Hey everyone - don't get me wrong from the comments I made in this video. I love Yngwie and he's a badass, but...I feel he could be a little more honest about his influences, especially now. He's been on the scene since the early 1980s., so it seems silly to not just completely come out and admit that while he totally studied classical violin music and technique and applied it to the guitar, he also took a number of cues directly from Uli Jon Roth. I have the same conspiracy theories about Eddie Van Halen and his father. I feel that Jan Van Halen played a more significant role in Eddie's (and Alex's) musical development than previously admitted or explained. I have a feeling that Jan exposed those brothers to a plethora of hot jazz, classical, bebop, and avant-garde music, and I can almost guarantee that Jan Van Halen knew who Vittorio Camardese was - the famous 1950s nylon-string guitarist that is known as one of the earliest tapping guitarists. Hell, their dad probably played some gigs with Vittorio. No hate - just thoughts and feelings. : )
Nothing could be further from the truth about Van Halen I completely agree with you David I mentioned to a buddy of mine the video I believe of an Italian guitar player you named who tapped on guitar ... And not to mention the way Van Halen manipulates blues licks and usually starts or ends his phrases on up beats rather than downbeats is very jazz oriented probably from his dad
Totally! I can see/hear the Clapton (which is one of the main players he always mentioned, along with Holdsworth), but I can also hear Montrose, Billy Gibbons, Jimmy Page, and maybe even a little Steve Howe too! : )
There was a page in one of the guitar mags years ago where they had a photo of Yngwie next to a photo of Blackmore and YJM had copied every single aspect of his image from Ritchie -- the black the boots the jewelry the Strat the Marshalls the pose
Well said David,I always wondered if that's why Eddie had a bebop,jazzy feel to a lot of his rhythms as well as leads. I bet Jan exposed the brothers to all of those styles of music. It wasn't just blues licks or rehashed rock riffs Eddie played.
Probably my favorite solo of all time. Definitely up there. If not that it would most definitely be something else by uli. Burning wheels turning Cast away your chains Fly to the rainbow This is my song Electric sun Firewind Sky overture Sun In my hand Sundown Earthquake And many many more
@@juanrajara2887 Not surprised I mean Schenker was 17 when he played on the Scorpions first album. I didn't hear that album until the early 90's post VH Yngwie Gilbert Satriani MacAlpine etc and was still blown away!
@@juanrajara2887 - I don’t believe he wrote the whole song, including the lead guitar parts when he was 17. Uli’s playing was not that advanced at that time. One listen to the Fly to the Rainbow album will prove that. While it’s a great record, his lead playing was not Sails of Charon level in ‘73-‘74, when he was 19 or 20, let alone two or three years earlier.
Malmsteen speaks highly of Uli in his book and Uli actually gave him a Sky guitar. All of Malmsteens hero's have been dead for over 200 years. Uli is in my top 10 of all time greats, regarding God's of Guitar! Great lesson Dave.
The painting on the cover of the first Electric Sun is titled "Rising Force". I knew a guy in the 1990s who had a bunch of tapes of teenage Yngwie that were recorded on his 4 track with Yngwie playing all of the instruments and singing. One of the tapes had a killer version of Scorpions' "We'll Burn the Sky" with Yngwie playing Uli's solo perfectly.
@@centaurus5676 you know yngwie is probably my favourite shredder along with the man in my pfp. But I gotta give it to him. The entire "my heroes have been dead for 200 years" act he puts on extremely fucking cringe. I mean it's great and all but he's like 60 now ffs. The edge is too much to handle with Yngwie. He's like a teenager that never grows out of his "I'm not like the other kids" phase. He's a god of the instrument. Sure he might've shaped his style around the classical sound but he's got other heroes too.
@@sasmitroy5480 Yeah....like Blackmore. Anyone who doesn't see it is blind. Sure he took a lot from Uli & all the dead classical composers but his Blackmore fixation/denial is pretty comical. No, they don't play the same, duh. But Yngwie 100% stole his stage moves & mannerisms from Ritchie & anyone who's familiar with old Purple & Rainbow footage will agree. Does that take away anything from Ynwie's abilities...? Not at all, he's a bona fide badass, we all know that. It's just funny when he denies this stuff, or plays ignorant. As far as Uli....he's like the perfect bridge between Blacker's & Yngwie. And this is not to downplay his place in things, or his ability....his whole trip totally stands on it's own. I've met both Yngwie & Uli, and while Yngwie was pretty cool & laid back, he definitely had a "rock star" air about him, and a certain aloofness, whereas Uli is just warm & totally down to earth & just a very humble & nice guy. You just kinda get a mellow old hippy vibe from Uli & he's extremely easygoing & great to talk to, about anything.He treats you like an equal.....whereas with Yngwie, you know who the boss guitar player is in the room. Whatever, I love them both.
I saw Uli Jon Roth on Saturday at winter storm in Scotland. It was cool watching out for these licks. He was the only guy to bring his own wind machine on stage. He looks like some kind of wizard guru and mega loud, sweep picking like its nothing. Very cool.
Dave would like to thank you for covering Ulrich Roth an absolute over looked Genius I think The Sails Of Charon is an Absolute masterpiece and in it self spawned an entire generation of shred guitarists Ulrich is an important figure in the evolution of metal guitar as anyone I’m glad you yourself recognize this and pay him the respect he deserves an Absolute Monster Guitarist !
He played with such feeling he made grown men cry. We didn't know it but tears came down our cheeks. i looked around and there were...all of us. A Hendrix surpasser? It was Uli.
I've been a huge fan of Uli's since the early 1980s and I've been fortunate enough to have seen him perform live about 7 or 8 times. For a while, he played B.B. King's in Times Square every year. During one show, while he was touring with Michael Schenker I met him after his set & before Schenker's set. I saw him walking toward me about twenty feet away and no one else noticed him yet. He walked right up to me, said hello & shook my hand. He was the most peaceful person I've ever met. I felt peace emanating from him. He's about my size (5' 10 1/2) but his hands are huge. I wanted to have a conversation with him, but a couple of knuckleheads suddenly bum-rushed him and rudely crowded me out of the way. Naturally, he spoke to them politely. During that show, he didn't have a full band and played mostly classical stuff, but he played 'Sails' and it made my entire body vibrate. He's amazing.
