how are you suppose to solo over a chord progression in one key? what are you suppose to think about as the chords are changing if you only stay in one key, and how do you know what to resolve on and target? You will just ultimately end up sounding like a mess of notes wouldn't you? i think the only way to solo is to follow the chords no matter what. If you hear a good solo I believe that you are always following the chords even if you call it " using one scale over all the chords"
question here: during the soloing in E, D and A , does he uses the E scale all the time or he uses the respective scales of the chords that are being played?
I hope sometimes when guitarists go to the wrong note it can still b a cool sound. Sometimes it isn't, but to the listener it can b interpreted as jazzy or odd in a good way. I hit wrong notes regularly even though i have been playing 11 years and practice scales for warming up and memory.
so .. is he soloing in the key of e through the hole thing? or is he actually switching the key he is soloing in everytime he switches a chord,,, or is he in e the hole time and just landing on those notes when theres a chord change, if anyone knows? thanks
@123shiti Both. Some of the notes for A and D are in the E chord too. When soloing with what he is playing you could stay on E, but that would b boring to do all the time. It is noticable when a player stays in one box.
Very awesome lesson. He says what I thought and didn't say for a long time because I didn't want to sound like I DIDN'T know how to play the guitar or look crazy Lol!.. but Thank you Marty! You're one bad mutha. Peace.
Guitarists often mute these strings in the studio with a cloth or something wedged between strings and fretboard (or a sweatband etc if not playing open strings). The other technique of course is to use the palm of your picking hand to do the muting. My point is that because of his technique, Marty is not able to use his palm in this way and the "drone" is therefore audible in the background.
....is NOT using different notes when th chords change. He's always playing the same seven notes regardless of what chord is behind.
Another thing.... I love the look of his awkward twisted picking hand. It's so Marty. But listen to the amount of background sh!t you can hear when he's soloing due to his right hand not allowing for string muting. Messy!!!
@maxdread666 I count at least 8+ times where he deviates from the standard 7 note tonal scales so I disagree on that point. Marty always hits plenty of notes that are considered atonal. Sure, he could have done a better job explaining when and why he does that, but he DOES do it.
And I really take issue with that last point. He sound VERY clear through the whole video and his town sounds great! I myself prefer the conventional position, but I think he pulls his own way off just fine.
@karwash2011 Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Can you tell me the 8+ times where he deviates? I'm hoping to learn through these exchanges so if you could tell me that would be great.
As for my messy comment .... Maybe Messy was not the right term. But listen to the first solo he plays, the one without backing. Listen to what happens when he goes to the high notes. The thicker strings can be heard ringing in the background in sympathy to the vibration of the instrument.
@maxdread6661:51 is one example of where he deviates from the regular scale, and it's the most pronounced. Most of the time he chooses to hammer-on from a dissonant note into something that resolves it, which gives it much more of an exotic tone. I'm not very good at throwing that into my own solos yet :/
So the idea of playing the notes from the chords I don't think is hugely demonstrated. To me he's doing more or less the same as you do when blues jamming.... IE - bringing out the changes in the rhythm change from root to IV and V. And this is mainly achieved by hitting the right note when the change happens. Of course, Marty emphasises this by often sticking to the arpeggio of the relevant chard. But he does play notes beyond the arpeggio. And it's worth remembering he....
@Matheus222 Not always you arpeggiated the chords beneath it...what marty trying to say was,by arpeggiating the chords which is (1,3,5) will open the doors to you on thinking the creative way to make a solo...and as what he said,you cant go wrong with arpeggio...not to say to play sweep all the time,but its the safest and melodic way to follow the chords.hope it hepls
Fuck Jason Becker, he was just a Yngwie wanna be. Marty however, is a true guitar genius. It is very sad about Jason's disease though, god bless him...... Even though god doesn't exist.
Lol, yea I fuckin have. He dressed with undone button downs, played fender strats and used the same arpeggios and alternate picked progressions as Malmsteen, there styles vary gradually. Jason is just a fucking copy cat, a neo-classical wannabe, thats why he has only sold like ten thousand albums. It is however, a shame that any guitarist as skilled as Jason would no longer be able to play .Malmsteen is an amazing guitarist, but Friedman, is a whole step up from them both, and many others.
"You're probably wondering . . . what's going on through my mind besides . . . probably food or something like that . . . while I'm soloing like that . . . and you have to consciously think of . . . the chords . . . really hard."
if u guyz notice it ... he uses sweep picking ... but not those normal ones .... what kind of shape is that ??? issit those ..u know "self-created" shape
i dont read music or any of that crap i do it all by ear never had lessons if someone said play this song i could do it but some peope say i play like steve clark from def leppard lol what i think about when playing...GIRLS!! makes me play better and harder. done with rant
Potentially stupid question here, but when playing over the Dmaj, for example, in that Emaj chord progression, would you play a Dmaj arpeggio combined with notes from the Emaj scale, or the D arpeggio with notes from the Dmaj scale?
