Rusty Cooley and Per Nilsson Talk About: Yngwie Malmsteen

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‪@MrRustyCooley‬ and ‪@ScarGuitar‬ Talk About: Yngwie Malmsteen
It is no surprise that Yngwie Malmsteen is a huge influence on Per Nilsson and Rusty.
In this interview, they both talk about Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and other inspirations they had when they started learning guitar.
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[@kraftwerk974]

Yngwie is the major influence on players along with Hendrix and EVH. People don't seem to remember the huge earthquake in 1982/83. All of a sudden everyone started practicing scales and arpeggios.

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

That is exactly what it was--A Tectonic Shift. Suddenly, learning Music Theory, Scales, Arpeggios, Harmony, etc. was a MUST! And Yngwie is the one responsible for sending everyone back to the woodshed.

[@cristianconnolly2709]

Totally, those 3 and i would add holdsworth aswell, very influential but he was more of an underground player.

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

@@cristianconnolly2709 Excellent point! Especially considering that Holdsworth was an influence on both Van Halen and Malmsteen, and the fact that his playing and compositions are uniquely different than pretty much everyone else. I think the bulk of his impact tilts towards the fusion idiom more than rock, but he is definitely a musicians' musician.

[@JedNadin]

Yngwie’s songwriting is criminally underrated. Incredible pop sensibility, and ear for a hook. He’s not just a lead player.

[@kanebowlin5123]

He has mad feeling . Dreaming solo . So many others

[@mastart85]

People who criticize speed for not having ‘feel’ can’t play fast-there I said it

[@SuperStrik9]

Agreed. I've seen it a bunch over the years. Some people get jealous when they hear someone play something they can't. So they try and cut it down any way they can. It's unfortunate. Instead of feeling jealous they should feel inspired.

[@kamikazekrush3758]

Yeah, I admit Yngwie has gotten lazy, but damn go listen to "you dont remember, I'll never forget" solo, tons of feeling in that

[@IbanezFan550]

As simple as that. And ironically the people who say that can't even play well slowly. Bad vibrato, bad tone, boring pentatonic crap

[@StewartMillarTheManCave]

Absolutely, I doubt they could play a lot of Yngwie stuff properly slowly. He doesn’t just ram home notes at a uniform spacing, there’s lots of interesting and tricky phrasing he throws in to his work. ‘Feeling’ wise it always did it for me to listen to and as my guitar playing developed and I tried to learn Yngwie stuff, it’s way harder than you’d think and it’s not a speed/technique difficulty thing. You’re nailing a picked run OK and then the next part is phrased in quintuplets and it’s a motherfucker to pull off when it’s at your absolute peak speed. Ultimately the same people who complain about speed weirdly tend to be the ones who are super impressed by a mediocre musician on a TV talent show and say ‘you’re just jealous’ when you merely go ‘ah they’re alright’ Plenty of non-musician music fans are not like this, but the combo of people who’ve never played an instrument nor really delved deep into different genres of music and you get ridiculous opinions.

[@shredguitar7680]

That sums up the whole grunge era guitar players who thought they were “better”

[@douglasnisbet1189]

Awesome video. Yngwie is the man. He may not be the player he once was, but his influence on modern guitar is undeniable. His early stuff is still just out of this world. There is basically no shredder not influenced by him. The only guys who say fast=no soul are the guys who can't play fast to save their lives(and are bitter about it) 😂

[@driftthekaliyuga7502]

I use to think his playing was waning a bit too. He's got a bunch of new videos out on KZbin that are changing my mind a bit. His tone is more rounded. It hangs back in the mix more now and is less aggressive and in your face. That tends to make some of his runs sound a bit soupy. Still though that tone is incredible. There's nothing like it.

[@douglasnisbet1189]

@@driftthekaliyuga7502 yes, but his technique is not what it used to be. Understandable for a man almost 60 though.

[@debuhokontra2006]

@@driftthekaliyuga7502 there is a lot shredder that is not influence by him like gambale, shawnlane, before yngwie shredd exist, but no doubt yngwie made other guitarist to hook to it, he made it more interesting to listeners

[@chrisking6695]

@@douglasnisbet1189 MAB still sounds the same and he's around the same age as Yngwie I think.