2004 was my last show as I am disabled. And Uli reserved a seat for me. He walked in thru the front door after Michael's set and immediately there was a line on the floor, (He hadn't been to America in 19 years) and I got up sore and yet uplifted, tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Hi Uli, it's Windrose." He had a site and I had sent in a poem and he named the poem and I was like, "You read that?" He asked about the sound, etc. I think all of the guys or most of the guys in the line were there to ask about his guitar, equipment, etc. I just told him that his music lifted me up throughout the good times and the bad.
I sent in a request for Uli Jon Roth .. I am so thrilled you finally got a chance to analyze this wonderful guitar players approach. I have said for years Yngwie Malmsteen took everything from him .. he's picking technique is approach .. his tone. And he never mentions him not once as you said in your commentary .. thank you
Dave. You have a patient, smooth voice that makes the lessons easily heard. There is tempo, instruction, theory and it all makes sense without much to rewind.
"In Trance" was my introduction to the Scorpions and Uli Jon Roth. Most of my friend's first guitar hero was Ace Frehley. Uli was mine. He paved the way for me to want to shred with passion. Excellent lesson
Great stuff man. Uli is fortunately very much loved and remembered here in Europe. Amazing player, humble dude, and quite funny too. Seeing him live had been on my list forever, finally saw him on the Scorpions Years Anniversary tour he did some 4-5 years back, small venue, I was at arm's length of him, and after the show he just came down to hang out and chat with us. Part 3 of "Hiroshima" off the Firewind album has to be one of the most poignant instrumentals ever. And thank God for Dean making him his Skystone guitars properly, because the early custom prototypes wouldn't ever stay in tune more than 2 minutes :D
There is no Yngwie without Roth. I obsessed over those early Roth recordings. The guy was magical. I still think one of the greatest solos ever recorded was in "So Many Lives Away". Just stunning. I can forgive the awful asthmatic Bob Dylan vocals.
Loved his early work with the Scorpions. I've walked past his house loads of times, he used to live in a mansion called Plas tan y bwlch in Aberystwyth, Wales. The mansion has since been converted to flats. 🏴🤘
Great lesson. Really enjoy listening to both Uli and Yngwie. Saw Yngwie on the rising force tour way back when. I was about 15 ft away from him, center of the stage, no one in between. It was a badass show. Damn im getting old.
Michael Labo yes saw him on that tour in Birmingham. Funny- lots of guys chatting beforehand about how they could play all his stuff: then yngwie let loose from behind a stack and the jaws dropped! Very amusing
im really digging your new series of licks of a particular guitarist. Overall I still think your guitar videos are by far the best on youtube. Outstanding communication as you provide a clear explanation of each lesson, thanks for all the hard work to make the videos, very much appreciated!
Uli has been always been overlooked and it's a shame. I got into Uli from Virgin Killer by the Scorpions and it's an awesome record especially the song Catch Your Train. Excellent lesson!!!!
Uli is my 2nd favorite guitarist of all time trailing Alex Skolnick. I had front row at a Uli show at Brick by Brick! He plays loud and clean live! Great show! Nice to see people still digging Uli!
Skolnick and Bettencourt both could shred but holy fuck their phrasing and melodic sense in their genres truly set them apart from their peers Honorable mention to Chris Poland.
Awesome to hear Skolnick is a fave of other players. I grew up around the thrash metal scene in the bay area (even played a relatively small part in it) and got to hang out with most of those bands at parties, rehearsals and gigs, or concerts. Sometimes I would see some of them just "partying in the hills" as we used to call it, lols. Lots of fun back in those days.
Been a huge fan of Mr. Roth from the early scorpion's days. Buying the vinyl LOL and you did a marvelous, absolutely fantastic job of nailing the phrasing and chops! Thank you so much for sharing brother!
It shows that you have really no technical limit. Unbelievable! I saw the Scorpions in Berlin in a Club called Roxy with around 1.000 people in the audience. Uli played like a development of Hendix. The problem was, I think, Uli was too well to do the big and simpler Hits of further Scorpions. Thank you very much for this great lesson.
cool story Christian. I saw Uli play in 1983 with Electric Sun in London. Great player, very Hendrix inspired for sure. I loved his stuff with Scorpions, but I agree, he was on a different musical path.
My band Old James was fortunate enough to do an 8 week tour with Uli in 2015 in the US with Vinnie Moore and BKR. Watching and hearing Uli play every night was MIND BLOWING and never truly the same twice. There was always something fresh and special from show to show. Not only does he dress like Merlin, his playing wizardry has MAGIC and is other worldly. He also brought a dead bird back to life....no joke! We love you Uli and THANK YOU Mr. Brewster for this amazing lesson and look into the playing of one of the greatest living musicians alive today.
I saw Uli, Santriani and Michael Schenker in Dublin for the G3 concert. Uli and Schenker played In Trance and Sails of Charon. Awesome!, Satriani was good too, but I was there for Uli and Michael.
Wow! You did the Uli! Didn’t expect that! Amazing composition and arrangement skills as well as an awesome player. Beyond the Astral Skies is such an incredible album.
Wow!!! don’t know how I overlooked this video awesome. Uli Jon Roth is one of the most under rated guitarist you can hear the influence he gave malmsteen so clearly.
Great job David,this is one of the reasons I subscribed to your channel. You actually listen to requests from your listeners,and the fact that you're a monster player who can explain even some of the most difficult licks out there. You've got an easy going nature and teach the most succinct lessons I've found. Keep rockin' dude!!
I've been a Uli fan since 1978. My Brother bought Scorpions, "Taken By Force". The 1st song I heard was " Sails of Charon." I still have my original vinyl of Electric Sun," Earthquake" & "Fire Wind" in mint condition..
Yah that built in preamp the Sky Guitar has is excessively noisy and makes his tone 'shrieky'. I mean I appreciate that guitar was made before high gain amps and that he likes old tremolo Marshalls. I just don't understand why he and ENGL haven't got together. I mean they have a Itchie Crackwhore sig model.
