What's your favorite instrumental?

[Bryant]

Yngwie Malmsteen - Icarus' Dream Suite op. 4 (Yngwie's finest imho)

old stuff !

That is my fave of his as well, and one of my fave instrumentals. I am surprised you are the only one who mentioned Yngwie. He had some really awesome instrumentals early in his solo career.

Bryant

 

[Platinum Maze]

One of my favorite Yngwie instrumentals is Crying from Trilogy.

 

[T.I.E.]

That is my fave of his as well, and one of my fave instrumentals. I am surprised you are the only one who mentioned Yngwie. He had some really awesome instrumentals early in his solo career.

Bryant

well, I guess most of the people here are too young to know Yngwie for anything else but huge ego and average music... too bad he turned to repeat himself through his whole career 'cause the man sure could kick asses !

now he's a fat swedish living in Florida and doing crappy to average cds and that makes me sad...

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

You dont see that technique in many metal. I love fingerstyle playing, but music from that genre just sounds like SHIT I wish there was more of it in metal.

I wasn't aware fingerstyle playing was a genre of music. What kind of stuff do you listen to like that?

On topic......I'm tempted to go with something jazz, but I think I'll have to pick "Lotus Feet" by Steve Vai currently. This is not counting classical music, that would make it too hard.

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

well, I guess most of the people here are too young to know Yngwie for anything else but huge ego and average music... too bad he turned to repeat himself through his whole career 'cause the man sure could kick asses !

now he's a fat swedish living in Florida and doing crappy to average cds and that makes me sad...

I have his first album 'Rising Force,' if that's what you mean by his classic stuff. I don't really like his whole faux-neoclassical thing, or care for his guitar sound, I prefer real classical music. The vocal melody on "As Above So Below" is really catchy. It's one of the albums I haven't listened to in forever though. I prefer Steve Vai so much I just don't really listen to Yngwie anymore. He does have a few good songs.

 

[Bryant]

well, I guess most of the people here are too young to know Yngwie for anything else but huge ego and average music... too bad he turned to repeat himself through his whole career 'cause the man sure could kick asses !

now he's a fat swedish living in Florida and doing crappy to average cds and that makes me sad...

He still has a small army of fans. I am not one of them. I respect what he did. In fact, his lard ass is still technically one of the better guitatrists out there. Unfortunately, he simply rehashes his old stuff. It's better than 99% of other guitarists, but it's still boring.


Bryant

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

The guitar trio would kick Yngwie's fat ass. I can just picture that guitar battle.

 

[Bryant]

The guitar trio would kick Yngwie's fat ass. I can just picture that guitar battle.

Wolf !!


Bryant

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

Wolf Hoffman. And?

>_>

 

[T.I.E.]

if there's ever a guitar battle I have no doubt Robert Fripp (King Crimson) would win it... no guitar player in the world can do what he does, not even Steve Vai (which by the way is a wonderful technician but an uninspired songwriter)....

 

[Wyvern]

That is my fave of his as well, and one of my fave instrumentals. I am surprised you are the only one who mentioned Yngwie. He had some really awesome instrumentals early in his solo career.

Bryant

As a mater of fact his debut is one of the finest albums. Tune like 'Far Beyond The Sun', 'Icarus Dream Suite', 'Black Star' and the ultra-short and emotive 'Farewell' show the whole potential of Yngwie, a potential highly misdirected IMO in his career.

Still some neat instrumentals where put out after the debut, the already mentioned 'Crying', 'Triligy Suite', 'Krakatau', 'Leviathan', 'Brothers', and 'Blue'.

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

if there's ever a guitar battle I have no doubt Robert Fripp (King Crimson) would win it... no guitar player in the world can do what he does, not even Steve Vai (which by the way is a wonderful technician but an uninspired songwriter)....

