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Learn 3-4 bars at a time, and start with the hardest part (they'll take the longest to perfect), get the fingering and picking right at a slow speed (even down to 40BPM). The slowly build up the speed. You will hit plateaus, slow bit a it, say 5 BPM then next day try again at the faster speed. Do NOT let the speed be predominant, that will lead to sloppy playing.
Remember to start and finish your practise with something you can play to speed, this starts and finishes you on a high.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
If you really do want to play it exactly like the original though its all muscle memory, repetition and getting the tempo.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Get a handle on Yngwie's picking technique by watching Troy Grady's Cracking the Code videos on YouTube. Yngwie's approach is very consistent. Maybe try Chris Brooks, too. He does "The Yng Way" method and is a great player, but I don't think he quite nails the Yng sound like some of the Japanese dudes.
Despite my great admiration for @BigJon, Troy will tell you: playing slower and building up won't always get you where you wanna be. You need to identify the problems and work on them in great detail. Chunks of 3-4 bars as suggested by @mike_l could well be too much. You might need to focus on one string change for a bit to get it down. That might be half a beat that you need to loop, not even half a bar.
Get the best transcriptions you can get hold of. There are some really crappy "official" Yngwie tabs about.
Learn what you want to learn. Keeps you motivated. If it's this song, learn this song. Learn the chord changes so you can busk a version you can sing along to. Learn the vocal melodies on the guitar.
Oh, and check @RedRabbit's thread on his playing getting slower. There was great technique discussion in there.
Concerning Yngwie's song, I had never heard it, so I gave it a listen, and it seems to me that you can really reduce the time it would take to learn it by playing a few exercises that are at the core of the solo sections., Here they are:
- Yngwie's classic: choose a diatonic 3 note shape on a string (like 13, 15, 17 for instance). and play it in this fashion: 17, 13, 15, 17, 15, 13 and repeat. He does a lot of that.
- Descending Vertical scale run: choose a string ( I think Yngwie does it a lot on the high E string). and run it down diatonically in this manner: 3 notes straight down, then slide your index to the next lower note, and from that position play 3 notes straight down again, then slide again and repeat.
- Diatonic Swept arpeggio crisscross: Choose a key, (maybe the one Fire and Ice is written in ?) and play the Minor and Major arpeggios of the key, starting on the high E string and going down and up the arp, then sliding to either the next arpeggio* (If you're not familiar with which arp goes where in the key), or the one starting 2 notes higher, and then going back to the one you skipped (that's the "crisscross" part. I recommend doing this with both 3 string and 5 string shapes.
* The one that starts on the next higher or lower note, keeping in mind what key you're in
If you incorporate those into your training routine, it will make it way easier to play the actual solo, the way I would learn it is by playing it slow and as a whole, (the solo) to complement the exercises I mentioned before that you did in isolation.
I think of it like a sculpture or a painting, focusing on a specific part allows you to refine the detail, but taking a step back and looking at the work as a whole ensures that everything is in the right place and that the whole thing looks harmonious. It's the best way to do it in my opinion.
Good luck and good training.
Max
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
@AxeInsight When learning anything new, one is going to have to start super slow to avoid "baking in" mistakes. Dave Kilminster would say: Start much slower than you think you need to start. *Much* slower.
But the metronome doesn't decide when to change gears. You use the metronome to help yourself move up through the gears.
Anyway the thing I wanted to mention is Yngwie's vibrato. When you slow down one of his solos you realise he does it a lot more than you hear at normal speed and it's a wide vibrato too. The scalloped neck helps with that I guess.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.