@@kellyjackson7889 I still don't understand how that man got that sweet singing tone out of a strat bridge pickup and did like 6 step bends on it. Madman
The intonation on that thing is pretty bad too. I've seen some clips here, that's abysmally bad. I wonder why a musician of Uli's caliber cant hear that himself??
@@kellyjackson7889 Just saw Uli live last April and he sounded fantastic, as he ALWAYS does, playing and tone wise. He was untouchable on the Strat in the 1970's-mid 80's though of course.
YES. I've owned "Beyond the Astral Skies" on Cassette, Vinyl, and CD - to say nothing of the rest. Massively overlooked these days.....and interestingly Yng owns (or at least, used to) a Sky Guitar. There's also a brilliant live concert from the mid-80s which has some outstanding parts on show - well worth checking out and there's a representative selection on the YT channel "AxelFlyerV" Another one worth searching for - again on YT is: Uli Jon Roth - Historic Performances
I'll never forget the first time I got that CD and listened to it. I had been a huge fan of both Roth *and* Vivaldi for many years, but had no idea I was going to love it as much as I did and still do. To this day I have yet to hear anyone at all emulate the violin on a non synth electric guitar so well. Actually, because of the dynamics and feel and the emotive possibilities from that, I've never heard the violin emulated so well on even a synth really. It's still one of my favorite guitar works, right up there with Alan Holdsworths playing as far as sonic achievements go.
Thankyou for this lesson of the forgotton great Uli ,a blast from the past of those old Uli performances and Scorps music, and you play these riffs so effortlessly ,as alway your lessons are greatly appreciated !
Dude I love how you actually break down the musicality behind your licks and don’t just teach the tabs. I’ve only been subscribed for a few months but your channel is a gold mine for me! You cover all of the guitarists that influence me most and that’s dope.
Saw Uli and his Electric Sun play Lobo in Gothenburg, Sweden in -83. I had heard him in Scorpions and thought this might be good. I was absolutely Gobsmacked!!! Subscribed to your awesome channel, thanks!
Thank you for this. Uli is a huge influence for me. I love the Beyond The Astral Sky album. It will take me such a long time to catch up to your lessons. 🙏🏽
Uli Jon Roth is the first guy AFTER Blackmore that actually brought Baroque harmonic progressions and Baroque linear solo vocabulary into hard rock guitar. And he did this with way more technical facility as a soloist than Blackmore, and he utilized Baroque harmonies and scalar material to a far greater degree in his solos and compositions in general than Blackmore. Uli has not received the full credit he deserves with regard to this Baroque vocabulary in hard rock guitar. Keep in mind, Michael Schenker did not begin employing Baroque chord progressions and Baroque scales in his solos to a large degree until the MSG band in 1981. Uli had been doing this since he joined the Scorpions(as far as recording goes) in 1973 and was immediately employing this vocabulary from the very first record he did with them, Fly To The Rainbow in 1974. He needs to be recognized as an innovator of hard rock guitar of the highest order and not some fringe early "shredder" guy. Uli is and always was wayyyyy more than that!!! Not to mention how fantastic of a nylon string classical guitarist he ALWAYS was and is. Almost NONE of his hard rock peers can touch him as a classical guitarist and this should also be mentioned wayyyy more often... UJR, one of the GREATEST hard rock guitarists EVER. If you listed 10 he SHOULD ABSOLUTELY be one of them.....
I think Blackmore in his prime could of figured out pretty well anything. What you have to remember with guys like Page Blackmore is they are not highly educated guitar players. Someone like Uli Roth very educated.
@@dalesteffens6769 Well, do you know Uli Jon Roth's entire pedagogy intimately? NO, you don't. "Educated" musically is not a bad thing either, and that's assuming as you are that Uli was somehow formally musically "educated." Actually Uli was mostly self taught, so does that satisfy what you're calling "educated?" However one gets to greatness should not diminish that achieved greatness. Uli Jon Roth, GREAT whatever the particular road he took on his musical development.
I have met uli a few times and he is a humble gentleman, what an amazing guitar player he is, his brother zeno was an amazing player as well, (R.I.P.)you should do a lick lesson on him as well my friend
YJM did mention Uli way back in the mid '90s. Said they were friends and both perfectionist.. Inspiration had scads of killer covers. Sails was one of them.
Uli had a brother who was a very classical oriented guitarist as well, Zeno (Hans Joachim) Roth. He had a band called Zeno, with a fantastic singer Michael Flexig.
Thanks for sharing this video! Is very sad that Uli is underated guitar player but the people who have listened his early stuff know that he was way ahead of his time! I think he was influenced by one of the greatest guitar players which was Jimmy Hendrix.
Uli and Yngwie have known each other since Malmsteen was a teenager. He made contact with Uli when he was still a teenager in Sweden, so Uli knew of Malmsteen LONG before the first Rising Force record. To your point, that makes it even more strange that he didn't OPENLY acknowledge Uli's influence from the very beginning of his star rising. SHOULD HAVE, no bones about it!!!
Thank You for giving Uli the cred he really deserves. Been watching him on stage so many times. First concert I saw was his last concert with Electric Sun in France - 82. Going there from Sweden and even got backstage pass. Two years later I watched him in Sweden for two concerts and also went to Hammersmith London for one gig. I started up a fanpage for him which became his officiel page for some years. Watched the G3 concert in Copenhagen. Now lately I saw his Scorpions revisited tour in Stockholm and Copenhagen. Then he was in Gothenburg for two and three years ago. And saw him both times. He likes Sweden. :-) Now I am going to watch his one man solo tour in two weeks. It will be very exciting. Thanks again, nice to see you playing Uli. I actually think this is the first time I've seen someone breaking down his solo so you're obviously a great player yourself.
@@crusheverything4449 That's cool. What is your name then, maybe I remember it. There is a group on Facebook called King of Kings where a lot o f Uli fans are sharing memories and stuff if you want to join it.
Awesome for bringing attention to such a great and underrated guitarist. His work with Scorpions is a treasure trove of guitar god goodness. One of my favorite solos, period, is the one from "Longing For Fire" off 'In Trance'. People knock it(not because it's bad, but he has more famous solos), but it so melodic, it is such a great work. Thank you for recognizing true guitar heroes.
