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[@ScisaacFisaac]

Yngwie's hardest technique is humility

[@adeptusmechanicus1029]

Hes earned his status though.

[@ThorsShadow]

@@adeptusmechanicus1029 A ton of great people earned their status. Doesn't give anyone the right to be an asshole.

[@preston2636]

@@ThorsShadow hes not an asshole, you're just a pussy

[@Jh-fi5im]

@@ThorsShadow you’d expect him to become more humble in his older years, like Steve Vai for example. But he’s still the same. If not worse.

[@kyleingle1217]

I met him and we was super cool and pleasant. Signed some stuff, gave me a set list and we joked around and laughed for a few minutes before he had to go

[@angusorvid8840]

I've been playing since about 1986 and one conclusion I've drawn is that you should master every technique you can, especially those that apply to the style you develop. But you should never let technique stand in the way of expanding your style. That's why it's so important to break through the physical limitations of playing. That's why technique is extremely important. I agree with Al DiMeola when he says that those who claim you can say more with one note than a hundred are full of crap, because it's nothing but a copout. You have to push through the limitations, the walls, and use techniques like tools to achieve the musical expression you hear in your head. There are always new boundaries to break, be they physical, like technique, or theoretical, or regarding the study of rhythm and odd time signatures, or ear training.

[@normt6226]

I kind of don't agree with the Di Meola quote...One note is not enough...hundred notes is way to much...You need the right ten notes...But he wouldn't know, he's always played way too many notes...The right musical statement don't need to be reduced or expanded...thay are just what they should be...Can you imagine Pink Floyd's Shine on you Crazy Diamond 4-notes Chord having 2 notes? No...Having 10 notes? No...It just needed to be these 4 notes and couldn't be something else...Perfection has not amount of notes or technique...Perfection exist beyond that...

[@Gawnfall]

Yngwie malmsteen "how is less more, more is more!"

[@angusorvid8840]

@@normt6226 That you can say more with a 100 notes than one does not mean you should play 100 notes. It simply means that if you put limitations on yourself because you won't do the work to break past them, then that's a copout. Also, there are plenty of musical pieces that require a hell of a lot of notes by their very nature, like a piece by Bach or Paganini. I happen to love Gilmour and have been a fan since I was a little kid. There's no conceivable way any of his music would improve if he crammed in ton of speed runs. A player who I think has a great balance of style and technique is Michael Schenker.

[@anomymouse5043]

Al Di Meola is probably bit misinterpreted here? There can be technical challenges with few notes that require also mastering: 1) Bending and intonation has to be spot on. Everybody notices those flaws in slow playing. Slow phrases often contain challenging bends. (M. Friedman, Yngvie, David Gilmour, Jerry Donahue....) 2) Rhythmic ideas: It is boring to hear just straight quarter notes. (Or is it?) Fast phrases often use straight 16th notes (except for most skilled guys, who mix fivetuples, sixtuples and seventuples in same phrase) 3) Melodic ideas, big intervals 4) Playing loud or soft. Mixing loud and soft phrases. 5) Making every note count. Making notes sound perfect. 6) Playing chords, double stops etc. Of course this is matter of taste. If you play death/black metal you might not need soft playing Only thing is that posing with guitar is way more important than any of this playing stuff! Also having a guitar that has more strings, knobs, spikes or bigger price than friends guitar is more relevant than playing!!😊😊

[@ajrosales047]

So true!

[@kraftwerk974]

For Yngwie the hardest thing is to slow down. Actually when he does his music improves so much.

[@Mike-rw2nh]

Perhaps it is a perverse streak in me, but I actually enjoy the problem solving required to master a technique. Excellent content, good sir. 👍

[@angusorvid8840]

As Al DiMeola has said, when you run into a problem that means there's room for improvement.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

Perverse does not apply in your case. You are simply determined to find a solution to succeed. Good trait.

[@Mike-rw2nh]

@@MrJohnnyDistortion Thanks man. I really appreciate that. Pity my family would like more ‘songs’, less fiendish spread arpeggios 😳

[@anomymouse5043]

@@Mike-rw2nh Analysis of the musical problems IS way more important than playing songs!!!! Similarly the posing with the guitar is way more important than playing guitar!! Buying new guitars and other stuff is even more important than the previous things!! Non-players just don't get these things!😁😁😁

[@jackgriffith9229]

Imagine learning a complete piece of music or whole song?

