Marty Friedman - Arpeggio lessons

[shredmaster100]

i think he picked a lot up from playing with jason becker shame hes still only 50% the player jason was

[jevolent]

@shredmaster100 have you ever compared martys and jasons work? .. Martys brilliant.. i can honestly say that "altitudes" and "serrana" are the only songs i like from jason (hes good though.. was good.. no doubt about it). peace!

[mepopo]

@shredmaster100 Jason definitely learned a lot more from Marty than Marty did from Jason

[Dionese17]

The guitar is tuning in ???

[1071700000]

@Dionese17 Eb

[JacksonGuitarsKe1]

marty is god!!

[MajesticMist]

Marty is really a player out side the box

[Bruno1P]

streching like a boss!

[xTheWorldNeedsAHerox]

I love how he does those wide-stretch sweeps. Like Jason Becker. GAY7X's guitarist still hasn't gotten out of only being able to play in the chromatic scale. XD

[kostuil]

broken fingers

[KinetiK138]

if Marty learned to pick like a normal guitarist then he could have something honest to say, until then ..... lol at his right hand.

[auroraman56]

@KinetiK138 I'd like to see you play half as good as Marty can. His weird technique influences his playing style a lot man.  Don't be hatin' just because he picks weird. He owns other guys who have "correct" technique any day.

[KinetiK138]

@auroraman56 Don't attack me, attack my argument. Marty, however good he is, can't play certain things that a normally picking guitarist can. Read about Mustaine's reaction when Marty couldn't muffle downpicking...

[KenSushi]

@KinetiK138 lol, he can play circles around pretty much anyone if not everyone. And you know why he picks like that, right?(obviously not) It's because it defines his tone to what it is when he plays because the way most people play guitar, the picking hand tends to muffle or palm mute while playing.

[KHeartall]

@Alecmiester2 hey now.. thats how i pick! lol

[1000Yep]

@guillotinedeath Ok cool, Thanks

[corpralkirsch]

howie simon does a pretty good lesson

[Alecmiester]

HIS PICKING HAND IS SO WEIRD

[1000Yep]

Anyone know any other good Arpeggio lessons on youtube?

[guillotinedeath]

@1000Yep

go check out paul gilberts its easy to understand

[1000Yep]

Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice, Practice... Sigh... this will take a month or two but I'll get it eventually.

[WhatLarson]

1:13 thats what she said

[westchelsea]

is there a dropped note in his tuning?

[Shadowofcreation]

Marty Friedman : "Don't fucking change it.. if you change it, I'm finding you where you live and killing your dog"

[eSOhBe]

whoa, anyone listen to btbam and thought the arpeggio sounds similar to selkies?

[rushgilbert2112]

People are so hostel on their comments

[Mrfatparakeet1]

I can't do appreggios to save my life.. Any tips? I think I'm bad at sweeping

[skolnick14]

@Mrfatparakeet1 try to sweep an arpeggio really clean at a really slow speed so it is perfect. whatever speed you are comfortable with. then build up speed slowly. also dont tense up, keep your wrist and arm loose and relaxed and hold your pick with a loose soft grip. also hold the pick so that there is not a lot of material that can be seen. hold it not at the top but sorta below the middle so there's just a bit of pick used to sweep. less material=less resistance. watch some lessons on Youtube

[Mrfatparakeet1]

@skolnick14 thanks ill try that out

[dusted04]

@Mrfatparakeet1 im with you i just cant get it

[Mrfatparakeet1]

@dusted04 ik it was the same for alternate picking it sounded sloppy then i finally got it. but sweep picking is so much harder

[secanesam]

@dusted04 just practice to a mentronome really really slow and then build up speed slowly each day. no need to rush anything

[dusted04]

@secanesam no i want to shred like that now lol

i know it takes time i should really make the effort to learn it , but i just cant be bothered

[secanesam]

@dusted04 lol, you should just practice it while your watching tv to save you from the boardom of playing really slow.

