Which YJM solos do you struggle with?

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psychodave said:
Around the 25 second mark is one of those licks that people can do, but no where near how fluid and well yngwie does it. The only person I’ve heard use it up to yngwies capabilities was Alexi Lahio. He uses that lick a few times on his live album and I immediately hear yngwie.
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So sad that Alexi passed away. Sixpounder is one of my favourites. Shit just goes hard.
 
psychodave said:
Around the 25 second mark is one of those licks that people can do, but no where near how fluid and well yngwie does it. The only person I’ve heard use it up to yngwies capabilities was Alexi Lahio. He uses that lick a few times on his live album and I immediately hear yngwie.
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I love that lick too. I do it on the solo over this riff I wrote

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Monkey Man said:
Your legato's blazin' and sounds smooth bro'. :rock:
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Fuck yeah thanks dude :rock:

That solos a total bitch. I wrote that about 8 years ago now. The amp sounds grainy as hell but thats bedroom levels for you - it doesn’t sound that way cranked up. That’s literally a strat into my modded 5150 II with a delay in the loop. Stupid simple and back then it got it done :rock:
 
psychodave said:
I find little things here and there in his solos that are difficult to get "right"... those super fast runs on "your ships are burned".... those bends at the beginning of "soldier without faith", some diminished runs that come out of nowhere. Yngwie was crazy fast on the Alcatrazz albums. Plus he was using less gain. He was young and invincible and even he cant play like he did back then....
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"Now your ships are burned" those ascending runs are my arch nemesis

Grabbing that one lower note and sweeping through to the next string drives me nuts
 
PLX said:
I sometimes take this guy's videos and slow them down to learn the riffs.

He's not YJM, but he's got the feel.

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Oh please, ........... stop being so bashful you got this dude beat with one hand tied behind your back . Remember you the man and can kick major ass at will .
 
rottingcorpse said:
The solo at the beginning of Steeler's "Hot on your heels" was groundbreaking. We were like "Who the fuck is this guy?"
The first Rising Force album....mind blowing.
All the rest? Yawn. Heard you do it last time,dude. What else ya got?
I got over that symphonic style metal pretty quickly. I got into more chaotic shit by then.
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This pretty much nails it for me too. I remember listening to way more Vinnie Moore's Mind's Eye when Trilogy came out...and that was pretty much it for me with Yngwie. Yet to this day I still love Rising Force and some of the Alcatraz stuff like Kree Nakoori.
 
glpg80 said:
Fuck yeah thanks dude :rock:

That solos a total bitch. I wrote that about 8 years ago now. The amp sounds grainy as hell but thats bedroom levels for you - it doesn’t sound that way cranked up. That’s literally a strat into my modded 5150 II with a delay in the loop. Stupid simple and back then it got it done :rock:
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Amp sounds great. I now it'll smooth out a tad more with volume but I don't know why everyone worries so much about grainy. IMO that's part of what gives an amp it's bite and edge.
 
There’s no way I can cram as many donuts into my belly as Yngwie can in one sitting.
 
SpiderWars said:
This pretty much nails it for me too. I remember listening to way more Vinnie Moore's Mind's Eye when Trilogy came out...and that was pretty much it for me with Yngwie. Yet to this day I still love Rising Force and some of the Alcatraz stuff like Kree Nakoori.
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That's about where I am as well. Was solidly with Yngwie through Trilogy (saw him live on that tour), liked a bit of Odyssey but nothing since has kept my attention.
 
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Cordoba said:
That's about where I am as well. Was solidly with Yngwie through Trilogy (saw him live on that tour), liked a bit of Odyssey but nothing since has kept my attention.
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Apparently he was a raging drunk on Eclipse and he doesn't think much of the album but that one is one of my favorites. I thought his playing and tone are killer as well as the songs. So if that was drunk YJM, maybe he should start getting shit faced before he records. I mean Motherless Child, Demon Driver. Bitchin 3 string arpeggio sequences. Killer stuff.
 
jabps said:
Amp sounds great. I now it'll smooth out a tad more with volume but I don't know why everyone worries so much about grainy. IMO that's part of what gives an amp it's bite and edge.
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That amp has kicked A LOT of stuff to the curb over the years. What it can’t touch is sitting in my signature lol.

It’s amazing what upgraded iron and a bias mod can do alone to these monsters. I also revoiced it as well - probably not discernible in the video but the mids sit differently.
 
jabps said:
He's a brilliant guitarist. But I have to take him in doses. That said I incorporated his pedal points and single string idea's into my playing years ago.

In fact I think the perfect mutation of a guitarist for me would be Vandenbergs staccato classical leanings, into Schons ad lib riffage, into Lynch's elasticity, into Gary Moore's feel into YJM's classical knowledge. And throw in some John Sykes tone, attitude and pure going for it and for me that'd be the perfect guitarist. Lol.
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I think you just described Randy Rhoads
 
panhead said:
I think you just described Randy Rhoads
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Close maybe. I don't think Randy had that wiriness of Lynch or off the cuff of Schon's playing though. But Randy is one of the tops for me for sure. Obviously though Randy, YJM and Vandendberg brought the heavy classical leanings. I loved Vandenbergs stuff on his first three solo albums, worst thing for him as a player was Whitesnake because his not a blues based player. The moment he stepped out of his style, he lost the plot for me.

