BlackMetalTyrant said:
Ok thats fucking ridiculous to say, You say he has great technique, He's been around for a long time, he has speed, but also has some great melodies, His music gets repetitve sometimes but nevertheless is pretty cool, Yngwie is definetly better than you and 90% of all other guitar players. So how in anyway is he a shitty guitarist. Its pretty retarded to call one of the best metal guitar players ever a shitty guitarist.
First of all, if you want to talk about speed and "technique," it didn't start with Yngwie Malmsteen and it certainly doesn't end with him, and on technique alone I could name you a bunch of people who could kick his ass if that's what you're interested in.
There's more to guitar playing than speed. I consider excellent technique to be an important aspect to playing guitar. However, it is not the only aspect. Being a good writer, knowing theory, being able to use a variety of different scales to convey different things, and generally having some humility with your playing. The jazz genre in general is more complex than anything Yngwie Malmsteen has written, less importantly because there are some blazing players, but jazz uses complex chord changes, lots of variety, and also a key is seventh chords, which I imagine Yngwie knows nothing about.
There is nothing "neoclassical" about Yngwie's playing, unless your definition of neoclassical is "fast harmonic minor scales," and in that case, you would be sadly mistaken. He simply popularized "shred" playing in a very simple complex and became a pop icon for a bit. But if you look at him in the context of what was going on before him, during his peak, and now, you'll see that he's a very small deal indeed.
Oh, and the point that Yngwie Malmsteen may be better than me is completely irrelevant. I'll openly admit he can shred faster and more cleanly than I can, but I most definitely wouldn't want to switch places with Yngwie. While Yngwie is close-minded in terms of music and isn't going to learn anything else, I'm open-minded, listen to a much wider variety of music than he does, and am still learning about music, and hope to always be still learning. In this point, I would like to think I have the advantage over Yngwie, whose ego blinds him to new things.