Doh! I hear so many people say this about Steve Vai. What all have you heard? I think he comes up with some of the best melodies ever (of course Mixolydian and Dorian are also my favorite scales though ). My recent thinking about him is that he's trying too hard to keep with the way he's been doing things for quite a long time. Out of what I thought were the three best and most creative songs on the new album, he only played one of them, and a big part of that was because they went beyond what could be accomplished by backup guitars and a keyboard. It tells me he should be moving in a different direction. And he actually is, but you wouldn't know from his releases. He did performances with the Metropole Orchestra in 2004 and 2005, having them perform orchestral music he wrote and his songs with orchestra added. "Lotus Feet" on the new album is from one of his Orchestral performances, just not the Metropole one. He also did 'Fire Strings' in 2002, which is a modern piece by a Japanese composer. Although I do have the Metropole Performances, there is no official release of any of these things. It's obviously because he thinks people don't want to hear it...which is why he needs a new fanbase.

Summary: Quit touring with Eric Sardinas and start touring with John Zorn.

 

[#1_Droogie]

I wasn't aware fingerstyle playing was a genre of music. What kind of stuff do you listen to like that?

On topic......I'm tempted to go with something jazz, but I think I'll have to pick "Lotus Feet" by Steve Vai currently. This is not counting classical music, that would make it too hard.

yeh, the only reason I know about it is because my guitar teacher loves the shit.....it's shit like Chet Atkins and people like that, I cant stand it, but I'm around it all the time. So to answer your question: nothing, I dont like it....BUT I love fingerstyle in metal, ex. the intro to Megadeth's My Last Words, I cant get enough

 

[T.I.E.]

Summary: Quit touring with Eric Sardinas and start touring with John Zorn.

that's actually a great idea
throw Jonas Hellborg on the bass and Hoglan or Lombardo for the drums too aned I'll sure go to this show

 

[Barking Pumpkin]

Dave Lombardo is already in the Zorn Circle, since he's the drummer for Fantomas, Mike Patton's band.

 

[zeppelin]

Another cool instrumental: Savatage - Silk and Steel

 

[Wyvern]

"Lotus Feet" on the new album is from one of his Orchestral performances, just not the Metropole one.

Even if lately I consider that Steve is loosing inspiration on his albums (except for the amazing "Alive In An Ultraworld") I have to admit that 'Lotus Feet' is one hell of a song and that the solo is maybe his second most passionate one (after 'For The Love Of God') IMO.

And since we are mentioning Vai we must mention Tony MacAlpine, who sadly is misused as second guitar and keyboards on Vai's touring band.
Tony on his solo albums is a wonderful shredder and he has most amazing songs through a pretty decent sized discography.

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

yeh, the only reason I know about it is because my guitar teacher loves the shit.....it's shit like Chet Atkins and people like that, I cant stand it, but I'm around it all the time. So to answer your question: nothing, I dont like it....BUT I love fingerstyle in metal, ex. the intro to Megadeth's My Last Words, I cant get enough

Droogie.. fingerstyle (or fingerpicking as some call it) is a technique not a genre of music... fingerstyle is used in alot of music .... such as

Classical music : Andres Segovia ,Paganini & among others

Blues : Robert Johnson among others

Jazz: im not expert nor really a fan other then Dixie Jazz but i know it's used in that too

Country: throughout old school country

Folk: goes without saying lol

Metal: Metallica among other metal bands have used it you just have to explore (Intro to Battery on MOP, Fade to Black on RTL as well as others on that album, Unforgiven etc.)... Randy Rhoads on Diary of a Madman song comes to mind.. the intro... Jake E. Lee on Killer of Giants... Opeth on Beknighted...

Anyways hope you get the idea... Try Opeth if you don't listen to them already... they do alot of fingerpicking in their songs...

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

as for instrumentals i like:

Metallica : Orion (perfection) and Call of Kthulu

Satriani : anything on Surfing with the Alien really...

Black Sabbath: Fluff off of Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath.. yes i like it damnit ... lol Note: Droogie this one is fingerstyle

Emperor: The Wanderer

Randy Rhoads: Dee <<< fingerpicking Droogie

Vinnie Moore: pretty much anything on the Time Odyssey album

Pink Floyd: Echoes <<< this one is a instrumental? i cant remember now..

there are others but those come to mind for now for me...

 

[Wyvern]

Pink Floyd: Echoes <<< this one is a instrumental? i cant remember now..

No it's not, but anyway is one hell of a song