Full Shred w/Marty Friedman: How to Play Fast Arpeggios Without Sweep Picking
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I've often been associated with players that use specific picking techniques, such as sweep picking, economy picking, hybrid picking and so on. In truth, I have no idea what any of these terms mean. Sweep picking does not appeal to me at all.
To my ears, it sounds like, "bdLOOP, bdLoop, bdLOOP, bdLoop," as notes go up and down, over and over again. It's nothing more than a fancy technique that guitar players learn so that they can play fast arpeggios up and down.
To my ears, it's very unmusical. In my music, you will hear some insane, fast arpeggio-based lines, but it's never simply straight up and down through the arpeggios, the way sweep picking usually is performed. This month, I'd like to demonstrate some cool ways you can achieve the effect of fast arpeggio-based sounds while avoiding the predictability of standard sweep-picking licks.
Wanna know how Marty mutes the strings with his picking technique? Do u see that single strand of hair? Next level shit.
+Usman Sheikh I think Nigel Tufnel did a Guitar World interview in the 90s where he talked about what shampoo to use to get the best tone from your hair touching the strings.
+severalpaperclips lol
+Usman Sheikh Volume pedal at his feet probably ;)
yeah i thought the same thing, zakk wylde too, how is he muting while doing that weird gypsy hand thing????
+Mox_au He's probably muting with his arm. :D At least that's what I see.
Hair is doing the playing guys. Don't believe a word he says.
He is the Samson of guitar playing. No hair, no force.
Stupid
HelloMeitsMeAgain YouCanSubdueButNeverTameMe!
Bro didn’t pay attention because of that 😂
Got me
Fucking love this guy.
Not only does he give the greatest advice, he is probably the only guitar player that can utilize their hair for playing intricate passages.
This guys pretty good, he should join Megadeth, he’s a perfect fit
Was until he just wanted to play pop rock risk sucked but cryptic writings was great but a repete no
@Tornado Soul chris poland can play circles around dave
I think he would at least make one legendary solo that would change music forever, that musicians will see as a benchmark of skill in decades to come
@@ultimateeditorz7754 it's awesome everyone knows what solo you mean 😂😂
@BEN YAACOBI what if he jouned Metallica?
This video should really be called: "Life tips with Marty Friedman"
I like how sarcastic he is and truthful at the same time haha
Some of the best words of wisdom on Arpeggios I've ever heard. Most kids over-play non-melodic Arpeggios and sound like robots! But Marty, man...you hold your pick different?
This is amazing. I’m happy I just discovered this legend
Learn it and then just totally fuck it. Genius.
Best quote ever
"Playing fast seems cool when you can't do it, but once you can, nobody cool is going to want you to do it"
Yup, pretty much. I used to seek speed that I didn't have, and now that I have it, I find myself trying not to use it, lol. I'll actually make effort to slow down and keep it melodic, and it's actually pretty easy to do, because the faster stuff is somehow more "boring". That's no surprise, the faster stuff is usually pre-learned and practiced licks (yawn), whereas playing more melodically is actually more challenging, more improvisational and therefore more interesting to play.
Mike Kohary How about you try more creative/melodic ''shredding''？
But once you learn to mix the 2 you're golden
@@mikekohary1075 Same here. It's more fun to be melodic these days
@@Guy-bm5wh - kind of missing the point there. :) Shredding just isn't that fun or challenging on its own, whereas playing slowly and melodically is always a challenge.
"Any monkey can learn a technique" lmfao Marty straight up roasting
straight up roasting
Lol
He's talking about Kirk Hammett.
Lol he didn't call anyone a monkey. He was illustrating that technique is nothing special without musicality
Malmsteen is liking this video a lot
"I dont know what sweep picking is" says the guy who played with Jason Becker
The thing with Jason is that he made those sweeps sound musical and precise, I bet Marty respects that.
@@LiquidOrgasm yeah i figured marty was just talking about generic sweeps in "brutal metal" or whatever tf its called
@@citrus7115 lol dont tell me the sweeps in altitudes dont sound generic :/.... Most of them are triads... I mean I love Jason. But the sweeps in altitudes soun generic now in 2020... I think we need to take context into account to value what he did. He was very very young, and it was the 80s.
