Nice job Leon. So refreshing to hear guitar player of your stature say how much he loves YJM...it seems to have become trendy in guitar circles to say one hates him. How can anyone hate someone that proficient on guitar? Sure..it may not be your thing, but being unable to appreciate that level of skill, is a little odd to me. I saw him in CA in 89' at the peak if you like....fantastic. The other thing people fail to get, is that he pioneered that whole neo classical thing on guitar. Whereas today, anyone can go find a multitude of players who've copied YJM, and cop those licks on youtube. But hell...YJM came out with this..when there was nothing on earth like it. And you did and darn good job too by the way!
Rising force was the album I was introduced to Yngwie. After that album guitar players everywhere started studying music theory and listening to classical music. I think rock musicianship took a step upward as so many people were blown away with his playing and music composition. Most players were rock blues players at the time. For myself it was an influence that led to a lifetime appreciation of classical music. Not sure that would have happened without listening to Yngwie.
Yngwie literally ended my first attempt at guitar. Decided I had better forget about music as a profession if that was going to be the new standard. I also could not believe that it was possible to play that fast and clean. To me, Yngwie is a true pioneer of modern guitar technique. Thanks Leon, I really enjoyed this lesson!
Seriously amazing skills Leon. You’ve arrived. As great as he is at scales, I adored his classical pieces, interludes, etc. I always felt he pulled from the masters, and that’s what I appreciate most.
I remember Yngwie's instructional videos when he says 'and now slow' and then he plays the lick almost in the same speed - somehow funny, but he's a great musican. My first album I've heard him playing was from Alcatrazz and I was kind of shocked. I agree - Trilogy is one of the best albums be did.
Cool video...enjoyed it! Great playing and very informative...love Yngwie! Definitely one of the best of the best....and is on my Top 10 list for sure!
Yngwie has a lot of runs that are 3’s, 4’s and 6’s like you’ve shown, but there’s a ton of stuff on especially his earlier albums where he plays these bizarre phrases... cleanly... and lands on his feet even though none of it makes sense. He’ll mix patterns of 4, 5 and 6 notes and just land on his feet like a cat. Doesn’t really do any of that anymore, but it’s crazy to listen to. Listen to stuff like “Now Your Ships Are Burned” where you’re just like “Hunh... ?” I was 13 when Trilogy came out and it was the first I heard him, through my best friend’s big brother (that and “Rage for Order” in the same year... wowzers... ). I had already been playing violin for five years and it immediately hit me as violin lines on the guitar. The sheer breadth of the fingerboard he was covering, some of his technique, even using pizzicato at times... straight violin stuff. Sure, the technique was beyond impressive, but something about the actual style hit me as very familiar. Then I delved into Blackmore and Yngwie really came across to me as a modern Blackmore (especially his Alcatrazz live tone and his clothes and moves LOL), plus the nod to he violin via Paganini. Vinny Moore was more of a DiMeola type player and MacAlpine had that Chopin thing happening. They were the “Big Three” Neo-Classical “shredder” type players to me in the ‘80’s and they were all different.
I remember watching Vinnie Moore's VHS tape and learning a bunch of licks on that one. Very cool stuff. Rage for order and Trilogy in the same year - that must have been mind blowing!
Leon Todd The same guy introduced me to both albums. It was funny because Yngwie got me into Hendrix and Blackmore and Queensryche got me into ‘70’s Prog. Stupidly influential as a 13 year-old. Those Vinnie Moore VHS tapes exist here on teh YouYubez. I was just watching them today after looking at your video LOL!
Many guitarists have been influential in our history .. people like Hendrix Van Halen Yngwie malmsteen (Uli Jon Roth) are Archimedean points in regards to influencing or changing the way people play guitar. if you look at it in history those three guitar players change the way we look at guitar in general. Yngwie malmsteen ushered in the neoclassical age yes guitar players like Ritchie Blackmore we're doing similar things and in my argument .. ULI JON ROTH WAS THE REAL FACE OF NEOCLASSICAL GUITAR! Listen to the song CATCH YOUR TRAIN by The Scorpions - in that guitar solo you here almost every one of Yngwie malmsteen's techniques .. diminished arpeggios and sweeping linear three note per string lines! Thanks again Leon you always do a wonderful job!