1) probably, although he just plays 'random' (he knows which notes sound good over which chord changes) notes which are out of the scale to make it sound cool.
I need properly answers. 100% fact. I need to know if he stick with a key, and play arpeggio for each chords - IN THE SAME KEY - and starts with the root note for each chord..
2. when it came to a D yes you CAN play a D note to stay on the safe side but what else is in a D chord? well F# is in there you can hit that 3rd if you want but remember some notes sound good to walk over meaning don't sit on like a B over a Dmajor yes you can but that B creates tension and sounds more like you would want to run through it but its all up to the musician of what he wants to hear
@Matheus222 ill try to answer, when you switch to the D you can arppegiate it, or land on the 1,3,5 wich would be D, F# and A, these notes harmonize good, the key of this is A Maj, with a 1,4,5 progression
@Matheus222 I guess the idea of Following the chords is to use a scale related to the chord. So over A, youd use an Amajor scale, over cminor youd use EbMajor scale and so on...you can hear him doing that in most of his Megadeth solos.
@Matheus222 what he mean is, when the D come,, u have to think like,
ok D, so, what im gonna do, relative,, D scale, Arpeggio, arpeggio mix with Scale ect ect,, tha main idea is,, Follow Chord, dont stick to the Root of Progression like many players do. and if the chord is Major, that doenst mean u cant play minor over it. try stuff,,, experiment,
@Matheus222 when a chord change you have to play one of the notes of the chord: ex: Dmaj chord (D;F#;A) you have to play one of those notes when the chord change and when you stop on the note
@Matheus222 I study jazz at a berklee network school, and im 99% sure he uses the same method jazz guitarist use, which is knowing how an arppegio of every single chord type and in all 12 keys looks like in every section of the guitars, and yeah, he does go like "here comes a D" but since he can already knows the arpeggio he can quickly change, i mean he says it himself, the best tip for playing this kind of stuff is playing jazz, it involves so much more complexity, thus making this easier
@Matheus222 oh, and to answer the first question is yes and no, technically the scale he was using over that was E mixolydian, but if you just think of it as E mixolydian you arent doing the excercise. just listen to the solo without the chords being played, you can hear the chord changes without the chords being there, meanwhile, if he had just used mixolydian and generalized over the whole form, yoy wouldnt have been able to hear the changes.
@Matheus222 When you think "here comes the D" you don't HAVE to play the D note, but play something that fits well with D (the 3rd, 5th, 7th,) but D IS the obvious answer. You don't have to do an arpeggio over it, but it does sound nice, but it is kind of cliche in a way. Just do what you want, experiment, and follow them chords!
to the first question: i think his playing isn´t based on scales, he always plays an arpeggio (or notes from it) over a chord (think he said something like this in the beginning) of course this notes are all included in one scale, but i think it´s martys intention to make us think in a less static way.
to the second question: it sounded like an arpeggio over the chord d-major, so he uses all the notes, wich are included in a d-major arpeggio
@Matheus222 2) you have to follow the root note of a D, so when the D chord comes you better hit the D note somewhere on the neck and it will make it sound all held together even if before you were exploring the weirdest shit somewhere on the neck
No he's saying that you gotta aim "target notes" that you can find in a D Chord (D-F#-A or D-F#-A-C (D7) or D-F#-A-C# (DMaj7)... etc.
But I gotta say... record yourself playing 2 chords (2 bar each) and try to experiment not choices... and you'll what you prefer . As Exemple, on a minor chord I really like the major 9th, b7 and obviously the minor 3rd ! But if you wanna be safe check the notes you have in your chord (1-3-5,1b3-5, etc.). Hope that helps !
@MrLewisMovies Yes it is alot to do with practice and learn the guitar! Then to do the things he does is to learn appregios, I haven't learned them yet, but I know the theory.
Then practice and practice! It comes natural later on.
