Thanks for breaking this down. You should be nominated for the Nobel Pick Prize.

dude.... i am sitting here laughing. you've managed to make a mystery documentary out of a Malmsteen lick. HAHAHAHAHAH hat's off.

I'd laugh if Yngwie watches this and says... "Shit maan! I didn't think I was doing all this picking stuff when I was jamming. This video has taught me so much". Then he goes away and comes back even stronger. Now that would be classic.

Been following you forever and love your work. Feel free to get in touch if you want to exchange some thoughts and ideas! Greets, Martin.

Ive been playing guitar for 42 years,my technique is very good but not flawless.Ive never seen an instructional video or any teacher I've known analyze technique this way.Troy puts it under a microscope and breaks it down note by note.Someone here on the tube said"Troy is like the Mythbusters for guitar players"Great work Troy,Thanks

Man, I wish I'd had your videos when I was 14. Your analyses of guitarists' idiosyncrasies is exactly what I was trying to do. Maybe the precise way I personally unpicked the patterns I saw in their playing was unique to me, and helped me find a voice as a musician. It's a great approach to educating, I just cannot commend you highly enough. P.S. I still have that little REH booklet!

This episode is literally life changing. I'm re-evaluating the last 7 years of playing. I just incorporated some of these things (some of which have already been intuitive for me and I've been doing, and some of which I never even considered), and I've already said "holy crap" out loud twice at the improvements I'm already seeing while I have this video paused. This is so awesome.

Just shows you how good Yngwie is. He figured all this out before anyone else was using it. When he was learning you didn't have instructional videos or anything like it.

Mr. Grady, While I'm sure you're tired of people giving you compliments by this point, I feel compelled to tell you how very impressed I am with this video series. The quality of both the presentation and of the content itself is unparalleled in my previous KZfaq experience. As an individual who is often analytical to a fault (one of my childhood nicknames was Dr. Spock, and no, my ears aren't pointed), I greatly enjoy - and am extremely impressed with - your detailed mechanical analyses. I am also a great lover of professional presentation and high-quality work in any form, and in that respect these videos are above reproach (and very enjoyable). The content is also extremely relevant and valuable to me: as a left-handed guitarist who plays right-handed guitars, I have always had above-average left-hand dexterity, but I have struggled to bring my right hand up to match the left. The insights you have presented are already helping to improve my picking ability, and for that I am very grateful. I greatly look forward to seeing all of your future content, and I am already mentally ear-marking a bit of my next paycheck to purchase a Season Pass from your website, as such excellent work deserves appropriate compensation. Anyway, if you have even bothered to read this far, thank you for putting so much time and effort into this video series. You have earned a loyal subscriber. Sincerely, Phillip Conley

When I discovered your short series I thought you were highly over-analyzing technique to little purpose. Having sat through these videos twice in a row while practicing, I have noticed my picking capabilities quadruple over a course of two weeks- something I had not been able to do in two years. Now reading my own comment, I seem to sound like a comment trying to sell a product- but Jesus Christ, as gaudy and over-produced and repetitive as these videos may seem to be- this is INSANELY useful information to anyone at any level, any age, no matter what sort of learner you are (auditory, visual, hands on) I wish you had been producing these videos a decade ago, and I shudder to think where I'd be today. And I have to ask: Is it the Yale Money or the Yale paraphernalia that keeps you looking and sounding like a teenager in your 40's?

Mind=BLOWN. NOBODY ever mentioned this technique in any instructional video I've ever seen. Amazing.

Troy - you deserve an oscar or a grammy for all of this,

What's brilliant about this video is how Troy have turned Yngwie's instructional video, which I've always thought was one of the most useless "instructional" materials of all time, into something really useful. Kudos for that!

....and this video is probably the most important video for downward pick slanting players ever. Hands down.

Awesome video Troy, wow! I remember all I had growing up was a cassette player that I could slow down. This would have saved tons of time back then. The quest of "cracking the code" by the way is something I've loved doing myself, especially where you feel you're about to crack it but you're just not there yet. :-) Thanks Troy!

This is kick-ass story telling. I am totally hooked.

Scientific approach of analyzing guitar picking at its best !