YJM's thing is what he does, in reality he was so advanced out of the gate what else was there unless a total style shift and then that wouldn't have been who he is. Same with EVH, he set the benchmark so high out of the gate, what else was there except growing as a writer. Would have been nice to see what path and how Rhoads would have developed. Maybe he really would have completely abandoned rock and gone full classical. Sadly, we'll never know.
 
jabps said:
Close maybe. I don't think Randy had that wiriness of Lynch or off the cuff of Schon's playing though. But Randy is one of the tops for me for sure. Obviously though Randy, YJM and Vandendberg brought the heavy classical leanings. I loved Vandenbergs stuff on his first three solo albums, worst thing for him as a player was Whitesnake because his not a blues based player. The moment he stepped out of his style, he lost the plot for me.

YJM's thing is what he does, in reality he was so advanced out of the gate what else was there unless a total style shift and then that wouldn't have been who he is. Same with EVH, he set the benchmark so high out of the gate, what else was there except growing as a writer. Would have been nice to see what path and how Rhoads would have developed. Maybe he really would have completely abandoned rock and gone full classical. Sadly, we'll never know.
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Good post. I think Both ED and YJM blew their loads out of the gates and had some really fantastic playing and writing on the early albums. I mean we should be giving them a hand for solid material even for that long given the comparison to a lot of bands which really couldn't deliver more than one or two albums. ( as i said I think YJM delivered right up to Eclipse and even had a few really good moments on some albums after)

Rhoads no matter how much we all love him, seems to me like a guy that needed time to think and write. More planned. Not a hit record like YJM or even Lynch and see what happens. A lot of Ed's brilliance came from him just playing and then someone else piecing together these awesome improv parts. You can hear it in the punch ins on the isolated tracks. I'm not sure how much farther RR would have gone really. Personally, I still think Jake was that next step up. His writing is incredible on those two albums. I mean even his rythms and little doodles between the verses and choruses. If Jake had died in a plane crash after those two albums, I think he'd be right up there in the folklore too. imo of course. As guitar players we romanticize a lot.
 
Kapo_Polenton said:
Good post. I think Both ED and YJM blew their loads out of the gates and had some really fantastic playing and writing on the early albums. I mean we should be giving them a hand for solid material even for that long given the comparison to a lot of bands which really couldn't deliver more than one or two albums. ( as i said I think YJM delivered right up to Eclipse and even had a few really good moments on some albums after)

Rhoads no matter how much we all love him, seems to me like a guy that needed time to think and write. More planned. Not a hit record like YJM or even Lynch and see what happens. A lot of Ed's brilliance came from him just playing and then someone else piecing together these awesome improv parts. You can hear it in the punch ins on the isolated tracks. I'm not sure how much farther RR would have gone really. Personally, I still think Jake was that next step up. His writing is incredible on those two albums. I mean even his rythms and little doodles between the verses and choruses. If Jake had died in a plane crash after those two albums, I think he'd be right up there in the folklore too. imo of course. As guitar players we romanticize a lot.
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Where I hear Randy going, had he stayed in rock was some of his live playing which had some serious fire in it. Agreed, he was very compositional in his solo's but I think he might have stepped out side of that box like some of his live playing. Again, obviously we'll never know and pure supposition on my part.

And what you get from Jake, I got the moment I first heard Randy. In fact I was content to be the rhythm player in my little bands at the time even though some of my main influences are G Moore, Schon, Gorham and I had gone through the EVH onslaught...it wasn't until I heard Randy where it all clicked for me. Then I circled back around to Moore, Schon then the Lynch's, Campbells and Sykes. Great times. It'd be two and half decades before I shared the guitar spot with another player in a band lol.

I like Jake, specifically with Ozzy. In fact I think he was the perfect follow-up to Randy not only in style but look but he probably influenced my more from a rhythm standpoint as opposed to lead. The worst thing Ozzy could have done is rolled out a Rhoads lookalike right at that point. I liked Badlands but honestly I was more of fan of what they represented than of the music itself, hope that makes sense.
 
jabps said:
Where I hear Randy going, had he stayed in rock was some of his live playing which had some serious fire in it. Agreed, he was very compositional in his solo's but I think he might have stepped out side of that box like some of his live playing. Again, obviously we'll never know and pure supposition on my part.

And what you get from Jake, I got the moment I first heard Randy. In fact I was content to be the rhythm player in my little bands at the time even though some of my main influences are G Moore, Schon, Gorham and I had gone through the EVH onslaught...it wasn't until I heard Randy where it all clicked for me. Then I circled back around to Moore, Schon then the Lynch's, Campbells and Sykes. Great times. It'd be two and half decades before I shared the guitar spot with another player in a band lol.

I like Jake, specifically with Ozzy. In fact I think he was the perfect follow-up to Randy not only in style but look but he probably influenced my more from a rhythm standpoint as opposed to lead. The worst thing Ozzy could have done is rolled out a Rhoads lookalike right at that point. I liked Badlands but honestly I was more of fan of what they represented than of the music itself, hope that makes sense.
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Yeah absolutely makes sense. I also agree on RR as a live player. I hear those bootlegs and he really opened up in the shows. Mixed his phrasing up a lot and tried stuff out. Clean live player too where Jake wasn't always as clean a picker for example.
 
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