[@Kyle7K]

I enjoy the lesson here. As someone that used to be a pretty darn good player, life kicked me down and I stayed down for 3 years. Went directly from playing my biggest performance in my 30 years of playing, performing with a band I grew up listening to for a night in a sold out legendary music club, to flat on my face doing nothing musical or creative. Im crawling back but I just started again and after dusting 3 years worth of dust off my guitars, it feels HORRIBLE to suck. 😫 To the point of wanting to just forget it. But I'm going to give it thee ol college try (whatever that actually means) and I'll checking back for more videos!

[@eulldog]

Don't give up! I went through a slump barely playing for a couple years, and then now am better than ever after taking a fresh approach. Buying new gear helps :)

[@cr01554nt]

completely relate. back when i was younger, i was actually playing circles around most kids my age. i set it down when i got into uni and didn’t play for over four years. when i picked it back up, the kids i was playing circles around before were years ahead of me. only now, three years later, i’m recently going beyond what i could play back when i first put it down and approximating where my then-peers are now. constance is a player’s #1 virtue. practice makes perfect the same way lack thereof undoes it.

[@deadshot4245]

@@cr01554nt same goes for having the determination to be the best version of you that you can be. my friends all got into guitar before me and it caught my eye and i wanted to learn how and i worked hard on it for months and got into the jam sessions to form a band and this was 2007 ish here we are in 2022 i have years experience on guitar bass piano rums recording mixing mastering and general song writing music theory. some of these guys i played with lost that determination for other things but there was a time we were so in synch we could literally almost communicate to each other without speaking musically or whatever you spend enough time working together you form seriously tight bonds which is the greatest part of music the connective power of frequencies essentially

[@jamesmcclusky3120]

Keep going man :)

[@BrunoGarciaMusic]

Guthrie Govan = when technique is just a tool for the music you hear in your head.

[@jonthorarinsson8368]

Two tips for this, i.e. going straight up a 3 note per string scale: 1) Accent every 6th note. 2) When switching strings, mute the string you came from with the tip of your left index finger slightly. This is in case you accidentally hit the previous string. These things really helped me with this same problem.

[@idiotburns]

genius

[@robbiegarnz7732]

I think it’s because when you have patterns you’re resetting every couple seconds. When you go between several strings in rapid succession, you always have to be two steps ahead. This is much easier on orchestral string instruments because the bow eliminates the problem of the pick getting trapped between the strings.

[@theharvardyard2356]

Yep, I encountered this exact thing learning Paul Gilbert songs, he plays these straight up and down scales at super speed and it's so much more difficult than I would have thought. I eventually was able to tackle it though

[@micahwatz1148]

The string tension your hand is used to changes when you change strings, as well as where your arm is. and it changes the higher you go up the fret board. The strings vibration on the 22nd fret is tighter than that same string on the 3 fret. Because the string rotates more.

[@francescacarcassi116]

Cool information.As a kid going into the local guitar store I was really impressed w a guy who ripped through scales like a hot knife through butter.Eventually I realized that that was basically all he could do,so I put it onto my self to always practice them as musically as I could,because having that as a weak spot is not that drastic ,and now you exposed the reason.thankyou

[@geraldhartley]

I loved this guy in Galaxy Quest. 😆

[@Bobthesnob]

I've always struggled with this problem. I only realized what it was a few years ago. I also notice that when I play slower, I move my picking hand at the wrist but as I speed up, my wrist locks/tenses up and I move at the elbow, which gives me much less control. Not sure if anyone else does this.

[@SanDimas234]

I noticed it happens to me when I play pentatonic scales at speed up or down. No idea why and I don't remember specifically practicing that way. Seems to make it easier for two notes per string for me for some reason.

[@1337wafflezz]

keep practicing. do tremolo and alternate picking over and over. you should be relaxed even when playing fast

[@GuyNarnarian]

I tense up and use more of the elbow when speeding up. Definitely an issue people have.