[@douglasnisbet1189]

@@chrisking6695 I'd say MAB isn't as fast or as clean as his early days either. It's understandable though, these guys are around 60 now.

[@Truthinshredding1]

More is more. I agree with Per. The emotions from the music are mine to decide.

[@sole__doubt]

Yes, thats why I love instrumentals so much.

[@ZachAdkinsGuitar]

Very honored to be on the show with Rusty and Per 🤘

[@Luke.bradley.adventure]

Such a great episode. Such a wealth of knowledge from all 3 of you 👍

[@ZachAdkinsGuitar]

@@Luke.bradley.adventure thanks so much 🤘

[@sole__doubt]

Great video for sure, I love seeing the best players just talk shop. \m/

[@ericcarman1744]

Always loved hearing Rusty talk and his views even if I didnt share them. He is a super talented musician who just happens to own the guitar. I remember being at his apartment and he played the Yngwie tracks from the steeler albums and it blew my mind. Lots of mind blowing happened around Rusty btw Miss ya Rusty!

[@steveettling]

Eric! I used to take lessons from you back in the day at the texas music emporium. How the heck are you man?

[@SuperStrik9]

Yngwie's great. Love his playing. Music's about conveying emotion. From fast to slow it's all great.

[@robertomulero514]

I remember hearing the same thing when I was a kid about him not really playing that fast and he speeds up the track back in the late 80's when I first became a fan. I had never seen him play live, then I rediscovered him when youtube came out in 2007 and people uploaded videos of him playing and I was completely blown away and loving him all over again. The guy always puts out 110% on stage to give the fans a great show.

[@tomgrant6563]

It's absolutely absurd. Yngwie plays with more feel than any guitarist IMO.

[@ZachAdkinsGuitar]

When I hear yngwie play, you can tell he cares about the instrument so much. He thinks about each note and phrase. Very inspiring.

[@SuperDVDguy1]

He plays like a painter with brush but via guitarstrings and guitar sound distortion.

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

Music slowed down when we started singing in churches. Classical Music is full of very fast parts that are exciting and very beautiful. Yngwie didn't even consider himself as a fast player because he is a Classical guy like myself. There are piano parts in so many famous pieces that are faster than Yngwie plays also violin for example. My fav composers are Bach, Debussy, Wagner, Mozart, Elgar, Schubert, in fact there are so many but for the 20th century I love The Beatles and the Beach Boys with Brian Wilson. Such incredible talents writing unfathomably beautifully crafted songs. The trick is to actually go and dig for new music instead of hoping you will just come across it someday. There are so many great works out there just sitting, that will knock you off your feet but you must search for it like you are hunting for treasure. I found the piece 'Arabesque No1' and then I became a huge Debussy fan. Just 1 piece led me into a whole new world of Debussy that I may of never found. I simply searched for ''most beautiful classical pieces'' What a tragedy that would of been to one day die never being overwhelmed by his undeniably beautiful French style. Please take my advice and actively search for music genres you may not of normally looked for. You could be very surprised adding a new layer of colour to your life or decide to take up a new instrument. I have played guitar for a very long time but now I feel so excited about playing piano and I am looking for a decently priced violin too. The piano feels very nice to play as you don't get sore fingers as we do when playing guitar for very long periods and as I already understand the music theory it is just about learning new shapes and techniques. I also approach music differently on piano than I would writing a part on the very familiar guitar...lol

[@user-bl3si3kq6x]

My two favorites. I may be Pers biggest fan. 100s of hours listening over the last 15 yrs. Rusty also gave me words of encouragement when i lived on the streets. Class acts.

[@alexgutierrez8305]

People needs to listen to this songs, Crying,Requiem,Brothers,Cantable,Dawn,Air on the theme, Leviathan ect. Yngwie is the only guitar player that make every note counts.If is fast slow no matter what, the vibrato, precision is there. And his music doesn't sound like any of the other guys before or after. He invented his own style. Yeah he had may look like ritchie at the beginning,when it come to image.But he playing was different then everybody else. There 3 guys that had there on sound and style and everybody copy them. Hendrix, Eddie,Yngwie.