@@LeonTodd www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/scorpions-the-sails-of-charon-tab-s52956t0 This is a pretty good transcription of the song although, Uli Jon Roth does a RUclips lesson on the entire song
Your face at 10:39 😆 People overlook the mid 90’s and onward Yngwie in favour of the early stuff. Alchemy has his fastest, most aggressive playing of his of any album. Like, I don’t know if the Trilogy era Yngwie could get through that disc. Ferocious shit. New releases around the Spellbound/World on Fire era have some killer licks, but the production is so horrendous, I can’t revisit them all that often. Guy needs a producer and Mark Boals back, like yesterday. I’ve always been a hard out Yngwie fanboy, from the Scalloped Strats to the DOD to the 1.5mm delrin pick, to the Marshall. I’ve always had his licks pretty close with the Gilbert picking. But Chris Brooks’ Yng-Way stuff has cracked that shit right open. The down>up>pull-off thing for descending strings is imperative to nailing his licks. Combine that with the economy picking on ascending licks, and you’d have that Trilogy lick NAILED.
@@GuitarJay333 - if you want to hear Yngwie play with feel checkout Guardian Angel, Black Star, Marching Out, Icarus Dream Suite, Crying, and Brothers just to name a few. Because those songs are the epitome of inspiration and feel. Even Yngwie's fast stuff has a lot of substance behind it.
@@epic103 I definitely agree he has 'feel', just he's always Yngwie, for better or for worse. The live at Budokan version of Black Star is one my favourites of his.
He is an economy picker always and you need to copy that as well to give you the time to phrase the pick attack. Hard to say in a sentence but that’s all your missing. Great video as always.
Hi! You did demos of the Marshall JCM800, VM and JCM2000DSL. Can we hear the demo of the Marshall JCM900 SL-X version from you? I'm thinking about buying the JCM2000DSL vs JCM900 SL-X vs Bugera 1960 (1959SLP clone), but idk whch one shoud I choose for 80's EVH, Motley Crue, Dokken tone.
Trilogy is a very good album, but for some reason it never got me as much as Marching Out, Eclipse, or even Odyssey. Maybe it was over hyped for me when I first heard it and it tainted my opinion of it ever since? Sort of similar to Dokken's Tooth and Nail. A lot of people cite that as their best work, but I'd argue that Under Lock and Key or Up from the Ashes is Dokken's finest work. To each their own. Anyways, great and interesting video as always! Have been a fan for Yngwie since I listened to Black Star and he's such an incredible player (and an underrated songwriter as well!) great work, keep it up!
@@LeonTodd It's grown on me a lot since I've listened to it. Billy White is SUPER underrated and sadly hasn't done much after that album. A damn shame, but hey at least we got to hear him and John Norum work together on that amazing album.
You described yngwie perfectly in relation to the speed vs emotion/feel etc. Vocal vibrato....spot on. By the way, why did you get the yngie neck with a warmoth body? Cheaper than an yngwie fender? or did you want to customise it in some way?
this song, i see tone is C har.minor tone, and use G phrygian.dom, but i can not understand how he can use A har.minor in Sometime? in music theory i can not understand it, please explan, thanks.
@@LeonTodd in first section on C har.minor, and after that change to Am & Bdim apergios part, and A minor scale, final in G phrygian dom, hear sound good, but can not understand how he wrote it in theory :), thank you so much
My biggest question is how does one convince their wife that they need another guitar so they can get a Malmsteen strat when they already have a whole bunch of guitars? That would be the greatest lesson of all! 😉
I went to an yngwie show here in Pennsylvania and waited till 2 am for him to sign a malmsteen shirt I paid 50 bucks for at the show. He came walking out all by himself and I asked him and he said no he was tired . True story.He definitely doesn't go above and beyond for you to like him. He is a dick but whatever who cares no ones perfect. Really he didn't sign it because he was doing 300 dollar meet and greets that came with an autograph. When he told me no I said it's cool you're still my hero and he grinned.