[@friedsensei]

It's been a year since you commented but I hope you're shredding now haha, that was my Eureka moment as well.

[@trentonmooneyham1231]

Also, people tend to press down too hard with their fretting fingers and that causes your fretting hand to fatigue faster. Learning how to position my wrist and learning how to not press down too hard made a huge difference in my speed and how clean i play. Also it helped to practice not digging my pick too far down.

[@The_Lucky_Leo]

Alternate pick everything. The whether they are 16th or 32nd notes there is definitely am obvious up down/odd and even pattern. If it's odd it's down, if even up. This way you will always know where you are musically. I have been doing it for almost 15 years, it saves a lot of time and it never fails me.

[@colinjones4686]

Economy picking

[@ethanpederson]

@@colinjones4686 Both solid techniques used for slightly different situations.

[@geordiemack4143]

I tried alternate picking for a loooong time, now I've ditched it for economy my playings better than ever. Economy picking all the way! It just makes sense to my brain.

[@MattCollisMusic]

You can find your way around your limitations... At 23 I went back to the drawing board completely so that I could alternate pick properly and wasn't limited to certain patterns... It's taken me twenty years to get there... I'm now 41... It took so long and I hit so many walls it sort of became a weird obsession after awhile..

[@ajrosales047]

"And for Yngwie, the hardest thing for him to do...." hehe that was funny!

[@Soloist1983]

2-way pickslanting fixes this, took me a year to get it down once I watched the Troy Grady videos 👌 but true, nobody talks about this

[@adeptusmechanicus1029]

Those troy Grady videos are absolutely amazing.

[@chrislawson7983]

Learn eruption backward at speed. Will help also. Thanks for your teaching.

[@EngrossingEnigma]

The great thing about art is no one give a fuck what brush technique you use while they're in the gallery. Its of infinitesimal significance to the impact it has on the audience.

[@MrLouisianaHayride]

As a bassist the thing I see most lead guitarist struggle with is rhythm playing. Come on guys. That solo is like 20 sec, don't forget about the actual song 😁

[@IVORY123100]

Just play . So many great guitarist never studied form ,proper picking modes ,scales . It's an instrument . The objective goal is music .Just play

[@oedipian]

Very true. I have to say that descending is easier for me than ascending…. I don’t know why….😅

[@Rob9mm]

Great info! This explains a problem I had with a pattern I do. All about the synchro.

[@flahgdoe4558]

Dude, I'm so glad I found this channel

[@arthurpolendo3941]

Very informative, Mike! I've always loved practicing sequencing runs, as opposed to running up and down scales. Now I can isolate between sets of two strings and progress up from there.

[@mercurymangonada]

I’ve gone back and forth between kind of fanning my hand down so the muscle memory kinda sticks better. I feel when I change the entire position of my arm it takes extra mili seconds to understand where it is (my hand/the pick) But so many variables it’s wild. Good video

[@clownpocket]

Ever notice how Yngwie picks? He doesn’t move his arm or even his hand, his thumb and first finger are the only thing moving, with very tiny movements.

[@martinopinto6323]

This channel is amazing and I like your stile, fresh and nice ;)

[@2good2betrue3]

The hardest thing for Yngvie is refusing to eat doughnuts😂but just like the shred maestro himself, "everything is easy for me" (alternate picking, Sweeping, economy picking, tapping - pun intended😅) Nah I love him, he's always been my favorite shredder, the best among the best!👍 but seriously the technnique I find really hard even with constant practice is the ("STRING SKIPPED POSITIONAL picking") - One great example is Eric Johnsons Cliffs of Dover intro, the portion where he uses "Hybrid picking" at very fast speed. What I mean is when you try to strictly alternate pick that lick, it's almost impossible unless you use your middle finger to pluck the high E while Economy picking the lower B and D string. - Yeah I know, It MUST be hybrid picked because Eric does that, but try alternate pick it at the same speed. It's very hard or even almost impossible. Same thing with Yngwie's "Now Your Ships are Burned", the insane "Positional Shift" interlude before the solo is just epic and beautiful but very hard.!👍

[@CharlesTRose]

he dont like doughnuts

[@2good2betrue3]

@@CharlesTRose my bad, yeah he hates doughnuts.😂 but still my ultimate guitar idol, the most dominating guitarist on stage I've seen.😁

[@levisalvini4110]

Yngwie Joahn Malmsteen is GOD... So.....I agree with you 💯 percent my friend. YJM vibrato wil go down in history!