[@weird_cds8206]

Malmsteen’s Crying - screams emotion that whole song is gut wrenchingly full of feeling!

[@harackmw]

When people ask how a solo of his can be beautiful and fast, I mention the solo from "Hold on". The thing is that solo moves from beautiful to fast to beautiful again, and eventually becomes terrifying .....

[@silverstone3228]

People tend to connect feelings to playing slow or blues only which is nonesense , when i first heard yngwie i felt every note in his raw solos , gave me a feeling of energy , explosion and power Which is another kind of feelings that those naysayers just don't get it and they keep spreading their ignorance on others, that's my opinion

[@oniwabangroup]

This is a great discussion

[@acutaboveessentialservices9629]

Love that they touch on speed and I couldn’t agree with them more. 100% true. These dudes are just great period!

[@ricardoalonsoparedesruiz1149]

RUSTY COOLEY YOU ARE THE NEWKING of SHRED AT LEVEL OF THE GIANTS FOR SHURE , HANDS DOWN!!!

[@fabiencourtoistapping]

I LIKE so much yngwie ! his feeling ! and the first real shredder !! ( so shawn lane exited but unknown in the lp industry ) after EVH HE HAS DOING DREAM THE GUITAR S FAN

[@cmonsterz]

People that say that a player that uses "speed" in their playing doesn't play "with feeling" are just intimidated by how much more musical the other player is. The same people tend to say that every blues guitarist plays "with feeling"...which is incredibly stupid. I ignore them because they absolutely do NOT know what they are talking about. I can enjoy really good players from every genre. In fact, that's one of the very best things about guitar. As a subject, it's so vast that it's it's own world.

[@alwilliams1997]

Hey Rusty, could you do an episode on Shawn Lane, awesome

[@oniwabangroup]

Thank you for this Rusty 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@davidvanberkel5599]

Great interview People 🔥👍👌Yngwie Malmsteen is the best for me💥💥💥

[@JohnProph]

another thing I respect about Yngwie is just the sheer output of work. Over 20 albums. Lets say he only averaged 2 great songs per album....thats still 40 great songs. I love John Sykes and Jake E Lee....but compare the output???

[@hyramjackson]

Loved this

[@jeroenbos1126]

Very nice!!

[@chriszaferes5984]

Such a GREAT video Rusty!

[@pzdipuing]

Blablabla soul, feeling watever i don't like but i love listening fast music....

[@geoks]

the KING 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@enzosaponara]

holy words

[@DaveSteele07]

The Hot on Your Heels intro was the Shot heard 'round the metal world!!! After that I dove headfirst into Shrapnel Records!! Greg Howe is my Hero out of the Shrapnel crew!!

[@calvinfreeman2112]

Good call, got to give it to Vinnie More over Howe,but both are awesome shredders

[@calvinfreeman2112]

Moore*

[@jfo3000]

Friedman & Becker were uniquely original in that realm.

[@DaveSteele07]

They all are amazing player!!

[@steveettling]

Music is the sound of emotion imo. And there are many different sides of emotion. Music in its self is emotional. It’s vibrating energy like our spirit. Everyone emotes differently and also the same. Thats my two cents. Play whats pleasing to you. And don’t criticize it or anyone else. Its not a competition its expression. And its fun to do!

[@TBtonic]

I would like to hear Rusty with a Yngwie "tone" once just for fun? cheers

[@fk9277]

Alcatrazz - suffer me. I don't think it gets more emotional

[@jfrbcelloguitar]

Saludos cordiales! Gracias! Rusty cooly 👍🤝🤘

[@emoboi311]

Michael Angelo Batio and Buckethead are the best shredders in modern times by far. They have both feeling, and technique. They don’t just sweep pick and alternate pick, they sweep tap, string skip, everything.

