Yngwie Malmsteen Talks ’Parabellum,’ Playing Russia in the ’80s, How to Improvise & More | Interview

With his incredible new album “Parabellum’ now available worldwide today—Jonathan Graham chats with the one and only Yngwie Malmsteen about the new record and so much more in this exclusive Guitar interactive interview. Interview chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:48 Yngwie on the passion and intensity of ’Parabellum’ 1:57 How Yngwie works on an album 6:33 The key to great Improvisation 9:48 Yngwie explains the first time he heard himself recorded 11:00 The importance of recording yourself when playing 11:47 How an unknown tape speed helped Yngwie push his playing faster 13:43 What challenges YJM? 16:03 Hundreds of unheard Malmsteen tracks is the vault? 16:56 YJM’s on Cameo 17:35 Picking up vintage guitars over the years 18:50 Old guitar = Mojo? 19:24 Why Yngwie doesn’t play ’The Duck’ anymore. 20:17 Scalloping the neck on vintage Strats 21:44 Not being dependant on one instrument 22:00 What happens if you drop one of YJM’