Nice job Leon. So refreshing to hear guitar player of your stature say how much he loves YJM...it seems to have become trendy in guitar circles to say one hates him. How can anyone hate someone that proficient on guitar? Sure..it may not be your thing, but being unable to appreciate that level of skill, is a little odd to me. I saw him in CA in 89' at the peak if you like....fantastic. The other thing people fail to get, is that he pioneered that whole neo classical thing on guitar. Whereas today, anyone can go find a multitude of players who've copied YJM, and cop those licks on youtube. But hell...YJM came out with this..when there was nothing on earth like it. And you did and darn good job too by the way!
Rising force was the album I was introduced to Yngwie. After that album guitar players everywhere started studying music theory and listening to classical music. I think rock musicianship took a step upward as so many people were blown away with his playing and music composition. Most players were rock blues players at the time. For myself it was an influence that led to a lifetime appreciation of classical music. Not sure that would have happened without listening to Yngwie.
Yngwie literally ended my first attempt at guitar. Decided I had better forget about music as a profession if that was going to be the new standard. I also could not believe that it was possible to play that fast and clean. To me, Yngwie is a true pioneer of modern guitar technique. Thanks Leon, I really enjoyed this lesson!
Love the enthusiasm!!! A lot of people rag on him but those first 6 albums are great. ... And he's such a great blues player... Great vid
Well done! Great explanations, but the best part is your down to earth personality and humor.
🤟😎🤟
ok, it's time to revisit Yngwie albums :D
Seriously amazing skills Leon. You’ve arrived. As great as he is at scales, I adored his classical pieces, interludes, etc. I always felt he pulled from the masters, and that’s what I appreciate most.
Icarus Dream Suite has some amazing baroque style parts and arrangements that still floor me.
great video dude. I was also surprised as I heard him to the very first time. So many memories.
I remember Yngwie's instructional videos when he says 'and now slow' and then he plays the lick almost in the same speed - somehow funny, but he's a great musican. My first album I've heard him playing was from Alcatrazz and I was kind of shocked. I agree - Trilogy is one of the best albums be did.
Yeah that video cracks me up. The Alcatrazz stuff is smoking.
Another great video Leon! Good call on the Sails of Charon influence.
I have to learn this, btw the tone is always lovely Leon.
Cool video...enjoyed it! Great playing and very informative...love Yngwie! Definitely one of the best of the best....and is on my Top 10 list for sure!
He's considered one of the greats for a reason.
i remember getting trilogy. It really was a new level. great vid thanks!
Yngwie has a lot of runs that are 3’s, 4’s and 6’s like you’ve shown, but there’s a ton of stuff on especially his earlier albums where he plays these bizarre phrases... cleanly... and lands on his feet even though none of it makes sense. He’ll mix patterns of 4, 5 and 6 notes and just land on his feet like a cat. Doesn’t really do any of that anymore, but it’s crazy to listen to. Listen to stuff like “Now Your Ships Are Burned” where you’re just like “Hunh... ?”
I was 13 when Trilogy came out and it was the first I heard him, through my best friend’s big brother (that and “Rage for Order” in the same year... wowzers... ). I had already been playing violin for five years and it immediately hit me as violin lines on the guitar. The sheer breadth of the fingerboard he was covering, some of his technique, even using pizzicato at times... straight violin stuff. Sure, the technique was beyond impressive, but something about the actual style hit me as very familiar.
Then I delved into Blackmore and Yngwie really came across to me as a modern Blackmore (especially his Alcatrazz live tone and his clothes and moves LOL), plus the nod to he violin via Paganini.
Vinny Moore was more of a DiMeola type player and MacAlpine had that Chopin thing happening. They were the “Big Three” Neo-Classical “shredder” type players to me in the ‘80’s and they were all different.
I remember watching Vinnie Moore's VHS tape and learning a bunch of licks on that one. Very cool stuff.
Rage for order and Trilogy in the same year - that must have been mind blowing!
