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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 18:12
I know you respect him Cert, I'm just bickering Wink   ...he didn't really bring anything 'new' by a strict definition, it's true-- Eddie and the others mentioned were much more revolutionary, but I guess Yngwie was evolutionary, the form brought to its very height..   in fact in metal guitar few if any newer players have surpassed Malmsteen technically 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2008 at 11:49
^Well, many argue he brought a new way of composing into the rock/heavy metal idiom. As for his technique, his use of diminished and major/minor arpeggios that linked longways (as opposed to from just lower to higher strings or vice versa) across the fretboard gave a new perspective of what would become possible with the sweep-picking technique. Jason Becker, Marty Friedman and Frank Gambale are some of the most prominent sweep pickers to have come on the scene later in the 80s, that had a bit impact on the evolution of sweep-picking.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2008 at 07:55
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

sure, prog or not isn't really important (PMT can figure that out)..  as for Vai, brilliant and innovative player but much of what he was doing was an extension of what had come before him in the likes of Zappa and teacher Satriani.. whereas Malmsteen developed an entirely new way of approaching metal guitar that Schenker, Uli and Holdsworth really hadn't ever focused on [not sweeps, but each note of a given 'scale'  played individualy in *sequence* with an up/down picking movement].. though I prefer Schenker and Uli's playing and they certainly had the initial tech impact on other players including Malmsteen (of this he makes no secret)




 
er... when I said "sweep-picking", I actually meant "alternate picking"... Embarrassed
 
...and it's evident in the playing of the gentlemen I named - don't forget that Vai was using many of these techniques and more when he played with Zappa in the very early 1980s - well before "Rising Force". Listen to his playing on "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch", where Zappa has credited him with "Impossible Guitar".
 
There's also some amazing playing in a prototype of this style on "Skid", the debut album from Skid Row... I mean the UK band that formed around 1970, featuring a 17 year-old Gary Moore.
 
 
Sure, Yngwie brought spit and polish to the style, but I believe that all the techniques were in place before he popularised them - I don't think any of it was entirely new. It was a similar leap in style/technique to Eddie Van Halen before him.
 
 
As far as Prog or not - well, that's the whole point of this discussion, isn't it?
 
 
I'm not trying to knock what Yngwie achieved - I wouldn't have bought (or kept!) his first 3 albums if I didn't think there was something of merit in them - I merely think that he crystallised existing forms and techniques, bringing a new level of virtuosity to them - hence technical, as opposed to  something truly new/progressive.
 
I'd compare what Malmsteen achieved to Paganini (except that no-one has ever played the violin as fast as Paganini - all interpretations of his music I've ever heard have struggled, apart from Lloyd Webber's rather relaxed composition). However, despite the astonishing speed of Paganini's violin solos, the compositions break no new musical ground, and compare very poorly to, for example, Beethoven or Debussy.
 
That said, Paganini remains a landmark in solo violin playing, taking the virtuosity of the Italian masters - including the grand master, Tartini, to the next level.
 
 
I'd be interested in what, exactly, Malmsteen did that was so new.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2008 at 20:03
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PS thanks for the reminder just discovered the following at Amazon.UK for less than a fiver - curious to hear what he does to RushTongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2008 at 17:38
sure, prog or not isn't really important (PMT can figure that out)..  as for Vai, brilliant and innovative player but much of what he was doing was an extension of what had come before him in the likes of Zappa and teacher Satriani.. whereas Malmsteen developed an entirely new way of approaching metal guitar that Schenker, Uli and Holdsworth really hadn't ever focused on [not sweeps, but each note of a given 'scale'  played individualy in *sequence* with an up/down picking movement].. though I prefer Schenker and Uli's playing and they certainly had the initial tech impact on other players including Malmsteen (of this he makes no secret)






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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2008 at 16:03
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

well yes, but he also pioneered several important if simple techniques which created 'effects' now often used, such as continuous right hand muting, picking *each* note at previously unheard of precision and speeds (not even Uli was doing this, the only one coming close being Di Meola but in a Fusion context), and a tonal matrix imitated frequently now


 
 
I look at what you wrote and what I wrote and see much the same thing...
 
