It doesn't matter, but what I love about Ben's playing is its ferocity. I remember when Zakk Wylde first hit the scene, and we were all agog at his vicious pick attack and wicked vibrato. I get the same feeling listening to Ben play except where Zakk had allowed himself to become limited and set in his signature licks, Ben has the capacity for sensitivity for each note or he can just grip it and rip it. It never gets old, man.
Exactly! To me, it's been something like Zakk Wylde fused with Nuno Bettencourt. Then the result got on guitar steroids and BANG: we got Ben Travers 😂🤟🏼🔥
Theres two type of guitar player reaction when they discover yngwie: they either go "no way i'm done" or they get inspired and try to play what he does
Mate, if you want destroyed...you needed to be there when it happened...back in '83/84. At that point most rock guitarists had the Van Halen/Randy Rhodes stuff down (if you were in America) and the Gary Moore/Michael Schenker licks pretty close, but when Yngwie appeared it was like hearing an alien. Most of us rockers weren't really aware of jazzers like Di Meola or McLaughlin,bor Holdsworth, so Yngwie's picking and aggression had never been heard. And of course you couldn't just go on RUclips and see what the hell he was doing. The Mags were where it was all at back then, and the transcriptions were a godsend. Of course, within 2 years of Yngwie their was a new Shrapnel guy every month, with chops up the oo aa! Satriani was pretty late in the game, to be honest, with Surfin appearing in 87, and by then his chops were nowhere near as developed as Vinnie Moore's, Jason Becker et al. It was his melodies and tunes that got everyone buzzing. Anyhow, I fondly remember hearing the Marching Out album in 1985, and literally falling on my bed laughing. I wasnt playing by then.. except air guitar. It was actually Yngwie that inspired me to have a go. I never thought I'd get to that level of technique, coz I wasnt prepared to spend 8hrs a day doodling, and 40 years later, I still haven't achieved it, but there are millions out there now, including your good self, who can do it...and beyond...with ease. That said, there will never be another player who will again push the envelope that much, and will have such a massive impact as Yngwie had back in 84.
💯 I first heard Far Beyond The Sun on a local Glasgow radio station…. Tom Russel’s Rock Show . We were in the van heading back from a gig . I thought I could play a bit and part of my solo was lifted straight from the tapping part of Eruption. Radio on full blast … on comes Yngwie …. Jesus… couldn’t believe it … had totally break down my technique and learn the minor harmonic scale initially. It still stands the test of time . Unbelievable technique… if you thought you could play a bit you had a few VH and RR licks you’re spot on … no one local had Yngwie’s sweeps ;)
I’m with you on this one @DamianPieroni. I had been playing a couple of years so had plenty of Gary More stuff down. I had read about Yngwie but never heard him so bought Marching Out on cassette tape. I put it on in the car intending to listen on the journey home. Instead I just sat there in the car in complete shock. It completely changed my entire experience and approach to the guitar.
@@miotubo839 - I can tell you for a fact that it's 100% nylon whatever it is.... has that obvious nylon sound..... and its not going to be one of the tiny whimpy Jazz III's.... could be a Jazz III XL though...but no chance it's the little dinky ones.
@@DaBaronSamedi - lol... i'm such a pick geek... I could hear it was nylon, and had a hunch it was a Jazz III shape.... but he gets way too much volume for it to be the little original one. Great player.
Yngwie 1984-86 before the car crash and vices taking the toll on mind and body, was out of this world. His precision and clarity still rather unmatched to this day, 40 years later. And he had a solid taste in phrasing too. NOW, how about some Jason Becker for your next vid?
Yours is an often parroted comment by those still envious. Yngwie released 7 LPs in the 1990s, 8 if you include 1990. He released only 7 since 2000. Baroque & Roll came out in 2002 on Attack!! If you don't like it, you don't like Yngwie, his approach to composition. Yngwie is an excellent technician, of course, among the best, but he is a composer first. Most of his songs are short-format rock, but he packs much into those, contrapundal, rondo. The same goes for Fuguetta from 2005 and Caprici di Diablo from 2008 and Cross to Bear from 2010.
@@DMDvideo10 Of course, that is not what is happening across his body of work. But for those with tin ear hearing and novice brains, it seems to be that way. Good luck!
I had just finished learning and was busy showing off to fellow guitarists, Celestial Terrestrial Commuters when Rising Force came out. It was almost shocking to the senses. I went into a dark closet for a very long time and beat my head against its walls while hacking through Black Star. It's one of the most stunning pieces of Metal I know. My goal was to not just be able to play it but to make it beautiful. To this day that song floats through my head while taking a shower, during a monotonous road trip, or when tuning out the yammerings of banal business meetings. Thank you for the trip down memory lane! This is great stuff.
Seeing yngwie live is the place/setting to experience him, his stage presence alone is something else, the sheer volume of his music is ear popping. I loved total guitar back in the day and guitar techniques was great to, ps magnum opus has one of best strat tones ever recorded, it also had his best playing imo to, cross the line and amberdawn is a personal favourite.
Awesone video! And I love your no smokes and mirrors approach! Just brilliant and real guitar playing! The online guitar communityy needs more of this! Cheers!
