Guitar Techniques

Speed finale

Over the last few lessons, we’ve explored some conventional and unconventional strategies in our breakdown of Yngwie’s much admired, seldom revealed picking mastery. Let’s recap on the system so that you can not only perform Yngwie-style lines with authenticity, but use these ideas to create your own furious picking lines.

When Malmsteen relocated to the USA in the midst of the Los Angeles hair-metal scene in 1982, new standards were set almost overnight regarding hard rock styling, technical vocabulary and picking fluidity in the post-Van Halen era. Guitar enthusiasts clamoured to understand what they were hearing

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