Sorry for the poor image quality, but hopefully you’ll get the idea! I can’t figure out how Yngwie would play this without some string hopping when the G string is introduced. And this is a lick that he uses a lot. Any ideas? Thanks
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Can you find some video of him playing it? Even if it’s not the greatest shot/angle it might be helpful.
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do you know who Cesar Filho is?
this guy:
he has an Yngwie course and in it he shows one of the classic E string pedal point type licks. essentially he just does it with outside picking when he goes to the other string
its sort of funny because the lick starts on the E note 12th fret with a downstroke. He throws in one hammer so that the E note is now an upstroke lol. That way when Yngwie goes to the b string its down on B, up on E
I havent exactly mastered those type of licks but its easier for me just to start the pattern on the D note 10th fret with a downstroke and then the high e pedal is an upstroke anyway
Edit: oh snap, I didnt think he had a clip of him showing it but here it is. I dunno why but he only uploaded a tiny snippet lol. He isnt showing the hammer on explicitly but if u watch his picking u see he picks 2 notes then stalls the pick for the hammer-on to set up the outside string changes
I dunno if it matches exactly, but on his tab he shows it like this:
E----12–10–12–8--12–7--12-------12 etc
B---------------------------------------10--------
so thats D-U-Hammer-D-U-D-U-D-U etc. essentially the hammer is to flip the picking so its outside string changes
of course you could always just start on an upstroke
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Ahh okay, that’s making more sense now. Cheers for that!
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