Loving the channel Ben. I felt the same with the Satch “Red” album at first. And what a shout out to Jan Cyrka . I had the pleasure of watching the very start of Jan’s career in the very early 80’s when his band Cyrka played the rock clubs in St Helens smashing out brilliant covers (Snorting Whisky a crowd pleaser) and great original material too. And a really nice guy too. Can’t wait for the stuff you hopefully put out with Rick 😮💨💯
Great guitarist but he has a very bad ego problem, imagine having $20 million in wealth cash money and then attacking small youtubers like Elmo Karjailainen ? wtf is that all about ? this is why Dime and EVH are better they did not diss the fans
I'm an American, but I'm 40 and I can totally relate to learning guitar in the 90s. I started playing because of Dimebag's playing on Vulgar Display of Power, but I had a very similar experience when I heard Al DuMeola ripping on acoustic picking every note on Fantasia Suite. I didn't believe it was humanly possible, and then about a month later again when I heard Shawn Lane's Powers of Ten. At that point it was either give up, or hit the woodshed hard. I chose to practice my ass off.
So...I'm an American, I'm 41, I learned guitar in the 90's with Dime contributing like 50% to my inherent playing style. I also heard Al DiMeola (live in SF w/ Paco) and was blown away. I clicked on your profile hoping to see what that led to...awww...no videos! How does the story end? Are you a monster player now?? You don't "hit the woodshed hard" without "picking" up a few tricks...please share with the class.
I'm 64 years old so it was Guitar Player magazine for me. As for getting destroyed, it still happens to me on a daily basis every time I watch your videos. Thanks for that Ben 😂
"So much better (than Satriani)" is what Ben says about Yngwie. Think about that. The thing is this: If you can play Yngwie, you can play anything including Satch or Vai. If you can play someone else, say, Vai, all you can play is Vai. In America, at least for awhile there was "Guitar for the Practicing Musician". There were tabs published. Another one, Guitar Player, was more gear oriented.
This is my ideal guitar RUclips channel. I had all the total guitar magazine right from the very first edition. I remember these tracks. Amazing playing BTW right up my strasa. How the heck did you manage to pick like that!!!
Great video. I too was obsessed with Satriani and still have all of his albums on CD even though I don't have a CD player any more. Have you ever seen the Expo 92 guitar concert hosted by Brian May? He has Satriani and Steve Vai on stage together and that was the first time I'd ever listened to Satch and Vai and was blown away. I picked up an Ibanez JS100 Joe Satriani signature guitar for my 18th birthday. I'm 44 now and still play it to this day. I still have boxes of Total Guitar magazines and Guitar Techniques magazines in my loft. Do you ever remember the Jam with series that you could buy? Jam with Gary Moore, Jam with Van Halen etc. I had loads of those books and helped my playing immensely. Since subscribing to your channel I now play my guitar on a daily basis. Keep on rocking 🤘🏻🎸
Ive subbed to you Ben as i want to support you especially if Yngwie tries the copyright nonsese as he attacks smaller channels its sad on his part mate.
Really good point made at 8:20, around learning licks from the masters (Satch, Vai, Malmsteen etc) a lot of their licks are muscle memory so getting inside their note choices and patterns is a powerful way to practice.
I too was a Satriani fanatic in my younger days, and had my brain (and picking hand) destroyed from hearing Yngwie for the first time when he hit the scene. It never made me want to give up, it made me want to get better 😳 I also remember getting every possible guitar magazine I could get my hands on. Since the internet wasn’t a thing, it was the best option for learning! Apart from all the ones you mentioned, I really liked Guitar for the Practicing Musician, as it always had a lot of song Tabs to try and learn from.
Yngwie “J” Malmsteen… many Christians believed he sold his soul to the devil to become a guitar god. What we didn’t realise is that he practiced 18 hours a day! Steve Vai as well. ❤
Believe it or not,I had the same experience I listen to Satriani a lot and then I first heard magnum opus!!!!the solo of vengeance song just killed me .igot very passionate about malmsteen and tried really hard for the sound and playing,when I learned about economy picking things got a lot better!!!anyways that song was a game changer for me too!!! Now I m very motivated by your extreme picking !!!keep all those inspiring videos coming!!! Thank you so much for all that!!!
Yngwie until the ATTACK!! album for me is magic and the reason I fell in love with the guitar! He was a great riff writer but he somewhat forgot how to do :D
Guitar for the practicing musician!!! Always had floppy records in it and great lessons… The album Centrifugal Funk with Frank Gambale, Shawn Lane and Brett Garsed…
I don't remember that particular magazine, but I did learn some of my first guitar lessons from magazine tabs. I'm 59 and started playing back in 1988 I believe. Van Halen's first album was my inspiration in particular Eruption. I was blown away from his playing and sound. Never thought it was something I could learn. To this day I still get discouraged trying to keep learning and improving my playing. But I can't seem to give it up lol. You, and many others on top of their game keep inspiring me to play even if its just for my own pleasure. The Hair Metal Era is my favorite period of guitar and learning tunes from then keeps me motivated. Thanks for posting, your phenomenal on the instrument Ben! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦 🤟🏻
Lol exactly my story... I've been listening to "suribg with the alien" and Satrian was a God to me... than a freind of mine gave me "marching out" and fucked everything up
I 100% resonate with me. Buyer of Guitar Techniques from '94/'95, Satch being my fave purely because it was more accessible as a player to play bits (not all of course!). It was in an edition of Total Guitar that Dave Kilminster did an 'Yngwie style track' which blew my socks off do bought the 'Yngwie Malmsteen collection' from 1992 and was hooked. Can't play the stuff but have loved him since and will forever be favourite with my heart for the aggression and being in your face. So nice to hear publications/music from the '90s talked about as felt I lived in an echo chamber back then. Keep up the truly remarkable playing!!
