Excellent, Marty's playing took Megadeth to a whole new level. His phrasing, exotic scales, and down to earth nature kept that band fresh and always pushing boundaries. They haven't been the same without him.
Ellis Gordon, Mustaine actually started improving his soloing after he got Marty in the band. Granted, a major part of it was Mustaine being sober & open to the idea of learning. But, Mustaine adopted more of Friedman’s techniques into his own playing. Since, Mustaine now learns from every new lead player he hires. But, Friedman put Mustaine on the path to improvement.
I remember getting "Dragon's Kiss" on cassette (yeah, I'm old). The album was great but the big takeaway, for me, was Marty's love of using interesting and unusual scales and modes. He got me into African, Arabic and Asian influences and using them in different ways. If nothing else, it's a great learning tool. Another great lesson... as usual. Cheers.
Great pick to highlight tonight. As usual your diagnosis of Marty Friedman's style and licks was spot on. The last look gave us a little look into his thinking as well
Besides Marty’s great different approach with exotic scales his bends & vibrato are what amaze me. Very hard too cop his solos as his bends are very hard. Great Lesson 🍺’ski thanks again!
Still got Cacophony's 'Speed Metal Symphony' on vinyl - it was and is like a technical dissertation on whats possible on six strings. Like, where did these guys come from?!? LOL
It's hard to tell if the tape was making weird noises or it was Marty making those weird kwirky noises. All respect to Marty. His stuff is hard to figure out what he is doing. Great lesson video!
Okay you got me, Marty is one of my all time favorite players. I have met him and he was a super nice guy and when you mix that in with his style (his own style) it just really resonates with me. I really like the licks you picked out and I can't wait to get home from work to pick up my guitar and try them out. Thank you for the video very good stuff. Also Marty's feel is so different, like his accent notes fall different than most peoples and then his bends that he incorporates are the icing on the cake. Cheers and once again great playing on your part as well. You are my favorite to watch on TH-cam.
I gotta mention Marty's guest spot on Skyharbor's debut album - guest solos on Catharsis and Celestial. Two of my favourite solos by him! Check them out if you haven't, Dave.
Before Cacophony, Marty was in a very early 80s band called HAWAII. Check out the phenomenal instrumental called "Rhapsody in Black." You'll hear a lovely segment in there that Marty recycled later on in "Concerto" from the 1st Cacophony album!
Hello from Finland! I´m definetly gonna learn that natural minorl pattern - thanks for great tips and guidance! Btw. the host of that clinic was and is Peter Lerche.
Hi Dave, I loved the lesson! Marty absolutely has a completely unique approach to playing and it’s great that you broke down some of his signature licks. Hey, I’m new to your channel, but have you done any videos about either Paul Wardingham or Per Nillson? I’m sure you’re aware of both of these monstrous players and would LOVE to hear you break down their styles a bit. Best I can describe their styles are futuristic sci fi post apocalyptic steampunk cyborg shred lol. Especially Wardingham wow his style just excites me. I’m not super knowledgeable on scales I’ve always just been a kind of get-my-hands dirty kind of player but I know it’s to my detriment after 33 plus years of doing it that way. Anyways take a listen to anything from these guys…for Per I especially love his works with his band Scar Symmetry on their album The Singularity-Phase I and the solos on Neohuman are just other worldly. For Paul Wardingham…sheesh pick anything from him…maybe Earth 2.0 is a great representation of his spacey style shred. Thanks Dave!
Still have both Cacophony "albums" on cassette (and CD of course), as well as both Marty and Jason's debut solo albums on cassette (and again, on CD too lol). Loved both of their playing right from the start. Marty's "Scenes" still gets an occasional listen and, like the licks in this lesson, contains many excellent examples of his playing without the use of distortion. In fact I'd say there's more playing without distortion than with on that album. [Sigh] I just realized... Marty gave us "Wall of Sound" and the best I can do is "Wall of Text" with this verbose comment. Oh well. Great lesson. Cheers!
Great video. Thanks! I must admit that I don’t know too much about Marty other than he is very well respected. Well worth investigating! As for improving technique, you are absolutely right: buy a valve amp and play clean, that will highlight all the sloppiness in a second 😃
OMG, I just put down my guitar....it’s 230 am.... I will pick it up tomorrow. 😂🤣😂🤣 Thank you 🙏🏻 I love your videos!!! You make me want to pick up my guitar!!!!
Awesome lesson, as usual! Marty is such an unique player, I'm not really into shredding but can't get enough of his stuff. And the ideas you analysed are awesome. On future videos, could you talk about the picking hand? You seem to have a great technique and your tips on that would add greatly (even more) to your videos. Keep on with this great channel!
Awesome stuff! Always look forward to seeing your content. I learned that b Aeolian lick from J Becker. It'd be awesome if you did a Cacophony chords and three licks
Great video David. Marty is such an outstanding and distinctive guitarist. His solos still blow my mind. Talking of unique guitarists, would you consider doing a video on Ian D'Sa from Canadian punk band Billy Talent? His style is very interesting, combining drop D power chords with simultaneous melodies, sounding like 2 guitars. Songs like River Below and This Suffering are good examples.
😎Even though I'm not very familiar with Marty's work, I know he's a talented guitarist and this 34All definitely gives me something to chew on as I've been in need of something a bit different of late to break out of a rut where even though I have been creating some new material, it just hasn't been exciting enough the last few months.
LATE NIGHT LESSONS, thanks for the marty friedman lesson. I thought you were going to show how marty friedmans uses arpeggios because he uses arpeggios a lot in the 80's. Maybe a Chris Poland lesson coming soon since you did marty friedman?
Love late night lessons. Please do one on Jerry Cantrell. Like myself he says he's not trained or doesn't know what scale or mode that he plays his stuff in. Just what sound good to him. Think he'd be very interesting to do a lesson on. Thanks David. Rock on.
I practice distorted but no other effects. I find practising clean all the time makes unwanted string noise control harder when distortion is turned back on again.
Don't Forget Marty was in the band 'Hawaii' before Cacophony. They were a interesting early Thrash/Power Metal band from........ well Hawaii. surprisingly enough. Couple of Links of early Marty: th-cam.com/video/VxzceECPcug/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/IzZxmSKFXT4/w-d-xo.html
In classical music they think about scales as in brightness. Major is in the middle and as you sharpen any note it is a brighter scale. This means there are dozen and dozens of scales far more than guitar players know. If you want to hear how incredible they can sound you have to get into classical music. It's all there to be explored and learned. There are also more modes than guitar players know like super Locrian ect..
Finland - In Helsinki a lot of people speak both Finnish and English but outside you won't find it except in maybe Turku in the west which is a media town.
Geez dude your hands look huge. I have big hands but yours look way bigger lol. I agree on the distortion thing but you also need to practice with your effects especially distortion to be able to control it. It's not easy if you don't practice you technique for muting etc to make it sound smooth
Greetings from 🇫🇮 Finland, the land of excellent english speakers. Interpreter was probably around for the guitar/music theory jargon. Those musical terms may not be in everyone's vocabulary. Also no internet at the time, so on to the news stand to buy Guitar Player magazine. Anyway, the japanese scale was already in his pocket, and he has done a album full of it, called Scenes. Very nice album. I bought my CD copy for 3$ cause it missed the cover. th-cam.com/video/modayTg2VB0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=W2d3jxvdZfBVmtQG
Marty is my all time favorite guitarist in my mind there is no one better. He's one of those guys as soon as you hear his playing you know it's him.
Excellent, Marty's playing took Megadeth to a whole new level. His phrasing, exotic scales, and down to earth nature kept that band fresh and always pushing boundaries. They haven't been the same without him.
Ellis Gordon, Mustaine actually started improving his soloing after he got Marty in the band.
Granted, a major part of it was Mustaine being sober & open to the idea of learning. But, Mustaine adopted more of Friedman’s techniques into his own playing.
Since, Mustaine now learns from every new lead player he hires.
But, Friedman put Mustaine on the path to improvement.
I remember getting "Dragon's Kiss" on cassette (yeah, I'm old). The album was great but the big takeaway, for me, was Marty's love of using interesting and unusual scales and modes. He got me into African, Arabic and Asian influences and using them in different ways. If nothing else, it's a great learning tool. Another great lesson... as usual. Cheers.
In addition to the exotic scales, the bends Friedman uses (& the bends Poland uses) are what I love most about his playing.
Fantastic.. Marty has always been adventurous. His interview on Anderton's is really amazing
Great pick to highlight tonight. As usual your diagnosis of Marty Friedman's style and licks was spot on. The last look gave us a little look into his thinking as well
Great lesson Dave! Friedman is so unique.That first lick is killer! Thanks Dave for another great lesson!
Awesome! 🔥 Marty is one of my favorite players. Such interesting, melodic lines!
Marty has always been the man in my book. He is top shelf consumption!
Outstanding lesson !! More Marty Friedman would definitely not hurt my feelings !!!
Marty's first solo album "Scenes" is fantastic!!! Thank you so much for all you do David ❤️
Josh Brown not his first solo album but it is a cool record.
*Marty was/is a breath of fresh air in metal music & guitar music in general*
Marty is not only an amazing guitar player but one of the nicest guys I have ever met. 🙂
Marty and Jason are so amazing and musical! Their debut solo albums both feature each other as guest soloists on several amazing tunes!
Besides Marty’s great different approach with exotic scales his bends & vibrato are what amaze me. Very hard too cop his solos as his bends are very hard. Great Lesson 🍺’ski thanks again!
Still got Cacophony's 'Speed Metal Symphony' on vinyl - it was and is like a technical dissertation on whats possible on six strings. Like, where did these guys come from?!? LOL
It's hard to tell if the tape was making weird noises or it was Marty making those weird kwirky noises. All respect to Marty. His stuff is hard to figure out what he is doing. Great lesson video!
Marty is a stellar player! And his philosophy and approach to guitar are extremely interesting.
Love how you find these licks from live performances. Awesome channel man!
Man you are always posting such epic videos. Great context, history, info and obviously stellar playing. Huge respect for what you're doing. cheers
Great job Dave! Gave 👍🏻
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Damnit man you stay busy kicking out all of this top notch material...I applaud you sir... Marty Friedman excellent choice 🤘
Awesome lesson once again! You have a great teaching delivery. I always enjoy your lessons.
Bonus points for mentioning Tourniquet, I didn't expect that one. Marty's solos on their albums are colossal \../
Okay you got me, Marty is one of my all time favorite players. I have met him and he was a super nice guy and when you mix that in with his style (his own style) it just really resonates with me. I really like the licks you picked out and I can't wait to get home from work to pick up my guitar and try them out. Thank you for the video very good stuff. Also Marty's feel is so different, like his accent notes fall different than most peoples and then his bends that he incorporates are the icing on the cake. Cheers and once again great playing on your part as well. You are my favorite to watch on TH-cam.
Marty Friedman was in the band Hawaii, any Marty Friedman licks lesson from hawaii live concerts and studio albums?
Jason is one of my best friends... you should check out Philip Glass: Mishima... Friedman/Becker LOVE this soundtrack!!
Dude I cant get enough of your channel
Oh God thx for the video, I was waiting for this
David❤️👏👏👏well done! love Friedman's playing and solo phrasing
I gotta mention Marty's guest spot on Skyharbor's debut album - guest solos on Catharsis and Celestial. Two of my favourite solos by him! Check them out if you haven't, Dave.
Marty is one of my favorites. Such a tasty player with such a distinctive style, you know its him right away
Yes, great stuff! Can you do a little more of his solo stuff/ Scenes
Before Cacophony, Marty was in a very early 80s band called HAWAII. Check out the phenomenal instrumental called "Rhapsody in Black." You'll hear a lovely segment in there that Marty recycled later on in "Concerto" from the 1st Cacophony album!
These were amazing licks David thank you for your lesson and effort
More Mary please!!!
Great lesson as always with interesting background information ! - and the record on the wall : Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior !
Hello from Finland! I´m definetly gonna learn that natural minorl pattern - thanks for great tips and guidance! Btw. the host of that clinic was and is Peter Lerche.
Hi Dave, I loved the lesson! Marty absolutely has a completely unique approach to playing and it’s great that you broke down some of his signature licks. Hey, I’m new to your channel, but have you done any videos about either Paul Wardingham or Per Nillson? I’m sure you’re aware of both of these monstrous players and would LOVE to hear you break down their styles a bit. Best I can describe their styles are futuristic sci fi post apocalyptic steampunk cyborg shred lol. Especially Wardingham wow his style just excites me. I’m not super knowledgeable on scales I’ve always just been a kind of get-my-hands dirty kind of player but I know it’s to my detriment after 33 plus years of doing it that way. Anyways take a listen to anything from these guys…for Per I especially love his works with his band Scar Symmetry on their album The Singularity-Phase I and the solos on Neohuman are just other worldly. For Paul Wardingham…sheesh pick anything from him…maybe Earth 2.0 is a great representation of his spacey style shred. Thanks Dave!
Marty is very unique and Stylish!
Still have both Cacophony "albums" on cassette (and CD of course), as well as both Marty and Jason's debut solo albums on cassette (and again, on CD too lol).
Loved both of their playing right from the start.
Marty's "Scenes" still gets an occasional listen and, like the licks in this lesson, contains many excellent examples of his playing without the use of distortion. In fact I'd say there's more playing without distortion than with on that album.
[Sigh] I just realized... Marty gave us "Wall of Sound" and the best I can do is "Wall of Text" with this verbose comment. Oh well. Great lesson. Cheers!
Great choice of licks! That 2nd lick is something I've played before, and daaaaaaang it always twists my noggin' everytime I try to remember it.
Great video as usual thanks for making it.
Great video. Thanks!
I must admit that I don’t know too much about Marty other than he is very well respected. Well worth investigating!
As for improving technique, you are absolutely right: buy a valve amp and play clean, that will highlight all the sloppiness in a second 😃
the first lick has a tango vibe, love it, super expressive super gritty
OMG, I just put down my guitar....it’s 230 am.... I will pick it up tomorrow. 😂🤣😂🤣
Thank you 🙏🏻 I love your videos!!! You make me want to pick up my guitar!!!!
Love your channel 👍
Impressiv lesson, Dave. Marty has also a different picking style. Could you show please such things in the future too?
DB pls share your rig & signal chain...great tone...
Awesome lesson, as usual! Marty is such an unique player, I'm not really into shredding but can't get enough of his stuff. And the ideas you analysed are awesome. On future videos, could you talk about the picking hand? You seem to have a great technique and your tips on that would add greatly (even more) to your videos. Keep on with this great channel!
If you watch "AIMM Archives - Jason Becker (1989)" Jason play the warmup lick at 3:47. Jason probably learn it from Marty.
Awesome stuff! Always look forward to seeing your content. I learned that b Aeolian lick from J Becker. It'd be awesome if you did a Cacophony chords and three licks
Great video David. Marty is such an outstanding and distinctive guitarist. His solos still blow my mind. Talking of unique guitarists, would you consider doing a video on Ian D'Sa from Canadian punk band Billy Talent? His style is very interesting, combining drop D power chords with simultaneous melodies, sounding like 2 guitars. Songs like River Below and This Suffering are good examples.
First of all I wanted to say thank you for your awesome content very interesting and inspiring.what is the amplifier behind you on the floor ?
How about looking into great players like Michael Landau, Scott Henderson and Oz Noy?!!! Thx David!
Hey great video! I was just wondering what kind of pickups you're using in your strat in this video?
This is guitar Master class. My theory is so lacking.
Marty explained why he holds his pick so strangely: He never palm mutes during solos. That's how he keeps his palm away from the strings!
Whaou, Marty !thank you Dave 🎸
You should do an episode about Jason Becker
Breakdown Tornado of Souls solo please!!!... Favorite version is Brandon Ellis but he doesn’t explain how he plays it...
Marty is one of a kind for sure
The biggest thing I took from Marty's playing was his use of half-step bends because I was too slow to figure out any of his shred.
😎Even though I'm not very familiar with Marty's work, I know he's a talented guitarist and this 34All definitely gives me something to chew on as I've been in need of something a bit different of late to break out of a rut where even though I have been creating some new material, it just hasn't been exciting enough the last few months.
Do some ritchie blackmore 👍👍👍
For another great and memorable example of using the Hirajoshi scale from Marty, check out the intro to The Ninja by Cacophony. Absolute beauty.
I can only get that“Japanese” sounding scale when I put new strings on and don’t stretch them out!!!...great stuff Brewster!!!!
Marty bending to the target note is definitely on tornado of souls
LATE NIGHT LESSONS, thanks for the marty friedman lesson. I thought you were going to show how marty friedmans uses arpeggios because he uses arpeggios a lot in the 80's.
Maybe a Chris Poland lesson coming soon since you did marty friedman?
Awesome, I hope some people request Michael Denner and Hank Shermann.
Love late night lessons. Please do one on Jerry Cantrell. Like myself he says he's not trained or doesn't know what scale or mode that he plays his stuff in. Just what sound good to him. Think he'd be very interesting to do a lesson on. Thanks David. Rock on.
I practice distorted but no other effects. I find practising clean all the time makes unwanted string noise control harder when distortion is turned back on again.
When Marty used to teach in Hawaii, he wouldn’t even use an amp. It’s just him and the student sitting there with no amps.
Great advice on taking the b and w's away
Review Jason Becker licks bro😁.
does anyone know what jackson marty used in his Guitar training vids?
a kelly?
I really want to play that pinky rolling one with the Paul Gilbert 3 pack
YES DUDE!!!
Don't Forget Marty was in the band 'Hawaii' before Cacophony. They were a interesting early Thrash/Power Metal band from........ well Hawaii. surprisingly enough.
Couple of Links of early Marty:
th-cam.com/video/VxzceECPcug/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/IzZxmSKFXT4/w-d-xo.html
In classical music they think about scales as in brightness. Major is in the middle and as you sharpen any note it is a brighter scale. This means there are dozen and dozens of scales far more than guitar players know.
If you want to hear how incredible they can sound you have to get into classical music. It's all there to be explored and learned. There are also more modes than guitar players know like super Locrian ect..
He has the strangest picking hand style, and I thought I did. ( Like George Benson). I'm trying to change it but it's comfortable.
Lesson:👍👍
We need 3 mustaine licks ❤
We need a john5 lessons
Finland - In Helsinki a lot of people speak both Finnish and English but outside you won't find it except in maybe Turku in the west which is a media town.
Marty's clinic was 25 years ago. I'm quite surprised they had an interpreter even then. Today you can get along with English anywhere in Finland.
Yep thats right, english is taught in school trough 3rd to 9th grade so everyone speaks english in Finland.
Yeah, except we're among the best speakers of English as a foreign language... www.ef.fi/epi/regions/europe/finland/
Geez dude your hands look huge. I have big hands but yours look way bigger lol. I agree on the distortion thing but you also need to practice with your effects especially distortion to be able to control it. It's not easy if you don't practice you technique for muting etc to make it sound smooth
How about a look at Gary Moore, if you haven’t already ✌️🎸
Friedman - Ohmura guitar duel - th-cam.com/video/yNhN8f7lop4/w-d-xo.html
I agree with all the praise in this video... except the Yngwie part. I just can't listen to that guy for too long.
Your guitar sounds like a sax.
Greetings from 🇫🇮 Finland, the land of excellent english speakers. Interpreter was probably around for the guitar/music theory jargon. Those musical terms may not be in everyone's vocabulary. Also no internet at the time, so on to the news stand to buy Guitar Player magazine. Anyway, the japanese scale was already in his pocket, and he has done a album full of it, called Scenes. Very nice album. I bought my CD copy for 3$ cause it missed the cover. th-cam.com/video/modayTg2VB0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=W2d3jxvdZfBVmtQG