Leon Todd
The same guy introduced me to both albums. It was funny because Yngwie got me into Hendrix and Blackmore and Queensryche got me into ‘70’s Prog. Stupidly influential as a 13 year-old.
Those Vinnie Moore VHS tapes exist here on teh YouYubez. I was just watching them today after looking at your video LOL!
Whenever a discussion of neo-classical shredders entails, I gotta plug Michael Romeo from Symphony X.
gotta agree on this, to me he's the best noeclassical player, his melodies are insane good and insane hard lol
Many guitarists have been influential in our history .. people like Hendrix Van Halen Yngwie malmsteen (Uli Jon Roth) are Archimedean points in regards to influencing or changing the way people play guitar. if you look at it in history those three guitar players change the way we look at guitar in general. Yngwie malmsteen ushered in the neoclassical age yes guitar players like Ritchie Blackmore we're doing similar things and in my argument .. ULI JON ROTH WAS THE REAL FACE OF NEOCLASSICAL GUITAR! Listen to the song CATCH YOUR TRAIN by The Scorpions - in that guitar solo you here almost every one of Yngwie malmsteen's techniques .. diminished arpeggios and sweeping linear three note per string lines!
Thanks again Leon you always do a wonderful job!
Yeah Uli is the unsung hero man. The dude needs more love. I'll do a sails of charon "how not to play" soon.
@@LeonTodd www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/scorpions-the-sails-of-charon-tab-s52956t0
This is a pretty good transcription of the song although, Uli Jon Roth does a RUclips lesson on the entire song
My favorite Yngwie album
Odyssey is a great album for me.
Sounds like yngwie to me! Fantastic playing fella 👍
Much appreciated :)
You surprised me with this video. Cool one again
Your face at 10:39 😆
People overlook the mid 90’s and onward Yngwie in favour of the early stuff. Alchemy has his fastest, most aggressive playing of his of any album. Like, I don’t know if the Trilogy era Yngwie could get through that disc. Ferocious shit. New releases around the Spellbound/World on Fire era have some killer licks, but the production is so horrendous, I can’t revisit them all that often. Guy needs a producer and Mark Boals back, like yesterday.
I’ve always been a hard out Yngwie fanboy, from the Scalloped Strats to the DOD to the 1.5mm delrin pick, to the Marshall. I’ve always had his licks pretty close with the Gilbert picking. But Chris Brooks’ Yng-Way stuff has cracked that shit right open. The down>up>pull-off thing for descending strings is imperative to nailing his licks. Combine that with the economy picking on ascending licks, and you’d have that Trilogy lick NAILED.
People who say Yngwie has no feel are really just admitting that have a very limited definition of “feel”.
Yes
No feel is obviously incorrect but appropriately enough 'very limited' is a good term to describe him. He's a one trick pony, but man what a trick.
Oh man, I wish I were that limited!
@@GuitarJay333 - if you want to hear Yngwie play with feel checkout Guardian Angel, Black Star, Marching Out, Icarus Dream Suite, Crying, and Brothers just to name a few. Because those songs are the epitome of inspiration and feel.
Even Yngwie's fast stuff has a lot of substance behind it.
@@epic103 I definitely agree he has 'feel', just he's always Yngwie, for better or for worse. The live at Budokan version of Black Star is one my favourites of his.
Great stuff as usual :)
Really enjoyed this one, more Yngwie stuff please. More is more after all! Curious about that preset you’re using too
For sure. From memory this was a MKIIC++ with the gain maxed
He is an economy picker always and you need to copy that as well to give you the time to phrase the pick attack. Hard to say in a sentence but that’s all your missing. Great video as always.
You're a beast!!
I'm just trying to keep pace with young YJM!
As a huge YJM fan, I must thumb up this video!
Your playing is incredible!
I did an orchestral cover of this very song (Op 5)! 😉
Thanks mate. Can't wait to hear that!