[wntersun666]

THIS GUY IS GOD!!!! WHO WANTS TO SACRIFICE THEMSELVS WITH ME!!!!

[gunsofhell1]

sounds similar to the first distortion solo in holy wars

[nicknchrist]

Awesome stuff but it really sucks when you have a 2 way tremolo and can't tune down.

[MichaelLozano12]

@nicknchrist What do you mean? Like you have a floyd and wanna tune to drop D? messege me about it

[foxybrown2]

i just figured out how he holds his pick and his picking pattern. I thought it looked weird but I see now the he hold his pick gypsy style and also picks down strokes gypsy style even while he is picking up toward the lower string like gypsy picking

[oshe311]

can anyone help me with this by tab?

[fendi85fendi]

his right hand is aaaaaahhhh...

[DNMRECORDINGS]

is it just me or is satan mimicing him

[anotherguitarist22]

@DNMRECORDINGS i hear it its creeeepy!!

[visualkeirockstar]

I learned how to make my sweeps more interesting after watching this thanks

[slightlycorrupt92]

CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG??!!!... children.. sheesh

[mauricetomas]

Marty = Winning!

[codebabe]

That a minor arpeggio run is one of the most amazing sounding things ever. you can do so much with it but coming up with variations.

[near98]

34 people couldnt do this

[rampage222555]

@near98 lol more like 634,000 people cant do this.

*i understood the joke

[PersianLord1995]

I wanna hear the second example with full on distortion... that would sound so beautiful

[Blackdragon52k]

MARTY IS GOD. THE END.

[HaohmaruOfTheWind]

34 ppl to dieeeeeee!

[EricoIM93]

@Canyonlovesrocknroll No need for such things, I mean, he plays it slow and it's actually simpler than it looks, you just gotta know the major and minor triads

[Electrice]

Yeah , well Hanger 18 I know too much ... Could even get flack from gov for it ... Marty's a God of fret instruments

[VillainsvsVillains]

I love how demonstrates it slowly and thoroughly. Not like Zakk Wylde. When he does a demonstration I get this douchy "I can play it and you can't I want to keep it that way" vibe. But with Marty it's like "I've got tens of thousands of licks and phrases I'll let you learn this just because I want to share my love for music with you" vibe. I love it.

[codebabe]

@VillainsvsVillains I was always surprised that Zakk was such good friends with Dime because Dime wasnt that way at all. He was so respectful and nice to people. Zakk has some cool licks(tho he overdoes his vibrato and squeels way too much) but he just has this doucher front that i dont care for.

[JohnPennello]

You play excellent Marty! Thanks for sharing this with us.You were great in young Frankenstein too!

[mannerohardy]

what name video for this whole lesson?

[almete]

It is amazing that he picks downwards with individual attacks when descending the arpegio, instead of sweep picking upwards. It is very clear in this video.

[rampage222555]

avoid stretches? lol, marty stretched hell on his guitar in the tornado of souls solo, I actually like the sound of slides in solos like lucretia rather monotonous stretches in other guitarists solos.

[Zaspor]

@rampage222555 no matter what, there is no wrong way to play guitar- just make it sound good.

[askwho69]

@rampage222555

in tornado? there's no stretches on that solo!

[rampage222555]

@askwho69 in the very fast part in the solo, marty(according to tabs and live performances) pulls off from the 14th fret to the 10th fret on the e string consecutively and gradually stretches up the frets to the 17th fret pulling off to the 10th fret, also arpegiating to the 12th fret B string all the time. Thats a megastretch and its harder since hes arpeggiating to that b note.

[askwho69]

@rampage222555 ohh ok thanks man my bad :D

[mustardmanhank]

@rampage222555 hmm the only stretch in the tornado of souls solo is the one handed tapping thing... the rest is pretty easy to nail with short fingers... lucretia is more based on these crazy stretch slides

[9CRonaldo8Kaka]

@mustardmanhank theres no tapping in tornado of souls mate;)

[SevenisNine]

@imaglock He tapped on Seven

[1madaboutguitar]

@rampage222555 Its interesting you say that because live, he doesn't do the killer stretches in Tornado of souls 

[maximsguitarworkshop]

im a huge fan of marty. this is one of my solos

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[MikePostDrums]

This guy has some of the strangest picking I have ever seen, haha.