This is GOLD. Period. You are making by far the best instructional videos I have ever seen, and just the three free Yngwie Videos kind of launched my playing into a whole new Era. I'm definitely getting the season pass. Thanks Troy for doing this!

Thanks Troy! Your stuff is not only very informative but also very entertaining!

I'm bass player more than guitar player but i must say to you this: in era of everyone who can play 2 chords doing "lessons" on youtube you are clearly person that have something smart to say, and do it in a fun way (your 20 mins videos are more fun to watch, than to struggle through some 5 mins). I'm glad that i clicked on your video as related to Yngwie's song.

Watching this series brought back so many memories, the storytelling and animation are outstanding, the painstaking attention to detail in not only the animation and audio effect, but also the storytelling capture the vibe of the era perfectly. I actually even had an epiphany while watching these clips, and if they were done any other way it probably would not have happened. I feel like I just left a psychiatrist's office. The whole time I just assumed that once the 1990s rolled around my taste in music along with many others changed and Metal ran it's course, when in reality my taste and probably most others taste in music didn't change. It was Metal that transformed from being a bang your head, emotion based, audience participatory form of entertainment to Total Nerdom, and not just Total Nerdom but a weapons race of Total Nerdom where everyone with a Floyd Rose and Marshall Stack was trying to outnerd each other. For the first time it's clear as day why Grunge happened, Metal went from being an adrenaline driven rebellious release to a self-inflicted homework assignment which only nerds with guitars could appreciate. It's not that Grunge was revolutionary, it wasn't even good, it just wasn't monotonous drudgery that required lab equipment to analyse. I can't to listen to some Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden tonight ... and watch a couple of Steel Panther videos.

Great videos Troy! This is such a nostalgic memory lane trip because I went through almost exactly the same struggles, even the metal mechanics tapes, slowing down licks (with a Fostex 4-track) and much more. The discussion about who invented what is pointless, especially because players at the time would hide their techniques rather than sell them. My own alternate picking sucked so hard that I started inventing "directional" picking myself in the 80's. Suddenly I saw a video by Frank Gambale and it all fell into place. Generally a lot of players were trying to push the same boundaries and came up with a lot of similar solutions. Surely Eric Johnson, Uli Roth and many others did parts of these techniques before Yngwie and perhaps he studied all of them but at the time he could only do so by ear. The fact remains that nobody before him integrated such a magnitude of various techniques into such fluent and flawless mastery as him. Early recordings show that at age 19 at the latest he already had everything perfectly in place. He is getting so much stick these days for being repetitive, only speed focused, poor song writer and much more. It's a pity because his articulation, phrasing, fluidity and vibrato are all still to this day among the best that ever was. Now on top of that, please take a proper listen to something like Far Beyond the Sun and tell me who else could write something 10% as complex in musicality, composition and arrangement at around 20? :-)

Another fantastic job Troy! I have to say that Yngwie's mechanics can't be denied. I probably would never really listen to Yngwie, Johnson or DiMeola for pleasure the way I would listen to Van Halen or Led Zeppelin, but the freedom that one gets from understanding and using these mechanics can help to play any difficult passages by any artist or even passages that you make up yourself. Stirring stuff!

Sir, Your videos are fantastic!

I come back to this occasionally and always get something new out of it. Great work Troy!

This is a beautiful!!! Like someone said before me, where were you 7-8 years ago? Haha thank you bro! This made me pick up my guitar for the first time in over a year!

This is easier said than done! All I do is practice, practice and practice some more! Thanks Troy!!!

Thank you for all you do on these videos, it is not only educational, but you make it entertaining:) I appreciate all of your efforts on these! THANKS!!

you're doing great job! This deserves much more views!

Comin back to this vid 8 years after originally seeing it is making me feel the need to rewatch the whole series again. God ❤ This, along with Mr. Fastfinger and Punk-o-matic give me such great guitar nostalgia vibes

I get more excited when these videos drop in my sub box than any of my other subscriptions. Love this series, really awesome thank you so much

I can't get over how amazing these videos are. Your analysis and production values are just impeccable.

Thank you so much for these videos! My picking has gotten so much better since I started watching these and you deserve so much recognition for what you do!

Troy..thank you! I’ve been playing since I was 15, I’m 51 now...I never knew about this. You have opened doors!! Thank you for taking the time to break this down in an easy to understand yet meticulously delivered way. You’re awesome!