I also uses licks I have learned for things and try to fit it.. (This thing takes ages to practice... I haven't learned it 100% yet!)
he didn't, it's been done millions of times by millions of people. outlining the chords being played is really common in improvising and soloing in general. really when you break down just about any really good solo in any style of music, this is what's going on. check out the beginning of the song "Green-Tinted Sixties Mind". Paul Gilbert does this same trick.
one important part of this: you need to know the notes that are in the chords, and which notes will make a particular chord stand out
look up relative major or relative minor, if you start on a scale you can use other scales depending on what scales they are. its hard to describe, look it up
yeah but relative minor amd major are the same scale... so going to a C scale and then you go to Am which is the relative minor is just going to be the same C scale but in the sixth grade... this is hard to get like friedman needs a lot of practice...
this is the most important guitar lesson i´ve received in my whole life, it opened my mind and it had changed my way of composing. Marty you are a genius! and Jason becker too obviously!
i don't understand. when you solo over chords do you play the notes in the chord. or do you play the scale of the chord. so if behind an e chord you play a e scale??? please help me!
I love Marty Friedman's simplicity in what goes through his mind when he hears a chord preparing a lick or type of phrasing he wants to play.. he's one of the most eclectic guitarists I've ever heard.. I didn't even know he really played anything major or blues oriented until I watched this video.. so it shows how much I know him.. haha
Sounds nice. It's a southern classic rock style with all the Major chords. I'm glad someone is showing the basics of classic rock & teaching how to understand soloing over real 'full' chords (2+octave) & not just 2 note powerchords (4th & 5th). The basic concept of this is what all complex soloing & harmony is about.
The spam of interval in your "full chord" is irrelevent. The sound is the only important part and that is made of it's constituent notes, independant of their octave. Soloing over powerchords is great because the lead player can choose the flavours of each chord.
You're describing what comprises 1 type of power chord: the root/tonic & the 5th. Look at the note E (tonic) & B (5th), Now go from B as the tonic the higher E, it's now a "4th" because it's 4 notes up the scale. Same notes just placed different, 4th & 5th chords are both "powerchords".
he does, he's not a metal player, he's hard rock, he just played metal with megadeth, but cacophony was metal and neo classical so he can easily play this style just from his rock background, but at the same time marty has so much knowledge that i'm sure he could play any style he wants with ease.
how are you suppose to solo over a chord progression in one key? what are you suppose to think about as the chords are changing if you only stay in one key, and how do you know what to resolve on and target? You will just ultimately end up sounding like a mess of notes wouldn't you? i think the only way to solo is to follow the chords no matter what. If you hear a good solo I believe that you are always following the chords even if you call it " using one scale over all the chords"
xUnrealTx 1 week ago
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xUnrealTx 1 week ago
question here: during the soloing in E, D and A , does he uses the E scale all the time or he uses the respective scales of the chords that are being played?
maniakoxd 4 weeks ago
I hope sometimes when guitarists go to the wrong note it can still b a cool sound. Sometimes it isn't, but to the listener it can b interpreted as jazzy or odd in a good way. I hit wrong notes regularly even though i have been playing 11 years and practice scales for warming up and memory.
cameltooth1 4 weeks ago
Some other guitarists who play well on this style would b Mick Taylor and Mike Bloomfield. Both r blues/rock/jazz players.
cameltooth1 4 weeks ago
so .. is he soloing in the key of e through the hole thing? or is he actually switching the key he is soloing in everytime he switches a chord,,, or is he in e the hole time and just landing on those notes when theres a chord change, if anyone knows? thanks
123shiti 4 weeks ago
@123shiti Both. Some of the notes for A and D are in the E chord too. When soloing with what he is playing you could stay on E, but that would b boring to do all the time. It is noticable when a player stays in one box.
cameltooth1 4 weeks ago
he is fucking loaded!!!!
warbringer174 2 months ago
Just kidding, awesome talent dude. Thank you for helping my bro play like a true beast :')
OneCrazyMuthaFucka 2 months ago
It's your fault my brother sucks ass on guitar, you fucking queer! :/
OneCrazyMuthaFucka 2 months ago
Thank you :)
OneCrazyMuthaFucka 2 months ago
I'm not a raving homo but I fucking love this guy! Awesome talent.
IntrepidMoocher 2 months ago
Very awesome lesson. He says what I thought and didn't say for a long time because I didn't want to sound like I DIDN'T know how to play the guitar or look crazy Lol!.. but Thank you Marty! You're one bad mutha. Peace.
peterpanskull 3 months ago
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Guitarists often mute these strings in the studio with a cloth or something wedged between strings and fretboard (or a sweatband etc if not playing open strings). The other technique of course is to use the palm of your picking hand to do the muting. My point is that because of his technique, Marty is not able to use his palm in this way and the "drone" is therefore audible in the background.
maxdread666 3 months ago in playlist 1111Felix111's favourites
he sounds high.
PisssssedOn 3 months ago
@PisssssedOn Was thinking the exact same thing hahahaha!
Look at 6:15!! lololololol
karwash2011 3 months ago
"Now you have to wonder what's going on in my mind other than food or something like that."
This guy thinks like me when I play guitar....
Kizales 3 months ago
that's the problem!!! i can't solo anything but harmonic stuff
nick61729 4 months ago
:D...so awesome
psalvacion 4 months ago
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....is NOT using different notes when th chords change. He's always playing the same seven notes regardless of what chord is behind.
Another thing.... I love the look of his awkward twisted picking hand. It's so Marty. But listen to the amount of background sh!t you can hear when he's soloing due to his right hand not allowing for string muting. Messy!!!
maxdread666 4 months ago in playlist 1111Felix111's Favourited Videos
@maxdread666 i don't hear him being messy anywhere
DaveMustaineOwns 3 months ago
@maxdread666 I count at least 8+ times where he deviates from the standard 7 note tonal scales so I disagree on that point. Marty always hits plenty of notes that are considered atonal. Sure, he could have done a better job explaining when and why he does that, but he DOES do it.
And I really take issue with that last point. He sound VERY clear through the whole video and his town sounds great! I myself prefer the conventional position, but I think he pulls his own way off just fine.
karwash2011 3 months ago
@karwash2011 Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Can you tell me the 8+ times where he deviates? I'm hoping to learn through these exchanges so if you could tell me that would be great.
As for my messy comment .... Maybe Messy was not the right term. But listen to the first solo he plays, the one without backing. Listen to what happens when he goes to the high notes. The thicker strings can be heard ringing in the background in sympathy to the vibration of the instrument.
maxdread666 3 months ago in playlist 1111Felix111's favourites
@maxdread666 1:51 is one example of where he deviates from the regular scale, and it's the most pronounced. Most of the time he chooses to hammer-on from a dissonant note into something that resolves it, which gives it much more of an exotic tone. I'm not very good at throwing that into my own solos yet :/
karwash2011 3 months ago
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So the idea of playing the notes from the chords I don't think is hugely demonstrated. To me he's doing more or less the same as you do when blues jamming.... IE - bringing out the changes in the rhythm change from root to IV and V. And this is mainly achieved by hitting the right note when the change happens. Of course, Marty emphasises this by often sticking to the arpeggio of the relevant chard. But he does play notes beyond the arpeggio. And it's worth remembering he....
maxdread666 4 months ago in playlist 1111Felix111's Favourited Videos
I love Marty - always have. And on first impressions I thought this would be a really helpful tutorial.
But after analsying it a little further I realised that:
- it does not use the E maj but rather the E Mixolydian scale (D instead of D#).
- D maj has the same notes as E Mixolydian aside from a G instead of G#. But the G note is never played throughout the pieces.
- A maj has exactly the same notes as E Mixolydian....
maxdread666 4 months ago in playlist 1111Felix111's Favourited Videos
thank you marty
we're not worthy
Bon0 4 months ago
I love your username.
shravanrulez 4 months ago
Stop it Marty >_> don't make it look so easy :(
Platinumham 5 months ago
@Matheus222 Not always you arpeggiated the chords beneath it...what marty trying to say was,by arpeggiating the chords which is (1,3,5) will open the doors to you on thinking the creative way to make a solo...and as what he said,you cant go wrong with arpeggio...not to say to play sweep all the time,but its the safest and melodic way to follow the chords.hope it hepls
dengdeng80 5 months ago
anyone else find it freaky how he mostly blinks only with his left eye
rampage222555 5 months ago 2
4:47 press it alot to see marty dance !
yamcoverZ 5 months ago
He's a little unintentionally funny, but that just adds to the pleasure of watching the video, and he's an incredible guitarist!
enix165 5 months ago
I love you Marty yes homo
slipknnnot 5 months ago
"That should be a quote somewhere..." you just made it a quote jackass... lol i dont think hes a jackass i love marty (no homo)
facialwhiplash 5 months ago
Slooooow Doooowwn....
MrThrashKing 6 months ago
damn this video takes me back...
88res 6 months ago
marty and jason give the best lessons, bc they give u crazy good ideas u normally wouldnt think about....check out the full jason becker aim lesson
westjt17 6 months ago
2:10
LOLPombaer 7 months ago
wow this is fucking amazing
scroggdogg28 7 months ago
7:41 Marty: "...people are gonna think you're a genious". Yeah, that's right, you're obviously a genious Marty.
minddistortionTM 8 months ago
I wonder why he is thinking about food.....Munchies perhaps? xD
evilpancakeman 8 months ago
Gracias Maestro!
RamsesCairoC 8 months ago
Marty just can't be human
eNnI088 10 months ago
He looks like hes reading everything he says. LOL
tallicafan250169 10 months ago
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Like I might want to hold a note or something, so I can think about some food... then I'd be like, 'oh E chord' and then slide back into that...
dalmes 10 months ago
Fuck Jason Becker, he was just a Yngwie wanna be. Marty however, is a true guitar genius. It is very sad about Jason's disease though, god bless him...... Even though god doesn't exist.
LTDGuitars420 11 months ago
@LTDGuitars420 have you ever listened to jason becker lol
TerrorizerGrindspeed 11 months ago
Lol, yea I fuckin have. He dressed with undone button downs, played fender strats and used the same arpeggios and alternate picked progressions as Malmsteen, there styles vary gradually. Jason is just a fucking copy cat, a neo-classical wannabe, thats why he has only sold like ten thousand albums. It is however, a shame that any guitarist as skilled as Jason would no longer be able to play .Malmsteen is an amazing guitarist, but Friedman, is a whole step up from them both, and many others.
LTDGuitars420 11 months ago
He's sooo fuckin high
pimpsk8rmetal 11 months ago
that lick at 6:41 gave me a boner, when I heard that 'pop' to the A note.
leoseanster 11 months ago
I got mind fucked :( I get what he's saying but it's just those improvisation skills that I can't achieve ://
MrSoggypancakez 1 year ago
@MrSoggypancakez Listen to different music. that's the best way to achieve improvisation skills
Adrian92Smith 11 months ago
Sounds like Heaven Is A Truck by Pavement :D
AirHendrix91 1 year ago
1 dislike??? dude,... is he deaf or somethin?
dozdesign 1 year ago
hear chords even if they are not there??sounds like a soviet russian thing
Manaslash 1 year ago
He play in A scale ?
MordoTheGrejt 1 year ago
the one guy who dislike must be justin bieber
FamGuitarist 1 year ago
Such improvisation skills can't be learned. It's Marty's natural talent.
Glutonid 1 year ago
i just keep on playing this and im still learning something new!
pepas346 1 year ago
I bet the one dude mean Dis i Like
rhcp4565 1 year ago
he always seems really tired
liltonky 1 year ago
@liltonky Prob.did this when he was touring with Megadave.
paraglidermx 1 year ago
3:17
"You're probably wondering . . . what's going on through my mind besides . . . probably food or something like that . . . while I'm soloing like that . . . and you have to consciously think of . . . the chords . . . really hard."
Hahahahaha! I fucking love Marty Friedman!
Hellsiiing 1 year ago
that stare creeps me out :(
ironbrea 1 year ago
this video just made want to quit guitar
bigbear159 1 year ago
Best lesson eva!!
PRCpower 1 year ago
holy crap!! hes not using a pick!!
decktech23pwn 1 year ago
his playing is really relaxing :j
nevermindll 1 year ago
great player
Barefoot67 1 year ago
my friend looks just like marty lol, except hes a drummer not a god
123jerkin 1 year ago
ROFL at 7:00
akhimakhi93 1 year ago
master!!!!
viplycan 1 year ago
Lol at 3:18 to 3:25
abid8 1 year ago
Kirk hammet can suck it!!!!!
JacksonJS50Dinky 1 year ago 4
@JacksonJS50Dinky lol wah-wah doesn't compare to this awsome shit
akhimakhi93 1 year ago
i wish i could solo like this guy. I need to learn Scales! Im a rythem player i wunna bump my talents
Metalica364 1 year ago
Bestial Friedman!
Alguien tiene este dvd con subtitulos en español?
(Anybody has this dvd with spanish subtitles?)
nicomotorhead 1 year ago
marty = god
randomhero1994 1 year ago
if u guyz notice it ... he uses sweep picking ... but not those normal ones .... what kind of shape is that ??? issit those ..u know "self-created" shape
???
ChromeTombz 1 year ago
i dont read music or any of that crap i do it all by ear never had lessons if someone said play this song i could do it but some peope say i play like steve clark from def leppard lol what i think about when playing...GIRLS!! makes me play better and harder. done with rant
122cadet 1 year ago
your probably wondering what is going through my mind when im soloing, besides probably food or something like that.
rofl
your awesome Marty.
Hordesuckbb 1 year ago
Yeah at the beginning of the video, not this one but when its actually beginning it looks like hes tripping.
mikem376 1 year ago
Melodic Phrasing is what I'm having problems on, and Marty helped me out how I organise myself throughout a song. Thanks :)
KillerAnt360 1 year ago
Potentially stupid question here, but when playing over the Dmaj, for example, in that Emaj chord progression, would you play a Dmaj arpeggio combined with notes from the Emaj scale, or the D arpeggio with notes from the Dmaj scale?
Creanboy 1 year ago
VERY GOOD LESSON! Seriously, finally!
2 questions:
* Was that the same key (same scale) you layed for everything?
* When the chord changed and you thinking: "Here comes the D" do you play the D note on the guitar and make an arppegio over it?
Let me know! I Really want to know this. :)
Matheus222 2 years ago
1) I am not marty friedman
answer to questions:
1) probably, although he just plays 'random' (he knows which notes sound good over which chord changes) notes which are out of the scale to make it sound cool.
2)no idea
wongsmokesbong 2 years ago 32
I need properly answers. 100% fact. I need to know if he stick with a key, and play arpeggio for each chords - IN THE SAME KEY - and starts with the root note for each chord..
Matheus222 2 years ago
HAHAHAHAAHa
mikem376 1 year ago
1st yes he pretty much kept it pretty diatonic
2. when it came to a D yes you CAN play a D note to stay on the safe side but what else is in a D chord? well F# is in there you can hit that 3rd if you want but remember some notes sound good to walk over meaning don't sit on like a B over a Dmajor yes you can but that B creates tension and sounds more like you would want to run through it but its all up to the musician of what he wants to hear
Phrygian12 1 year ago
sorry i meant C# not B lol
Phrygian12 1 year ago
@Matheus222 watch melodic control by marty friedman, this video is a part of it, and the whole thing is about 45 minutes.
That's the ONLY useful guitar lesson i have ever seen, and it's more like a music lesson, not a guitar lesson.
He explains both your questions there
aryaxt 1 year ago
@Matheus222 ill try to answer, when you switch to the D you can arppegiate it, or land on the 1,3,5 wich would be D, F# and A, these notes harmonize good, the key of this is A Maj, with a 1,4,5 progression
watt3256 1 year ago
@watt3256 5,4,1 progression
watt3256 1 year ago
@Matheus222 I guess the idea of Following the chords is to use a scale related to the chord. So over A, youd use an Amajor scale, over cminor youd use EbMajor scale and so on...you can hear him doing that in most of his Megadeth solos.
JoelGuitarMetal 1 year ago
@Matheus222 what he mean is, when the D come,, u have to think like,
ok D, so, what im gonna do, relative,, D scale, Arpeggio, arpeggio mix with Scale ect ect,, tha main idea is,, Follow Chord, dont stick to the Root of Progression like many players do. and if the chord is Major, that doenst mean u cant play minor over it. try stuff,,, experiment,
jacksonke1t 1 year ago
@Matheus222 when a chord change you have to play one of the notes of the chord: ex: Dmaj chord (D;F#;A) you have to play one of those notes when the chord change and when you stop on the note
benjironboar 1 year ago
@Matheus222 I study jazz at a berklee network school, and im 99% sure he uses the same method jazz guitarist use, which is knowing how an arppegio of every single chord type and in all 12 keys looks like in every section of the guitars, and yeah, he does go like "here comes a D" but since he can already knows the arpeggio he can quickly change, i mean he says it himself, the best tip for playing this kind of stuff is playing jazz, it involves so much more complexity, thus making this easier
HyrulianWarlord 1 year ago
@Matheus222 oh, and to answer the first question is yes and no, technically the scale he was using over that was E mixolydian, but if you just think of it as E mixolydian you arent doing the excercise. just listen to the solo without the chords being played, you can hear the chord changes without the chords being there, meanwhile, if he had just used mixolydian and generalized over the whole form, yoy wouldnt have been able to hear the changes.
HyrulianWarlord 1 year ago
@Matheus222 When you think "here comes the D" you don't HAVE to play the D note, but play something that fits well with D (the 3rd, 5th, 7th,) but D IS the obvious answer. You don't have to do an arpeggio over it, but it does sound nice, but it is kind of cliche in a way. Just do what you want, experiment, and follow them chords!
fadetoblack1290 1 year ago
@Matheus222
to the first question: i think his playing isn´t based on scales, he always plays an arpeggio (or notes from it) over a chord (think he said something like this in the beginning) of course this notes are all included in one scale, but i think it´s martys intention to make us think in a less static way.
to the second question: it sounded like an arpeggio over the chord d-major, so he uses all the notes, wich are included in a d-major arpeggio
maxkaschhimself 11 months ago
@Matheus222 2) you have to follow the root note of a D, so when the D chord comes you better hit the D note somewhere on the neck and it will make it sound all held together even if before you were exploring the weirdest shit somewhere on the neck
blankplanet 11 months ago
@Matheus222
No he's saying that you gotta aim "target notes" that you can find in a D Chord (D-F#-A or D-F#-A-C (D7) or D-F#-A-C# (DMaj7)... etc.
But I gotta say... record yourself playing 2 chords (2 bar each) and try to experiment not choices... and you'll what you prefer . As Exemple, on a minor chord I really like the major 9th, b7 and obviously the minor 3rd ! But if you wanna be safe check the notes you have in your chord (1-3-5,1b3-5, etc.). Hope that helps !
Jazzymood1980 8 months ago
@Matheus222 have you found an answer yet?
MrLewisMovies 6 months ago
@MrLewisMovies Yes it is alot to do with practice and learn the guitar! Then to do the things he does is to learn appregios, I haven't learned them yet, but I know the theory.
Then practice and practice! It comes natural later on.
I also uses licks I have learned for things and try to fit it.. (This thing takes ages to practice... I haven't learned it 100% yet!)
Matheus222 6 months ago
@Matheus222 each chord has a linked triad with a root, 3rd, and 5th. For example, on an A chord, you would try to land on A, C, or E.
cryan5280 3 months ago
So if I play an A Major chord, should I riff around in A Pentatonic?
AirHendrix91 2 years ago
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intrsoul 2 years ago
very very good lesson
great thx to you
chenhen72 2 years ago
That's Cool! I wonder how he came up with this idea?
EclipseMetal08 2 years ago
this is how music is made lol he just gave a good lesson on it. hes an amazing guitarist
fnm1991 2 years ago 6
he didn't, it's been done millions of times by millions of people. outlining the chords being played is really common in improvising and soloing in general. really when you break down just about any really good solo in any style of music, this is what's going on. check out the beginning of the song "Green-Tinted Sixties Mind". Paul Gilbert does this same trick.
one important part of this: you need to know the notes that are in the chords, and which notes will make a particular chord stand out
RondoGuitarDude 2 years ago 2
Its the normal thing how e.g. Jazz and country players work.....
JoelGuitarMetal 2 years ago
nice shagy
zantoine 2 years ago
lol its always nice to look like you know what your doing lol
jfgirard14 2 years ago
i dont how how the hell can you be so creative like him..my playing sounds the same all the time ..shit..
mikejung75 2 years ago 8
haha, same here bro, I just play the pentatonic scales over and over again on that same fret !
Geez, how to do it right?
123Conky4 2 years ago
look up relative major or relative minor, if you start on a scale you can use other scales depending on what scales they are. its hard to describe, look it up
JP10022 2 years ago
yeah but relative minor amd major are the same scale... so going to a C scale and then you go to Am which is the relative minor is just going to be the same C scale but in the sixth grade... this is hard to get like friedman needs a lot of practice...
alahad 2 years ago
haha irony, i just learned that today, but yeah its very difcult
JP10022 2 years ago
exactly the same
alahad 2 years ago
Same here bro...same here.
naaf89 2 years ago
this is the most important guitar lesson i´ve received in my whole life, it opened my mind and it had changed my way of composing. Marty you are a genius! and Jason becker too obviously!
slashguitarrr 2 years ago 7
follow the link in the comments to see the whole thing! (if you want)
wongsmokesbong 2 years ago
this is actually the only useful lesson i have ever seen, i have watched this over 100 times, the more i watch it the more i learn from it.
Marty is a genius
aryaxt 2 years ago 3
yer me too :0)
1madaboutguitar 2 years ago
i don't understand. when you solo over chords do you play the notes in the chord. or do you play the scale of the chord. so if behind an e chord you play a e scale??? please help me!
prims777 2 years ago
you solo over the notes in that key/scale
mophead02 2 years ago
Halp!
Deddinsyde 2 years ago
6:59 wtf
jrnmetal 2 years ago 2
LOL didn't notice that before...
wongsmokesbong 2 years ago
Dude I swear the beginning sounds like a White Stripes song. Same Boy You've Always Known.
Fuckin cool.
Man Marty's the man!
AirHendrix91 2 years ago
I love Marty Friedman's simplicity in what goes through his mind when he hears a chord preparing a lick or type of phrasing he wants to play.. he's one of the most eclectic guitarists I've ever heard.. I didn't even know he really played anything major or blues oriented until I watched this video.. so it shows how much I know him.. haha
jimberg17 2 years ago
Marty is amazing... but god does he look stoned
geicowithdagheko1 2 years ago 30
Not in the least, dude... if you wanna see Marty stoned, watch his Exotic Metal Guitar videos. That's stoned.
