Originally Posted by: rockcastleYngwie Malmsteen once said that it is harder to play a scalloped fretboard than the ordinary fretboard, i dont know why he said that.

Because he's a liar.

Actually, he probably said it because you can easily bend notes out of tune completely by accident. Yngwie has this problem quite a bit, in fact, since his entire fretboard is scalloped. It's just impossible to play with such a light touch the whole time when you're playing that fast.