your first four licks were superb man, the last one sounds like a song intro, I like the way you teach, = swift and clear to the point, no blabben your mouth like some of these teachers do,
All of the comments are so toxic. Like I understand these aren't yngwie malmsteen licks but someone learning the style would definitely learn something from this video. Why so much hate?
Because it says 5 Yngwie licks, and then he plays it different from how Yngwie plays it. They should've named the video "5 Neo-classical licks" or something.
Thanks for the lesson. It doesnt matter if 'he' doesnt play like that. learn the riffs and make it your own. Ditto. And Malmsteen most definately uses these note sequences.
I'll never understand... how can jimmy page play the same lick over and over but everyone is quiet about it. this is proof that people who can't play something end up criticizing it.
LDC Tech it’s because people like Page, who I do enjoy, play licks that are not very hard but sound hard to play. Guitarists with intermediate skills can learn them so they hype him up to inflate the level of their own skills. That’s why some of these people slate Yngwie, Loomis. Becker etc because they’d have zero shot of playing like them. So if they say those guys are shit, then they can avoid playing the “shit player” licks.
LDC Tech it’s called flowing melody n it’s easier on the ears and it’s definitely a popular style to listen too whereas neoclassical is a fringe thing in popular music .
@@charlieharper886 I could say the same thing about yngwie. Page uses lots of interesting chord voicing and that sound much more musical to me than yngwies constant power chords. But I'm just playing devils advocate. I love the fact that yngwies bends are always pitch perfect and I miss it when listening to Page or Hendrix. Different styles i guess.
who tf cares about what the world has to say.. malmsteen has inspired generations of guitar players, i don't see or hear all those musical geniuses who criticise yingwie,have the same impact these are the people the world has not heard of,and never will because of their narrow minded way of thinking yingwie on the other hand followed his passion and is living his life the way he wanted to ..still inspiring countess other guitarists
A video where the guy plays slowly, where you can change the speed and yet, all I can read in the comments are: - Those are not Malmsteen licks - Malmsteen has no soul - Malmsteen is an average player - (name of a great guitarist) is better than Malmsteen (yes, and so what?) - Andy James your guitar tone sucks (but not his playing hopefully) If internet had a dumpster it would be UA-cam comment section. By the way nice video, thanks.
Correction: "5 Yngwie Malmsteen Licks You Need To Know that aren't Yngwie Malmsteen Licks." •Lick 1: Diminished 7th arpeggios •Lick 2: More diminished 7th arpeggios •Lick 3: Descending pedal-point (first note is closest thing to an actual Yngwie lick...if one note can even be a "lick") •Lick 4: Descending 16th note triplet sequence •Lick 5: Ascending 16th note triplet sequence *Note: Hairband, standard tuning, and 24th fret make these double plus Yngwie licks!
I love Andy I subscribe and have bought his products but I don’t think I’ve heard 1 of these licks on any Malmsteen song, disagree? Ask Panos the Greek Malmsteen
I'm pretty sure Yngwie doesnt play like that. His articulation and curious sound comes from the fact that most of the time he doesn't use straight alternate picking. In fact, every time he plays an odd number of notes in a lick that moves across two or more strings he uses legato or sweeping. That tells me that, for at least licks number 4 and 5, he would never play them like that. Having said that, great playing! And those licks are very cool as well.
Very good point. I've been paying closer attention lately to his picking and I've noticed these things too. He only really uses alternate picking when playing 6 note sequences/two string/single string ideas.
@@BenMcrea61 It's rather Yngwie's style and choice to play it his way than the lack of ability. He simplified or adapted playing the guitar to suit his style and it works very well for him. Yngwie is arrogant AF but a genius never the less.