[@bm-b1944]

No emotion? LMFAO those insane bends Yngwie does...bro..there's soooo much more feeling in one of those bends than someone else's whole solo!

[@MrRustyCooley]

facts

[@driftthekaliyuga7502]

Yngwie not having feel has got to be the stupidest comment about out there. Do you not hear that vibrato? Those bends? The ferocity of the runs? WTF are you on?

[@Deadite8593]

Anyone who says Yngwie doesn't play with feeling hasn't heard his vibrato

[@MrRustyCooley]

facts

[@bozeeke]

I like Yngwie as a personality and he's a great technical player, but after five minutes of flight of the bumblebee as a solo you can start to tune it out. While I'm not saying all fast players have no feel, go listen to somebody like Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher or David Gilmore and you'll understand what the feel vs speed people are talking about.

[@JedNadin]

Everything you just said is the exact thing these guys argued. Malmsteen isn’t Flight of the Bumblebee to a metronome. I love those guys you mentioned, but in no way would I say they’re notably more expressive in their playing… I wouldn’t even say they’re AS expressive. You don’t need to go looking for a slow ballad or anything in Yngwie’s back catalogue, even when he’s shredding ass, he’s articulating so much emotion, his phrasing is so vocal in its execution. It’s such a pity people can’t hear it. It’s a shitty, unfortunate thing for him too. It’s like, because he can play so blazingly fast, people miss all the nuance within the performance. I’m sitting here listening to the solo at the end of Fire & Ice, like… his ability to have that, teetering, suspended bend, that desperate cry. The subtle wah use! It’s ridiculously good. The problem is, Yngwie’s “big 4”. Far Beyond the Sun, Blackstar, Evil Eye, and Trilogy, only represent one aspect of Malmsteen’s playing. They’re baroque inspired instrumentals, with emphasis on themes, and lots of notes. It’s a great example of his neoclassical thing, but It’s not the best representation of his overall capabilities.

[@bozeeke]

@@JedNadin Yngwie has a lot of feel for a shredder. What I personally like about the older stuff especially (Trilogy, Marching Out etc.) was that he was a great hard rock rhythm player too. However, like I said, he's got great feel compared to other fast metal players. You can't tell me that he has the same feel and emotion as a Hendrix or some of the other guys I mentioned.

[@epic103]

@@bozeeke - if you get a chance checkout songs like Crying, Brothers, Icarus Dream Suite, Overture 1383, Black Star, and Marching Out just to name a few. You'll see Yngwie plays with a lot of heart and feeling. Those songs are the epitome of inspiration. His vibrato and bending is top notch.

[@bozeeke]

@@epic103 I've heard a lot of his stuff. The riffs from the mid to late 80s stuff are great. He just needed to curtail the extra long neoclassical solos a bit. Too long, too many notes.

[@epic103]

@@bozeeke - That's his thing, he's over the top. Yngwie is on the extreme end of things.

[@bobbyfikesmusicfun]

🤘😎👍

[@UroboricNate]

Per is right when he says "lack of feel" isnt exclusive to fast players, i think the stereotype exists because a lot of "shred" players skip out on blues and phrasing and go straight to flashy play, its a real thing..but to straight up say fast playing equals "no feel" is just ignorant.

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

I think a lot of that variety of commentary has less to do with Yngwie himself (or any performing musician for that matter) than with the perception of the listener. Most people who listen to rock and contemporary music in general and guitar, in particular, are accustomed to hearing a bluesy/pentatonic based tonality and the phrasing vocabulary that goes with it, so hearing players like Malmsteen, or Holdsworth, or even Vai, or Satriani is going to be an experience outside of the norm for most listeners, and as with any kind of "change" some people are open to things outside of their experiences, but most persons are not, therefore the knee jerk reaction of the average listener hearing something that is different will be to dislike it or to criticize it.

[@shredhead76]

Music is subject to interpretation, those who say this person plays with no feeling do not understand what’s being played or simply do not connect to that style.

[@kamikazekrush3758]

You ever listened to Bernd steidl? That guy was a speed demon, dont know what happened to him though?

