Why Does Yngwie Play His "Slow" Examples So Fast?

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[@DannyKGuitar]

Watching a lot of Yngwie's interview, including the one where he straightface admitted he never understood "how can less be more", I'm convinced that he just didn't understand "slow" for the audience at the time.

[@Selzor]

@@chopholtz4950 or it could be that he didn’t understand English too well at the time and didn’t understand, because it logically makes no sense to someone who doesn’t understand the saying.

[@georgoroth]

He wasn't teaching guitar, he was teaching his style to people who already knew how to play guitar, those weren't lessons for beginners. The "slow speed" was fine for guitarrists, not for beginners

[@Fedorevsky]

Exactly. Yngwie's solos aren't exactly music fit for beginners so that should give it away immediately.

[@ujan9837]

@@Fedorevsky That's utter BS. There are no 'levels' in music. It's all about hearing what you like and developing your technique to be able to articulate that.

[@stopthehate1749]

@@ujan9837 but for TEACHING music there are levels. I have bunches of instructional books, cassettes, videos, dvd's, etc that have specific beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. A beginner who knows nothing and can't even play a basic chord or pentatonic scale, will probably not be able to handle this Yngwie video.

[@tiago2336]

@@ujan9837 what do you mean with there are no levels. Are you dumb? I've studied classical and jazz for over 20 years, and I love me some fusion rock an all. Trust me, there are levels... A lot of them. Only a duche who doesn't know shit about guitar would say there arent.

[@joriankell1983]

@@ujan9837 so all songs are equally difficult to learn?

[@WeyounSix]

The rule of thumb I always use for slowing down is only slow down as much as you need to so you can hit all of the notes perfectly without mistake. Play as fast as you can without making mistakes, if you make a mistake, slow down until you dont anymore, then speed back up.

[@CharlesEBusa]

Yngwie: "How could slow be fast?! Slow is slow." XD Great video, as always! Cheers!

[@Bad.Rabbit]

I think for lick videos "slow" is slow enough that you can easily pick out all the individual notes. Then you can commit short phrases to your mind and transcribe them to your own guitar

[@camaleonsacor1618]

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[@cj7318]

Playing slow is important to get the notes down. Also yngwie plays at that speed becuz any slower and his technique for playing those licks would change. Playing slow and playing fast are two different beasts and you can only slow down your fast playing so much before it turns into the slow technique. If learning fast stuff, practice your things slowly to get the notes down. Then start practicing repetition at moderate speeds immediately and work your way up.

[@albertorockmaster1836]

There are 3 things i noticed on that Ynwgie video: 1. Slow playing works most of the time to check if you are playing the right notes and if you qre playing them correctly 2. Yngwie is a terrible guitar teacher he couldn't teach guitar well enough to anyone, (seen it in many instructionals) 3. most of the students would like any teacher to play it slower not because this means we will practice that slow but because we want to see how these licks played so we can learn them

[@ILLRICARDO]

I remember this tutorial, I had it on VHS!!

[@ukguitarnoodle]

And the tab book was totally wrong 😂

[@Fedorevsky]

My guitar teacher never said slow. He said play so fast you can nearly play it clean but not entirely. Practice at this speed until it's clean. Rinse repeat. This always worked great for me.

[@moonshine_messiah]

What?! New guitar?! Looks great! And boom! It’s gone! And great video!

[@fredericadda]

I always start practicing slow, which is the speed at which I can comfortably chain the little packs of notes that I identified separately beforehand.

[@miikayak]

Woah 1:27 magic guitar shape shifting!

[@miikayak]

Damn at 4:12 again!

[@mikhailoldskool8955]

@@miikayak woah haha

[@ashuzguitar]

Wow. He spit straight truths for 5 mins. Such videos are rare. Good job 👍👌

[@nimaside]

Somehow this video required him to hold not just one guitar, but two different models.

[@Stefan-Van-der-Pulst]

Without playing a note.....

[@mikhailoldskool8955]

woah haha

[@ToneD5150]

Left & right hand coordination is essential...!!! Yngwie just makes it look easy...😂

[@gx1tar1er]

Yngwie Malmsteen lessons remind me of Beato's music theory book.

[@andrewbanas3036]

I have some issues with this video. I tell my students "slow" practice is the tempo at which they can practice correctly; at minimum this is correct timing and correct notes. I have NEVER seen a student improve by playing at a tempo at which they continue to make mistakes or have to take pauses. Practicing mistakes ensures that the student will simply drag a piece around for a longer period of time. Students who eventually understand how to obtain their appropriate practice tempo on their own tend to excel. Naturally tempos are contingent upon the material and the students level, and practicing mistakes is a waste of time. My own playing took off when my teacher gave me the instructions I needed to find my appropriate practice tempo for the situation I was working on. Now I am able to tear into a piece, figure out the timing and efficiently obtain performance tempo. Notes are easy, it is the timing of the notes that students have the most trouble with. Periodically pushing the tempo is helpful, but it should be part of the progression.

