Yngwie Malmsteen 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 Sharpen Your Shred Skills Using This Straightforward Yngwie Malmsteen-Inspired Lesson 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 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 Grid List Latest Yngwie Malmsteen 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. Watch Yngwie Malmsteen Unleash Shred Fury on a 1959 Les Paul By Jackson Maxwell published 21 April 21 A resplendent '59 LP is made to sound like a souped-up superstrat. Watch Yngwie Malmsteen Demo the Fender Jimmy Page Telecaster By Jackson Maxwell published 24 March 21 That's one point for the 'your sound is in your hands, not your gear' team... 12 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 MOST READ1“It’s the sound of the Stones: a five-string with a six-string on top. Guitars are amazing things – you can make an orchestra out of them…” Keith Richards on life without Charlie, The Beatles and the Stones, and new album Hackney Diamonds2"You son of a b****, you're playing a Fender?" Watch Keith Richards and Les Paul jam in rare footage from 20003These 40 huge Black Friday and Cyber Monday guitar gear deals are still live – but they won’t be around much longer4Build your own Fender Stratocaster with this fun Cyber Monday Lego deal5The most affordable way to transform your sound: Get a Cyber Monday effects pedal deal before it's too late
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.
Watch Yngwie Malmsteen Unleash Shred Fury on a 1959 Les Paul By Jackson Maxwell published 21 April 21 A resplendent '59 LP is made to sound like a souped-up superstrat.
Watch Yngwie Malmsteen Demo the Fender Jimmy Page Telecaster By Jackson Maxwell published 24 March 21 That's one point for the 'your sound is in your hands, not your gear' team...
