ORIGINALLY POSTED BY POGOHEAD:Though Yngwie clearly knows his classical and his theory, this music is repetative and sometimes boring. Satriani's stuff is very original,
I counted up how many scales I know. Since I'm self-taught I only really know a few (though recently I have been trying to fix it) and even with this limited knowledge I can still impress women


Just like i said, "these kind of stuff are only for those who knows how it works". you cannot appreciate something if you dont know what it is? If you were into classical music then you'd understand. and I dont think that his stuff is boring. I have all his cd's (except for steeler and alcatraz which i dont like at all. maybe the same reason why Yngwie went solo) From 1984's "Rising force" to 2005's "Unleash the Fury", i even have some of his albums on cassettes and been listenin to some of it for 12 yrs and they never seem to bore me.I was trained in classical guitar because the school where i came from dont teach rock music, and I am also self taught when it comes to the electric guitar, and as a matter of fact i dont know any type of scales at all except for those modes dating back to the 14th century that i learned back in college which my professors say are different from the scales that most musicians are using today and of course the major and minor and all that stuff.. and that is where theory comes in, i make my own scales using chord tones, what i do is i gather all the chords and combine all the notes that they have inside of them into one large note salad. You will never go wrong with this tecnique, it will give you good sounding solos and melodies and you can also impress not just women with this tecnique but other guitarists as well. oh! and Satriani for me is boring, imagine playing 2 chord for 4 beats with just a little run of the second chord on the 4th beat going down to the 1st beat of the second bar then repeating it till the end of the 8th bar. man thats a very boring intro. I saw it when he played the Extremist in the G3 Live in denver video. and if you listen to Satch Boogie carefully you'll find out that the bass line is very similar to the bass line of the Extremist, boogie is just a little faster in beat. oh and the drums too. Im sorry man,guess im not agreeing with you too. :-D