How much do i have to practise to play like yngwie M

Do i have to practise 3-4 hours a day.
Do you have any advice,a phrase or anything just something that makes me faster on the guitar?
How many hours must i spend with the guitar every day to get this good?
If you have any advice about other techniques,send it to me? :) :)

The answer isn't just time, it's about quality. It's also not all about speed.

I used to think differently, but I now believe that seeking speed for its own sake is pointless - you need to concentrate on playing clean and clear... the speed will come anyway with time.

If you want to be as good as YJM, that's one thing.... if you want to be just like him, it's a waste of time - you won't be better at doing what he does than he is. There are all sorts of exercises on this site that will help you get better. If you like YJM you'll probably want to concentrate on alternate picking exercises and the harmonic minor.

Here is an example: http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=4015 - look at the 'by inspiration' menu to the left - there's an Yngwie section that might help you...

I practice for 2 hours a day, and I think I do OK. When starting I'd advise doing a 20 minute session. Once you're happy with that go to an hour, and then maybe a couple. Players like Vai say they played for 8 hours every day for years and years - to be honest I don't believe it... I think it's something you say...

How long have you been playing? It's more important to have regular practice than it is to have mammoth sessions... :cool: you don't need tendonitis...

I"ve been playing for 2 years.
I want to be as good as possible.
If you have advise
I appreciate what you are doing

Practice is all about the quality over the quantity.

A person could practice 1 hour a day, or every other day..and still get better results than someone who practices 5+ hours a day.It all depends on how much you put into the practice you do.

Don't worry about being YJM, just do your best to learn as much as you can at a learning rate comfortable to you. If you realy like YJM's style, check out some of the above-mentioned exercises, and search for more info in as much places as you can find it.

As I always tell my cousin, play because you want to, not because you think you have to. Playing forcedly (is that a word?) will just drain your inspiration to play.

Originally Posted by: elklanderccAs I always tell my cousin, play because you want to, not because you think you have to. Playing forcedly (is that a word?) will just drain your inspiration to play.

Forcibly (but not in this context). I would think that "Playing because you feel forced or coerced into it..."

Man, don't you just hate it when people do that? Sorry. Don't mean to sound like I'm correcting you. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by: hunter60Forcibly (but not in this context). I would think that "Playing because you feel forced or coerced into it..."

Man, don't you just hate it when people do that? Sorry. Don't mean to sound like I'm correcting you. :rolleyes:

Haha, nah its cool man, thats why I asked.

Originally Posted by: CloettaDo i have to practise 3-4 hours a day.
Do you have any advice,a phrase or anything just something that makes me faster on the guitar?
How many hours must i spend with the guitar every day to get this good?
If you have any advice about other techniques,send it to me? :) :)

1st off I think you have to sell your soul to the devil!

No really, why would you want to play like him? Sure he is fast but he has no soul or feeling in his playing. He sounds like a chipmunk on crack or something. Now if you had asked "what do i have to do to be as good as Stevie Ray Vaughn?" That's the question! ;) 3or 4 hours a days probably wouldn't even cut it to play like him. I read somewhere years ago where he says that he practices on average 10 to 12 hours a day. That is just plain crazy. As already said, I would focus more on quality that quantity. Another question to ask yourself or think about is...."Do you think Malmsteen will be remembered as a guitar God 25 years from now?" I sure don't think so!

Want to play fast? Get out your metronome and start playing a scale. Play it up and down 2 times fast and stop. If it's clean raise the tempo 5 and do it again up and down 2 times and stop. If it's clean raise tempo and repeat. If not try again at present tempo till played clean. DO this every day for every scale. You will get faster in time. How long till your happy with your speed no one can say. The trick once your fast is to make it sound like music. I think it's more fun to try and make music and let speed come in time.