@@LeonTodd Here you go bro!
ruclips.net/video/Rmedy26uirc/видео.html
Lemme know you opinions :)
Hi! You did demos of the Marshall JCM800, VM and JCM2000DSL. Can we hear the demo of the Marshall JCM900 SL-X version from you? I'm thinking about buying the JCM2000DSL vs JCM900 SL-X vs Bugera 1960 (1959SLP clone), but idk whch one shoud I choose for 80's EVH, Motley Crue, Dokken tone.
LOL Yngwie thinking high of himself is a understatement.
Trilogy is a very good album, but for some reason it never got me as much as Marching Out, Eclipse, or even Odyssey. Maybe it was over hyped for me when I first heard it and it tainted my opinion of it ever since? Sort of similar to Dokken's Tooth and Nail. A lot of people cite that as their best work, but I'd argue that Under Lock and Key or Up from the Ashes is Dokken's finest work. To each their own. Anyways, great and interesting video as always! Have been a fan for Yngwie since I listened to Black Star and he's such an incredible player (and an underrated songwriter as well!) great work, keep it up!
Up from the Ashes is an incredible album - John Norum and Billy White are smoking on that.
@@LeonTodd It's grown on me a lot since I've listened to it. Billy White is SUPER underrated and sadly hasn't done much after that album. A damn shame, but hey at least we got to hear him and John Norum work together on that amazing album.
Really great Yngwie tone! Was this on the Axe FX 3?
Yes, it was one of the Mark series patches I shared with the gain turned up
+Leon Todd nice job on this brother :-)
Thanks JSad! This kicked my ass big time.
+Leon Todd Haha....yes I can imagine 😁 You pulled it off beautifully 😁
You described yngwie perfectly in relation to the speed vs emotion/feel etc. Vocal vibrato....spot on.
By the way, why did you get the yngie neck with a warmoth body? Cheaper than an yngwie fender? or did you want to customise it in some way?
Just got lucky, someone was selling everything except the body
@@LeonTodd Well, definitely an opportunity you couldn't miss! Enjoy! And thanks for the vid/tips!
Is there a lot of getting use to with a scalloped fretboard??? always wanted his Strat!!! Do feel u can play faster?
It's like having giant frets. It's more acase of being able to have a better grip on the strings when bending than helping to play fast.
3 jealous people clicked the dislike button. I wish Yngwie was as cool as you Leon !
this song, i see tone is C har.minor tone, and use G phrygian.dom, but i can not understand how he can use A har.minor in Sometime? in music theory i can not understand it, please explan, thanks.
It modulates to A minor for the second part of the theme. There's a lot of whole step or minor third key changes in his stuff.
@@LeonTodd in first section on C har.minor, and after that change to Am & Bdim apergios part, and A minor scale, final in G phrygian dom, hear sound good, but can not understand how he wrote it in theory :), thank you so much
@@coltdhabitat3435 I imagine it's "hey this is cool, let's put that bit here and UNLEASH THE FOCKING FURY MAN"
That was funny, I need the delay to sound good!
My biggest question is how does one convince their wife that they need another guitar so they can get a Malmsteen strat when they already have a whole bunch of guitars? That would be the greatest lesson of all! 😉
:D
Only buy guitars in the same colour, she'll never know when you get a new one
If you’re doing the sixes pattern...is that 3/4 or 4/4? I’ve been using a metronome at 3/4.
Try it in 4/4 at three notes per click
I seem to remember Yngwie was in a car accident right around that odyssey album
Yeah, hurt his hand real bad
That F chord shouldn't be minor?
Great as always :)
I went to an yngwie show here in Pennsylvania and waited till 2 am for him to sign a malmsteen shirt I paid 50 bucks for at the show. He came walking out all by himself and I asked him and he said no he was tired . True story.He definitely doesn't go above and beyond for you to like him. He is a dick but whatever who cares no ones perfect. Really he didn't sign it because he was doing 300 dollar meet and greets that came with an autograph. When he told me no I said it's cool you're still my hero and he grinned.
John Smith He is a human. He can be tired
@@LaszloVarga-msc No he's not allowed.
:D
👍 YJM. 👍
there's a little bit of guitar on your delay... just saying
Delay = talent booster
@@LeonTodd lol nice answer buddy! cheers!! keep rocking!