Daniele Gottardo - Chopin

Daniele Gottardo, displaying his two handed technique to play a Chopin piece on the electric guitar.

George Bellas - Slow Blues Guitar Fusion

George Bellas started playing guitar at the age of 7, on a Classical guitar his father had bought him. On the way home from getting the guitar, in the back seat of the car, George started to play. When he got home, he ran all around the neighborhood playing his new guitar. The next day at school, George checked out every single music book in the school library, went home, and began his quest to obtain an absolute understanding of every detail in music theory. George began practicing and studying really hard at first, to the point of which his fingers began bleeding. He would put band-aids on them and continue practicing. His influences include: J.S.Bach, L.V.Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Paganini, Debussey, Walter Piston, Ted Greene, Robin Trower, Montrose, Van Halen, Michael Schenker, Dream Theater, Magellan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, Jason Becker...

Joop Walters - Synthology

Kevin Peters - Arpeggio

Kevin Peters is an amazing two handed guitar player, he is best known as "onethattaps" and his motto is "no pick desired or required"

Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck Malmsteen, June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader. Widely recognised for his guitar skills, Malmsteen achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s due to his technical proficiency and his pioneering of the neo-classical metal genre.























Yngwie Malmsteen - Blues Guitar Lesson

Born into a musical family in Stockholm, Malmsteen was the youngest child in the family. In September 18, 1970, at age seven, he saw a TV special on the death of Jimi Hendrix that made Malmsteen obsessed with the guitar. To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Yngwie was born".

He claims that Yngwie (pronounced "ING-VAY") means "young Viking chief" in Swedish. Technically it is a variation of Yngvi, who founded the House of Yngling, which is the oldest known Swedish dynasty.

Malmsteen was in his teens when he first encountered the music of the 19th-century violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, whom he cites as his biggest classical influence. It has been rumoured that Yngwie believes himself to be the reincarnation of the temperamental, often criticized, and widely misunderstood violinist from Genoa. Through his emulation of Paganini concerto pieces on guitar, Malmsteen developed a prodigious technical fluency. Malmsteen also cites Jimi Hendrix, Steve Hackett of Genesis, Brian May, Uli Jon Roth, and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple as influences.

Malmsteen broke new ground and contributed to the evolution of modern rock guitar, particularly with his embracing of modal progressions and classically-influenced techniques not widely used in rock music. He is often credited along with virtuoso guitarist Randy Rhoads with the creation of the neoclassical metal genre and inspiring a new generation of virtuoso electric guitarists including Paul Gilbert and Tony MacAlpine.

His appearance on the guitar scene in the early 80's was notable in that he brought and popularized techniques quite different from the style typified by Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads, generally considered the ultimate in metal guitar technique. These new techniques included fast lines using rapid alternate picking of every note (as opposed to extensive hammer-ons and pull-offs), which had previously only been featured by jazz fusion guitarists (such as Al Di Meola and John Mclaughlin), as well as very rapid sweep picking of arpeggios (typically in Malmsteen's characteristic harmonic minor).