[@rudygracia5573]

2 of my very favorite players;YJM&EJ!Yeah,Yngwie has definitely been on that diet rollercoaster.At one point he was SO heavy that he looked like a BUG!🐞.He should've followed the Paul Gilbert,Nuno,EJ,dUg Pinnick diet plan!!haha!Instead,he was on the Wolfgang VH diet!

[@Dwightpower88]

Dimebag proved that he does not in fact like doughnuts

[@Mtaalas]

This is very similar barrier that many have with "stride" on a piano. You need to practice the HELL out of hand independence and be really REALLY comfortable with the instrument even eyes closed. All it takes is just a lot of deliberate repetition and mindful pracatice.

[@jeremyjohnson9585]

Piano playing is where I started, and this is true. When I have trouble with a sequence, I explore it on piano and it helps me pick out the notes more easily. A piano is a great tool for guitarists that are learning scales IMO, because everything is laid out, and it helped me with understanding how the different scales and modes work.

[@loompy1440]

I can’t play the intro to “under the bridge” by Red Hot Chili Peppers clean, but I can play many scales up and down like that all day 😂 (I learned to play from a Jason Becker vhs tape and my friend who played metal at the time)

[@mrshredder0076]

You are bad ass. Paul meets yngwie meets petrucci. I’m torn with picks Dunlop h3 and the 1.5mm yngwie uses. Love sharp picks for riffs and squeals but prefer more rounded end for sweeps. Any advice and longer fingers like yngwie or Paul would be nice

[@jfo3000]

A more rounded end can function more like a pointed end by not digging in too deep with the pick.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

I like 2.5 & 2.0 Dunlop picks.

[@ShpookyMetal]

6:33 great words

[@jeffreyedwards767]

Smoke coming off my fret board ,fire in my eyes

[@derekroland]

GREAT assessment!

[@Zhaggysfaction]

Obviously for anyone somethings are harder than others. There is nothing coming clean about it. Yes Petrucci says in the instructional video that inside string skipping is harder than some other techniques for him but it hasn't stopped him from using it in DT songs. Also about the 3 notes per string straigh up and down the scale is harder than the patterned approach is because when you do 3 notes per string and alternate pick, like 99% of us, then by definition you get inside string picking on every other string. Unless you economy pick which is another story and not the easiest technique to learn on top of good alternative picking.

[@k1k2k37]

Great Video Man! Had the same problem!

[@Jan-gc7td]

Lol! When I started shredding straight scale playing without seqencing was difficult. P.s. that's why I think Paul Gilbert was right about Yngwie ))) Just listen to Trilogy Suite Op. intro.

[@ShpookyMetal]

\m/ eh pg demo it by playin in a vid way back 86 yeh he was in a khaki pants in some hall

[@preythefox]

I love this. And I wasn't even looking for anything.

[@joskorivic]

Everything is problem for me 😅

[@andresilvasophisma]

For Yngwie you play fast by moving your hands faster, more is more.

[@ctmikeg123]

For me, the solution to straight 3 note per string runs was economy picking. Eliminating that right hand tension changed everything else for the better.

[@GuyNarnarian]

I have this issue to an extent. My teacher says that when I am descending a scale, I almost always sweep in the direction I'm picking, usually from the high E to the B. I never even thought very much about my picking until recently, but it's definitely been holding me back. I don't think I'll ever have one technique for picking everything, but I'd like to have all the tools in the box if that makes sense.

[@rjc7289]

I struggle with this very same problem. The faster the playing, the harder it is to play a scale cleanly all the way through.

[@johanjotun1647]

Ive spent so much time failing to memorize the fretboard that playing straight scales is easier than sequences

[@robertbeaman5761]

Never ever thought about this. Now it's gonna be problem.

[@MichelleHell]

I practice sequences of 5, 6 and 7 notes.

[@coreygossman6243]

I can't tremolo pick but I can do scales very easily. I don't rest my forearm on the guitar though.