[DeffingLeppard]

Soo.. He's obviously better than most guitar "legends".. why isnt he the top ranked?

[celcius119]

@DeffingLeppard

Sadly, he's a little less renowned

[jimmyriesling]

@DeffingLeppard because dumb people like you make up the rankings...so easy...

[DeffingLeppard]

@jimmyriesling By saying he is under-rated? Read between the lines douchebag.

[FrankSalazarJr]

I love stretching :)

[jordanmacintosh702]

I like him.

[codebabe]

i like his ideas on stretching(and doing it less).

[MrMusik111]

WHY DID HE LEFT MEGADETH!!!!!!!!!!!

[toomanynames4321]

@MrMusik111 he left because he wanted to do something else for example.

he said metal was black and grey, he wanted to explore every thing yellow, blue, brown, purple pink and all of that.

[MagnumBullets47]

@MrMusik111 Because of Dave Mustaine.You know, Marty is a great musician and he´s the composer of hanger 18 and tornado of souls´s solo.He´s my idol. \,,/ >_< \,,/

[MrMusik111]

@MagnumBullets47 of course marty is a great musician and a great composer too. He´s my idol too, and is a pity that he left megadeth, because the best megadeth albums are with marty on the guitars. I think he should form a band an stop of appearing on that stupid japanese shows......

[auntjemima52]

@MagnumBullets47 All of Rust In Peace was already written when Marty joined Megadeth, he just had to add his own solos.

[Anotherguythatrants]

So... what was the point of flashing 'replay'? This video is just packed full of distractions and confusing lessons.

[lilmetalman3]

he reminds me of napoleon dynamite when he talks lol

[hyperbilly13]

his style and improvising is mind blowing and a big inspiration on me when it comes to improvising

[bajaracer40x]

slow its cowboy chords!!!

[JakeJamm1]

first time anyone sees this guy they are like: wow i betcha this guy thinks he is a hot shot, oh here he goes.................woa.....h­oly shit...........um pssshhh i can do that with guitar hero...yeah... okay quick question can you teach me???????!!!!!!

[Fektthis]

I love Marty Friedmans playing and enjoyed this clip. I did however click dislike just to make the post from the guy before me pointless.

[MegadethAcdclover]

@Fektthis

im a chick dude!19yrs old!!marty friedman lover and guitar player, not only guys know good shit!!!he is one of my idols.

were u able to do it??!!

[MegadethAcdclover]

such an awesome guitar player, oh waow 31 ppl didnt understand it was probably too hard for them to play or even understand...haters!

[MGoudatalks]

Dracula is teaching us how to play arpeggios in a guitar

[T0ADS]

he has the strangest picking style but he makes it his bitch hahah

[IDEALOCCISO18]

maestrooooooooooooooo

[nextbest47]

ok people help me out, i've been playing for six years and i have no idea what i need to learn. this doesn't seem helpful at all

[smashingpoop]

@nextbest47 begin with basic scales, learn songs by ear, improvise, learn chords all over the neck etc

[XFunkWizardX]

Marty is just too good to learn from.

[rhoniimeade]

Why not learn form each other!

[ThrashTillYouCrash]

Lol at the end: "That's a very typical thing, type of thing I would do..." Like he just broke a vase at a party or something.

Oh yeah, and he's a fucking excellent guitarist.

[pyroklasmicstryker]

any tabs?

[HaohmaruOfTheWind]

Marty Friedman and Jeff Young own Mustaine and Hammet

[eroticblack]

@HaohmaruOfTheWind there's no fuckin jeff young. cant compare em to marty or chris or even dave!!! and kirk, he's a bit different, but i'd still prefer kirk over jeff! no offense!