I think Vai had the precision and speed thing too, and I seem to remember hearing recordings of Holdsworth that predate Malmsteen, in which Allan sweep picks extraordinarily precisely.
 
Not trying to belittle Yngwie's achievements and influence, rather trying to put it into a bit of perspective. What he achieved was in terms of technique - Blackmore had already emphasised the cycle of fifths compositional technique in a few pieces (rather than as an overall style) - and personally, I think that Roth/Schenker brought more to the foundation of later progressive metal in terms of overall playing and composition technique.
 
I have to admit that Yngwie's precision/speed combination was very impressive at the time, but it's not really prog rock - at least, no more Prog than the Scorps, Priest, Ozzy/Rhoades or Metallica.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2008 at 05:23
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

the shredders (Malmsteen, George Bellas, Greg Howe, many others) don't seem to be of much interest here...  the first Rising Force album is most definitely progressive for its time


 
I think from the examples of Greg Howe last few releases his music is maturing. ClapHe seems to be one of the few shredders who has moved to jazz rock fusion, and does a pretty good job at it.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2008 at 02:49
So a guy goes and uses a ton of classical scales and modes over and over and over... BUT AT REALLY FAST SPEEDS!!!!

Been there, done that, next!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 17:13
well yes, but he also pioneered several important if simple techniques which created 'effects' now often used, such as continuous right hand muting, picking *each* note at previously unheard of precision and speeds (not even Uli was doing this, the only one coming close being Di Meola but in a Fusion context), and a tonal matrix imitated frequently now




 




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 17:07
Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

If there are Black Sabbath, there should be Yngwie too.
 
AgreedClap i think that if Black Sabbath is in the prog related category, surely there should be Malsmsteen in there, because he did certainly inspire many bands to incorporate more progressive elements into their music.
 
Such as?
 
What Malmsteen really inspired was a new generation of sweep-pickers.
 
One single technique - that is all, as far as I can see, and one that was already perfected by the likes of Holdsworth, Zappa and Vai.
 
That he chose to sweep-pick using mainly Baroque Italian stylisations is interesting - but Blackmore et al had been incorporating quasi-Baroque styles for 2 decades of so before Yngwie.
 
Yngwie, specifically "Rising Force" was a kind of figurehead - one that was dropped pretty quickly when it was realised he was a bit of a one-trick pony.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 16:08
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2008 at 14:41
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2008 at 01:29
Originally posted by heyitsthatguy heyitsthatguy wrote:

I like shredding, but Malmsteen embodies what is wrong with metal to me
 
Which features in particular do you dislike about Malmsteen?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 17:50
I like shredding, but Malmsteen embodies what is wrong with metal to me


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 17:00
Originally posted by Aeternus Aeternus wrote:

If there are Black Sabbath, there should be Yngwie too.
 
AgreedClap i think that if Black Sabbath is in the prog related category, surely there should be Malsmsteen in there, because he did certainly inspire many bands to incorporate more progressive elements into their music.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 16:49
If there are Black Sabbath, there should be Yngwie too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 12:53
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

I think that Jens Johanssen is a formidable keyboardist as well.

 
 
Agreed, but it needed Jonas Hellborg to resue the Johansson brothers from YM - so the story goes - and give them some musically challenges. Just a major pity Jens is paying for his pension playing with Strativarius. However, there is hope with his appearance on Art Metal.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 10 2008 at 06:15
I think Rising Force is Prog Related, although the guitar may be highly technical (not so much now, but at the time though), but the compositions in my mind did not, even for its time, incorporate enough progressive elements to be considered purely neo-classical prog metal.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2007 at 07:34
I haven't listened to any of his albums from the last 10 years and I'm not even sure how many he's put out since then but from the earlier stuff I enjoyed Odyssey the most which was full of great melodic songs.
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