I don't feel like some of these licks are exactly what Yngwie played... more inspired by them... the 4th lick sounds more like john petruccis best Yngwie impression.. no mention of Yngwies use of economy picking either which is kind of missing the point .. lick 5 is the worse one imo
3, 4 and a little of 5 def. can hear the yjm sound esp number 4 which sounds very close to one of the main trilogy suite riffs. This guys tone is much more muffled and processed for my taste though. The first 2 sweeping licks sound nothing like Yngwie in my opinion.
7:17 I wonder if the finger pattern used to playin for example A, B and C notes using index, middle and ring fingers, as the way Yngwie or Andy do, instead of the standard index, ring and pinky, is meditated or just an instinctive and natural way for them...
Oh dear, it would appear that Lick Library are distributing counterfeit Yngwie licks again. Now, where is the number for that trading standards officer. Butters, be a good boy and fetch mummy her address book.
What is the mode? Has Yngwie any preferred as e.g. Stve Vai probably likes Lydian? Yngwie as I noticed likes arpegios, but they can be played in any mode IMHO. Excellent lesson!
Yngwie often plays Phrygian Dominant, also known as "Spanish" Phrygian. It's the 5th mode of Harmonic Minor, so it's like playing off of E7b9 within A harmonic minor.
Strat neck pickup, hall-type reverb (mix at 9 o'clock, decay at 9 o'clock) and analog delay setting between 300-400ms (mix at 9 o'clock, feedback at 7 or 8 o'clock). MK
Well does Yngwie play with 24 fretted guitars? Because i think his strats only have 21 frets and if they have, he couldn't/wouldn't already play the 3rd lick, right?
Not knocking what Andy's doing here but Yjm would never do a downstroke as the last note on a string when doing descending run and crossing over to a lower string. Maybe he'd do it on the highest two strings which are easier to pick through but not on the other strings. He always uses a downward picking slant and an downstroke would trap the pick. The solution is for him to either pull off to the last note of the string or slide into it. He rarely picks EVERY note especially when string crossing. He also uses economy picking for ascending runs and finishing on a downstroke.
Dude, you're really good, but having that many repeats on your delay kinda makes it ridiculous. A single, tight repeat (to help thicken your tone) is all you need. Great vid, but so much ddl makes it sorta cheesy.
Hansell Santana lol it has more to do with the mechanics than preferences. If you only have two or three notes per string.. by law, there's no need for a pinky
Hmm, not sure. He's also inconsistent when he does use it. He'll utilize it a bit in a slowed-down demonstration, and then use a different fingering up to tempo.
SoiledWig nah he just alternates between middle index and ring.. because when you play two notes per string.. and on the next string play three. The sequence between these three fingers changes
YJM's phrasing is too one dimensional and never allows you to fuse with another style, without sounding Malmsteen ish. I guess thats the nature of Phrygian dominant
mrmaybe maybe....mr! no I'm not haha don't get me wrong he's a fantastic guitarist that goes without saying and a fantastic songwriter, he's got so many great qualities about him which I admire, but when it comes to his solo's and shred stuff it's all the same and it gets a bit much, he doesn't do to much to break it up and give it versatility which ends up boring, there's so much more to improv and music than running up and down scales and arpeggios as quick as you can, but nonetheless he is great
Well, you haven't been paying much attention to his playing as he incorporates way more licks than this in his playing. If you really studied his playing, you'd realize that these aren't even his licks really. They are similar licks at best. Some of his most renowned licks aren't even in this like the ascending/descending diminished sequences of fours and petal tone ideas. Those are the most obvious examples. I do, however, agree that there isn't much variety to his playing.
if I didn't pay attention I wouldn't get bored simple as, because I do pay a great deal of attention I know what's the same, descending in groups of four whether it's diminished or not is nothing special, it's quite boring and repeats itself, you know where it's going just like groups of 3, I'm not hating on the guy he's got great songs, outstanding vibrato, passion and lots of intricate songs, rather than saying it's all he does he takes the same principles and changes them around a little but it's sill very similar to what's in this video. But yeah his solo's are too much the same for me
I don't know...AJ's tone always sounds shrill and terrible to me..UNLESS...he's playing an actual song. Then it sounds great. How can that be? I don't get it!
