3 Yngwie Malmsteen Licks From 1984

Hey everyone! Here's the next episode of Three-For-All with 3 Yngwie Malmsteen Licks From 1984. This is technically the second Three-For-All episode surrounding Yngwie's playing style, and I've also featured him in two Chordplay lessons and an episode of Breaking Chords in the past, so while this isn't the first time we've looked at his legendary music and playing style, there are some great ideas hiding in this episode - so let's dive in!
The licks/ideas shared in this lesson came from an Alcatrazz live performance in 1984 from Japan, which wasn't too long before Yngwie left the group to begin his solo career and released his debut 'Rising Force' just a few months later. The ideas featured here include a slick tapped bending phrase, a frantically tapped pedal-point idea, a crazy sweep-picked melodic arpeggio phrase, and an authentic classically-influenced cadence that will surely keep your fingers busy for a while.
There's no question that Yngwie is an important neo-classical rock/metal guitar legend and pioneer, as there are plenty of things you can learn from his inspiring music and bag of tricks, and there are a few of those elusive ideas hiding in this lesson! Give this episode a view, leave some comments/feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU!
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[@robintroy2059]

I'm 55 and remember when Yngwie broke on the scene. As far as guitar playing and technique goes he was just as influential as Eddie at the time. Sent everyone back to their bedrooms to practice and learn his licks and technique. He can't touch Eddie as a songwriter but still a guitar legend and amazing innovator on the instrument. Love Yngwie!

[@SirSneakerPimp]

Rob, I remember when he hit too.

[@thomhagan8297]

Maybe it's not a fair assessment but I've always looked at Yngwie as so singularly minded like a thoroughbred that it's why he's so damn good at it. When I listen to VH more colors in the sound spectrum come thru...perhaps thats just my visual perception. Both have amazing tone.

[@shovelheadseven]

Well said. It started with Hendrix and everyone was in that mode. Then it started to get more intense with EVH That's where it escalated again. Then Yngwie was the next game changer. in between EVH and Yngwie was Rhoads. Between Hendrix and EVH was Ulrich Roth, Trower, Travers and Shawn Lane who was basically unnoticed until the latter parts of the 80's. Many other ahead of their time players most unique being Holdsworth. 1980's was the decade that saw guitar playing turn into shred. Now there is not really anywhere to go with it. If you can write a great song and incorporate some memorable lead you may have something. If not then those people do covers. It's like how there is no more Classical music being written. That's where we are about to be with Rock. Kids can play better than everyone but they just copy. All the guys we were influenced by were original. No one is contributing anymore.

[@godbyone]

He was super clean smart. Fast fluid

[@thomhagan8297]

@@shovelheadseven Like many I lived thru that time...the 80s. I wasn't a shredder but was a young guy into rock guitar. It was everywhere and tiring. Arguably even more so now in some ways, everybody's amazing now. And it's right at your fingertips...I mean phone wise to see.

[@stevemora7845]

My friends and I took a chance in 1984 or so and bought the Steeler album and we were blown away!We were like who is this guy!? It was like a giant leap in the evolution of modern rock guitar since Eddie and Randy. 🔥

[@correametal]

You are too humble for how good you are! You played those licks flawlessly. All you play sounds amazing and you make it look so easy when it's really not ha ha ha! Total respect!

[@tallpaul1020]

I was addicted to the Rising Force album when it came out. Great lesson Dave. Keep up the great work 🎸🤘👍

[@friedrudibega6384]

I still listen to it about once a week. Flawless Yngwie.

[@curtwehrmeyer124]

I graduated High School in 83, Hot on Your Heels was in the cassette player that day. The shredding acoustic section blew everyone away as did the electric guitar that faded in. I saw Yngwie for the first time in November of 2021, Green Bay Wi. It was a complete guitar onslaught, he plays way faster live and not one bad note while guitars are flyin around stage picks are being kicked to the fans. Yngwie is unmatched live, the energy is unreal and the guitar playing is even better. Great lesson Dave !!

