Yngwie Malmsteen
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![Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen performs on the Hell stage during Hell & Heaven Metal Fest at the Pegasus Forum on December 2, 2022 in Toluca, Mexico](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ntqrCTMMBeboGZgckTsPij-320-80.jpg)
Sharpen Your Shred Skills Using This Straightforward Yngwie Malmsteen-Inspired Lesson
By David Brewster published
Steadily build up speed and accuracy using alternate picking and quick position shifts
![Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Yngvie Malmsteen perform, Chicago, Illinois, October 24, 2003.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vsoh7d2k4RQ9iHAm66QoMR-320-80.jpg)
Develop Amazing Fretboard Skills Using These Simple Tips From Some of the Best Players in the Business
By Dale Turner published
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
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Discover the Dark Secrets of the Harmonic Minor Scale
By Vinnie DeMasi published
How Yngwie Malmsteen’s “secret scale” can spawn a set of seven relative modes
![L-R: Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Kurt Cobain](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/FHAKLnZLDuHY7bg5MLE2cY-320-80.jpg)
The 40 Most Important Guitar Solos of the 20th Century
By Guitar Player Staff published
From bluesy beginnings to metallic peaks, we trace the evolution of the electric rock solo
![Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke, 2022](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rG6BdC5W2acKgnGGo7aMuh-320-80.jpg)
Watch Blackberry Smoke Guitarist Charlie Starr's "Mesmerizing" Performance with Guitar Legend Leslie West
By Mark McStea last updated
Video The friends jam out in this epic rendition of the Mountain classic “Mississippi Queen.”
![Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2ZWJ8j3HMuQxCXhaxsxacm-320-80.jpg)
“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
With new albums and tours of their own, the trio sat down to recall how it all went down.
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Broaden Your Sweep-Picking Palette and Expand Your Melodic Vocabulary
By Patrick Brennan published
Master one of the most ambitious technical endeavors a guitarist can pursue.
![Yngwie Malmsteen](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/T2T2TEKZW9uDR3oUH659s5-320-80.jpg)
How Yngwie Malmsteen Wrote “Far Beyond the Sun“
By Mark McStea published
Shredding Beethoven through 50-watt Marshall heads, the Swedish guitar god invented neoclassical metal.
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