A great way to build up speed and efficiency is to play a scale very slowly twice. And I mean Very slowly. Then play it twice at a medium/comfortable pace and then twice so fast that you begin to lose it. Then go back and do it slow once and medium once. It really works well. As far as becoming an incredible musician, I heard a quote from guitarist Pat Metheny once. He says he use to practice 10 hours a day everyday. And when you practice you have to push yourself into new areas you aren't familiar with, which is very frustrating at times.

Originally Posted by: halo711st off I think you have to sell your soul to the devil! "Do you think Malmsteen will be remembered as a guitar God 25 years from now?" I sure don't think so!

Regardless of personal taste, yes I think He will be remembered by many as a pioneer in the industry from the style and technique he used to make his mark in music. I try to look beyond the style that certain musicians have made to become Icons (by their own right) and focus more on their mechanical Genious. Scalloped frets, modified guitar/amps and locking
tremolo systems to name a few, have made individuals like Hendrix, EVH and yes, Yngwie, become more than your standard musician. They are mechanics with the sound they created.
It would be very difficult for someone to play Yngwie's style on a guitar with standard frets, no matter how many hours you practice. IMO playing a guitar with scalloped frets is a difficult task, to say the least. Very Touchy.

So you mean if I get into the training it should be better progress.So much better so if I practise 1 hour it should be like i PRACTISE 10hours.I would learn as much in 1 hour as in 10 hours just to get inte it.Is that enough.It sound great.Is there somebody who have a good schedule to follow.And some good exercises for each thing.

Originally Posted by: halo71"Do you think Malmsteen will be remembered as a guitar God 25 years from now?" I sure don't think so![/QUOTE]
I remember someone asking me that same question back in 1984 when Malmsteen's "Rising Force" album was released.

I remember thinking then and now, "What does that have to do with anything?" What if he's not remembered by many people? What if he is? Does that change who likes him and who doesn't? Does that change whether or not he was a skilled musician who pursued his own style regardless of anyone elses thoughts on the matter?
[QUOTE=Cloetta]Do you have any advice,a phrase or anything just something that makes me faster on the guitar?
How many hours must i spend with the guitar every day to get this good?
If you have any advice about other techniques,send it to me

Bar Chord Nick offered some great advice on scale practice using a metronome & a lot of repetition. He's also right that there is no magic number of years that will work automatically as a standard for everyone. It will be different for every individual. It takes as long as it takes.

I did a few tutorials on how to build speed in a manner similar to some of Malsteen's style here:
More Speedy Ideas - Building Speed
Speedy Ideas Series 1
Sweeping Ideas

Above all: practice, practice, practice. Years ago I used to practice this stuff for 6-8 hours a day. Hope this helps. I wish you success with it!

I think Malmsteen will surely be remembered for a very very long time. He is a pioneer, an inovator!

I reckon, if you wanna play like him, go for it. Do what you love! Don't listen to others just cos they dont like Yngwie.

I'm a big fan of him. I got to a stage where I sounded just like him. Not now though. But that was just a great experience! Learning his licks will surely help you. It wont make you play any worse.

Something to keep in mind is, apart from Yngwie's classical composed riffs, most, well all of his solo shred stuff is always improvised. He never plays it the same everytime.

Learn some harmonic minor scales and some minor arpeggios in different positions, and some diminished runs too. He practically just uses Harmonic, melodic minor, Minor/major/dim arps. He mainly does alternative picking but many times uses Economy picking too, and a lot of sweeps.

I have some licks/scales he uses if you want them... message me ;)

Oh and about how much to practice per day?

I don't really believe those who say 8-10 hrs per day.

Just play until you feel you've had enough. I don't really practice much anymore, these days maybe about 10-15 minutes every few days, cos I mainly record and compose rather than practice.

But during recording, I consider that to be practice too. Just play until you feel you had just about enough. Sometimes, take a week off from playing, you'll notice how much you have improved since you havent played. Your brain needs time to recuperate.

I think that's what is really important that people seem to miss.