[@Krullmatic]

I felt the same way when I first heard Yngwie. My best friend and my rhythm guitarist brought this cassette over to the house and said, "Damn dude! You've gotta hear this!" We were both looking at the speakers with our mouths agape, listening to this otherworldly guitar player! We were instant fans! Just today I was playing licks and runs from harmonic minor. I wasn't trying to play fast, even though I taught myself some decent runs. I actually had my Strat sounding like a violin in places. That was the first time in a long time that I got inspired and impressed myself. Thanks once again David, for the killer video! 🤟😝🤟❤️🎸 Edit: Vito was a master at tapping and bending at the same time.

[@voronOsphere]

10:09 Bonus Lick! Yngwie's Classical Style Cadence Finger Workout! David, this particular Yngwie passage is something I've wanted to learn how to do for years! Thank you!

[@chrisstenger3719]

i saw yngwie in milwaukee in 1984, talas opened up for them, billy sheehan, i went home and practiced and practiced, drank beer felt hopeless lol.. i was 16 .... nah it was awesome ! thanks for the videos david :)

[@mattressdepotweatherford6478]

Young guitar players today who become "famous" with a youtube video, along with fingertip access to help master any technique in the world, will never understand what it was like to hear Yngwie (and then see him perform) in the 1983-1984 period. I got the Rising Force album the first week it hit record stores, completely by accident. I happened to be shopping in a store when I saw the album cover and thought, "that looks cool," and I added it to the other records I was purchasing. When I put the needle down, my 16-year-old brain could not comprehend what I was hearing. I thought it was fake, some sort of studio trickery, no guitar player could actually play that fast. To this day Yngwie's first three albums (and the Alcatrazz album) remain masterpieces of technique, tone, and improvisational genius.

[@swektmaico]

Your guitar skills are amazing, but not often mentioned is your story telling and ability to verbally make your lessons interesting. It's just as interesting to hear you elaborate over guitarists, their qualities and impact in the guitar world. And it's always in a positive manner. Thanks

[@barryhaynes103]

Malmsteen changed the way music was played during that era !!!

[@chopineboy]

Thank you Dave, you could do another 100 episodes about Yngwie from this area :) He's playing was so inventiv and so inspired, so much stuff to learn… Thank you again for this one

[@bah667]

Hey mate! Your chanel rocks! Rising Forse changed my life! i was 17yo at the time. You could think about doing a lesson on Yngwies band Steeler! Peace

[@_nukeohio]

Thank you very much for this video, Yngwie is my favorite guitar player, especially his first 9 or so records.

[@graveyardtroubadour9690]

Two guitars that Yngwie briefly used was the Aria pro II rs espirit and Aria Pro II XX Deluxe. There was even a Schecter signature model which are hard to find.

[@vincenttomazzolli3940]

Great demo, Davwie Brewsteen!!!

[@tonepoet]

Not gonna lie, but I actually pulled my car over and started crying like a baby when my cassette deck started spitting out the tape from Rising Force ('84 or' 85). One of the worst days of my life. Haha!! I also remember my buddy and I constantly playing (on his beta machine that he still has) that MTV live video of Yngwie with Alcatraz playing Hiroshima Mon Amour. Yngwie destroyed the world of guitar when he arrived.

[@image30p]

That cadence is fire 🔥 Great lesson! And some killer playing. 🦉

[@CRP2426]

Great Video! Those are some cool bend-tap ideas! Thank you!

[@Imnotaloser69]

Can we get some more Nuno Bettencourt licks? I would love to learn more Nuno!!

[@easter_sunday]

Love the Yngwie stuff. I am certain I stole something from the Chordplay lesson.

[@STAMPER-DESIGN]

Great Lesson! Thank you Mr. Brewster

[@teacuppermike2568]

Great lesson, thanks for sharing. Your Guitar Player lesson on Yngwie is excellent as well. I’ve seen Yngwie in concert about ten times, starting with the Trilogy tour when he opened for Iron Maiden. The thing that hooked me was Hiroshima Mon Amour. That tone and vibrato just floored me. His bar scoops are so subtly beautiful. When I heard his cover of UK’s In the Dead of Night, I realized he appreciated Holdsworth. He may get lumped as a neoclassical shredder, but there’s more depth to him if you listen. Stellar content as usual.