[@vincentgarzoli3197]

I would like to know as well. I was at GIT when Bernd was a student back in the late-1980s. He was a very polite, and very cool guy who was always supportive of his fellow students' efforts to improve as opposed to the stereotype of GIT students at the time, which was the riff on the old light-bulb joke....How many GIT students does it take to play a guitar solo? 4 (or more), 1 to play the solo, and the other (however many) to claim they can play it better! Some heartless bastard stole his Black 1968 Start with FS-1 pickups in it out of a locker at school. I always wondered if he had gotten it back or not.

[@wendelllanders8439]

Some students say the most Bizzare things at times Lol!!!

[@nagesh1976]

Whoever thinks yngwie, vai or Holdsworth have no feel are just deaf... Yngwie also wrote great songs.. Other than solos..

[@MrRustyCooley]

facts

[@malmsteen1]

Respect to Rusty, Rusty is the man.

[@SLP-eb1wp]

Hey guys, I have always thought that most people that claim YJM has no feeling are the same people who wouldn't spend more than 10 seconds listening to Bach, Vivaldi, Paganini, etc. People that don't have the ear to appreciate high information music such as classical.

[@EVEROSFP1]

I would say this is all about the impact of rock/metal on people. There already were badass guitarists from fusion or jazz players but YJM was another kind of cat!

[@joakimsjosteen1305]

Tony macmalmsteen is king

[@cclark7454]

Feel , because this person plays fast means they don’t have feel ? What does a real fast car feel like , what does a rocket ship flying into space feel like , what do laser beams feel like . Everything feels

[@kevinnazario1015]

Yngwie is great. Not deny it, but the fact is he has been playing exactly the same way since the beginning. I preffer tony macalpine, vinnie moore, steve vai or joe satriani.

[@epic103]

In fairness that's his style and that style has served him well. Clapton, B B King, and EVH never changed either. Because they have their own style.

[@robbyerics2792]

Funny how Per struggles with pronuncing Yngwie's name. It's a mix between the original Swedish pronunciation and a little English :)

[@kituki3965]

Yngwie malmsteen. he is the big boss ... although many do not like him

[@NipplesMagee]

Less feeling, more notes 😂

[@philfrank5601]

Arguing about feel vs technique is such a sad waste if time. Answer the question for yourself, if you feel it is impoetant. Then get on with your music. YOUR musuc. That's what we need: more music.

[@MrRustyCooley]

correct

[@michaelfineo6400]

Shawn Lane could have played circles around yngwie

[@garymorris9611]

Then listen to Lane and stop talking about players you don't like. They are totally different players.Being a musical snob will get you no points. Cheers.

[@andreas_XX]

😂😂😂

[@Planet9_music]

Feel is so subjective. Depends so much on your life choices and influences, who is anyone to say categorically that one style or genre has no feeling?! ... P.s. Bieber sucks 🤣

[@markdonnelly6921]

Who cares if someone thinks a great guitar player isnt his cup of tea anyway, take it or leave it ,if you dont like it jog on

[@seti111]

lol, dude didn't have a clue what they meant by " playing with feel / feeling "

[@m0rvidusm0rvidus18]

American blues cult/fetish is largely responsible for the 'doesn't play with feeling' theme. Even Govan and Gilbert fell for the fallacy that blues style somehow involves more 'feeling' than anything else.

[@JohnnyBargeldBoom]

I hate that the unknown guy interrupts all the time .. In every video "my wife, my dad, my student, etc"... Please get rid of the guy, it's like a forum internet guy just crashed a podcast of two pro musicians.

[@ZombieSquirts]

Maybe you should do your research on that "unknown guy who interrupts all the time"... and take your hate elsewhere. It's not tolerated here.

[@JohnnyBargeldBoom]

@@ZombieSquirts Sorry I talked bad about your son😞

[@ZombieSquirts]

@@JohnnyBargeldBoom 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nice comeback.

[@JohnnyBargeldBoom]

@@ZombieSquirts Thanks, I appreciate it! Just foolin' around. Have a great week, Alicia! 😃