NEW SUBSCRIBER 👍 Dude you just touched on some of my favorite Uli songs ever. Please do an Uli part #2 video with STILL SO MANY LIVES AWAY BURNING WHEELS TURNING SUNDOWN & CAST AWAY YOUR CHAINS I'd love to see that.✌
Yngwie definitely took a lot from Uli, but all musicians have their influences, don’t they? Uli is a much more refined and interesting player, IMO. Don’t get me wrong, what Yngwie did can’t be diminished - he’s incredible - but, Uli doesn’t play fast just to show off and his songs and solos have much more diversity and personality, whereas Yngwie repeats himself, ad nauseum, with the blinding speed licks. Speed is only one color on Uli’s pallete, while Yngwie’s style is more monochrome. I think if you paint in one color all the time, it eventually gets boring and repetitive, but if you use the whole color spectrum, the possibilities are endless. When used sparingly, fast playing is more dynamic because it’s contrasted by mid-tempo and slow passages and has a bigger payoff for the listener.
Yngwie rarely mentioned Uli in interviews in the early days - I feel he should've mentioned him more often, as much of his style and direction came from a combo of Uli Jon Roth and Ritchie Blackmore. There's the obvious exceptional violin technique in his playing (which is groundbreakingly impressive), but I feel he's only recently mentioned him more openly because in the early days he only mentioned Paganini, Bach, Blackmore, and Hendrix in those interviews, and owes a lot to Roth's playing style, tone, delivery, and more. : )
The original school of shred. Haha Uli Roth is still in his own class. Marty Friedman obviously admits his influence... I mean 9:52 is prime example. I went to a Vinnie Moore clinic sometime in 80's. Asked him what he thought of Uli... Hard to remember it exactly, but he basically replied that Yngwie really took alot of his ideas from Uli Roth.
The only clinic I ever went to was Vinnie Moore. Not only is Minds Eye imo the most melodic and cohesive of the Neo Class shred albums, it's one of my top ten albums period.
First time I saw Uli live was with Satriani and Petrucci in G3. In the jamming/improvising section at the end, Uli blew the other two away. He was far more varied and unpredictable than the other two (who I also love).
Bravo, Uli's "I'll be there" remains one of my favorite studio solos, with the blending of the legato vibrato noise (which Yngwie seldom attempts) with the arpeggios. Its the non musical sounds Uli really excels at, and blends well, having an tremendous debt to Hendrix. I believe Earthquake is dedicated to the "spirit of Jimi" and you may want to look up the who painted the Electric Sun album covers for another connection.
Glad to see that this lesson saw the light of day, Uli is definitely a unique and legendary guitar player, a neoclassical pioneer. I have however heard Yngwie mention Uli on many occasions, they are actually friends and there are some interviews of them together, somewhere... Worth a mention, Marry Friedman always used to rave about Uli on interviews and would typically say, " Uli's solos are the only solos I rewind". Great work and great video!
Hey everyone - don't get me wrong from the comments I made in this video.
I love Yngwie and he's a badass, but...I feel he could be a little more honest about his influences, especially now.
He's been on the scene since the early 1980s., so it seems silly to not just completely come out and admit that while he totally studied classical violin music and technique and applied it to the guitar, he also took a number of cues directly from Uli Jon Roth.
I have the same conspiracy theories about Eddie Van Halen and his father.
I feel that Jan Van Halen played a more significant role in Eddie's (and Alex's) musical development than previously admitted or explained. I have a feeling that Jan exposed those brothers to a plethora of hot jazz, classical, bebop, and avant-garde music, and I can almost guarantee that Jan Van Halen knew who Vittorio Camardese was - the famous 1950s nylon-string guitarist that is known as one of the earliest tapping guitarists.
Hell, their dad probably played some gigs with Vittorio.
No hate - just thoughts and feelings.
: )
Nothing could be further from the truth about Van Halen I completely agree with you David I mentioned to a buddy of mine the video I believe of an Italian guitar player you named who tapped on guitar ... And not to mention the way Van Halen manipulates blues licks and usually starts or ends his phrases on up beats rather than downbeats is very jazz oriented probably from his dad
I always felt eddie was influenced by Ronnie montrose.
Totally!
I can see/hear the Clapton (which is one of the main players he always mentioned, along with Holdsworth), but I can also hear Montrose, Billy Gibbons, Jimmy Page, and maybe even a little Steve Howe too!
: )
There was a page in one of the guitar mags years ago where they had a photo of Yngwie next to a photo of Blackmore and YJM had copied every single aspect of his image from Ritchie -- the black the boots the jewelry the Strat the Marshalls the pose
Well said David,I always wondered if that's why Eddie had a bebop,jazzy feel to a lot of his rhythms as well as leads. I bet Jan exposed the brothers to all of those styles of music. It wasn't just blues licks or rehashed rock riffs Eddie played.
Ulis solo on still so many lives away is unreal.
fantastic!
Probably my favorite solo of all time. Definitely up there. If not that it would most definitely be something else by uli.
Burning wheels turning
Cast away your chains
Fly to the rainbow
This is my song
Electric sun
Firewind
Sky overture
Sun In my hand
Sundown
Earthquake
And many many more
What's funny is, Sails of Charon was done when he was 23.. Jaw dropping.
When I saw Electric Sun at Summerfest Uli said he was 17 years old when he wrote it.
Yes and Yngwie was 14!!!
@@juanrajara2887 Not surprised I mean Schenker was 17 when he played on the Scorpions first album. I didn't hear that album until the early 90's post VH Yngwie Gilbert Satriani MacAlpine etc and was still blown away!
@@kellyjackson7889 - Michael was 15 on Lonesome Crow. He was 17 on UFO’s Phenomenon.
@@juanrajara2887 - I don’t believe he wrote the whole song, including the lead guitar parts when he was 17. Uli’s playing was not that advanced at that time. One listen to the Fly to the Rainbow album will prove that. While it’s a great record, his lead playing was not Sails of Charon level in ‘73-‘74, when he was 19 or 20, let alone two or three years earlier.
Uli! Love his scorpions stuff! Very ahead of his time.