[@robertbernas1104]

Yo David great work and cool perspective on Yngwie’s approach/qualities that definitely blew my mind as a young kid….it’s cool hearing players/musicians like yourself playing these licks because its “your” delivery no matter how much you emulate what Yngwie put down - that’s the connection and why we listen/make music 🤙 cheerz💯

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Malmsteen is in a league beyond the 12 bar blues players - he plays classically influenced heavy rock . 🇺🇸🎸✨🎼🎼🎼 I had a Custom Shop Malmsteen Strat . 😊

[@Nghilifa]

Excellent lesson Mr. Brewster, Yngwie will always be one of my favorites. That gig alone is a treasure as far as what Yngwie is/was capable of doing on the gee-tar.

[@PawpawJamz]

Outstanding lesson, Mr. Brewster. Eddie can definitely be seen ( and heard) in that pedal point tapping riff. And, yes....his picking hand is inhuman. It's like your saying to yourself..There's no way that motion is making all that sound🤣

[@NlCKELODEON]

YES!! Perfect timing!! Best tutorials/chats! Huge fan of the the channel man!

[@davidramos4317]

Thank you Dave! Very cool licks.

[@master.exploder5150]

Glad to see the double camera angle video i uploaded of lost in hollywood 👍🏻 Pretty sweet

[@J24777]

This is Awesome!!! Glad you done this David! Always interesting Guitar playing from Yngwie.

[@dannyk1790]

lol all three licks are from the Lost in Hollywood solo That was probs one of my fav Yngwie performance, even if he had technical issues. What I love about Yngwie is his timing, feel and rubato. I love how he'd drag some parts just to rush other parts. It adds another layer of depth and dynamics to his playing. It's most apparent in his sweep picking, and it's one of the things that make his sweeps so recognizable, so much so that you could sweep in any key, even outside of minor keys in general, and get labeled as an Yngwie clone if you muted and played with a similar rubato.

[@spookybaba]

You're a pretty smooth player yourself, David. Even if I don't like the music you're covering, I do love your playing.

[@ryanange7123]

Awesome lesson brother. You are one of the best. Id love to see a lesson on Jonny Lang plz.

[@robbyerics2792]

And regarding the timeline, remember that Yngwie's debut album was released before he left (or was kicked out of) Alcatrazz, which was in June 1984

[@josephkunath4173]

Saw Yngwie when he released Eclipse. Highly underrated album.

[@josephkunath4173]

Cool seeing my comment. Just saw him on the 4th in Plattsburgh NY. It was insane.

[@jamescampbell2829]

That Steve Vai tap is so cool, thanks for the lesson

[@gregorysleeth1792]

Great lesson David as alway. The First Yngwie song I heard was Don’t you remember I’ll never forget. and was blown away.

[@thecentralscrutinizerr]

I learned that many aspiring guitarists look only at rock players and forget all about the MONSTER guitarists that play country music. For instance, Jerry Reed. Yeah, that Jerry Reed - "Snowman" truck driver in Smokey and the Bandit with Burt Reynolds. He was a guitar DEMON. Then there's Danny Gatton. The MASTER of the TELECASTER. Les Paul said of Danny Gatton "Danny Gatton? He'll eat your lunch. You better come prepared." Danny Gatton was so talented that he was called "The Humbler" because he would "humble" other players by his prowess on the the Telecaster. Chet Atkins, who could play "Yankee Doodle Dandy and "Dixie" on the guitar at the same time. Jeff Beck said "I'm sure glad those Nashville Super Pickers never leave Nashville because if they did, I'd be out of a job." There's a guitarist here on KZbin named Matheus Canteri. He played the lead solo to Ozzy's "Mr. Crowley" chicken picken' style. And guess where he lives. You got it. Nashville, Tennessee. With that being said, Yngwie was the phenomenon that shook the rock world by playing classical scales with distortion in what became known as "Neoclassical". I wouldn't say its "Neoclassical". I prefer to call it what it is. Classical guitar. It's just got lots of gain in the rhythm and lead tones and it sounds incredible. Yngwie stated that when he was young, most guitarists (myself included) were learning to play, they were doing the "Pentatonic Box" that most blues players of yesteryear were doing, people like Hendrix, Clapton, Paige etc. But he was learning classical guitar scales instead. He wasn't trapped in the "Pentatonic Box" pattern. He was learning diminished scales, harmonic minor scales, etc. This is what makes him so fluent today at classical guitar scales. He's truly a master of lead classical guitar.