If it was 1987 this would be cool. Nothing against harmonic minor, but to base one's entire career on this sound alone is very limited. And to not even explore the harmony lying within this scale (mM7, m7b5, +M7, etc.) would be yet another lack of vision. Modes of harmonic minor??? What do you mean lol..! You hear one yngvie solo, you've heard them all. That's why nobody listens to him anymore. And anybody who plays like him wouldn't get a gig if their life depended on it. However, if you're content to play 1 scale for your entire life -Rock on!!!
yngwie malmsteen is average at best. no feel in his playing, or at least, its pretend. he just plays the same things and scrunches his face up at times. Thats just my speculation.
+Jason Muir I'm still surprised by people that think they know whether or not someone plays with feeling. +mrmaybe Is definitely right, you lack a lot of guitar knowledge which leads you to think he plays the same things all the time but that's not what shocks me. What shocks me is that you make a statement that only a psychic person could make and actually think you're right.
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Andy James is one of the few true virtuoso guitar players. He can play anything.
your first four licks were superb man, the last one sounds like a song intro, I like the way you teach, = swift and clear to the point, no blabben your mouth like some of these teachers do,
All of the comments are so toxic. Like I understand these aren't yngwie malmsteen licks but someone learning the style would definitely learn something from this video. Why so much hate?
Because online is the only place these cowards can lip off without fear of loosing their teeth?
Because it says 5 Yngwie licks, and then he plays it different from how Yngwie plays it. They should've named the video "5 Neo-classical licks" or something.
I hadn't scrolled far enough and read the title as 5 Yngwie Malmsteens Lick You
Thanks for the lesson. It doesnt matter if 'he' doesnt play like that. learn the riffs and make it your own. Ditto. And Malmsteen most definately uses these note sequences.
I'll never understand... how can jimmy page play the same lick over and over but everyone is quiet about it. this is proof that people who can't play something end up criticizing it.
Or Clapton. I've always found him EXTREMELY overrated. Heard one of his solos, you've heard them all.
LDC Tech it’s because people like Page, who I do enjoy, play licks that are not very hard but sound hard to play. Guitarists with intermediate skills can learn them so they hype him up to inflate the level of their own skills.
That’s why some of these people slate Yngwie, Loomis. Becker etc because they’d have zero shot of playing like them. So if they say those guys are shit, then they can avoid playing the “shit player” licks.
LDC Tech it’s called flowing melody n it’s easier on the ears and it’s definitely a popular style to listen too whereas neoclassical is a fringe thing in popular music .
@@charlieharper886 I could say the same thing about yngwie. Page uses lots of interesting chord voicing and that sound much more musical to me than yngwies constant power chords. But I'm just playing devils advocate. I love the fact that yngwies bends are always pitch perfect and I miss it when listening to Page or Hendrix. Different styles i guess.
who tf cares about what the world has to say..
malmsteen has inspired generations of guitar players,
i don't see or hear all those musical geniuses who criticise yingwie,have the same impact
these are the people the world has not heard of,and never will because of their narrow minded way of thinking
yingwie on the other hand followed his passion and is living his life the way he wanted to ..still inspiring countess other guitarists
Cool man thanks always enjoy your lessons and teaching style!
When Yngwie was playing this back then , comparatively, the rest of the guitar world was on trees, eating bananas. That's a fact.
prasinos37 not really for Yngwie got his style from Richie Blackmore and Uli Jon Roth
fail comment, yep
Assaad Abou-Rached
Yngwie was light years above those guys buddy.
Remember Paco de Lucia was doing way more impressive stuff than this 20 years before Yngwie.
It's mainly because he's not using a strat. The humbuckers make a more mid boosted sound than the neck single coil of a strat
Happy Birthday YJM!