Malmsteen speaks highly of Uli in his book and Uli actually gave him a Sky guitar. All of Malmsteens hero's have been dead for over 200 years. Uli is in my top 10 of all time greats, regarding God's of Guitar! Great lesson Dave.
Holdsworth has only been gone for 3yrs
The painting on the cover of the first Electric Sun is titled "Rising Force". I knew a guy in the 1990s who had a bunch of tapes of teenage Yngwie that were recorded on his 4 track with Yngwie playing all of the instruments and singing. One of the tapes had a killer version of Scorpions' "We'll Burn the Sky" with Yngwie playing Uli's solo perfectly.
@@Dnell-tb1yd I said heroes not influencers! Paganinni, Bach and Vivaldi..
@@centaurus5676 you know yngwie is probably my favourite shredder along with the man in my pfp. But I gotta give it to him. The entire "my heroes have been dead for 200 years" act he puts on extremely fucking cringe. I mean it's great and all but he's like 60 now ffs. The edge is too much to handle with Yngwie. He's like a teenager that never grows out of his "I'm not like the other kids" phase. He's a god of the instrument. Sure he might've shaped his style around the classical sound but he's got other heroes too.
@@sasmitroy5480 Yeah....like Blackmore. Anyone who doesn't see it is blind. Sure he took a lot from Uli & all the dead classical composers but his Blackmore fixation/denial is pretty comical. No, they don't play the same, duh. But Yngwie 100% stole his stage moves & mannerisms from Ritchie & anyone who's familiar with old Purple & Rainbow footage will agree. Does that take away anything from Ynwie's abilities...? Not at all, he's a bona fide badass, we all know that. It's just funny when he denies this stuff, or plays ignorant. As far as Uli....he's like the perfect bridge between Blacker's & Yngwie. And this is not to downplay his place in things, or his ability....his whole trip totally stands on it's own. I've met both Yngwie & Uli, and while Yngwie was pretty cool & laid back, he definitely had a "rock star" air about him, and a certain aloofness, whereas Uli is just warm & totally down to earth & just a very humble & nice guy. You just kinda get a mellow old hippy vibe from Uli & he's extremely easygoing & great to talk to, about anything.He treats you like an equal.....whereas with Yngwie, you know who the boss guitar player is in the room. Whatever, I love them both.
By the way if you retitle this “The secret Yngwie doesn’t want you to know“ it will blow up.
Brilliant idea !!! well said.
Lol aha ynevae we caught u!
But then I would never have watched it.
So Uli had a first influent this kind🙄?
I saw Uli Jon Roth on Saturday at winter storm in Scotland. It was cool watching out for these licks. He was the only guy to bring his own wind machine on stage. He looks like some kind of wizard guru and mega loud, sweep picking like its nothing. Very cool.
Dave would like to thank you for covering Ulrich Roth an absolute over looked Genius I think The Sails Of Charon is an Absolute masterpiece and in it self spawned an entire generation of shred guitarists Ulrich is an important figure in the evolution of metal guitar as anyone I’m glad you yourself recognize this and pay him the respect he deserves an Absolute Monster Guitarist !
He's been one of my 5 favorites since I first heard him as a child.
He’s been going by Uli Jon Roth since 1979.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 no one cares
He played with such feeling he made grown men cry. We didn't know it but tears came down our cheeks. i looked around and there were...all of us. A Hendrix surpasser? It was Uli.
AS PER USUAL..ONE MY PERSONAL FAVORITE EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS ON UA-cam. I THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
Best 3 for All to date. To call you a guitar teacher is to misrepresent you. You’re living shred guitar encyclopedia.
Plus David is a Chord Encyclopedia.
I've been a huge fan of Uli's since the early 1980s and I've been fortunate enough to have seen him perform live about 7 or 8 times. For a while, he played B.B. King's in Times Square every year. During one show, while he was touring with Michael Schenker I met him after his set & before Schenker's set. I saw him walking toward me about twenty feet away and no one else noticed him yet. He walked right up to me, said hello & shook my hand. He was the most peaceful person I've ever met. I felt peace emanating from him. He's about my size (5' 10 1/2) but his hands are huge. I wanted to have a conversation with him, but a couple of knuckleheads suddenly bum-rushed him and rudely crowded me out of the way. Naturally, he spoke to them politely. During that show, he didn't have a full band and played mostly classical stuff, but he played 'Sails' and it made my entire body vibrate. He's amazing.
2004 was my last show as I am disabled. And Uli reserved a seat for me. He walked in thru the front door after Michael's set and immediately there was a line on the floor, (He hadn't been to America in 19 years) and I got up sore and yet uplifted, tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Hi Uli, it's Windrose." He had a site and I had sent in a poem and he named the poem and I was like, "You read that?" He asked about the sound, etc. I think all of the guys or most of the guys in the line were there to ask about his guitar, equipment, etc. I just told him that his music lifted me up throughout the good times and the bad.
This video is suuuuuch an eye opener! Uli, that is a name for a true pioneer.
I love your videos! Three licks is the perfect amount. Not too much, not too little. You are awesome! Thank you for all you do!
Yngwie does take a shot at Sails of Charon on his covers record.
true....
Yeah it's breath taking cover.
I sent in a request for Uli Jon Roth .. I am so thrilled you finally got a chance to analyze this wonderful guitar players approach. I have said for years Yngwie Malmsteen took everything from him .. he's picking technique is approach .. his tone. And he never mentions him not once as you said in your commentary .. thank you
I have an interview from the 80s on tape where Yngwie says, “Uli Roth is about as good as you get on guitar.” So, there’s that...
Dave. You have a patient, smooth voice that makes the lessons easily heard. There is tempo, instruction, theory and it all makes sense without much to rewind.
"In Trance" was my introduction to the Scorpions and Uli Jon Roth. Most of my friend's first guitar hero was Ace Frehley. Uli was mine. He paved the way for me to want to shred with passion. Excellent lesson
Lick #2 is heard in Jewel by Marty Friedman and Jason Becker
yes i was going to say the same...there is a lot of Cacophony here...
Thank you for this. A nice comprehensive breakdown. Uli changed my life.
More people should know Uli, truly ahead of his time and unique.
