Yngwie Malmsteen Lesson | Shredaholic.com

Practice all the exercises SLOWLY at first if you're a beginner, but the more advanced shred-heads should find this cool and inspiring.

Just remember:

1. Each note is as important as the next.
2. Building speed from a slow foundation is better than blazing away
with a few dead notes.
3. Lastly, always warmup and warmdown to avoid pulled muscles and
tendons.

This 'workshop' involves a few arpeggios and all round exercises that I have collected form Yngwie's material, as well as some licks I have come up with in his style. By the way........may I suggest you use the neck pickup for these exercises it is much better suited to shredding. :D

Enjoy!

Feel free to adjust the b.p.m ........I kept it slower to better hear the examples.

Leesy

Warmup I

    Q=140
   4/4
    Gtr I
                                                     4x
||--15p12-------15p12-------15p12-------14p12--------||
||o-------12-12-------12-12-------12-12-------12-12-o||
||---------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------||
||o-------------------------------------------------o||
||---------------------------------------------------||

|---------------------------------|---------4-3-2-1------|
|---------------------------------|-1-2-3-4---------4----|
|-------------------------4-3-2-1-|----------------------|
|-----------------1-2-3-4---------|----------------------|
|---------4-3-2-1-----------------|----------------------|
|-1-2-3-4-------------------------|----------------------|

   Warmup II

||--19-20-17-20-15-20----20-19-20-17-20-15-20----20--||
||o-------------------19----------------------19----o||
||---------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------||
||o-------------------------------------------------o||
||---------------------------------------------------||

PM---------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|---------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------------------------10-12-14-12-10-------|---------------------------|
|-----------------11-12-14----------------14-12-|-11------------------------|
|---------9-11-12-------------------------------|----12-11-9----------------|
|-9-11-12---------------------------------------|------------12-11-9-(9)----|

   Arpeggios I
                                                             ~~~~~~
||--19-15-------------------------------|-------------------------|
||o-------17----17----------------------|-------------------------|
||-----------16----16----16-------------|-------------------------|
||--------------------17----17-14-17-14-|----14-------------------|
||o-------------------------------------|-14----14----14----------|
||--------------------------------------|----------15----15-12----|

~~~~                                                 ~~
|--------------------------------|-------------------17-----||
|--------------------------------|----------17----17-------o||
|-----------------------14----14-|-17-14-17----17-----------||
|-----10----10-14-10-14----14----|--------------------------||
|-12-----12----------------------|-------------------------o||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------||

Arpeggios II

||--15p12-------18p15-------20p17-------18p15--------||
||o-------14----------17----------19----------17----o||
||-----------15----------18----------20----------18--||
||---------------------------------------------------||
||o-------------------------------------------------o||
||---------------------------------------------------||

|-||--------12h15-------12h15-------15h18-------15h18--||
|-||o----14----------14----------17----------17-------o||
|-||--15----------15----------18----------18-----------||
|-||---------------------------------------------------||
|-||o-------------------------------------------------o||
|-||---------------------------------------------------||

Am Harmonic Minor Run
PM--------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|---------|
|---------------------------------|-------------------------10--|-(10)----|
|---------------------------------|-------------5---5-7-9-5-----|---------|
|-----------------------------6---|-6-7-9-6-7-9---9-------------|---------|
|-------------5---5-7-8-5-7-8---8-|-----------------------------|---------|
|-5-7-8-5-7-8---8-----------------|-----------------------------|---------|

Sweep Picking I
|-------9h12p9-------------12h15p12-------|
|----11--------11-------14----------14----|
|-12--------------12-15----------------15-|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|

|-------15h18p15-------------17h20p17-------|
|----17----------17-------19----------19----|
|-18----------------18-20----------------20-|
|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|

Sweep Picking II
    Q=190
||--8-5--------------------|-------------5-8-(8)----|
||o-----5------------------|-----------5------------|
||--------5----------------|---------5--------------|
||----------7--------------|-------7----------------|
||o-----------7------------|-----7------------------|
||--------------8-5-(5)----|-5-8--------------------|

|----------------16-21-16-------------|--------||
|-------------17----------17----------|-------o||
|-------13-18----------------18-13----|--------||
|----14----------------------------14-|--------||
|-16----------------------------------|-16----o||
|-------------------------------------|--------||

   "Black Star"
    Q=75
                     ~~                    ~~
||----------------------11-12-14-15-14-11-12--|
||o-17b19r(17)-(17)-17------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|
||o-------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|

                   ~~                                      ~~
|-19b20r(19)-(19)-19--14-17-15-14-12-15-14-12-11-12-14-11-12--||
|------------------------------------------------------------o||
|-------------------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------------------o||
|-------------------------------------------------------------||

   "Far Beyond the Sun"
    Q=160
                 ~~                           ~~~
||--------------------|---------------------------|
||o---------7-9-10----|-------------7-9-10-9-(9)--|
||--------6-----------|---------6-----------------|
||----6-7-------------|-----6-7-------------------|
||o-9-----------------|-9-------------------------|
||--------------------|---------------------------|
|
|   Gtr II
||--------------------|---------------------------|
||o-------------------|---------------------------|
||--------------------|---------------------------|
||--4-4-4-4-4-4--4----|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4------2--2---|
||o-------------------|---------------------------|
||--------------------|---------------------------|


               ~~
|-------------------|-19b21--------------||
|---------7-9-10----|-------------------o||
|-------6-----------|--------------------||
|---6-7-------------|--------------------||
|-9-----------------|-------------------o||
|-------------------|--------------------||
|
|-------------------|--------------------||
|-------------------|-------------------o||
|-------------------|--------------------||
|-------------------|--4-----3-----------||
|-5-5-5-5-5-5--5----|-----------5--4----o||
|-------------------|--------------------||

Warm Down

|-15-14-13-12-------------|-------------------------|
|-------------15-14-13-12-|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-15-14-13-12-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------15-14-13-12-|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|

                             Em
|--------------------------|-0----*|
|--------------------------|-0----*|
|--------------------------|-0----*|
|--------------------------|-2----*|
|-15-14-13-12--------------|-2----*|
|-------------15-14-13-12\-|-0----*|