I found vengeance the same way! I'm glad I wasn't the only one. That solo melted my face, and I tirelessly spent hours trying to learn that very song. It's just a beast of a guitar tune!!
Amazing playing as always 💪🏽 and where can you get one of those hoodies? Looks sick. Yeah that vengeance solo rips so hard I'm laughing almost everyone time I hear it, like who rips this hard 😂 for sure it's harder with 11's Yngwie uses 8's
It's happens to me the same as a young guitar student and crazy about guitar magazines back then. The issue you are refering is Total Guitar 13. In the same issue there are a great demo of a British band called XRL8R with a song called "Follow me".
Guitar Techniques all the way for me. I lived for the day each month (roughly) when a new issue came out. Bought two Total Guitar issues and one of them was that one with Yngwie and Satriani. Remember being sort of disappointed by the Satriani track. Massive Yngwie fan but that song Vengeance never did it for me. That album Magnum Opus was the first album of his I couldn’t really get into. Really wanted to and listened to I quite a bit but he was starting to lose his grip on me. The next album, Facing the Animal was the last Yngwie album I bought. The Inspiration album came out in between there though and that one I really loved. Probably the Yngwie album I listened to the most of the ones that came out after Eclipse.
Malmsteen was very influential to my playing but I have such a hard time learning, most of the time I would just play notes really fast in the same key without ever learning the song, it helped develop my speed but it was all non-sense….lol
i remember jack and bob, probably from 20 years ago, guitarist magazine if i remember correctly. That issue had a great track of jan cyrka demoing something
I'm not sure Total Guitar even existed when I discovered Yngwie back in 1984 as an 18-year-old. Rising Force had just come out, and I hadn't even started playing the guitar yet. It's fair to say that, inside 12 months, I was deep into it!
I used to have total guitar and guitar techniques in the 90s and remember the cd with Satch and Yngwie on. I first seen Yngwie in 1995 in Northampton at a warm up gig for his Euro tour and the first song was Vengeance which melted my face off haha. With my mates we once played Vengeance on a pub jukebox over 20 times in one go 😂 one of his best songs for sure!!
My journey was very much like yours! Been a devout fan of Joe Satriani in the 90's. Then became aware of the existence of Yngwie, and my whole world changed instantly! 30 years forward, (unlike yourself) I still cannot play the Yngwie stuff 😅 But learnt to appreciate the melodic genius of Satriani
Very emotional and sincere video. I am a musician too, started my own Music Channel and since 20 seconds I subscribed to your channel. I am not a great fan of Yngwie, but as a very young lad, I hear him for the first time thanks to Guitar Player Magazine in the 80s, when in such magazine came inside a so-called "Soundpage" (a single record made of acetate able to get played on turntables). The piece was "Black Star", was transcribed by His Majesty Steve Vai, and I though my turntable was in 45 rpm instead of 33...... That speed, that phrasing, that creamy sound, he blown away my head. I was able to play the classical guitar intro and the first 30 measures next, no more. In that time it was no Internet and I was clueless about sweep picking..... But I cannot understand why is Yngwie so "tied" to that kind of minor melodic sweep arpeggios that sounds so repetitive after a while. His short career in Alcatrazz was fantastic for instance. All in all, I respect the guy a lot, what I wrote is only a reflection of my own personal taste. It's not so hard to realise that he's a very talented musician without any doubt.
For me, I was like 15 when surfing with the alien came out. I remember that song echo the last song on the album and that legato lick at the beginning. Killer!
My guitar teacher could play that technical stuff note for note. Every time I would come in for a lesson he would have the latest guitar magazine out and would be playing the transcriptions. Those were the days. Cheers from Guntersville Alabama.
I’m a bit older than you but I still remember that wait every month for the new guitar magazines to come out, Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Guitar Techniques were my favorites. That self titled Satriani album was the one he lost me at.. I felt everything he was releasing after that was too bland.
In Russia in the 90s it was not possible to get such magazines, but at music markets where they sold CDs and records, you could buy tablatures printed on a xerox from these magazines, I remember one of the first tablatures I bought Paganini 24 Caprice, the song Iron Maiden -Seventh son of a seventh son, Ingwie Malmsteen - Trilogy, I really wanted to learn how to play the slow part on acoustics and many more of his songs
No wonder Rick Graham recommends this guy. Rick and Ben have the cleanest picking. Still a big fan of Nuno but these guys are so good with their picking technique. Amazing… 🫡
What you explained about comparing Satch with Yngwie is exactly how I feel about my 2 guitar heroes - Petrucci and Guthrie. Like Satch, JP's stuff is difficult but at LEAST learnable with much practice. Guthrie, on the othet hand - will improvise a complex line that I can only dream of ever being able to play up to speed (perfect example - "Fives" solo, JTC version)
funniest thing i ever saw was when Yngwie played little wing with satriani and vai where right out of the gate he started overplaying no smooth escalation or tasty licks just pure three note per string and that’s when i realized yngwie tho a great neoclassical shredder could t cross over into any other genre.