[@schmdt]

great lessons!! thanks!! please do more early malmsteen :)

[@1992YR]

The 2 guitarist that had the biggest impact on 80’s Hard Rock/Metal Guitar are Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen. Both are guitar innovators.

[@SuperHorsecow]

David Brewster with the licks

[@babylemonade2868]

The trilogy album is a huge album for me. Is there anything you can’t play Dave👍

[@voronOsphere]

"Trilogy" is an album that took awhile to grow on me, but I totally love it, these days!

[@hughjass4622]

Awesome, love yngwie and all the other neoclassical players 🤘

[@Elvis-dw7ux]

Zabardast cheers from Toronto....

[@chriskrueger1865]

Excellent lesson, bravo. Would you be able to note the song titles each lick is from in all of your "lick" videos moving forward? Thank you

[@user-uo8yh9tb8g]

David, I love what you do my friend and your presentation is very chill and disarming/engaging, so thanks for the uploads and keep up the great work... would love to see you do one on the great but relatively unknown Ollie Halsall most famously of the group Patto... lots of live stuff online. He was really something, and with his background as a vibraphonist in just 2 short years he became one of the wildest rock guitar players I've ever heard to this day... okay, be well and keep doing what you do.

[@mikemorgan548]

Yngwie licks got me placed with Paul Gilbert as my private instructor at G.I.T. in March of 87''...he soon turned me on to Shawn Lane. Paul is the best and a great guy/mentor.

[@antoniogonzalez4204]

Oustanding!! Can you do something from the new wave of Italian virtuosos? Marco Sfogli, Fabrizio "Bicio" Leo and Alessandro Benvenutti are just killing it right now.

[@TreatzTMA]

Great stuff!! My tapping sucks. Gotta get that sh!t together. My poor neighbors 😂

[@jasoncrump1886]

This channel is great man. Appreciate ya brother. Who's next Guthrie Govan?

[@itsianwood]

Fantastic, bro!

[@steveinmidtown]

big Yngwie fan of his early stuff...especially pre car wreck...& have read that he listened to Van Halen. The 1st lick sounds right from "You're No Good" & the 2nd from "Live Without a Net" solo.

[@shovelheadseven]

I love how he improvises a solo Then drops his cream Strat into a pile of almost identical cream Strats and walks out of the room.

[@fijnevent3565]

Thank you!

[@Mordred478]

Great stuff.

[@godbyone]

3.35 great tone on that lick

[@jasonbrown4977]

Hi Dave great content as always. How about some Paul Chapman from when he was in UFO

[@andyracksthecams]

Respect!

[@frankiedonofrio5438]

Well done sir!!

[@jangustafsson6485]

Knecht Ruprecht is also a good exercise for guitar 🤘

[@jonnybeck6723]

Amazing, thanx man

[@chrismorgan7494]

From Steely Dan to Yngwie. There's nothing his box won't do.

[@alannaesen6340]

Andy Scott underrated but highly original lead guitarist, songwriter with the rock band The Sweet any chance of a lesson? Sweet Fa is a fave track!

[@danriley5848]

This was a great lesson as always Dave ✌🏻

[@xounlistedxox]

Awesome video! I see you used one of my pictures at 2:35(top right)! I appreciate that, but no shout outs or ask to use 👀?