@@spartanrabbit i was talking about the sweeps that would be on a band like Infant Annihilatior or something like that, didnt say anything about Becker's music.
he's commented on Jason's sweeping and techniques plenty of times but yea pretty hilarious to come from no others but himself.
People: I wanna sweep pick
Marty: Yeah to avoid that lameness...
"Learn an exercise, and then fuck it" - Marty Friedman
+Edward Swinburn send this man a damn dictionary, sheesh.
+Edward Swinburn That's quite possibly the best advice I've gotten
I get it now, learn how to fuck it, then sweep up the mess later.
And have your friend fuck it too, but fuck it in a different way.
"playing a technique is not playing music". Amen :)
+Metemi But you need technique to play music. Picking is a technique. I don't see many people playing metal or rock effectively without picking. Muting is a technique. Without proper muting, all styles sound like ass.
Yes. Of course. So... what is your point?
I often have to stop myself from just wailing away playing technical stuff when it's the musical aspect which I would rather have to come first.
+Metemi that you can't play music without technique.
*sigh... Marty's point is that technique BY ITSELF is not music. Like Michael Angelo Batio or something lol
this dudes an actual musician, not just a guitar player.
Artist
Guit-Artist. 😋
I mean, he is Marty Friedman
And yet I didn't even know him until recently nor did his music influence the masses like the guitarists he roasts. He's the Trump of guitar players. Calls himself the greatest and insults others but his music is widely unpopular compared to the guitarists he roasts. Fucking pathetic.
@@nckhed guitartist
"Learn it and fu**it" Roger that..
“Let me show you a cool way to avoid that lame-ness” 😄 Marty is a legend
4:23 "learn it and then fuck it"
"fuck that thang"
"I don't know if I can say that" lol
This has got to be the best lesson ever.
"you wait for it to grow into a plant, then you fuck that plant" - The 40 Year Old Virgin
learn it then fuck it deep.. oh yeah..!
5:30
"and then throw this note in there just for hoots."
yep. we're dealing with a badass. \m/.
Some of the greatest guitar playing I've ever seen demoed, Marty really is a mad genius... still, I didn't learn a GOD. DAMN. THING. from the video 😂😂😂 "Hey, I don't know anything about sweep picking, but check out these impossibly difficult patterns that only I can play with my wacky picking style!" Thank God for this man.
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😂😅
Video should actually be titled: Marty Friedman on “How to be cool”
On how to think you are cool.
His picking is sooooooooooooooo strange
But it's cool xD
+AngryLlamaAttack Jon Gomm uses the same sort of circular picking motion sometimes when he shreds xD
feedmeee man watch metal head to metal head george lynch and chris broderik . George clowns him for rubber banding picks to his thumb
That’s what makes him such a good player, it shows other that you don’t need to play like everyone else and encourages you to find what’s comfortable for you
Syn kirk hammett eddie van halen have weird picking. But yet theyre so good.
That one tiny strand of hair is driving me nuts!!
LOL.... So I'm not the only one??
Totally thinking the same...LOL
Sorry Marty I was trying to comprehend what you were saying but that shit lock hanging over your guitar was definitely"not happening" and if anybody told you it was happening I'll guarantee it wasn't your girlfriend LOL
Thanks a lot, now I can't un-see it.
Fuck that fuckin strand of hair, I want to blow it up.
Learn it, fuck it.
Words to live by.
"i dont use sweep picking or economy picking, heres a lick"
...
uses sweep picking and economy picking in all licks
He didn't...
@@federicoinnocente ummm, yeah he did. Literally in the FIRST lick he played he used economy picking.
I just laughed my ass of when he was saying "The way you decide to fuck that thing..."
Was that the first ever F-bom on a GW lesson?
Learn it, and then just fuck it
"learn an exercise and then just totally fuck it" A++++
Burup burup burup burup
jajaja!
oh man. here I've been practicing burup burup for like 20 years now.
Javier Bustacara Ruiz 😂😂😂😂
"Any time you learn an exercise: learn it, and then just totally _fuck_ it." I love Marty.
🤭👍
We have a beautiful name for Sweep Picking, it's called "Burooop Purooop"
Lol...bhai
Marty's wisdom at 6:49 is THE lesson. That's how it works. I have never heard that articulated more perfectly and directly.
weirdest pick hand position ive ever seen
Richard Spillers then u havnt seen adler the guitar player from lamb of god
Richard Spillers he explained once in an interview that he picks like that to mute the strings.
it depends on you. and what picking position you are comfortable with.
Zakk Wylde picking hand position is weird too.
I was literally about to say the same thing! Lol.....I dont understand how holding the pick in that position is comfortable for him. I tried it that way, and I cant do it. But, more power to him for being able to play with feel and shredability, maintaining that position on the strings
How to mute strings like a boss? Be a boss: Don't mute strings.
Gerrit R that’s not how noise gates work lmao
@@squidwardstesticles5914 Actually a noise gate helps alot if don't perfectly mute all the strings, if u play alot through a noise gate it's a little fucked up when u try a normal amp again (guilty). But it def. Sounds better cause every amp has those sounds u rly don't wanna hear.
Noise gate is just an auto mute, it doesn't help you if you play a note, but the previous (or accidentaly strummed or resonating) note still rings and they sound shit together under distortion.
@@gryzewIf that accidently slightly strummed or resonating note is louder than the db setting from your noisegate, than yes u will hear it. But anyways it's a world of difference imo.
If your 'intended' note is loud enough then it will keep the noise gate open. The unintended note will just make it sound like dissonant shit together. If noise gates filtered out only unintended notes then everybody on Earth could be a sweep picker. ;)
Marty: *shits on sweep picking*
Modern guitarists: "REEEEEEEEE"
Don't ever take this down. This is EXTREMELY important. Friedman is getting people to be individuals in music! Not just puking techniques.
And this makes him truly "one of the best." He is a legit musician.
It's hilarious when Marty pretends not to know what sweep picking is.
yeah cause Jason becker sweeped circles into his brain. he must really despise becker.
jason is his best friend.
He really doesnt use sweeping. Its just his picking technique. Its more like a rake thats not as muted and more aware of the note choice and its goes back up alot of time
He’s played for 40 years and he never heard of these techniques a million times. He knows all these terms better than virtually anyone. I don’t know why he feels the need to bullshit? You never see him on top guitarist lists, when obviously he’s one of the greatest ever. Keith Richards or Chuck Berry are better players? Ridiculous.
@@rickjason215 I mean, if you're talking about influence, yeah, Marty can't beat chuck berry.
His licks are overused af, but yeah, marty is a god in terms of everything else
it's kind of weird seeing Friedman talking so critically about sweeping when he was so close to Jason Becker.
Boris Grunwald THATS PROBABLY WHY HE HATES SWEEPING SO MUCH NOW
This Bitch just dissed Serrana.
all the shrapnel guys were sweep up and down up and down up and down.... no offense but Becker did it the most, he did it great though
Boris Grunwald well, he´s criticizing the wrong use of the technique not the player.
krelbar He's not dissing Serrana, he's dissing the straight up and down sweeping. He was being critical of just up and down scales for the sake of just doing it, he wants shit to be musical not just mechanical nonsense.
Marty is, no doubt, one of the best guitarists ever; and an awsome teacher too.
*Guthrie govan*
@@bram19502 johm petrucci
Shawn Lane
Randy Rhodes
Jeff Loomis with Nevermore!
This is the most unpretentious, fun guitar lesson ever 😂.
really???? the guy was condescending the entire time, being a judgmental asshole about sweep picking, something He uses through the entire video
MARTY FRIEDMAN IS AN ASSHOLE!!!!!
Tom Daniels he can come off that way for sure. I think he just came off as chill but yeah I can see what you Mean to a point. What I'm talking about is the fact that he's more relaxed about the theory bits. I've seen sooooo many youtube guitarists that just act like we're dealing with complex calculus when it comes to guitar (even on simplistic music) when in reality if you don't have the feel behind something you've lost the whole point of a piece of music. When I contrast Marty with a guy like Paul Davids (I think is his name) I'd rather watch and learn from Marty.
Tom Daniels that’s what made it so hilarious
"Playing fast is really attractive when you can't do it. But once you can do it, you realize...nobody cool is gonna *want* you to do it."
Oh my God I love this guy 🤣
That one strand of hair on the strings
thats his secret to his playing - the tiny bit of Suave shampoo really helps those strings resonate.
***** but seriously, how do you know that :'D
you gotta admit his hair is awesome :D
I put the video to half-speed to try to catch what he's playing. I'm now listening to a drunk marty friedman
+TheyCallMeFilep Dude, try it at out 1.5 speed, it feels like he is on cocaine
Know this is an old comment but you just gave me a flashback to my teenage days. So much or my early guitar education was spent hearing a drunk Marty explain things to me lol
Marty is so great. Love how he puts his sense of humor into the lesson.
4:25 "learn it and just totally fuck it" k lol
I literally spit out a laugh at that second.
2:08 That's an intro to a solo? I'm fucked. :'(
Don't let it discourage you. I still can't play "master of puppets". That intro to a solo is just technically impossible for me. I might be impaired lol.
+Sourav Sunny Das It's easy mate, takes years but you'll get there!
+unfriendly noob too bad it sounds like sh*t
+Invision Creations Funny you mention 'Smoke on the water". It's amazing that about 90% of guitar players, famous or not, don't really know how to play it correctly. Fact.
+Invision Creations its accurate.
"Any monkey can learn to play a technique but that's not music"
LOL hahahahahaha
Thanks for the advice Marty
"Definitely your girlfriend did not tell you that was happening" LOL!!! Genius!!
Sorry, i am guitarist, my who?
He looks EXACTLY like my friend's mom.
You sure he doesn’t look like your mom’s friend? :) huehuehue
Can she shred? Have you ever seen her and Marty in the same room at the same time?
Your friends Mom is f'in ugly
@@macman316 It's actually not at all funny. He looks exactly like her. She's a decent looking woman. Would definitely smash.
Marty's a pretty chill guy, but "shred" is definitely a trigger word for him. He'll be completely chill, and then somebody will talk about shred guitar and he'll just completely lose it and start rambling.
And it's not jealousy or insecurity, because when he played with Jason back in the 80s he did some crazy shit. I think he genuinely just hates soulless shred, and he's just not eloquent enough to really explain it. But I definitely see where he's coming from. Look behind the rambling.
+VoyagerAbove well said, but there was no need to judgemental him and analayz. dude, just try to learn what he says thats gonna be more productive trust me
+VoyagerAbove Friedman is light years ahead of just about any guitar player. Famous player's at that. He could explain it easily------to virtuoso type players. Some of his pieces are very very difficult to play, even for the most experienced player. It would be like a surgeon instructing how to do heart surgery over the phone to a regular person. There's no way to get it through, unless they already have a high high skill level. What folks don't realize is Friedman was 'too good' of a guitarist for Megadeth, and went under rated all of his career.
You can go to any dive bar or place where bands play, and you can see all kinds of covers----especially Metallica. Seems like any beginner guitar player---starts with Metallica. Seems like any player, learning to play lead, plays Metallica.
How many times do you see a beginner or a cover band, doing Marty Friedman pieces? Not many. It's because most can't. Least not correctly.
Mjyes, and metallica is what everyone hears the first and have a boner for...
+John Desolator I get impressed with the solo of Taxman of The Beatles, don'y talk sheit :v
To this day, Friedman is _still_ lumped in with the 1980s "shred" guitar craze along with the likes of his former Shrapnel label mates Malmsteen, Moore, Gilbert, and MacAlpine and he resents this.
"playing a technique is not playing a music" well said man!
"Any monkey can learn a technique and get great at it. Playing a technique is not playing music". Anyone have Zakk Wylde's email address? I need to send him this video, thanks!
Somewhere along the line the record industry realized it was easier to train dipshit guitarist in the same fashion they master Halo, he nailed it, technique over musicality is where its at that these days, and it's sad in a pathetic kinda way the playing a guitar as a video game is more common than to create unique music regardless of technical level.
*****
please with CC to Michael A Batio
It's really sad. Zakk wrote some really great music back in the day (pride&glory and sonic brew are some of the best albums ever for me). Back then his solos were fast but still really musical but nowadays (=after stronger than death I guess) it's all soulless pentatonic noodling and somehow generic heavy rock stuff (last 2 BLS records were better again though).
murilo ninj Zakk is still one of the best musicians out there. He is respected by his peers, who know a bit more than youtube jerkoffs about music. The guy can play banjo, piano, bass, harmonica, and sitar very fluently. Totally unfair statement on your part.
***** Still don't think too many have much bad to say about a guy who played with Ozzy for oogles of years--a pretty fuckin prestigious gig for a guitarist--and has had a successful career by ANY standards. If anyone doesn't like him, that's more about personal taste than inability to shred.
that's unfair, his curly hair does hair-mute for him
I get so much joy from Marty dunking on technique only shredders. It's the reason why most guitarists playing his solos note perfect still don't sound like him playing (even in his own band). Bc Marty understands knowing how to break the rules is real mastery.
He isn't a slave to technique. And also melody is important to him. I'm always amazed listening to him compared to other shredders of how much actual composition goes on in his riffs and solos. They're actually musical and not just a lot of fast notes.
But still done with blazing speed and skill.
"Playing a technique is not playing music". Very true, Marty, I wish more people paid attention to that
Marty "Learn it then fuck it, this is very important". Legend!
ivegotabfmv wait for it...
There seems to be a fair amount of misunderstanding regarding Marty's comments on sweep picking. He's not saying it doesn't have a place in music but when it's used in the context of technique at the loss of being musical, it's no longer inspiring to the ears. It might as well be a typewriter. I've lost count at the number of times I've heard guitarists sweep just to remind me of how many hours they spent in the woodshed but from the perspective of hearing something truly musical, with the notable exception of Jason, those runs are forgotten damn near as quick as they begin. Friedman's "bllllliiip, burliiiip" description is spot on. Marty played solos that people are still humming to 20 years later. Nobody gives a flying fuck about sweep runs 2,000 shredders were all doing in the 80's. If you couldn't use the technique like Becker and make it MUSICAL, what the hell was the point? Playing something cool in the era of it being cool is one thing. Playing something cool that remains cool a quarter century later is what separates the artists from the kings of practice.
Can't argue with some one who knows his Becker... But just remember, making music like he does is not something you just go out and do. You gotta allow people to practice you know. I have respect for any one who is practicing real hard to get to the point, where they feel like they can make music just the way they want to :)
But i definitely get Friedmans point about adding some more musical variations to the "bllllliip, burliiiip".
Indeed. Jason Becker's sweeping was used as one tool to make the music he wanted to play possible. And the biggest thing for me in Jason Becker's music is actually the composition, it reminds me of classical greats, like Beethoven or Liszt.
That's pretty much what I thought. I was going to post something similar, but, after seeing your post...why bother?
You already nailed it.
Yep, agree. I remember at one of the Ozzfests, they had an area where people could take turns with a guitar and amp and play for awhile. There was this one guy that just did sweeping over and over. Sure, it looks and sounds impressive but after awhile, it's like ok but can you do anything else.
If you hear sweep picking from professional guitarists, it will typically be in one spot during a solo and real quick. They're not going to just sweep over and over again, because that's not musical. Soloing is about more than just being fast and like Marty said, learning specific techniques. The top priority is to make it sound good with the backing rhythm.
The speed these guys play, it all most looks impossible.
When he says “dont do too much of it” He means dont be Yngwie...
"...than just showing this technique that you worked on in your bedroom for 5 years"
Aight, see you in 3.5 years 😂
Thank you Marty,you speak the truth. Fuck It!
"...and then I was bored and went...... and then I was bored and went......" lol Love it.
"Any time you learn an exercise, learn it, and then just totally fuck it."
-Marty Friedman 2014
Any time u learn an exercise
Learn it and then just totally
Fk it😂✌🏻
Yup, this is why I love Marty Friedman. He took Megadeth to a whole new level. Melodic solo playing! Why do people forget music is not just playing different techniques as fast as possible?