I wonder how YJM reaches the 24th fret on a strat, LOL
magic, that's what we've all been missing , the invisible 22/23/24th fret on his yjm
Nice one !
Bending like a mothafucka on a 21th fret on a scalloped vintage Fender Strato neck XD
+RaterisimoCBA yep, for sure, this guy is doing it the sissy way lol
Only a sissy would know a sissy heh, ?
I must be getting old, Im finding the slowed down versions more musical.
Pretty Cool video, thanks for posting this video
Happy Birthday, Maestro!!!\m/
i got 3 word for y'all.
Yngwie REH Video.
A video where the guy plays slowly, where you can change the speed and yet, all I can read in the comments are:
- Those are not Malmsteen licks
- Malmsteen has no soul
- Malmsteen is an average player
- (name of a great guitarist) is better than Malmsteen (yes, and so what?)
- Andy James your guitar tone sucks (but not his playing hopefully)
If internet had a dumpster it would be UA-cam comment section.
By the way nice video, thanks.
Correction: "5 Yngwie Malmsteen Licks You Need To Know that aren't Yngwie Malmsteen Licks."
•Lick 1: Diminished 7th arpeggios
•Lick 2: More diminished 7th arpeggios
•Lick 3: Descending pedal-point (first note is closest thing to an actual Yngwie lick...if one note can even be a "lick")
•Lick 4: Descending 16th note triplet sequence
•Lick 5: Ascending 16th note triplet sequence
*Note: Hairband, standard tuning, and 24th fret make these double plus Yngwie licks!
Nice lesson
Awesome
awesome \…/
can you teach us the Rising Force solo?
/watch?v=wT0XpJ4Yye8
I love Andy I subscribe and have bought his products but I don’t think I’ve heard 1 of these licks on any Malmsteen song, disagree? Ask Panos the Greek Malmsteen
I'm pretty sure Yngwie doesnt play like that. His articulation and curious sound comes from the fact that most of the time he doesn't use straight alternate picking. In fact, every time he plays an odd number of notes in a lick that moves across two or more strings he uses legato or sweeping. That tells me that, for at least licks number 4 and 5, he would never play them like that. Having said that, great playing! And those licks are very cool as well.
Very good point. I've been paying closer attention lately to his picking and I've noticed these things too. He only really uses alternate picking when playing 6 note sequences/two string/single string ideas.
Ignacio Veloso Bahamondes I think what you’re saying is Yngwie couldn’t play like this. He does not have the technical ability that Andy James has.
@@BenMcrea61 It's rather Yngwie's style and choice to play it his way than the lack of ability. He simplified or adapted playing the guitar to suit his style and it works very well for him. Yngwie is arrogant AF but a genius never the less.
muchas gracias
I don't feel like some of these licks are exactly what Yngwie played... more inspired by them... the 4th lick sounds more like john petruccis best Yngwie impression.. no mention of Yngwies use of economy picking either which is kind of missing the point .. lick 5 is the worse one imo
Sounds good....
Maybe it's the tone of the guitar or the key of riffs but I can barely hear a resemblance to Yngwie here.
SomeDudeOnline definitely the tone!
ugh, the tone is horrible.
It's really overcompressed, which leads to terrible dynamic range!
The tone is trash.
3, 4 and a little of 5 def. can hear the yjm sound esp number 4 which sounds very close to one of the main trilogy suite riffs. This guys tone is much more muffled and processed for my taste though. The first 2 sweeping licks sound nothing like Yngwie in my opinion.
7:17 I wonder if the finger pattern used to playin for example A, B and C notes using index, middle and ring fingers, as the way Yngwie or Andy do, instead of the standard index, ring and pinky, is meditated or just an instinctive and natural way for them...