This episode is freakin' awesome!!! Hope we doesn't have to wait a lot of time for Ep. 3! A million thanks for all the videos, they're very inspiring and I'm learning a lot of cool guitar stuff!

God bless this Rainman. I’ve had a lot of these theories on the tip of my tongue before but nothing this broken down and so very well explained

These videos are great Troy, I remember watching that old Yngwie tape with my brother 20 years ago laughing at "here's that lick slow". Fantastic analytical work on such a beast of a picker!

unbelievable. truly unbelievable series.

Yay, new episode!

Thanks for putting so much time into your videos Troy, you rule!

I'm amazed at the amount of effort and passion put into this videos, truly inspiring and what's best they're truly an awesome way to get better at playing guitar!!! Thank you very much for this amazing videos Troy!!! you really changed my life!!!!

Some excellent excellent stuff here, the 5 rules were stellar, appreciate the work been done! Cant wait to get home and practice! It makes you appreciate Yngwie even more with all those constructed licks that blends so well together. Awesome, thanks a bunch!

a-freakin-mazing!! 30 years ive played, i wasnt a slow player but in one week(and a "borrowed" light bulb moment) i am easily twice the speed and fluid like ive never been able to command. thank you so much

Troy, Thank you so much for the insight. Your analysis is superb and inspiring. When I was a kid I had the YNGWIE REH video borrowed from a friend. I watched and tried and tried but never progressed. After watching this a few times, it truly feels possible to learn some Yngwie properly. Now, time to practice. Thanks again, Steve

This is the most important video I have ever seen in my life. Wow. I can put this in play to jam like I always dreamed of. !! Took me long enough . Thanks Troy !

Just brilliant.. this episode puts it all together... but this whole series is a life story anyone from the 80's to early 90's can relate to... I just pray they never come off YT as I have planned the next years study based on them... 30 years after I first heard it I WILL finally play Black Star. ha ha... so many thanks Troy!

*This is my favorite version of FANTASIA.* 🧙‍♂️🎸

Fantastic! Simply Fantastic

Troy, you inspire me to play better. Thank you soooo much!!!! Your micro-insight and hard analysis is incredible and much appreciated.

oh man I have played everything in pure alternate picking for ten years I have to practice that ! Thanks !

Genious. Pure genious. I wonder why I've never seen ANY other guitar teacher talk about this stuff on youtube.

you are so generous for sharing us this mindblowing documentary. God Bless You!

Love the production. VERY Cool!. No one has ever explained it like this before.

It's all about passion and sacrifices, discipline, dedication, patience, hard work and talent ! On 'ya Troy, you rock, mate !

I always wondered why I could play faster going down the neck vs up. After watching, I realized that I was an upward pick slanter and I was using Yngwei's technique the opposite way that he was using it. Thanks to Troy! Now I can switch thing around! I'm so excited!

Love your approach to guitar instruction ! !Very innovative and refreshing !

Amount of effort and work put in this production is seriously outstanding. Still in 2020.

Thank you very much for your videos Troy!! You're amazing!

Really great videos. I don't think anyone has broken down Yngwie's picking before on such a deep level.

This series in unreal… bravo

Hats off once again Troy.

amazing! Loved it!

Man... I am REALLY enjoying this. Thank you so much!

Troy, I don't have any word to describe how excellent work you've done with all these episodes. I've never seen how well can be analyzed a guitar technique. Keep up the good work buddy.

Can't wait to try this

I'm really loving this series. Not only are the instructional bits really useful, but it also feels like a glimpse into a different world of learning, since I grew up in the internet age where everything is already laid out somewhere, and much easier to figure out if it isn't since you can slow stuff down, find videos, eq out other instruments, chat with others, etc.. It's really interesting even beyond the actual learning, and I really appreciate that. I'm just wondering, are all the future episodes focused on picking? I'd love to see your take on something like tapping or legato.

Troy, I've watched this series before, and I was mostly dismissive of the pick slanting and escaping stuff. I thought to myself, "Yngwie or Gilbert surely dont REALLY do this. Strict alternate picking is the key!" Thats what we were sold for a two or more decades. This time I tried a few of the licks and was also hugely surprised at how some things I could never play suddenly seem possible. Your videos have changed guitar learning forever. Your focus on the minutia of technique, with slo-mo video on dozens of world-class players backs up your theory. And the video production is just awesome, with all the animations and sound effects. You really have cracked the code for fast playing and for guitar instructionals.