[@Dragnerve.]

Troy Grady: PICKSLANTING

[@Bricklinsv1970]

Groovy!

[@blaineruffing4396]

Yngwies has trouble not being cocky

[@ShpookyMetal]

he can just show the fellow a box of Dunkin Donuts

[@bertoabarzua5372]

I need to get me an Ibanez guitar 🎸. Thanks for sharing.

[@Johnny-oy9fh]

If you play from the right hand wrist with the palm on the bridge you will never need to move the forearm when playing scales...or anything similar....

[@metalmikebot]

Man this is great, I'm trying (ha) to learn Golden Mouth of Ruin by Archspire and buried within a brutal arpeggio sequence there's a simple ascending diminished scale that gives me a lot of trouble when I start speeding up and it's for this exact reason.

[@luissosa320]

Damn, I never thought about this, I can rip through scales when I have some Sort of frequecing in my pharsong, but Up and down.... imposible

[@rudygracia5573]

I appreciate,and have followed?the advice given by several greats;A.Segovia-Work on SPEED first,then work on the rest of your techniques(paraphrased).Yiu can always slow things down later.VERY difficult to learn speed afterward/later.Another from a great old school blues player;Learn as MUCH as you can,from as MANY players as you can,and then FORGET ALL THAT SHIT!In other words;Don't be a clone!Don't wear your influences on your sleeve.ex;On electric,I wanted to play FAST SOO bad!Never did/could.Probably cuz Ive always worked out heavy💪🏋️‍♂️!Instead I ended up using two handed tapping things(tasteful)and finger picking(Knofler/Buckingham)overdriven tones,and became a more Hendrix style player/licks(+EVH!).Pleasant surprise.

[@AlanArteche]

Yngwie Malmsteen's : Donuts 🍩

[@Littleguyadventures]

Thanks Mike

[@michaelpotts5336]

guitar munchkin shreds

[@topdawg3359]

Not sure why I ever cared about shredding. Guess cus it impressed people. So instead I've focused on just writing music. I don't impress anyone but myself now music is amazing

[@lovelovelove5744]

The hardest thing for Yngwie was being humble. That and playing at a slow rate for a long period of time. Larghissimo? Not on your life. Adagissimo? Forget about it

[@mr.smithgnrsmith7808]

Beautiful RG

[@JariSatta]

I can play everything-ish, but I must warm up for 60min every day to get there. That's my Achilles' heel.

[@frankgillet2752]

Easily the best guitarist KZbin channel out there.

[@usmcchrisg]

GD this guitar thing is hard. Is this paintbrush or pencil?

[@rub800]

The problem most rockers have (myself included) is to improvise following the changes

[@lonec1777]

i have the opposite problem. i cant figure out how to go up a scale multiple up and down the neck.

[@smoothcriminal7232]

Most of the shredders that play ultra fast for some weird reason they speak slow.. this guy is such an exception

[@michaelwhite3009]

Dude. Your good.

[@adeptusmechanicus1029]

Anyone interested in looking at killer technique, look up Wes Hauch or Rick Graham. They make it look effortless. I admire the fuck out of Wes

[@obiem9319]

Never heard Yngwie play Donna Lee or Giant Steps. So there. I found his weakness.

[@stiman1]

Are you using the Petrucci Trinity pick in his video?

[@tuhitukare8672]

I'd love to see some of the dozens of KZbin players who all play the same rudimentary scalar stuff try it without being drowned in reverb and delay. That's probably just a fantasy.

[@RobTackettCovers]

Heheheh....tremelo picking is really hard for me....

[@smoker-ku1er]

What ibanez model is that?

[@SDesWriter]

With me it's pentatonic scales. Trying to play two note per string scales without a pattern is virtually impossible. I can play triplets and sometimes quads pretty quickly but trying to play two notes per string is impossible no matter how much I practice.

[@TMmodify]

It's actually way easier when you have an odd number of notes per string to play than when the number isn't odd. I think the tool that's missing from your tool box is downwards pickslanting.

