This part is fairly easy from a technical view, but from an expression point of view it is not so easy. It is difficult to play this piece with taste, since only the bass notes are playing the notes in exact tempo, while the solo line varies in tempo a lot. This technique in classical music is called rubato.

Use the A harmonic minor scale and try to compose an etude with alternate picking & string skipping.

Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) was a legendary violin virtuoso from Italy. He had such an impossible technique that people rumored that he had sold his soul to the devil.

I wrote this short tune many years ago, actually it was in 1995. The main inspiration was Baroque music, while in the same time I was practicing Ragtime and Delta Blues finger picking, and somehow this tune was born.

There are two major influences on my style which are contrary to each other, Romanticism with the emotional expression (Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini, etc) and the period of Impressionism (Debussy, Ravel). In this piece I combined these two opposites and here's the result.

Alternate picking, Vibrato, Slides and Palm muting.

One of Yngwie Malmsteen's most famous songs

This lesson is reminescent of Yngwie's most important influences: Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840). It's like the final arpeggios of 24th Caprice. Paganini was called the Demon Fiddler because of the demonic air of his playing and his looks. Yngwie Malmsteen took many Paganini's stuff to make his own guitar style.

A classic masterpiece of speed picking and sweeping