Watching this has been a revelation. Being self taught I've flirted with different techniques ideas and I would always wonder why some stuff which is supposed to be difficult came very easy to me and other presumably easy licks were like trying to lift a mountain. Thanks Troy. This has helped me understand my own technique and refine it into a well oiled machine.

Dude! Excellent! Wow!

Yet another stellar Yngwie dissection by the Great Troy Grady!

Brilliant!

Awesome! I feel now like really "cracking the code"! That's what I never heard before in tonnes of tutorials "how to play fast", great job!

You are like that guy from a beautiful mind, decoding yngwie.

I loooooovvvveeee these videos, they remind of back to the future for some rerason

Finally! Waited 30 years for this video.

MORE FUN!!! AWESOME VIDEOS!!! Thanks!

These videos are OUTSTANDING!!!

Troy , another absolute Gem!

Life changing..tnk u, Troy.

Great video Troy!

Thank you! I've been playing guitar for 15 years and I started to naturally do a lot of the stuff you mention naturally. But with these videos and knowing why thou use certain techniques for certain patterns. I feel confident that I can learn any lead guitar piece I want to and crest killer licks of my own. It's like a magical key to a door that has been locked for years. Or the holy trail of speed picking if you believe in god. I found your videos because I am the biggest Steve Vai fan. Like you when I saw the Crossroads dual i was blown away. Now I'm confident that with in the next few months I'll have it mastered and ill be able to post it on my own KZfaq channel along with anything g else I want to be able to play. This has been the single most helpful guitar lesson series I've ever found anywhere. I always felt like I was just missing a few things that would take me to that level of playing and here they are clear as day now.

This thing you’ve got to demonstrate picking is unbelievable

The detail in your videos is amazing!!

Troy - this is clearly the BEST guitar video on the internet! You are a freak for working this stuff out & we all thank you

Thank you for this Troy. Alternate picking is truly amazing and people like yourself and MAB make it look easy but this makes sense. cheers bud

amazing! Brilliant! Epic video!

I've just purchased a season 2 pass and I'm blown away by the content. There's a lot more than i thought! Loved the performance notes. There is so much to practice that i feel the material covered in these two episodes they worth the $30. When i considered the session pass, in partly was to thank you for your time spent answering aaaall my questions, but now i see that this pass is supercharged with lots of cool stuff! I seriously recommend it! As always, sorry for my english, and cheers from Argentina!

Hey troy, Just a quick thank you for the videos. I've been playing guitar on and off for the last 20 years but never had any speed at all. For the last four months, I've had a new guitar teacher who has been helping with problems with my left hand and I've been watching your videos for a while now for my right hand. Last night I finally played a part of the volcano pattern at near Yngwie speed for the 1st time ever.. I nearly danced around the living room with joy and amazement. Couldn't have done it without these videos. Thank you!

This is astonishing and scientific. So well presented. Well done and thanks!

These videos are awesome, thanks Troy *thumbs up*.

Love his story telling, like I'm watching a movie. Killer job

Man, your video is simply awesome! Congrats!

Awe stuff! Subscribed!

Many thanks for this Troy ! The mechanics of all this was probably just intuitive for many of the great players. I've been playing a LONG time and your formula certainly explains why some of my licks worked and some just never did. Bravo on the research! SUBSCRIBED!!

Great episode, Troy. This whole downward pick slanting thing has done a ton of good for my playing. I can't wait for the two way pick slanting stuff you've alluded to in the past. Cheers!

wow troy this is really awesome

Grande Troy !!

this is mind blowing... shred skill 2.0 here i come !!! thanks Troy

You need a Grammy award for your videos mate

Thanks for reminding me how fun it was analyzing and figuring out all of that stuff (stacato 'muting', picking patterns an fingerings) back then, almost 30 years ago. I also came to the same conclusions on my own in 1985-6 just by experimenting with different patterns and techniques an trying to merge them, listening to recordings and slowing them down (no computers or tablatures back then, even videotaped lessons were a bit hard to get). Bravo sir, great analysis!!!