Yngwie Malmsteen MXR creates an expressive, no-nonsense signature overdrive for Yngwie Malmsteen With just Level and Gain controls, the pedal puts focus on even the slightest adjustments having a “profound impact” on its tone How Guitar Player's Spotlight column made Yngwie Malmsteen a guitar hero overnight “It wasn’t just the notes in his playing, but the energy and the attitude behind them,” tastemaker and Spotlight author Mike Varney told GP John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola, Marty Friedman and Yngwie Malmsteen Didn't Rely Exclusively on Western Scales - so Why Should You? Add intriguing twists to your playing with the tonal flavors of the Far East, Middle East, Africa and beyond Latest Yngwie Malmsteen Sharpen Your Shred Skills Using This Straightforward Yngwie Malmsteen-Inspired Lesson By David Brewster published 11 August 23 Steadily build up speed and accuracy using alternate picking and quick position shifts Develop Amazing Fretboard Skills Using These Simple Tips From Some of the Best Players in the Business By Dale Turner published 10 July 23 Steve Vai, Mark Tremonti, Joe Bonamassa, Mike Stern, Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Alex Skolnick, Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson offer these easy-to-follow exercises that will help you become a better guitarist Discover the Dark Secrets of the Harmonic Minor Scale By Vinnie DeMasi published 9 March 23 How Yngwie Malmsteen’s “secret scale” can spawn a set of seven relative modes The 40 Most Important Guitar Solos of the 20th Century By Guitar Player Staff published 28 December 22 From bluesy beginnings to metallic peaks, we trace the evolution of the electric rock solo Watch Blackberry Smoke Guitarist Charlie Starr's "Mesmerizing" Performance with Guitar Legend Leslie West By Mark McStea last updated 9 June 22 Video The friends jam out in this epic rendition of the Mountain classic “Mississippi Queen.” Video “Virtuosity on the Guitar Comes in Many Forms”: We Go Behind the Scenes of the Inaugural G3 Tour with Dream Team Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson By Joe Bosso published 22 April 22 With new albums and tours of their own, the trio sat down to recall how it all went down. Broaden Your Sweep-Picking Palette and Expand Your Melodic Vocabulary By Patrick Brennan published 7 October 21 Master one of the most ambitious technical endeavors a guitarist can pursue. How Yngwie Malmsteen Wrote “Far Beyond the Sun“ By Mark McStea published 4 June 21 Shredding Beethoven through 50-watt Marshall heads, the Swedish guitar god invented neoclassical metal. Hear Yngwie Malmsteen Unleash "Relentless Fury" on New Single By Jackson Maxwell published 3 June 21 The aptly titled track closes with a bonanza of alternate picking, monster bends, and other fiery six-string acrobatics. Yngwie Malmsteen Announces New Album, 'Parabellum' By Jackson Maxwell published 7 May 21 Give a spin to the album's first single, “Wolves At The Door,” here. 12Archives Get The Pick NewsletterAll the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors LATEST ARTICLES1Watch Steve Lukather cover Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing, with Jeff Beck's White Strat 2Channel John 5's brilliance with a lesson in his chicken pickin’ prowess, rapid-fire banjo rolls, and behind-the-nut bending3Boss unveils the SDE-3 Dual Delay – a Roland SDE-3000-inspired stompbox that can deliver two delay layers simultaneously4On Tripliciti, Andy McKee, Calum Graham, and Trevor Gordon Hall put their fluid fingerstyle chemistry on stunning display5Alex Van Halen teases a snippet of Unfinished – the last song he worked on with his brother, Eddie
Sharpen Your Shred Skills Using This Straightforward Yngwie Malmsteen-Inspired Lesson By David Brewster published 11 August 23 Steadily build up speed and accuracy using alternate picking and quick position shifts
Develop Amazing Fretboard Skills Using These Simple Tips From Some of the Best Players in the Business By Dale Turner published 10 July 23 Steve Vai, Mark Tremonti, Joe Bonamassa, Mike Stern, Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Alex Skolnick, Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson offer these easy-to-follow exercises that will help you become a better guitarist
Discover the Dark Secrets of the Harmonic Minor Scale By Vinnie DeMasi published 9 March 23 How Yngwie Malmsteen’s “secret scale” can spawn a set of seven relative modes
The 40 Most Important Guitar Solos of the 20th Century By Guitar Player Staff published 28 December 22 From bluesy beginnings to metallic peaks, we trace the evolution of the electric rock solo
Watch Blackberry Smoke Guitarist Charlie Starr's "Mesmerizing" Performance with Guitar Legend Leslie West By Mark McStea last updated 9 June 22 Video The friends jam out in this epic rendition of the Mountain classic “Mississippi Queen.”
“Virtuosity on the Guitar Comes in Many Forms”: We Go Behind the Scenes of the Inaugural G3 Tour with Dream Team Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson By Joe Bosso published 22 April 22 With new albums and tours of their own, the trio sat down to recall how it all went down.
Broaden Your Sweep-Picking Palette and Expand Your Melodic Vocabulary By Patrick Brennan published 7 October 21 Master one of the most ambitious technical endeavors a guitarist can pursue.
How Yngwie Malmsteen Wrote “Far Beyond the Sun“ By Mark McStea published 4 June 21 Shredding Beethoven through 50-watt Marshall heads, the Swedish guitar god invented neoclassical metal.
Hear Yngwie Malmsteen Unleash "Relentless Fury" on New Single By Jackson Maxwell published 3 June 21 The aptly titled track closes with a bonanza of alternate picking, monster bends, and other fiery six-string acrobatics.
Yngwie Malmsteen Announces New Album, 'Parabellum' By Jackson Maxwell published 7 May 21 Give a spin to the album's first single, “Wolves At The Door,” here.