For any of you Yngwie fans out there (or just fans of shred guitar in general), episode 2 of season 2 of Cracking the Code is now out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUcHE9ZxjHc


~Rusty

Originally Posted by: bbzswa777For any of you Yngwie fans out there (or just fans of shred guitar in general), episode 2 of season 2 of Cracking the Code is now out:

Wow, that's some serious inductive forensic work on YGMs picking technique! And I enjoyed the Fantasia theme as well. :)

I know! I'm really into the way he analyzes his technique. He might even understand Yngwie's technique better than Yngwie! (I'm kidding, kind of)

This latest episode has really inspired me to work on my economy picking. It makes a lot of the licks from Yngwie's REH video easier.

Have you actually watched the REH tape, or maybe you own it? I've been working on the first lick (the Am sweeps) for a long time now and it's finally getting pretty fast.

Originally Posted by: bbzswa777I know! I'm really into the way he analyzes his technique. He might even understand Yngwie's technique better than Yngwie! (I'm kidding, kind of)[/quote]
No, that's accurate. YJM probably never broke it down in that way because it developed as a natural evolution of his own style. But another person looking at it from "the outside" would have to do something like that in order to understand & explicitly describe what seems normal to YJM.
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Have you actually watched the REH tape, or maybe you own it? I've been working on the first lick (the Am sweeps) for a long time now and it's finally getting pretty fast.

No, I don't own it. But I did see it when it came out. And as we discussed earlier, I learned YJM licks before the instructional vids & internet.

So, it was awesome to see it up close in a controlled setting! I realized he did some things differently than I did when I learned it. And I realized that his right hand was even more efficient than I thought. :eek: :)

Originally Posted by: CSchlegel
No, I don't own it. But I did see it when it came out. And as we discussed earlier, I learned YJM licks before the instructional vids & internet.

So, it was awesome to see it up close in a controlled setting! I realized he did some things differently than I did when I learned it. And I realized that his right hand was even more efficient than I thought. :eek: :)

Oh yeah. You were having to figure those licks out the hard way!

In another video I heard Yngwie say that he never really did anything special to develop speed, and that he simply played so much that it felt comfortable for him to speed up.

Now I'm starting to believe that.

The technique will always follow what the player hears in his/her head if they are driven to do so. I thing YM was listening to virtuoso classical violin and Uli Roth/ Ritchie Blackmore stuff and that sound became pressed into his head. When he started doing his licks, they came out with that flowing sound. He developed his technique to make that flowing sound. He probably didn't study under a guitar virtuoso and figured out methodically how to do his sound. This is how most of us find our sound. Listen to what's in your head and try and reproduce it on the guitar. That is a task, isn't it! That's why we love the virtuosos. They did the work to bring their highly technical sound out.

You're right, that's how most of them developed their technique. And in a way it is important to figure that stuff out on your own.

But I will say that I feel it's extremely beneficial for people to teach these techniques to beginners and give them the knowledge and the option to implement the techniques consciously, rather than only having the option to figure it out on their own. This way they can shave some time off how long it would take to become a virtuoso. Being able to implement the most efficient techniques for their style early on prevents them from having to re-learn and get rid of "bad" habits.

So I think a balance of both is best: have the option to learn these techniques early on, but don't be afraid to do what works for you and develop your own techniques.

Troy for the president. It's crazy what he did with this video. Really awesome and reveling. Episode 2 is also on utube now.