I had a guitar mag that had one where they did a skit about the weather and one’s Mrs came in and they asked her what she has been doing, she said “I’ve been practicing guitar a bit actually “ and proceeded to rip a face melting solo. It was so awesome. I think it had Steve Vai on it demoing his new BSB Jem, which I bought a couple of years later and to this day I still can’t play it 😂
Gary Moore - those two Blues albums post his Rock stuff.....bought a video of him live at Albert Hall - played with Albert King and Collins.....completely blown away !!!!
I suspect I am at least a decade older than you. I started playing as a young tween in the mid 80s right about the time Yngwie burst onto the scene and into the magazines and on MTV. It was a glorious era. I've always been a huge fan of an Yngwie's earlier stuff: Rising Force, Marching Out, Trilogy (probably my favorite),and Odyssey. But my favorite guitar magazine was undoubtedly Guitar for the Practicing Musician. That was the holy grail of guitar mags for me. But we also read Guitar World and Guitar School. But I was so disappointed when I actually saw Yngwie live in 1994. He had gained A LOT of weight, and of course I had read many times that he improvised, but I didn't realize to what extent until I saw him live. Here I was 20 years old, had spent thousands of hours working on his licks for the past decade and I'm thinking I was about to get to see the Maestro himself play them right in front me ... well, I didn't. He played something but it wasn't the songs I had been hammering endlessly. It was so disappointing. But I always come back to his early stuff. I just came out of a hardcore Yngwie phase where I played almost nothing for the past year but Yngwie. He's really got killer stuff all the way through his discography. He really does. His decline has been way over exaggerated IMO. And I'm still a fan of him as a recording artist and as a player, but I'm not of the fan of the man himself at all. Especially with what I have learned about how he goes after youtubers. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to cause you trouble over this video. But I dig the channel, brother! You're a great player yourself.
After watching George benson and tuck Andress play live, I realised I was only ever going to be an average Joe on guitar. So I made a decision to stop playing guitar and focus on becoming world class at my career. I never regretted that decision and picked up guitar ten years later and studied Tommy Emmanuel. But satch, vai, Yngwie, Eric Johnson etc.. listened to all their albums. Gary Moore, Brian May. But I just didn’t have it. So instead I played solo acoustic like Tommy Emmanuel. And I was still only average. Man! Sooo disheartening. ❤
Ditto Brother! A lot of people said awe its just a bunch of fast scales. Until you dig into it and see what's really going on. Not to mention his vibrato and note choices are always in the pocket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been working on it for years and still not there. Vai is the same for me.
Yngwie's rendition of Spanish castle magic on live in Leningrad is awesome.
Too True! LOVED IT FROM DAY 1!
Damn sure is!
It doesn't matter, but what I love about Ben's playing is its ferocity. I remember when Zakk Wylde first hit the scene, and we were all agog at his vicious pick attack and wicked vibrato. I get the same feeling listening to Ben play except where Zakk had allowed himself to become limited and set in his signature licks, Ben has the capacity for sensitivity for each note or he can just grip it and rip it. It never gets old, man.
Exactly! To me, it's been something like Zakk Wylde fused with Nuno Bettencourt. Then the result got on guitar steroids and BANG: we got Ben Travers 😂🤟🏼🔥
No 2 guys grab the note by the balls like Yngwie and Zakk
Theres two type of guitar player reaction when they discover yngwie: they either go "no way i'm done" or they get inspired and try to play what he does
Mate, if you want destroyed...you needed to be there when it happened...back in '83/84. At that point most rock guitarists had the Van Halen/Randy Rhodes stuff down (if you were in America) and the Gary Moore/Michael Schenker licks pretty close, but when Yngwie appeared it was like hearing an alien. Most of us rockers weren't really aware of jazzers like Di Meola or McLaughlin,bor Holdsworth, so Yngwie's picking and aggression had never been heard. And of course you couldn't just go on RUclips and see what the hell he was doing. The Mags were where it was all at back then, and the transcriptions were a godsend. Of course, within 2 years of Yngwie their was a new Shrapnel guy every month, with chops up the oo aa! Satriani was pretty late in the game, to be honest, with Surfin appearing in 87, and by then his chops were nowhere near as developed as Vinnie Moore's, Jason Becker et al. It was his melodies and tunes that got everyone buzzing.
Anyhow, I fondly remember hearing the Marching Out album in 1985, and literally falling on my bed laughing. I wasnt playing by then.. except air guitar. It was actually Yngwie that inspired me to have a go. I never thought I'd get to that level of technique, coz I wasnt prepared to spend 8hrs a day doodling, and 40 years later, I still haven't achieved it, but there are millions out there now, including your good self, who can do it...and beyond...with ease. That said, there will never be another player who will again push the envelope that much, and will have such a massive impact as Yngwie had back in 84.