[JP10022]

@HaohmaruOfTheWind and on that note Chris Poland owns Jeff young

[TCCcholo]

lets see, do i want to watch a Kirk hammet arpeggio lesson or a Marty Friedman arpeggio lesson...

[misterred0]

lol cyborg voice....

haha he said "go in and out however you want to .... " Did you hear that Bevis?

[Shining4Dawn]

He took way too long to say "if you don't want to stretch, just move your entire hand"

[turnbacktime]

@Shining4Dawn LOL

[cezar40]

I really love megadeth's new guitarist's skills, especially his tapping and shredding skills, but marty's solo's have something special. And they have like their own message or something... like angry again and so on. Fast is not enough, and that's why i like marty's as megadeth lead guitarist, more than the rest of them.

[synlynzero]

This is bullshit in a way haha

he says he tries to get out of those positions and then he goes ahead and

creates the beautiful solo of Tornado of Soul which requires a stretch like these kind of! haha

[eroticblack]

@synlynzero yeah dude, the beastly part of the solo requires a lot of stretching!!!

[9erMatthew]

@synlynzero yeah but when he plays the solo live, he doesn't do that massive stretch, he plays the pattern a little bit different.

[DuVetKem]

31 people jizzed so hard that they missed the like button

[loopyrider]

@DuVetKem lol

[srhmusic13]

the thing that makes marty better than kirk hammet is you never hear marty covering up his solos with a crybaby. kirk always plays a wah on his solos. martys are so much better sounding,

[gatler05]

Jason Becker teached him that trick (:

[Rhoadsfan0123]

is it just me or does marty sound like a demon lol

[imDiddykong45]

I imagine that if it had like metal setting on, it'd sound like part of Villains by Port Amoral?

[aunlecram]

ook this too: (Marcel Jaramillo)

[rednut2000]

Does anyone know what tape this is from?

[kharlos84]

sick

[rockermetalhead1200]

Wow, really, Marty has small hands. I didn't know that. I thought these famous guitar shredders in the world had big hands. Hmm, well I guess Marty and I have something in common, because I have "small hands" too. Oh,and by the way, what guitar is he using. Is it a Jackson Kelly or the Warrior? Cool lesson Marty.

[Nonchiie]

@rockermetalhead1200 Probably the Kelly, always have been, apart from some les paul

[guitarplayerk11]

@rockermetalhead1200 i think its a kelly, but take my word, get a warrior, you fucking fly on them

[rockermetalhead1200]

@guitarplayerk11 I already have a Jackson Warrior,man. And its FUCKING AWSOME!

[DarkWarrior450]

@guitarplayerk11 just about any jackson is a shred machine. Personally i like the soloists but the warrior is a true metal machine.

[guitarplayerk11]

@DarkWarrior450 true, ive played a dinky before, it plays a little different than the warrior but still just a fucking awesome guitar for thrash metal

[maidenforever999]

@DarkWarrior450 i personally hate jackson iv played many of them some for about 300$ to 1200% and they all sound the same and have super high treble sounding pickups that just sound like garbage for solos or shred what ever you want to call it. im more of a ibanez guy. but then again every one has there brand.

[DarkWarrior450]

@maidenforever999 dude, the super high treble is something you want for 80s shred solos. I personally boost my midrange when playing metal, which a lot of players don't and the Jacksons just have the "balls n chunk" for that kind of thing. The stock pickups in any guitar, whatever the brand, are usually bad so i change em out for better ones like DiMarzio's :)

[maidenforever999]

@DarkWarrior450 well actually i find that stock pick ups on a good ibanez are great seeing as their dimarzios (which kick fucking ass might i add, one thing we have in common) and i also put my midrange up high i find it makes your sound more clear as appose to the buzzing sound of high treble. i like a smooth sound when i shred sorta like michael angelo batio but for 80s shred like helloween i add lots of treble for it to idk exactly i rougher tine some what...

