February 4th, 2005 - lesson
Yngwie Malmsteen: Now Your Ships are Burned
When they named it shred, this is the song they were thinking of: soaring leads, piercing vibrato, weepy tremolo, slippery legato,
Yngwie Malmsteen's Now Your Ships Are Burned (5.5MB Quicktime)
and ferocious picking, simmering over a roiling cauldron of drum and bass that's almost as funky as it is angry. We're talking about Now Your Ships Are Burned, the third track from Yngwie Malmsteen's watershed 1984 album, Rising Force.
While there are other tracks on Rising Force more overtly evocative of the misty medieval themes of Yngwie's imagination, none pack the unfettered rage of Now Your Ships Are Burned. With its blistering solos, frightening stop-time fills, and a main riff more challenging than the solos of mere mortal players, Now Your Ships Are Burned is a punishing display of chops. If you like your dragon ships packed to the prow with berserkers, this is the song for you.
Of course, like every great Yngwie tune, it's equal parts flash and musicality. There is no better example of this than the first of the song's two solos:
While there are other tracks on Rising Force more overtly evocative of the misty medieval themes of Yngwie's imagination, none pack the unfettered rage of Now Your Ships Are Burned. With its blistering solos, frightening stop-time fills, and a main riff more challenging than the solos of mere mortal players, Now Your Ships Are Burned is a punishing display of chops. If you like your dragon ships packed to the prow with berserkers, this is the song for you.
Of course, like every great Yngwie tune, it's equal parts flash and musicality. There is no better example of this than the first of the song's two solos:
Yngwie Malmsteen's Now Your Ships Are Burned, Solo 1 - 
(1.02MB MP3)
(1.02MB MP3)
m.1 m.2
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m.7 m.8
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m.9 m.10
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m.18
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m.19 m.20
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m.21 m.22 m.23
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m.27 m.28
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m.29 m.30
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m.31
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m.35 m.36
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