💯 I first heard Far Beyond The Sun on a local Glasgow radio station…. Tom Russel’s Rock Show . We were in the van heading back from a gig . I thought I could play a bit and part of my solo was lifted straight from the tapping part of Eruption. Radio on full blast … on comes Yngwie …. Jesus… couldn’t believe it … had totally break down my technique and learn the minor harmonic scale initially. It still stands the test of time . Unbelievable technique… if you thought you could play a bit you had a few VH and RR licks you’re spot on … no one local had Yngwie’s sweeps ;)
Wasn't it the guitar mag with the steeler live solo on it? That was the 1st I heard Yngwie back then before his 1st solo album.
I’m with you on this one @DamianPieroni. I had been playing a couple of years so had plenty of Gary More stuff down. I had read about Yngwie but never heard him so bought Marching Out on cassette tape. I put it on in the car intending to listen on the journey home. Instead I just sat there in the car in complete shock. It completely changed my entire experience and approach to the guitar.
Mate you have the most wicked picking
I like that this is is as real as it gets. Not trying to bs the guitar community. Real shredders don't fake it! Kudos to Ben \m/
I wonder what pick he uses. His picking is just ferocius...
@@miotubo839 - I can tell you for a fact that it's 100% nylon whatever it is.... has that obvious nylon sound..... and its not going to be one of the tiny whimpy Jazz III's.... could be a Jazz III XL though...but no chance it's the little dinky ones.
@@scottcummings8602 Yep he confirmed in his Q&A that he uses the black Jazz III XL
@@DaBaronSamedi - lol... i'm such a pick geek... I could hear it was nylon, and had a hunch it was a Jazz III shape.... but he gets way too much volume for it to be the little original one. Great player.
We love your excitement, don't apologise for it!
Yngwie mentioned; copyright strike imminent
Yngwie 1984-86 before the car crash and vices taking the toll on mind and body, was out of this world. His precision and clarity still rather unmatched to this day, 40 years later. And he had a solid taste in phrasing too.
NOW, how about some Jason Becker for your next vid?
Hear hear! Still listen to the live sentence album he did with Alcatrazz 🎸🤘🏻
I dunno bro, some of those 90s albums are outstanding imo
Yours is an often parroted comment by those still envious.
Yngwie released 7 LPs in the 1990s, 8 if you include 1990. He released only 7 since 2000.
Baroque & Roll came out in 2002 on Attack!! If you don't like it, you don't like Yngwie, his approach to composition.
Yngwie is an excellent technician, of course, among the best, but he is a composer first. Most of his songs are short-format rock, but he packs much into those, contrapundal, rondo.
The same goes for Fuguetta from 2005 and Caprici di Diablo from 2008 and Cross to Bear from 2010.
I always found it repetitious. Same licks different keys. It's what happens when you play your entire library of licks in 5 minutes.
@@DMDvideo10 Of course, that is not what is happening across his body of work.
But for those with tin ear hearing and novice brains, it seems to be that way.
Good luck!
I love your Yngwie video about Satriani 😜
I had just finished learning and was busy showing off to fellow guitarists, Celestial Terrestrial Commuters when Rising Force came out. It was almost shocking to the senses. I went into a dark closet for a very long time and beat my head against its walls while hacking through Black Star. It's one of the most stunning pieces of Metal I know. My goal was to not just be able to play it but to make it beautiful. To this day that song floats through my head while taking a shower, during a monotonous road trip, or when tuning out the yammerings of banal business meetings. Thank you for the trip down memory lane! This is great stuff.
Bro excellent production on this. Loved this content and consider me subbed. Wish ya the best and p.s Excellent shred
Seeing yngwie live is the place/setting to experience him, his stage presence alone is something else, the sheer volume of his music is ear popping. I loved total guitar back in the day and guitar techniques was great to, ps magnum opus has one of best strat tones ever recorded, it also had his best playing imo to, cross the line and amberdawn is a personal favourite.
Awesone video! And I love your no smokes and mirrors approach! Just brilliant and real guitar playing! The online guitar communityy needs more of this!
Cheers!
Loving the channel Ben. I felt the same with the Satch “Red” album at first.
And what a shout out to Jan Cyrka . I had the pleasure of watching the very start of Jan’s career in the very early 80’s when his band Cyrka played the rock clubs in St Helens smashing out brilliant covers (Snorting Whisky a crowd pleaser) and great original material too. And a really nice guy too.
Can’t wait for the stuff you hopefully put out with Rick 😮💨💯
I felt the same way about Yngwie but the first album I heard was Odyssey
Great guitarist but he has a very bad ego problem, imagine having $20 million in wealth cash money and then attacking small youtubers like Elmo Karjailainen ? wtf is that all about ? this is why Dime and EVH are better they did not diss the fans
I'm an American, but I'm 40 and I can totally relate to learning guitar in the 90s. I started playing because of Dimebag's playing on Vulgar Display of Power, but I had a very similar experience when I heard Al DuMeola ripping on acoustic picking every note on Fantasia Suite.
I didn't believe it was humanly possible, and then about a month later again when I heard Shawn Lane's Powers of Ten.
At that point it was either give up, or hit the woodshed hard. I chose to practice my ass off.
So...I'm an American, I'm 41, I learned guitar in the 90's with Dime contributing like 50% to my inherent playing style. I also heard Al DiMeola (live in SF w/ Paco) and was blown away.