Foda demais!! Pena que não estou acertando HAHAHA
Oh dear, it would appear that Lick Library are distributing counterfeit Yngwie licks again. Now, where is the number for that trading standards officer. Butters, be a good boy and fetch mummy her address book.
nice
What is the mode? Has Yngwie any preferred as e.g. Stve Vai probably likes Lydian? Yngwie as I noticed likes arpegios, but they can be played in any mode IMHO. Excellent lesson!
Yngwie often plays Phrygian Dominant, also known as "Spanish" Phrygian. It's the 5th mode of Harmonic Minor, so it's like playing off of E7b9 within A harmonic minor.
Great job! That's pretty all licks you need to learn to record 6+ solo albums and call them something like "Feeding the Fury".
Malmsteen is the Best !!!
Can you post up some tabs, as this is not easy stuff, thanks.
What affects do i need to make my guitar soundthe same...Cheers Jay.
Strat neck pickup, hall-type reverb (mix at 9 o'clock, decay at 9 o'clock) and analog delay setting between 300-400ms (mix at 9 o'clock, feedback at 7 or 8 o'clock).
MK
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Did he say general Patton?
malmsteen is godlike
How come I hear no resemblance here? I listen to the first three albums religiously, and a little bit of of odyssey
What key is this in?
Anyone know the name of the fretwrap he is using?
Alternis It looks like an ordinary hair band. Streal your girlfriends or buy one from a pharmacy.
Tabs would help. Thanks.
Yngwie never starts anything on the 24th fret, because his strats only have 21.
You might think Yngwie is a master cross string alternate picker, apparently he's not, he glides his was thru economy picking all the time
anyone know that amplifier is using? :(
Amplifier? Sounds like a cat with a speaker shoved up its ass.
lol
Probably axefx...
Well does Yngwie play with 24 fretted guitars? Because i think his strats only have 21 frets and if they have, he couldn't/wouldn't already play the 3rd lick, right?
Actually all of these licks he would never play, they're in a Malmsteen vein but I've studied his technique and although similar, not how he'd do it.
Yeah on a multitude of levels he's a bit off. While it's not a bad lesson, I kinda cringed at certain parts because it's not how it's done.
Finally someone that knows what they're talking about.
Not knocking what Andy's doing here but Yjm would never do a downstroke as the last note on a string when doing descending run and crossing over to a lower string. Maybe he'd do it on the highest two strings which are easier to pick through but not on the other strings. He always uses a downward picking slant and an downstroke would trap the pick. The solution is for him to either pull off to the last note of the string or slide into it. He rarely picks EVERY note especially when string crossing. He also uses economy picking for ascending runs and finishing on a downstroke.
goodidsh
Yngwie only had 21 frets
Dude, you're really good, but having that many repeats on your delay kinda makes it ridiculous. A single, tight repeat (to help thicken your tone) is all you need. Great vid, but so much ddl makes it sorta cheesy.
Τοο much speed man.....
Donkey kong tone man
Is your pinky finger broken?
he's playing like 3x faster than I can with only 3 fingers :D
In the First riff i thought he was kidding....
Sounds nowt like Yngwie
he doesn't like to use his pinky... why?
there's barely 4 notes per string.. he mainly uses 3
Hansell Santana lol it has more to do with the mechanics than preferences.
If you only have two or three notes per string.. by law, there's no need for a pinky
Hmm, not sure. He's also inconsistent when he does use it. He'll utilize it a bit in a slowed-down demonstration, and then use a different fingering up to tempo.
SoiledWig nah he just alternates between middle index and ring.. because when you play two notes per string.. and on the next string play three. The sequence between these three fingers changes
Its preferences... You may not be aware of classical guitar technique
Omg that second one is so incorrect
The entire Malmsteen repertoire.
sadly
Those aren't even his licks. You're far from the truth.
I know that. Pretty much sums it up though.
lmao
If you knew, you wouldn't be saying that it sums it up.
Oh FFS, that's just too fast.