I think a week off is a little excess, its only takes a few days for calluses to go away. But I do agree on taking time off. When I don't play my guitar for a day or only a little bit, the next day I'm on fire. The only problem I have is that its hard not to pick it up and play for an hour or do my usual routine, I swear I find it hard to sleep.

I went through a stage where I wanted to play exactly like Satch. I mean, it sounds so perfect to my ears, what else is there to want to play like? However, I find much more satisfaction in creation of my own music and my own style. Everybody looks for something different in music. Some wanna play to get chicks and be famous. Some don't have fame in mind, they just love the feeling music gives them. Some just go with it and whatever happens, happens. Point is, as its been said, you're never going to be able to do better than Yngwie. Personally I think the guy is a douche bag, but his technical ability is pretty jaw dropping. Take all your favorite artists. Use them as influences. Then try to fuse these together to make your own style.

Another thing that turned me away from wanting to be a shredder is this. I go on myspace and I get friend requests from all sorts of different artists. These guys can shred. Thing is, they don't really sound much different than Satch or Vai, and they lack their technical ability and ability to capture certain emotions with their music. My thought is, shredding isn't gonna get you anywhere in the fame category, unless you're really really good at it and you've added an element to it that these guys haven't. You probably won't if you're trying to mimic one certain guy.

So learn from Yngwie. Learn his licks. Study his style. But develop your own. I can promise you, theres a much bigger satisfaction and feeling when you can pour something out of your guitar that is great to your ears.

I'm rambling, so I'll shut up now.

When I reached the age of 20 years old, I stopped playing guitar. I literally decided I would not play anymore. I was going through a weird phaze back then. Believe it or not I stopped playing for 1 year. Also the reason why I stopped is cos I had no guitar, cos I was studying in a different country.

When I went back home, I started to play again :o I changed my mind.

I dont know why, but I could play better than ever. All the techniques I've ever practised was just the same with not much difficulty.

When I say stop for a few days or a week, I mean to rest your brain. It's amazing how the brain works. One day when you struggle to play something, the next day it seems to be easier. It's not your fingers doing the working. Your brain sends signals to your fingers in order for them to move and function properly. Getting sore fingers is one thing, take time off for that, but I mean take time to let things sink into your brain.

Trust me

The longest time I had taken off from playing was like a day from the time I started playing guitar at all :eek: I have to admit that on those days then I play only a short period of time, the next day its easier to play, and yeah... it really is better to play only for so long 'till you feel you had enough. For me its like one and a half hours or two or sometimes even more.

So I got a problem on relearning the minor arpeggio. Let's say I starting on the 6th string 5th fret with the index, then the pinky on the 8th, the ring finger on the 5th string 7th fret then again the pinky on the 4th string 7th fret and there it happens. When I'm freting the 7th fret on the 4th string with my pinky I'm somehow releasing the ring finger too slow and thus get fret buzz. This pisses me really off, I'm struggling with this for like half a year. (I play guitar longer that one and a half years) I had a problem with releasing the pinky and making the string to ring out when passing downwards a the fretboard and it wasn't much of a problem to relearn that (I believe it took me like 2 or 3 weeks, I remember it went quick and easy by just playing slow and carefully), but this isn't going anywhere. i play the minor arp as slow as possible and really careful but just won't work. I started to pay more attention the major arp after I was messing with the minor arp, but now its coming to a point were I'm slowly starting to play the major arp better than the minor. :confused: Did someone had a similar problem? Could someone tell me what the hell to do :( I really starting to hate it. For now it's the only real problem I can't get through with, except barre chords, thats because I'm lazy play 'em, but it's getting better.

Originally Posted by: Trinivalts...Could someone tell me what the hell to do :(

Well - probably start another thread to discuss it. Briefly (to avoid hijacking the thread) you need to roll your ring finger from the 7th fret of the 5th string to the 7th fret of the 4th, rather than trying to use your pinky.

If you need more info, start another thread dude... :cool: