Quick licks: intermediate #13

These chords go by quickly so try to perfect this example in sections and work slowly up to the 132bpm tempo. A clean single-coil solid state sound gives this one extra snap. Get down and funky like the Purple One!

This example is based on Yngwie Malmsteen's early Rising Force classical stylings. Notice the Neapolitan 6th chord (b2 chord in first inversion, here F/A in the key of E minor) in bar 1 and watch out for the fourth finger trill in the same bar. Play it lyrically and try writing similar etudes using this as a model.