Great stuff man. Uli is fortunately very much loved and remembered here in Europe. Amazing player, humble dude, and quite funny too. Seeing him live had been on my list forever, finally saw him on the Scorpions Years Anniversary tour he did some 4-5 years back, small venue, I was at arm's length of him, and after the show he just came down to hang out and chat with us. Part 3 of "Hiroshima" off the Firewind album has to be one of the most poignant instrumentals ever. And thank God for Dean making him his Skystone guitars properly, because the early custom prototypes wouldn't ever stay in tune more than 2 minutes :D
These are the kind of licks from Uli I've been waiting for someone to show me and others. Thanks a whole lot 👍🏻😃 Subbed!!
There’s an Uli guitar lesson from ‘the sails of Charon’ on YT by the master himself
I like the sound of the PHRYGIAN scales so cool. I cant get enough.
There is no Yngwie without Roth.
I obsessed over those early Roth recordings.
The guy was magical.
I still think one of the greatest solos ever recorded was in "So Many Lives Away".
Just stunning.
I can forgive the awful asthmatic Bob Dylan vocals.
I strangely dig them somewhat. They're rhythmical, like Hendrix's vocals.
Oh God, no! I couldn't stand his vocals in Scorpions 😅. I thought his playing was the next step of Hendrix though.
love this, thanks for reviewing Uli's licks!
I don’t have many things in my life that I truly enjoy but learning about guitar and playing guitar is definitely one of the few joys that I have.
Loved his early work with the Scorpions. I've walked past his house loads of times, he used to live in a mansion called Plas tan y bwlch in Aberystwyth, Wales.
The mansion has since been converted to flats.
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Great lesson. Really enjoy listening to both Uli and Yngwie. Saw Yngwie on the rising force tour way back when. I was about 15 ft away from him, center of the stage, no one in between. It was a badass show. Damn im getting old.
Michael Labo yes saw him on that tour in Birmingham. Funny- lots of guys chatting beforehand about how they could play all his stuff: then yngwie let loose from behind a stack and the jaws dropped! Very amusing
yngwie is great live saw him in 93 at a bar . I was right up front trying to learn some licks . I'm just finding uli John but it's very cool
im really digging your new series of licks of a particular guitarist. Overall I still think your guitar videos are by far the best on youtube. Outstanding communication as you provide a clear explanation of each lesson, thanks for all the hard work to make the videos, very much appreciated!
What he did with the Strat in Tokio Tapes is awesone, that howling whammy bar work is so rad. Love it.
This is awesome! You are the best, thank you very much. Keep on rocking.
Uli has been always been overlooked and it's a shame. I got into Uli from Virgin Killer by the Scorpions and it's an awesome record especially the song Catch Your Train. Excellent lesson!!!!
Uli is my 2nd favorite guitarist of all time trailing Alex Skolnick. I had front row at a Uli show at Brick by Brick! He plays loud and clean live! Great show! Nice to see people still digging Uli!
Skolnick and Bettencourt both could shred but holy fuck their phrasing and melodic sense in their genres truly set them apart from their peers Honorable mention to Chris Poland.
Awesome to hear Skolnick is a fave of other players. I grew up around the thrash metal scene in the bay area (even played a relatively small part in it) and got to hang out with most of those bands at parties, rehearsals and gigs, or concerts. Sometimes I would see some of them just "partying in the hills" as we used to call it, lols. Lots of fun back in those days.
@@kellyjackson7889 Chris Poland and his band OM were at the first Sky Academy. They did an amazing version of Spoonfull with Uli.
Been a huge fan of Mr. Roth from the early scorpion's days. Buying the vinyl LOL and you did a marvelous, absolutely fantastic job of nailing the phrasing and chops! Thank you so much for sharing brother!
Love your channel man
You're one of the guys
You don't speak down to us
Just really cool and nice and a great teacher and guitarist
Thank you
fantastic lesson as always David you are the best !!!
Fascinating stuff! Thanks for sharing your work on this inspirational guitarist.
Fantastic playing by you - very educational too Uli is my hero - Schenker/ Tipton/Downing/Iommi etc...
3:00 I love the early stuff that Yngwie put out with Alcatrazz and his first few solo albums -- but Uli is more melodic and not as predictable IMHO
It shows that you have really no technical limit. Unbelievable! I saw the Scorpions in Berlin in a Club called Roxy with around 1.000 people in the audience. Uli played like a development of Hendix. The problem was, I think, Uli was too well to do the big and simpler Hits of further Scorpions. Thank you very much for this great lesson.
cool story Christian. I saw Uli play in 1983 with Electric Sun in London. Great player, very Hendrix inspired for sure. I loved his stuff with Scorpions, but I agree, he was on a different musical path.
Christian, what year did you see Uli with the Scorpions?
My band Old James was fortunate enough to do an 8 week tour with Uli in 2015 in the US with Vinnie Moore and BKR. Watching and hearing Uli play every night was MIND BLOWING and never truly the same twice. There was always something fresh and special from show to show. Not only does he dress like Merlin, his playing wizardry has MAGIC and is other worldly. He also brought a dead bird back to life....no joke! We love you Uli and THANK YOU Mr. Brewster for this amazing lesson and look into the playing of one of the greatest living musicians alive today.
I saw Uli, Santriani and Michael Schenker in Dublin for the G3 concert. Uli and Schenker played In Trance and Sails of Charon. Awesome!, Satriani was good too, but I was there for Uli and Michael.
Same here,I saw that tour in Dallas. I was there specifically to see Uli and Schenker. Great show.
wow ididnt know they did a g3 tour with uli and shenker . damn I totally missed that one.🤔
That had to have been AMAZING!
Wow! You did the Uli! Didn’t expect that! Amazing composition and arrangement skills as well as an awesome player. Beyond the Astral Skies is such an incredible album.
Wow - Uli is one of the ones I always managed to miss and he's like the angel where Yngwie is the demon. Way impressed and subbed!
Thanx! Great playing.
awesome stuff. thanks
Wow!!! don’t know how I overlooked this video awesome. Uli Jon Roth is one of the most under rated guitarist you can hear the influence he gave malmsteen so clearly.