I clicked on your profile hoping to see what that led to...awww...no videos!
How does the story end? Are you a monster player now?? You don't "hit the woodshed hard" without "picking" up a few tricks...please share with the class.
I'm 64 years old so it was Guitar Player magazine for me. As for getting destroyed, it still happens to me on a daily basis every time I watch your videos.
Thanks for that Ben 😂
"So much better (than Satriani)" is what Ben says about Yngwie. Think about that. The thing is this: If you can play Yngwie, you can play anything including Satch or Vai. If you can play someone else, say, Vai, all you can play is Vai.
In America, at least for awhile there was "Guitar for the Practicing Musician". There were tabs published. Another one, Guitar Player, was more gear oriented.
Intro to Crystall Ball by Malmsteen is a personal fave...
This is my ideal guitar RUclips channel. I had all the total guitar magazine right from the very first edition. I remember these tracks. Amazing playing BTW right up my strasa. How the heck did you manage to pick like that!!!
Mind melting technique and expression. I am IN LOVE with your technique Ben! Insane 😳🌪️
Great video. I too was obsessed with Satriani and still have all of his albums on CD even though I don't have a CD player any more. Have you ever seen the Expo 92 guitar concert hosted by Brian May? He has Satriani and Steve Vai on stage together and that was the first time I'd ever listened to Satch and Vai and was blown away. I picked up an Ibanez JS100 Joe Satriani signature guitar for my 18th birthday. I'm 44 now and still play it to this day. I still have boxes of Total Guitar magazines and Guitar Techniques magazines in my loft. Do you ever remember the Jam with series that you could buy? Jam with Gary Moore, Jam with Van Halen etc. I had loads of those books and helped my playing immensely. Since subscribing to your channel I now play my guitar on a daily basis. Keep on rocking 🤘🏻🎸
Love the aggression in the picking. Yngwie himself is much less aggressive
Ive subbed to you Ben as i want to support you especially if Yngwie tries the copyright nonsese as he attacks smaller channels its sad on his part mate.
Really good point made at 8:20, around learning licks from the masters (Satch, Vai, Malmsteen etc) a lot of their licks are muscle memory so getting inside their note choices and patterns is a powerful way to practice.
I too was a Satriani fanatic in my younger days, and had my brain (and picking hand) destroyed from hearing Yngwie for the first time when he hit the scene. It never made me want to give up, it made me want to get better 😳
I also remember getting every possible guitar magazine I could get my hands on. Since the internet wasn’t a thing, it was the best option for learning! Apart from all the ones you mentioned, I really liked Guitar for the Practicing Musician, as it always had a lot of song Tabs to try and learn from.
Yngwie “J” Malmsteen… many Christians believed he sold his soul to the devil to become a guitar god. What we didn’t realise is that he practiced 18 hours a day! Steve Vai as well. ❤
Change word practice with explore and that's it
Yngwie and Billy Sheehan and a few others covered Van Halen's Light up the sky.......it's a freakin phenomenal cover! Yngwie's solo is soooo good!
Believe it or not,I had the same experience I listen to Satriani a lot and then I first heard magnum opus!!!!the solo of vengeance song just killed me .igot very passionate about malmsteen and tried really hard for the sound and playing,when I learned about economy picking things got a lot better!!!anyways that song was a game changer for me too!!! Now I m very motivated by your extreme picking !!!keep all those inspiring videos coming!!! Thank you so much for all that!!!
This is pure gold my friend...
Yngwie until the ATTACK!! album for me is magic and the reason I fell in love with the guitar! He was a great riff writer but he somewhat forgot how to do :D
I do miss those guitar magazines like Guitar world, they were quite expensive though here in Sweden, we also had our own for a while, called Fuzz
Please never stop rambling. I love these vids.
Guitar for the practicing musician!!! Always had floppy records in it and great lessons…
The album Centrifugal Funk with Frank Gambale, Shawn Lane and Brett Garsed…
I don't remember that particular magazine, but I did learn some of my first guitar lessons from magazine tabs. I'm 59 and started playing back in 1988 I believe. Van Halen's first album was my inspiration in particular Eruption. I was blown away from his playing and sound. Never thought it was something I could learn. To this day I still get discouraged trying to keep learning and improving my playing. But I can't seem to give it up lol. You, and many others on top of their game keep inspiring me to play even if its just for my own pleasure. The Hair Metal Era is my favorite period of guitar and learning tunes from then keeps me motivated. Thanks for posting, your phenomenal on the instrument Ben! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦 🤟🏻
Lol exactly my story... I've been listening to "suribg with the alien" and Satrian was a God to me... than a freind of mine gave me "marching out" and fucked everything up
I 100% resonate with me. Buyer of Guitar Techniques from '94/'95, Satch being my fave purely because it was more accessible as a player to play bits (not all of course!). It was in an edition of Total Guitar that Dave Kilminster did an 'Yngwie style track' which blew my socks off do bought the 'Yngwie Malmsteen collection' from 1992 and was hooked. Can't play the stuff but have loved him since and will forever be favourite with my heart for the aggression and being in your face. So nice to hear publications/music from the '90s talked about as felt I lived in an echo chamber back then. Keep up the truly remarkable playing!!
This video is FIRE! Just subscribed!