[@dan_kay]

I like to play rockabilly stuff. When I practice things slowly, we're still talking 140 bpm :) When I slow things too much down, I lose the feeling for it. I mean, I play certain music because it does something to me or with me. A rockabilly song at 80 bpm just makes me wanna cry so, I wouldn't really have any motivation to practice it.

[@christian98]

So is anyone gonna talk about guitar shape shifting here or am I gonna be the only one cause I'm starting to think I'm hallucinating

[@relentlessforce]

Imo,--im not sure its related to rookie player or pro player level, but to understand more, and make guitar lesson digest faster, a fundamental theory of music be understood well, plus the principle of guitar also must be learn and understand,

[@1SmokingLizard]

....And this is why the Playback Speed option was invented

[@StewTheTrue]

Nice C1 with Invaders!

[@songwritersoc2274]

paul gilbert is the best guitar god teacher

[@gx1tar1er]

and he taught Buckethead too

[@availablelight999]

I will show you but you cannot be me...yngwie J malmsteen 😂😂

[@ghaussydreams]

Because there was a booklet with the video/DVD. Also use your ear and make it sound like the source

[@thomasmoura]

Your point is valid as practice concept but there is no relation to Yngwie video. The point of playing slow on a instructional video is to be able to discern the individual notes and the fingering of the lick.

[@guitarologist5703]

Nice Guitar!

[@Mtaalas]

I can totally follow him slow. Yngwie expects everyone to be able to listen and at that speed you can totally hear every note and hear the shape so you should be able to repeat that unless you're someone who just follows detailed step by step instructions... If he's too fast, maybe you're not ready for it yet and need to work on your music fundamentals like active listening, recognizing shapes, your scales and modes etc... But I get it, it feels like all these "requirements" are gate keeping, but they're really not. Nobody's driving F1 car down the road without training... same with music. You need your fundamentals to be strong and then you can drive that sucker 300 miles per hour to the goal. :)

[@shantamoiranthem1912]

Is that RGT 42

[@brandon_945]

Once you get to an intermediate level, this is actually slow. Even more so if you’re been dabbling in shred guitar for a while

[@metalhead2328]

ive heard that advice before, to speed up your picking hand you should focus on shortening the range of motion of your picking. Seems to me though thats just something that happens naturally when you try to pick faster. Does anyone actually consciously reduce the range of motion of their picking hand in order to pick faster, or do they simply try moving their hand faster and as a result they tighten the range of motion? I certainly never found it to be useful advice for my own playing.

[@soullowhill]

You need to do it slowly as you can to play the note as cleanly as possible and then move on to the next note

[@Petrucci-bv4yf]

Old video, but I think you're overthinking this tbh. If you can play a lick cleanly and accurately at warp speed, you should also have no difficulty playing it at a range of speeds, right down to snail pace. Players like Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci, even Rusty Cooley, have no issues doing that for demonstration purposes. Yngwie just chooses (chose) not to, presumably because he finds it tedious to play slowly.

[@paraguaydreams8115]

Does he always talk so much?

[@ukguitarnoodle]

Yes

[@blackmetalrockdeath]

Slow to show what note being played its not his teaching style. His main goal is to show what you can play in his playstyle and how it is sound.

[@eatingtrees9077]

Shouldn’t he still play it slow enough that the viewer can decipher what he’s playing though? We’re not getting a window into Malmsteen’s best practices, we’re trying to learn a specific sequence of notes from him. I’m confused about what the possible downsides of slow practice have to do with the chief complaints about these lessons. If someone spoke too quickly to be understood, exploring the ills of speaking too slowly wouldn’t help anyone involved in that particular miscommunication.

[@rjc7289]

For the man who practically coined the phrase "more is more", I don't think slow playing could ever be in his repertoire. He understands slow the same way B.B. King understands hyper-speed shred -- NOT AT ALL!!!

[@SantiVanegas9]

ingay

[@standingvertical3048]

Why do you say that? perhaps it is you that is afraid of the Female Vagina.

[@serkanyilmazkurt6375]

You know what? You talk too much!

[@jfo3000]

Yeah, but Mike, Yngwie didnt say everything that you just said.

[@CynHicks]

That's not fast though. Only me? 😅😢

[@kane6529]

Yeah someone that plays like he plays knows no other speed than what normal people perceive as fast

[@TelipatiEvolustions]

Speed practice man can't not play slow rock song. FAQ

[@headlesssoldier]

lol. If you’re a decent player, it’s actually slow enough

[@blacktulip4712]

Because he cant play an allegro or allegretto or anything slow His touches are very bad… he is not musical at all.

[@drgio75]

blah blah blah blah talking for nothing

[@HowToPracticeGuitar]

Good thing your comment added a ton of value.

[@HaRDc0r3z]

Some licks you practice so much at a fast speed that if someone asked me to play it slow i would fuck it up hahaha.

[@niccwhite]

way too much blabla