Great lesson Dave. Superb
Great job David,this is one of the reasons I subscribed to your channel. You actually listen to requests from your listeners,and the fact that you're a monster player who can explain even some of the most difficult licks out there. You've got an easy going nature and teach the most succinct lessons I've found. Keep rockin' dude!!
I was fortunate to see Uli play live towards the end of the eighties in Bristol UK. Phenomenal ! Your lesson made my day, cheers.
I've been a Uli fan since 1978. My Brother bought Scorpions, "Taken By Force". The 1st song I heard was " Sails of Charon." I still have my original vinyl of Electric Sun," Earthquake" & "Fire Wind" in mint condition..
Really wish he’d go back to a Strat. I can’t stand the tone of that Sky guitar. Love his work with Scorps a great player! Thank You.
Yah that built in preamp the Sky Guitar has is excessively noisy and makes his tone 'shrieky'. I mean I appreciate that guitar was made before high gain amps and that he likes old tremolo Marshalls. I just don't understand why he and ENGL haven't got together. I mean they have a Itchie Crackwhore sig model.
@@kellyjackson7889 I still don't understand how that man got that sweet singing tone out of a strat bridge pickup and did like 6 step bends on it. Madman
Great to know I wasn't the only one to hear this.
The intonation on that thing is pretty bad too. I've seen some clips here, that's abysmally bad. I wonder why a musician of Uli's caliber cant hear that himself??
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Just saw Uli live last April and he sounded fantastic, as he ALWAYS does, playing and tone wise. He was untouchable on the Strat in the 1970's-mid 80's though of course.
Tokyo Tapes is one of the most badass guitar albums of all time !!
YES.
I've owned "Beyond the Astral Skies" on Cassette, Vinyl, and CD - to say nothing of the rest. Massively overlooked these days.....and interestingly Yng owns (or at least, used to) a Sky Guitar. There's also a brilliant live concert from the mid-80s which has some outstanding parts on show - well worth checking out and there's a representative selection on the YT channel "AxelFlyerV"
Another one worth searching for - again on YT is: Uli Jon Roth - Historic Performances
Great vid. Yngwie has mentioned uli more than a couple of times. Check out uli on transcendental sky guitar and his take on vivaldi's four seasons
I'll never forget the first time I got that CD and listened to it. I had been a huge fan of both Roth *and* Vivaldi for many years, but had no idea I was going to love it as much as I did and still do. To this day I have yet to hear anyone at all emulate the violin on a non synth electric guitar so well. Actually, because of the dynamics and feel and the emotive possibilities from that, I've never heard the violin emulated so well on even a synth really. It's still one of my favorite guitar works, right up there with Alan Holdsworths playing as far as sonic achievements go.
Fantastic!
Yngwie has since acknowledged Uli as a major influence...... Thank GOD!!!
Great review especially of I’ll be There from astral. Incredible song.
Thankyou for this lesson of the forgotton great Uli ,a blast from the past of those old Uli performances and Scorps music, and you play these riffs so effortlessly ,as alway your lessons are greatly appreciated !
Forgotten? Maybe by you.
Dude I love how you actually break down the musicality behind your licks and don’t just teach the tabs. I’ve only been subscribed for a few months but your channel is a gold mine for me! You cover all of the guitarists that influence me most and that’s dope.
Saw Uli and his Electric Sun play Lobo in Gothenburg, Sweden in -83. I had heard him in Scorpions and thought this might be good. I was absolutely Gobsmacked!!! Subscribed to your awesome channel, thanks!
That was awesome! Thanks.
Thank you for this. Uli is a huge influence for me. I love the Beyond The Astral Sky album. It will take me such a long time to catch up to your lessons. 🙏🏽
Uli Jon Roth is the first guy AFTER Blackmore that actually brought Baroque harmonic progressions and Baroque linear solo vocabulary into hard rock guitar. And he did this with way more technical facility as a soloist than Blackmore, and he utilized Baroque harmonies and scalar material to a far greater degree in his solos and compositions in general than Blackmore. Uli has not received the full credit he deserves with regard to this Baroque vocabulary in hard rock guitar. Keep in mind, Michael Schenker did not begin employing Baroque chord progressions and Baroque scales in his solos to a large degree until the MSG band in 1981. Uli had been doing this since he joined the Scorpions(as far as recording goes) in 1973 and was immediately employing this vocabulary from the very first record he did with them, Fly To The Rainbow in 1974. He needs to be recognized as an innovator of hard rock guitar of the highest order and not some fringe early "shredder" guy. Uli is and always was wayyyyy more than that!!! Not to mention how fantastic of a nylon string classical guitarist he ALWAYS was and is. Almost NONE of his hard rock peers can touch him as a classical guitarist and this should also be mentioned wayyyy more often... UJR, one of the GREATEST hard rock guitarists EVER. If you listed 10 he SHOULD ABSOLUTELY be one of them.....
Preach, brother!
I think Blackmore in his prime could of figured out pretty well anything. What you have to remember with guys like Page Blackmore is they are not highly educated guitar players. Someone like Uli Roth very educated.
@@dalesteffens6769 Well, do you know Uli Jon Roth's entire pedagogy intimately? NO, you don't. "Educated" musically is not a bad thing either, and that's assuming as you are that Uli was somehow formally musically "educated." Actually Uli was mostly self taught, so does that satisfy what you're calling "educated?" However one gets to greatness should not diminish that achieved greatness. Uli Jon Roth, GREAT whatever the particular road he took on his musical development.
I hear Jeff Loomis in all of this too. I'm so excited to tear this up later! ❤ 🤘🏾
I have met uli a few times and he is a humble gentleman, what an amazing guitar player he is, his brother zeno was an amazing player as well, (R.I.P.)you should do a lick lesson on him as well my friend
For crying out loud Yngwie just admit it !
YJM did mention Uli way back in the mid '90s. Said they were friends and both perfectionist..
Inspiration had scads of killer covers. Sails was one of them.
Awesome lesson thanx
Brilliant!!👍👍
Uli had a brother who was a very classical oriented guitarist as well, Zeno (Hans Joachim) Roth. He had a band called Zeno, with a fantastic singer Michael Flexig.
Thanks for sharing this video! Is very sad that Uli is underated guitar player but the people who have listened his early stuff know that he was way ahead of his time! I think he was influenced by one of the greatest guitar players which was Jimmy Hendrix.