Bobbajoowop 2 years ago
@geicowithdagheko1 ya, lol, he always does. you realize he's not when he starts playing
Sarchiopode 1 year ago
@geicowithdagheko1 sounds stoned too
dvpkid 9 months ago
Your a genius! I love your sound!
seniorplayalot777 2 years ago
Marty is amazing! Very helpful videos... thanks!!
TapYouOut81 2 years ago
What a great little tip.
musiciohann 2 years ago
sound like lynerd skynerd lol with appregios
FrAnKShErDs 2 years ago
jeez, Its still friedman, just without the distortion...
simply beautiful
S1MN05 2 years ago 3
BRAVO!
hail Friedman!
gero8909 2 years ago
thanks for the tip about the full video being on google. i downloaded it :)
chinkilla666 2 years ago
Marty is like a father to me, in music I mean.
Jagguar20 2 years ago 3
This has been flagged as spam show
so your his semen?
buncharebels 2 years ago
I said in terms of music.
Jagguar20 2 years ago
the most influencial player ever...what a great player and teacher...
deviltriggerinc 2 years ago 2
"The more you think, the better you'll play"
JamesIsMyNamo 2 years ago 4
Beautiful improvising, he deserves more cred.
Guitarscreech06 2 years ago 7
now this is MUSIC!
BannerOfBlasfemy 2 years ago 6
Best improviser ever.
Gcwarrior123 2 years ago 3
marty looks like the head of the navigator from monkey island 1
PeteLewis1917 3 years ago 2
hahah "you're probably wondering what's going through my mind besides probably food or something like that.." marty's a legend
5amuu 3 years ago 24
@5amuu HAHAHHAHAH.... dude.. i'm watching this going "man, he looks baked.. "
"..besides food or something, "
HAHAHAH,
shit made me laugh so hard
slayer666metallica 1 year ago
Sounds nice. It's a southern classic rock style with all the Major chords. I'm glad someone is showing the basics of classic rock & teaching how to understand soloing over real 'full' chords (2+octave) & not just 2 note powerchords (4th & 5th). The basic concept of this is what all complex soloing & harmony is about.
asherasator 3 years ago 6
The spam of interval in your "full chord" is irrelevent. The sound is the only important part and that is made of it's constituent notes, independant of their octave. Soloing over powerchords is great because the lead player can choose the flavours of each chord.
captainweaksauce 3 years ago
& it's also great for beginners
asherasator 3 years ago
your both right in your own respects
roguenoobkiller 2 years ago
4th and 5th?
Don't you mean root and 5th?
billface 3 years ago
You're describing what comprises 1 type of power chord: the root/tonic & the 5th. Look at the note E (tonic) & B (5th), Now go from B as the tonic the higher E, it's now a "4th" because it's 4 notes up the scale. Same notes just placed different, 4th & 5th chords are both "powerchords".
asherasator 3 years ago
Oh right.
Thanks for the info :)
billface 3 years ago
is he playing all in Emajor or he change the scale tone for each chord
pliskinn0089 3 years ago
yeah he's playing e major but he's using alot of embellishments added onto his playing
mullen2105 3 years ago
he seems stoned or something...
PandaMyCo 3 years ago 2
Wow, I never thought a metal player like him could play such as here, why doesn't he stick with that?
FranzZdyb 3 years ago
he does, he's not a metal player, he's hard rock, he just played metal with megadeth, but cacophony was metal and neo classical so he can easily play this style just from his rock background, but at the same time marty has so much knowledge that i'm sure he could play any style he wants with ease.
Death8498 3 years ago 8
Marty ....amazing as always
hanymetal 3 years ago 5
1. I dicovered how to play without thinking.
2. It's called modal note substitution.
3. Any of the seven notes of the key can be used to substitute for the chord coming up next.
4. If stop and rest on that substituted note, you end up with a mode inside a mode.
5. This idea gives us new emotions, and clear minds.
justplayman 3 years ago
When he's not playing that is one cold stare!
Dgilmour06 3 years ago 5
awesome guitarist nice vids Ive learnt loads from them, come back marty!!!
gtaace1 3 years ago 2
my favourite metal guitarist along with loomis!!!
ultimateRupture 3 years ago 2
...food...
darkeagle551 3 years ago 2
man martys vibrato rocks
5t3Maiden 3 years ago 3
good excersing~
chenhen72 3 years ago
marty is better then when he was in megadeath
tiago479 3 years ago
no, no he's not, he's very much alive.
cjnorpac 3 years ago
yeah i know lol
idk what the hell these people think friedman aint dead
cacophonybecker 3 years ago
man his picking hand looks weird- any one else think so?
SecludedSacrifice 3 years ago 2