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Nasty tone. If you're gonna do Yngwie, gotta use a Strat and a Marshall
I can never watch Andy James anymore after watching him absolutely fucking desecrate the Holy Wars solo by Megadeth
YJM's phrasing is too one dimensional and never allows you to fuse with another style, without sounding Malmsteen ish. I guess thats the nature of Phrygian dominant
I was just going to say before I read it...... it's the nature of Phrygian dominant.
once you learn these you wont have to learn anything else to play like malmsteen because it's all he plays!
savage
You're being sarcastic, right?
mrmaybe maybe....mr! no I'm not haha don't get me wrong he's a fantastic guitarist that goes without saying and a fantastic songwriter, he's got so many great qualities about him which I admire, but when it comes to his solo's and shred stuff it's all the same and it gets a bit much, he doesn't do to much to break it up and give it versatility which ends up boring, there's so much more to improv and music than running up and down scales and arpeggios as quick as you can, but nonetheless he is great
Well, you haven't been paying much attention to his playing as he incorporates way more licks than this in his playing. If you really studied his playing, you'd realize that these aren't even his licks really. They are similar licks at best. Some of his most renowned licks aren't even in this like the ascending/descending diminished sequences of fours and petal tone ideas. Those are the most obvious examples. I do, however, agree that there isn't much variety to his playing.
if I didn't pay attention I wouldn't get bored simple as, because I do pay a great deal of attention I know what's the same, descending in groups of four whether it's diminished or not is nothing special, it's quite boring and repeats itself, you know where it's going just like groups of 3, I'm not hating on the guy he's got great songs, outstanding vibrato, passion and lots of intricate songs, rather than saying it's all he does he takes the same principles and changes them around a little but it's sill very similar to what's in this video. But yeah his solo's are too much the same for me
I don't know...AJ's tone always sounds shrill and terrible to me..UNLESS...he's playing an actual song. Then it sounds great. How can that be? I don't get it!
however if staying true to yngwie theres something he doesnt do
its hammer on and pulloffs he always picks every note
Yngwie uses a lot of legato
Incorrect. legato is a key aspect of his playing.
Andy!!!
Please get a better tone haha
hmmm.. a black guitar with a dark fretboard played by a man dressed in black against a black background..who thought that was a good idea...
A dude who wears black shirt has a black guitar and black background
That music man sounds like a 100$ guitar
If it was 1987 this would be cool. Nothing against harmonic minor, but to base one's entire career on this sound alone is very limited. And to not even explore the harmony lying within this scale (mM7, m7b5, +M7, etc.) would be yet another lack of vision. Modes of harmonic minor??? What do you mean lol..! You hear one yngvie solo, you've heard them all. That's why nobody listens to him anymore. And anybody who plays like him wouldn't get a gig if their life depended on it. However, if you're content to play 1 scale for your entire life -Rock on!!!
Oh, common...this has nothing to do with Yngwie, so either you've deliberately made a click bait, or you ain't got a clue about the subject.
This is not Music
Call it anything you want but not Music
I am 66 and I’ve been around
Did this guy just make these licks up, or what? None of this video does any justice to the style or sound of YJM, not even on his worst day.
yngwie malmsteen is average at best. no feel in his playing, or at least, its pretend. he just plays the same things and scrunches his face up at times. Thats just my speculation.
Wouldn't call it speculation but rather a poor observation due to lack of guitar knowledge.
'pretend' feeling? You give me the impression of someone who has no musical ability or insight whatsoever.
+Jason Muir I'm still surprised by people that think they know whether or not someone plays with feeling.
+mrmaybe Is definitely right, you lack a lot of guitar knowledge which leads you to think he plays the same things all the time but that's not what shocks me. What shocks me is that you make a statement that only a psychic person could make and actually think you're right.
SomeDudeOnline its easy to tell when they fake it or not. anyone can fake feeling.
+Jason Muir anyone can fake it, that's true. But unless you're psychic or they tell you, you have no clue.