Cool...thx.....I'm going to see him in tour in March...
I'm not a shredder, but I appreciate this stuff, man. Subbed. Thanks!
Uli and Yngwie have known each other since Malmsteen was a teenager. He made contact with Uli when he was still a teenager in Sweden, so Uli knew of Malmsteen LONG before the first Rising Force record. To your point, that makes it even more strange that he didn't OPENLY acknowledge Uli's influence from the very beginning of his star rising. SHOULD HAVE, no bones about it!!!
This is just Cold HEARTED...NO FEELINGS BREWSKI...BLACK NOT BLUE!😢
Thank You for giving Uli the cred he really deserves. Been watching him on stage so many times. First concert I saw was his last concert with Electric Sun in France - 82. Going there from Sweden and even got backstage pass. Two years later I watched him in Sweden for two concerts and also went to Hammersmith London for one gig. I started up a fanpage for him which became his officiel page for some years. Watched the G3 concert in Copenhagen. Now lately I saw his Scorpions revisited tour in Stockholm and Copenhagen. Then he was in Gothenburg for two and three years ago. And saw him both times. He likes Sweden. :-) Now I am going to watch his one man solo tour in two weeks. It will be very exciting. Thanks again, nice to see you playing Uli. I actually think this is the first time I've seen someone breaking down his solo so you're obviously a great player yourself.
Hi, Peter - we corresponded back when you had your Uli site. Nice to see you’re still around. I hope you’re doing well, my friend!
@@crusheverything4449 That's cool. What is your name then, maybe I remember it. There is a group on Facebook called King of Kings where a lot o f Uli fans are sharing memories and stuff if you want to join it.
Awesome!
Awesome for bringing attention to such a great and underrated guitarist. His work with Scorpions is a treasure trove of guitar god goodness. One of my favorite solos, period, is the one from "Longing For Fire" off 'In Trance'. People knock it(not because it's bad, but he has more famous solos), but it so melodic, it is such a great work. Thank you for recognizing true guitar heroes.
The solos in Longing For Fire are incredible! Hard to believe someone was playing like that in 1975, but Uli was!!
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Dude you just touched on some of my favorite Uli songs ever. Please do an Uli part #2 video with
STILL SO MANY LIVES AWAY
BURNING WHEELS TURNING
SUNDOWN &
CAST AWAY YOUR CHAINS
I'd love to see that.✌
Always great guitar history & lessons!
When I hear Yngwie I automatically think of Uli.
Yngwie definitely took a lot from Uli, but all musicians have their influences, don’t they? Uli is a much more refined and interesting player, IMO. Don’t get me wrong, what Yngwie did can’t be diminished - he’s incredible - but, Uli doesn’t play fast just to show off and his songs and solos have much more diversity and personality, whereas Yngwie repeats himself, ad nauseum, with the blinding speed licks. Speed is only one color on Uli’s pallete, while Yngwie’s style is more monochrome. I think if you paint in one color all the time, it eventually gets boring and repetitive, but if you use the whole color spectrum, the possibilities are endless. When used sparingly, fast playing is more dynamic because it’s contrasted by mid-tempo and slow passages and has a bigger payoff for the listener.
Yngwie mentioned uli constantly in the 80s and 90s, even covered Sails of Charon on his inspirations album, did no one else buy it?
Yngwie rarely mentioned Uli in interviews in the early days - I feel he should've mentioned him more often, as much of his style and direction came from a combo of Uli Jon Roth and Ritchie Blackmore.
There's the obvious exceptional violin technique in his playing (which is groundbreakingly impressive), but I feel he's only recently mentioned him more openly because in the early days he only mentioned Paganini, Bach, Blackmore, and Hendrix in those interviews, and owes a lot to Roth's playing style, tone, delivery, and more.
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Did anyone buy a Yngwie album after 1986?
The original school of shred. Haha
Uli Roth is still in his own class.
Marty Friedman obviously admits his influence...
I mean 9:52 is prime example.
I went to a Vinnie Moore clinic sometime in 80's.
Asked him what he thought of Uli...
Hard to remember it exactly, but he basically replied that Yngwie really took alot of his ideas from Uli Roth.
The only clinic I ever went to was Vinnie Moore. Not only is Minds Eye imo the most melodic and cohesive of the Neo Class shred albums, it's one of my top ten albums period.
Awesome.. thanks for the great Uli lesson.. dude is a beast, Ive followed him and the scorps along with Michael since the early 70's.
I'm glad you mentioned the yellow strat similarity too. YM was definitely influenced by uli.
Uli was Yngwie main influence. He coped every lick ... loved both ❤️
Wow ur comments just got me interested to listen to Ritchie Blackmore and Yngevay Malmasteen
Love me some ULI
thanks always for your very interesting update! regarding Uli's licks, your explaining sounds me very easy to understand them.
First time I saw Uli live was with Satriani and Petrucci in G3. In the jamming/improvising section at the end, Uli blew the other two away. He was far more varied and unpredictable than the other two (who I also love).
Dude thank-you for breaking down the uli licks! You are one talented player bro! Happy new year. James
Bravo, Uli's "I'll be there" remains one of my favorite studio solos, with the blending of the legato vibrato noise (which Yngwie seldom attempts) with the arpeggios. Its the non musical sounds Uli really excels at, and blends well, having an tremendous debt to Hendrix. I believe Earthquake is dedicated to the "spirit of Jimi" and you may want to look up the who painted the Electric Sun album covers for another connection.
His album Firewind is packed with guitar frenzy
Great job!! (As always🤙🏽) Uli is definitely in my top 3 players. I’m glad you offered solos from deep cuts👍
Great stuff! Going to see him in a small club in my hometown on Thursday so can't wait for that.
Glad to see that this lesson saw the light of day, Uli is definitely a unique and legendary guitar player, a neoclassical pioneer. I have however heard Yngwie mention Uli on many occasions, they are actually friends and there are some interviews of them together, somewhere... Worth a mention, Marry Friedman always used to rave about Uli on interviews and would typically say, " Uli's solos are the only solos I rewind". Great work and great video!
Amazing video sir!!!
Great thank you!