Awesome video 👍🎸 always ferocious!!
I found vengeance the same way! I'm glad I wasn't the only one. That solo melted my face, and I tirelessly spent hours trying to learn that very song. It's just a beast of a guitar tune!!
Amazing playing as always 💪🏽 and where can you get one of those hoodies? Looks sick. Yeah that vengeance solo rips so hard I'm laughing almost everyone time I hear it, like who rips this hard 😂 for sure it's harder with 11's Yngwie uses 8's
It's happens to me the same as a young guitar student and crazy about guitar magazines back then. The issue you are refering is Total Guitar 13. In the same issue there are a great demo of a British band called XRL8R with a song called "Follow me".
Guitar Techniques all the way for me. I lived for the day each month (roughly) when a new issue came out. Bought two Total Guitar issues and one of them was that one with Yngwie and Satriani. Remember being sort of disappointed by the Satriani track. Massive Yngwie fan but that song Vengeance never did it for me. That album Magnum Opus was the first album of his I couldn’t really get into. Really wanted to and listened to I quite a bit but he was starting to lose his grip on me. The next album, Facing the Animal was the last Yngwie album I bought. The Inspiration album came out in between there though and that one I really loved. Probably the Yngwie album I listened to the most of the ones that came out after Eclipse.
My god, the tone here is killer! What are you using here, Ben? Phenomenal picking too.
Malmsteen was very influential to my playing but I have such a hard time learning, most of the time I would just play notes really fast in the same key without ever learning the song, it helped develop my speed but it was all non-sense….lol
Yngwie is great. But Shawn Lane is the greatest.
i remember jack and bob, probably from 20 years ago, guitarist magazine if i remember correctly. That issue had a great track of jan cyrka demoing something
Them you are broking all of us!!! SICK AF!!!!!!
I'm not sure Total Guitar even existed when I discovered Yngwie back in 1984 as an 18-year-old. Rising Force had just come out, and I hadn't even started playing the guitar yet. It's fair to say that, inside 12 months, I was deep into it!
Malmsteen on a tele blasphemy mate!!!! Hahahah
Excellent !!!! 👍👍👍👍
I used to have total guitar and guitar techniques in the 90s and remember the cd with Satch and Yngwie on. I first seen Yngwie in 1995 in Northampton at a warm up gig for his Euro tour and the first song was Vengeance which melted my face off haha. With my mates we once played Vengeance on a pub jukebox over 20 times in one go 😂 one of his best songs for sure!!
That guitar almost melted.
My journey was very much like yours! Been a devout fan of Joe Satriani in the 90's. Then became aware of the existence of Yngwie, and my whole world changed instantly! 30 years forward, (unlike yourself) I still cannot play the Yngwie stuff 😅 But learnt to appreciate the melodic genius of Satriani
Very emotional and sincere video. I am a musician too, started my own Music Channel and since 20 seconds I subscribed to your channel. I am not a great fan of Yngwie, but as a very young lad, I hear him for the first time thanks to Guitar Player Magazine in the 80s, when in such magazine came inside a so-called "Soundpage" (a single record made of acetate able to get played on turntables). The piece was "Black Star", was transcribed by His Majesty Steve Vai, and I though my turntable was in 45 rpm instead of 33...... That speed, that phrasing, that creamy sound, he blown away my head. I was able to play the classical guitar intro and the first 30 measures next, no more. In that time it was no Internet and I was clueless about sweep picking..... But I cannot understand why is Yngwie so "tied" to that kind of minor melodic sweep arpeggios that sounds so repetitive after a while. His short career in Alcatrazz was fantastic for instance. All in all, I respect the guy a lot, what I wrote is only a reflection of my own personal taste. It's not so hard to realise that he's a very talented musician without any doubt.
The video we've all been waiting for.
In the states it was all about GUITAR WORLD & Guitar for the practicing musician (magazines).
More is more!!! You are a true viking in disguise...!
Show us your guitar collection! We need to know
Stop using amplification, you have absolutely no use for it 😂😂😂😂😂
Original album! Woohoo can’t wait!
Malmsteen is in his own league just like Marty friedman.
For me, I was like 15 when surfing with the alien came out. I remember that song echo the last song on the album and that legato lick at the beginning. Killer!
My guitar teacher could play that technical stuff note for note. Every time I would come in for a lesson he would have the latest guitar magazine out and would be playing the transcriptions. Those were the days. Cheers from Guntersville Alabama.
Was it ‘Guitar for the Practicing Musician’?
My memory is super foggy mate 😝
(56 yrs old, and YES, Yngwie demoralised and inspired me too)
Same age same influences , first time here, subsribed immediately. Nice to meet you Ben.
I’m a bit older than you but I still remember that wait every month for the new guitar magazines to come out, Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Guitar Techniques were my favorites. That self titled Satriani album was the one he lost me at.. I felt everything he was releasing after that was too bland.
💥🔥🎼🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸💥🔥Yngwie Best of the Best 🎼💥🔥🎶🎶🎶🎶🤘✊
Somebody please get this gentleman a shred guitar- like an Ibanez or Jackson . Thanx 🤔🙏
I love your playing, yes Yngwie but Al di meola John Mclaughlin are the the real beast...
I'm trying to cop your pure Balls style of playing!
