]

The astonishing sold me to DT and I'm in love with this man ...

[@jeffbauer3425]

Who wasn't blown away by Yngwie when they first heard ' Rising force ' or saw him with Alcatraz?

[@RobertErnestLewis]

Petrucci is on the edge of Old School ... he can still respect the 70's - 80's rock guitar hero's - pre KZbin.

[@jasonlee8497]

I went to an arts high school. I took jazz guitar, and I remember the senior players really freaking on him and that first tape was played constantly.

[@mattiasandersson3444]

Yngwie rules !!!

[@MatthewHopkins2010]

I used to do the same thing, slow the record, then I tuned it up to normal with the Boss RPS pitch shifter delay so it was much like the VLC media player when you slow something down without changing pitch. How I studied Hendrix, and many a solo I liked.

[@Cdev66]

JOHN HARDIN AND ISAC KELMENDI, REALLY GREAT LIST GUY'S. SATRIANI , SCHENKER , YNGWIE , DI MEOLA , GILMOUR , GILBERT , HOLDSWORTH , VAI , PETRUCCI , MACGLAUGLIN , PAGE , BLACKMORE , BECK , BOLIN !!!

[@DaleBreh]

Conrad Dev how do you miss halen

[@tonymctony4551]

The lead guitarist from eighties Australia sensation " MEN AT WORK " blew my mind. I couldn't believe how for ahead of his time he was.

[@joshmuz9018]

Hahahaha

[@tonymctony4551]

@@joshmuz9018 Listen to the solo on " overkill " . That shit slays.

[@joshmuz9018]

@@tonymctony4551 so you weren't kidding around?

[@SixxxStringSultan]

Cruisin' with Jesus.

[@5urg3x]

This is the same way with a lot of bands that have been around a long time -- Matt Heafy from Trivium says the same thing, a lot of fans discovered them at different points in their musical journey. I love all DT albums myself but Dramatic Turn of Events will always be my favorite.

[@j_c_93]

"i was, like, uh, like, trying to, like, learn, uh, stream of conciousness?"

[@irmasil3]

I remember hearing somebody muting his electric guitar is a rehearsing studio 1988 and I was like: " This is impossible, my guitar does not have THAT sound in it!!!!" and later on a couple of years after, listening back to back to Marty Friedman's Dragon's Kiss and I was absolutely sure his "Hurricane" guitar has some sort of special circuit to produce notes that there weren't on the fretboard originally, cos no matter how hard I tried, I just could not find them.....I was even telling my friends: "Yeah, he uses a Hurricane, that is why it sounds like that..It's made in Japan..."

[@wanik4]

Imagine having Petrucci as a father. Would be cool on so many levels.

[@yngwiej.malmsteam3173]

Steeler, Alcatraz and REH videos...memories.

[@andrewbako9494]

I think most guitarist has the same WTF moment the first time hearing Yngwie...been a fan since the 80s and then John only a few years later

[@amanchandra]

My favourite is metropolis pt 2, though the first album I discovered was images

[@fanson1986]

"like...like...like"....

[@Guppusmaximus]

That solo by Yngwie was the opening to 'Hot On Your Heels' by Steeler. The ending (ship taking off) was used as the intro to "Tha-tha-The Metal Shop". He literally plays EVH's hammer-ons & pull-offs so damn good at one point in that solo that it sounds like he had Eddie stop by to partake. The way he tears up the nylon strings in the beginning still gives me goosebumps to this day. If you haven't heard it yet, you are missing out. \m/ Absolutely Amazing \m/

[@kumasan812]

John looks like he could fit right in on the cover of the James Gang Rides Again.

[@3tonmonkey33]

Honestly though I think trying to sit and figure out guitar parts by ear made me a better player. Granted I’m a hack Rythm player. A simple run here or there in my playing but no solos. That being said I found sitting listening rewinding over and over allowed me to become better. I can pick up on lines and chords because I used my ear. Like He said my guitar won’t do that, but, we tried to make it sound like that and in doing so found techniques to replicate the sounds that they created w pedals. My technique lol if you can call it that, is a bit different because I taught myself. As great as youtube is I wouldn’t have changed the way I learned. I still feel it’s better to hear what you wanna learn than see it.