[@xounlistedxox]

Still nothing? 🤔

[@Jasonfurrofficial]

Great lesson as always, Dave! We're you at Sweetwater when Yngwie played? I was there with Andy Timmons and Ibanez. He was great as always! I love Alcatrazz! Graham Bonnett's vocals are iconic! I love both incarnations with Malmsteen and Vai! So may great licks like 'Jet to Jet' and 'Painted Lover'! Keep it up bro, you have been teaching these students our childhood!

[@thebomontellano4996]

Freaking awesome.

[@seanmiller7889]

Anything Alcatrazz! Yngwie, Vai and do not omit the latest Joe Stump!

[@robbyerics2792]

In the Rock genre, there's been three guitarists who really changed the game. Hendrix, Eddie and Yngwie. They totally changed the way guitarists play. I'm talking about rock guitar now. Like George Lynch said, EVERYBODY was scared of Yngwie back in the day. Don't bring up Randy or Jason Becker, they were great, but they didn't have the same impact as Yngwie (or Eddie). Period. After Yngwie, there hasn't been anyone in rock who had the same impact.

[@davidatyson]

Malmsteen is a Killa👊👊💥💥💥💥

[@PonziZombieKiller]

Wicked sheet man... ✌️

[@godbyone]

5.30 awesome

[@godbyone]

7.26 had yes./ Howe vibe

[@godbyone]

6.30 had exorcist vibe

[@user-uo8yh9tb8g]

Got to see him with Alcatraz opening for Ted Nugent----talk about testosterone overload, ha! Yngwie would take a great solo and then as soon as the verse starts again he's be jumping in front of the lead singer with fills.. it was kind of comical. Yngwie was unquestionably hugely influential and extremely good at that one thing he did... not unlike Uli Jon Roth but with an extra gear and just pushing the classical influence fully to the front... deserves a lot of credit for doing it right and I do admire him, yet I think his imagination kind of staled at 17... but hell, you'll have that in rock and roll..........

[@EarthAltar]

'83 - '84 was right around the time Yngwie and Vandenberg dropped. Then George Lynch, Jake E. Lee, and Warren D. Martini. It was an insane time for guitar, but Yngwie smoked 'em all. To this day the only other guitarist I know that can just shred non stop for 2½ hours is Buckethead. Everyone else is sprinting these guys are running marathons. Scott Henderson and Paul Gilbert are capable of it, but do they have the desire? Satch and Vai put on an amazing show, but there's some fluff and a lot of talking. YJM and BH give you the most shred for your buck, and after over two hours of face melting guitar assault at one of their shows it's easy to see why they rule the shred kingdom. It's not for everyone though. You can always tuck tail and run away like a little girl when it gets to be too much. Lol. 🤘🤘

[@hermanodejesus7264]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

These tab less lessons why ? just why?

[@LateNightLessons]

Hey - the tabs for hundreds of videos on my channel are available on my Patreon profile. It's only $5 a month! Just a heads up!

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

omg sooooo sorry. Did not know that. thank you!!!!@@LateNightLessons

[@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw]

omg sorry... tabs are in Patreon. omg. sorry.

[@stratman9449]

quite impressive (on your part David)....and Malmsteens guitar "collection" too..(there are a lot of guitars....)...but as for his music....it's not for me.

[@sirotahaggen]

I've always been a little mystified by those classical cadences YJM employs, and wonder if there's any voice leading goin on there.

[@godbyone]

You’re yngwie s right hand look like it hardly moves

[@Death.Co.]

Economy picking

[@Yjmstrat1]

First like!! Lol

[@Robil63]

Sorry but your seemingly giant waving hand is always a distraction

[@netusernetuser8457]

Too much talk and nothing to catch from this video.

[@shakebabyhitler]

Another awesome lesson! I mentioned in a comment on another of your vids, it was your "Moves like Malmsteen" that brought me to your channel. I'm in my fifties, so I was already playing by the time Yngwie jumped onto the scene and blew everybody's minds. I've spent the last couple months going over a bunch of the Mad Swede's licks, so the timing on this vid is extra cool. Keep up the great work!