[@friedsensei]

Really old comment but discussing pickslanting and even/odd grouping is just a hilarious response to someone who can't play pentatonic. He obviously has been focusing way too much on shit like that without learning foundational boomer guitar shit. I'm a metal guy but if you can't play the blues you almost definitely suck.

[@demijohnson3860]

It's always been the opposite for me :(, any advice on that?

[@biffleonetti5298]

The Edge is God

[@Matthew_Klepadlo]

Wait, so my favorite guitar players are actually human? NO WAY! I thought Paul Gilbert was perfect! I thought he could bench press more than you! After all, he is PAUL GILBERT you’re just some Russian boy who likes guitar and powerlifting… There’s no way John Petrucci or Herman Li and Sam Totman are flawed… are they???

[@pranaakbary9924]

He is too humble to say everything is easy for him

[@billgator2005]

after watching this video i have concluded my inability to pick fast , extended licks is caused by my inability to sweep the volume control wide open and then closed before and after every attempt to play a lick. is it possible for you to play these shredder licks without the insane effects. in other words can you play them on a guitar that sounds like a guitar similar to maybe a howard roberts or son jay roberts?

[@1976oswald]

try A4=432hz

[@dietcoke8114]

i actually suffered from this for the past six years. Hand synchronization so hard for me .But I somehow solved this by burst method i play a sequence as fast as i could without thinking the cleanliness of the execution. then pause. Then repeat until i build a stamina from doing it.Then I try to repeat this time I have to make it clean and it is effective for me

[@danyavilaoficial]

Why Yngwie’s right hand looks like he’s barely moving it but sounds like fast picking ?

[@CrisKRA]

Hi Mike, I have a question, not so related to this topic. Sometimes while I'm strumming, my pick will get very loose and sometimes ill drop it. Do I have a bad picking technique? Or is it that your strumming and picking technique should be different?

[@andrejz8954]

same here

[@SlothKing92]

What works for me is strumming chords with and open hand and playing single notes with a closed fist. This helps me relieve unwanted tension throughout a song or jam. If you’re unsure of a good way to hold the pick I recommend checking out Ben Eller’s video on it. Hope this helps.

[@ifang1877]

Just keep playing your hands will get used to holding the pick well

[@indrawoody4382]

I'm struggling doing this everytime..

[@randomprecisionmotors3130]

I dunno why but this guy reminds me of Jack LaLane...Gen-Xers ain't gonna have a clue who I'm talkin' about...

[@frantisca]

Guitar playing is like speaking. If one plays the way you speak, he’s most probably gonna choke. Breathe !! 😉

[@superkunk2]

What type pick is best. I play with Med.

[@robflores5172]

What’s Anton Oparin’s?

[@yonatanc25]

I found you talking beside the point because you don't mention upwards and downward pick Escape motion just like Troy Grady speaks in his videos thanks anyways

[@jans1982]

This has to do with pick slanting. Look for Troy Grady video on it.

[@algiedinopol7912]

It's so hard to practice one's picking technique when you keep hitting that volume knob, esp with a whammy bar installed.

[@sanavthecardist1666]

Yngies archalies heel is other people trying to initate his style

[@aligatorsandwitch72]

oh wow what, petrucci can't inside pick? That's funny. It's one of those weird things that I naturally developed on my own from being a self taught player. I didn't even know that was a specific technique. huh

[@aligatorsandwitch72]

For me the technique I absolutely CANNOT do is Petrucci style alternate picking. I just have such a lazy right hand and took the Paul Gilbert philosophy and ran with it. LEGATO BABEEEEEY

[@jfo3000]

If you watch the part of the Petrucci video right after that part he goes on to demo some 2 string etudes he wrote just to practice inside picking, and yes he can inside pick very well indeed. He's an alternate picker, he has to have mastered inside picking.

[@aeon_6172]

This comment section is wholesome and filled with wisdom

[@bradball42]

I am cord illiterate, can’t tell you what cord I’m playing could be an A could be a F I don’t know and I’m never going to be able to learn

[@71N1S4]

Why lol

[@benrobinson3438]

"There's nothing wrong with you. You're a perfectly normal human being." Well, "normal" would be stretching it a little.

[@tamashi2006]

a little random but I have the same guitar as the guy in the vid :)

[@TheEleventeen]

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