In Russia in the 90s it was not possible to get such magazines, but at music markets where they sold CDs and records, you could buy tablatures printed on a xerox from these magazines, I remember one of the first tablatures I bought Paganini 24 Caprice, the song Iron Maiden -Seventh son of a seventh son, Ingwie Malmsteen - Trilogy, I really wanted to learn how to play the slow part on acoustics and many more of his songs
Yngwie is the new Hotel California....any mention and April Copywrite Strike imminent.
No wonder Rick Graham recommends this guy.
Rick and Ben have the cleanest picking.
Still a big fan of Nuno but these guys are so good with their picking technique.
Amazing… 🫡
You will get it someday!
That was great!
What you explained about comparing Satch with Yngwie is exactly how I feel about my 2 guitar heroes - Petrucci and Guthrie. Like Satch, JP's stuff is difficult but at LEAST learnable with much practice. Guthrie, on the othet hand - will improvise a complex line that I can only dream of ever being able to play up to speed (perfect example - "Fives" solo, JTC version)
funniest thing i ever saw was when Yngwie played little wing with satriani and vai where right out of the gate he started overplaying no smooth escalation or tasty licks just pure three note per string and that’s when i realized yngwie tho a great neoclassical shredder could t cross over into any other genre.
I had a guitar mag that had one where they did a skit about the weather and one’s Mrs came in and they asked her what she has been doing, she said “I’ve been practicing guitar a bit actually “ and proceeded to rip a face melting solo. It was so awesome. I think it had Steve Vai on it demoing his new BSB Jem, which I bought a couple of years later and to this day I still can’t play it 😂
I remember this skit! Afterwards they asked her to run along and make them a cup of tea 😂
@@jamiemeyer3277Yeah that’s the one 😂
Keep the shreds, I just want the hoodie
Absolute beast you are
Gary Moore - those two Blues albums post his Rock stuff.....bought a video of him live at Albert Hall - played with Albert King and Collins.....completely blown away !!!!
That was the Fookin Fury!!!😂😅😊
would be great to hear you play without so much delay
I suspect I am at least a decade older than you. I started playing as a young tween in the mid 80s right about the time Yngwie burst onto the scene and into the magazines and on MTV. It was a glorious era. I've always been a huge fan of an Yngwie's earlier stuff: Rising Force, Marching Out, Trilogy (probably my favorite),and Odyssey. But my favorite guitar magazine was undoubtedly Guitar for the Practicing Musician. That was the holy grail of guitar mags for me. But we also read Guitar World and Guitar School.
But I was so disappointed when I actually saw Yngwie live in 1994. He had gained A LOT of weight, and of course I had read many times that he improvised, but I didn't realize to what extent until I saw him live. Here I was 20 years old, had spent thousands of hours working on his licks for the past decade and I'm thinking I was about to get to see the Maestro himself play them right in front me ... well, I didn't. He played something but it wasn't the songs I had been hammering endlessly. It was so disappointing.
But I always come back to his early stuff. I just came out of a hardcore Yngwie phase where I played almost nothing for the past year but Yngwie. He's really got killer stuff all the way through his discography. He really does. His decline has been way over exaggerated IMO. And I'm still a fan of him as a recording artist and as a player, but I'm not of the fan of the man himself at all. Especially with what I have learned about how he goes after youtubers. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to cause you trouble over this video.
But I dig the channel, brother! You're a great player yourself.
Once it clicks, you become part of the YNGWIE CLUB. Welcome abroad!
Excellent Sir! If I may ask, what kind of amp/distortion do you use? Sounds a bit like the ADA-MP2 Paul Gilbert sound from decades ago
Fantastic aggressive style 😊
After watching George benson and tuck Andress play live, I realised I was only ever going to be an average Joe on guitar. So I made a decision to stop playing guitar and focus on becoming world class at my career. I never regretted that decision and picked up guitar ten years later and studied Tommy Emmanuel. But satch, vai, Yngwie, Eric Johnson etc.. listened to all their albums. Gary Moore, Brian May. But I just didn’t have it. So instead I played solo acoustic like Tommy Emmanuel. And I was still only average. Man! Sooo disheartening. ❤
Don’t give up Bro! Keep at it!
Mate.. take 10 years off and this was me .. Eddie, Schenker,Eddie, Schenker, Eddie, Schenker,.. OMG!..
Ditto Brother! A lot of people said awe its just a bunch of fast scales. Until you dig into it and see what's really going on. Not to mention his vibrato and note choices are always in the pocket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been working on it for years and still not there. Vai is the same for me.
Браво маэстро🎉
Dude what’s your warm up? Have you ever suffered with guitar induced ailments, playing at such ridiculous speeds?! 😅 obviously I hope you haven’t 🙏🏻
The guitar looks amazing! What is model?
GUITAR FOR THE PRACTISING MUSICIAN
How did you miss it!! : D
great episode ben!
Dude you’re the only person besides myself who I’ve seen love on Vengeance by Yngwie! I heard it on the Air Guitar III compilation album.
You need some George Lynch on your channel!
Guitar for the practicing musician?
Brother why are you playing 11s, are you usually downtuning?
Which DiMarzio are you using in the neck position?
yes,,,,,but can you play smoke on the water???