Yngwie Malmsteen 🇸🇪 - Rising Force - Guitar Tab

About Rising Force

Few guitar pieces announce a player's vocabulary as completely as "Rising Force." Written and recorded by Yngwie Malmsteen 🇸🇪, this 1984 title track drops you straight into his neoclassical world: arpeggiated diminished and harmonic minor runs, pedal-tone sequences, and scalar passages that pull hard from Bach and Paganini rather than pentatonic blues. E minor is the key, and Malmsteen squeezes every dramatic interval the harmonic minor scale offers, so you will need to internalize that raised seventh before the runs feel natural under your fingers. At 180 BPM the sixteenth-note passages are genuinely fast, and the picking mechanics, strict alternate picking through swept arpeggio shapes, demand real precision. Start by isolating a single two-bar run rather than chasing the whole piece at tempo. The Practice Toolbar is exactly the tool for this: loop a tricky arpeggio passage slowed down until your fretting hand and pick are perfectly synchronized before nudging the speed back up. E Standard tuning means no retuning is needed, but the real challenge is purely technical, so patience with small sections pays off far more than running it from the top.

• The piece sits in E minor using the harmonic minor scale, so learning that scale's raised seventh degree is essential before tackling the melodic runs.
• Passages combine strict alternate picking with sweep arpeggios across diminished and minor shapes, making right-hand and left-hand synchronization the core technical challenge.
• At 180 BPM, looping individual phrases slowed down is the most reliable way to build the picking accuracy these lines require.