[@brucey39]

I first read about Yngwie in guitar player magazine back in the 80s. I couldn't find any of his records in NZ back then so had no idea what he sounded like . I was pronouncing his name completely wrong too lol .

[@racecar06]

Di Meola was the 70's Yngwie 👌

[@sinqros]

Yes indeed" I also remember tying to figure out Yngwie Steeler solos' in like 1984 85 86' I think" the solo John was talking about was (Hot on your heels) I think right? Well that was the solo that set me off after Randy Rhoads, because I met Yngwie in Woodland Hills in 1985 or 86..

[@andym28]

love that jp likes paco. best musician in the last 100 years

[@Joesfosterdogs]

John shares a learning process lost today...pros and cons to this, but lost unless you have no Internet which is few.

[@diogotaira390]

omg this interview is amazing can't imagine john trying to learn eruption w/ no resources

[@AshOfTrash]

Thanks guys, good stuff with a pinch of wisdom in it, regarding music, recommend.

[@dylanakent]

KZbin is a total game changer. Probably takes 5-10 years off of the musical learning process. We used to have to KILL for the information about one technique. Trying to learn one technique might take years because you'd have to weed through dozens of people to find the person who knew about it and then try to become friends with that person so MAYBE they'd tell you something. And sometimes after all that, they didn't want to tell you or they were simply a fraud pretending they knew something. Appreciate the advantages we have.

[@TallicaMan1986]

so when I was 15. The stuff I was learning hadn't hit youtube yet nor were tabs available except one tab source which was nuts. Coroners actual website had tabs before. most songs on all their albums were tabbed out. I learned Nosferatu and tried learning Arc lite. But yeah. I learned a lot from Live Videos on youtube and sometimes tabs made zero sense when cross referencing.

[@privatejimmy5861]

who wasn't?! what a trip, I too had that Al Dimiola/John McLaughlin/ Paco De Lucia...and was practicing that as well way back in like 1981-83.. along with everything else ai could get my hands on. We old school players learned by ear alone. good point. Exactly.. I was a loner.. used 16 speed to learn the fast intricate passages, always by ear..Way before Tab became widely available

[@johnnyboy1232]

John Petrucci listening to the other guy talking about what he thinks is hard is halarious!!!

[@stevehughes275]

Agreed it was harder to learn in those days I would have loved to have had KZbin back then

[@JohnProph]

John is referring to this Steeler/Yngwie track btw kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3jdfX-mlpqLpac

[@tonyrobertsguitar]

Petrucci is a god... just wish he had admitted all this in the '90's when Yngwie was struggling.

[@StephanCaba]

“Yeah. Oh yeah! keep telling me what other songs I wrote that are difficult for you... harder...”.

[@emanonymous]

i didnt know that guy from fog hat was such a huge dt fan

[@ss_whole]

Saturday night and we're playing the drinking game, we all take a shot of cheap whiskey every time that guy says "like", a minute and a half into the vid two of us are in a coma and the third guy's dead.

[@TheSimonScowl]

I used to think that when Brad Gillis flicked his Floyd, he was really playing that fast (Ozzy/Speak of the Devil). And I remember the first time I accidentally flicked my own Floyd Rose: Ahhhhh!

[@fusionshredder]

Ha!! "Jean Luke Ponte", I knew I was cool to listen to him! (although he's a violinist)

[@CS_Murphy_R9]

Who was not "Blown away" by Yngwies playing when they first heard it? Yngwie had me playing my guitar 10 hours a day trying to catch up back in 1983 after getting the Steeler record.

[@j.landino5660]

Petrucci: b7-b6-5 (C-Bb-Ab-G); b7-b6-5-4 (Bb-Ab-G-F); b6-5-4-b3 (Ab-G-F-Eb), and so on./4 888 22 Guy from the back seat: Like,like, like, like, like, like, bla bla blah like when i was like. The end.

[@parapararapam9813]

"I was trying to learn stream of consciousness..." ""Thats a hard one." I watched it 100 times,just as many times I failed to learn the solo