[DarkWarrior450]

@maidenforever999 Eh to each there own.  Keep on defending the faith regardless :)

[maidenforever999]

@DarkWarrior450 for sure bro who cares what we use as long as we keep the metal alive...

[freemetalguitar]

@maidenforever999 I know what you mean about crappy treble pickups. But, like DW450 I have switched out the cheap pickups (in my cheap guitars) for better. I have a Jackson V and an Ibanez Radius each with EMG 81s. All great companies. Dimarzio rocks too, had a ToneZone and a Fred and loved them.

The body wood changes tone too, like the V is thinner-sounding than the basswood Radius with the same pickup.

Metal On Gentlemen!

[DarkLordNagash]

@guitarplayerk11 Probably his KE1 signature

[vikingshred]

Marty is so good at speaking Japanese! OMG! Haha.

[DreamEclipse]

Marty looks and sounds pissed in this video.

[WellConditionedChimp]

@DreamEclipse He always seems somber

[arrestedshrimp]

"i am marty friedma, i am a robot "(monotone voice)

[FruitOfHavoc]

Marty changed my life, his concepts on guitar playing are groundbreaking.

Make your own scales, explore the neck, stretch less and slide more, be creative...

a true legend.

[AIC2374]

@FruitOfHavoc the dude plays guitar and inspires me to write on PIANO 9mainly im a drummer).

i make my own scales all the time

imo making own scales is what makes bands unique and gives them their particular sound (besides the vocalists)

[fattybergeson]

marty friedman hai!

[nontas300]

To proto thymizei ligo xioti!!!!

[RtasVadumeeKostas]

@nontas300 oti nanai? xaxa Marty xiotman

[nontas300]

Nai re thymizei ligo eisagogi apo bouzouki xaxaxaxax!!!

[instereovideos]

Marty Friedman don't suck.

[88fanforlife]

@instereovideos no he dosent but your grammar skills do

[instereovideos]

@88fanforlife OH, hahahahahahaha... you're lame.

[Plague413]

@88fanforlife as you spell "doesnt" wrong? lol

[Lokar92]

@Plague413 You WIN!!

[Plague413]

@Lokar92 oh thanks

[gschex1112]

This is great for learning Japanese and Chinese! Oh yeah, and arpeggios!

[RONNIENOVAS]

thats a half step down and i learned the first solo by ear its actually pretty easy

[RyanofLoxleyAC130]

@RONNIENOVAS He didn't say he betcha couldn't. He said he hoped you could.

[StanAlekseev]

is it me or this arpeggios sound better slowly ?

[UTubergskye]

OMG! This guy rules.

[eugymalmsteen]

Ridicolo e seccante.

[giutar24]

@seaman1737- I so agree with you, very ironic.

[Superunknown190]

I cant see what he's doing when he does it slowly, fucking camera and no tab

[NeoClassShredGod]

cacophony days lol

[127crispy]

does anybody know the name of the dvd this came from?

[mikem376]

Yes the reason he doesnt like to stretch his hand out to do the thing at 2:05 is because is prolly like that exotic kind of slide at 2:09

[mikem376]

YEAH!!

[GravenBG]

his picking hand has a very weird technique..... awesome guitarist

[totallyrockinnn]

That's why most of us are stuck on level 3 and the greats are up past level10 lol!

[JANNOSPR]

He has such odd right hand technique!

[ToaJoe]

Marty Friedman FTW!

[INTENSESHAWN]

i dont like how theres no close ups

[ryconster]

yep hes deifinatley sweeping up and hes sweepn down too u can see it!!

[bloodthirst72]

In his first lead break in Hangar 18 he uses some straight up sweeping so he definitely can do it. I find it interesting the way he is able to also use pulls and slides as well. Very original.

[TheTurning]

I always get impressed by the way he holds his pick...

[ctawesome]

@TheTurning That's the same way i hold mine. Not sure why, it's just feels right for me.