Best thing to ever happen to the great Dave Mustaine
Well, Mustaine doesnt feel that way. He still regrets it. Id agree with you though, if they hadnt we would never have had Megadeth.
bellmeisterful dystopias a return to hood music for them
Mustaine always surrounded himself with talented musicians to mask his own mediocrity, and dumped them when he got tired of them.
Aron Kovacs This is your attempt at a joke yes?
@@lawrenceinsley2258 actually, he's speaking the truth
Totally agree with everything you said but get your damn hair off the strings !!!!
Hey mate, that's the secret to his sound!
'""sweep picking? never hears of it!""
...proceeds to sweep pick...
Not SP he was individually playing the notes though, he's just that good.
@@orionp.9476 He doesn't use it extensively, but watch him play tornado of souls and say he isn't using some sweep picking...
@@_Chipster that's economi picking alternate and sweep combined
I'd love to hear Marty's thoughts on Rings of Saturn haha. All they do is sweep pick endlessly through every song.
Michael Angelo batio needs to take notes
samsquantch14 Snap
samsquantch14 Michael's technique is great but he's just a mindless shredder
Mercyful Fate
Zombie shredder
+Renzo G lol her
samsquantch14 lol batio wrote the book marty took notes from...marty just skipped the sweeping chapter... ...just saying...REALLY? Batio needs to take notes?if we are gonna talk poo about guitar gods...Batio makes friedman look like he started playing last week...Batios knowledge of music theory and composition FAR surpasses friedmans not to mention Batios playing is so perfect its almost robotic. ..STOP COMPARING LEGENDS...they are different... ... and that's a great thing
"Learn it and fuck it"
Basically, how you handle relationships.
Fun Fact:His tour guitarist(Takayoshi Ohmura) plays exactly what he said that he doesn't like.
+HideCircuit Ohmura can play Marty under the table
+Andrey Korsakov who cares
I spent 2 years on a waiting list for broderick to be my guitar teacher, I don't care for his new stuff
+Br Valio waiting to see how Chris can handle the rhythm and lead parts live...
Zakariah Lafreniere lol
*Wants to show you how to play arpeggios without using sweeping*
*Uses sweeping*
Yeah, the title seems a bit misleading, more like "How to play fast arpeggios while being interesting."
@@jensvide777 I have a lot of respect for him as a musician. But his whole attitude when it comes to technique is atrocious. Learning basic techniques and naming them correctly is a really an important part of general musicianship. He's got a point, but only up to a certain point. He's too aggressive with his "I'm too cool for shred, sweeps and theory, and you're lame if you do this and that" and all of that nonsense. There's nothing wrong with learning how to play a straight arpeggio up and down. Arpeggios are beautiful in their own right. Dramatic and powerful. Anyways, rant over 🤣
If you want a real guitar lesson on arpeggios without sweeping check out Jason Richardson arpeggios without barring. Changed the game for me.
@@David-qe9np Thanks but I'm good when it comes to sweeping 😁
@@sifka1607 lol whatever you say champ. I said 'without' sweeping. Its an alternate picking lesson. It baffles me when people are so arrogant that they deny valuable knowledge about their craft. You are never 'good' on anything. The best players know that, practice, and assimilate more and more knowledge into their abilities every day.
I've been playing guitar for 35 years, and there is absolutely no one who can make me smile, nod my head in absolute agreement, and inspire me to grow as a musician like Marty Friedman does. I could listen to him all day long, and it's just pure joy. 💙🤘🏼🙌🏼
Can someone send this video to every band playing metal from 2005-2012
Weird seeing him NOT playing a Jackson Kelly...
He got borded of fucking kelly jackson....
kim young WHOAH calm down there Kimmey....
kim young And Borded? Are you 5?
Aha yeah dude I'm used to seeing him playing with Megadeth. I think he changed guitars because he got borded of the kelly jackson. He had it for so many years after all.
I think he hasnt played a kelly in 15 years. shouldnt be wierd by now.
Sweeping is fine in small doses. When you repeat the same arpeggio over and over again, it loses its feel, and you start to sound like a showoff. When you have it as a way to transition between different tempos like in Tornado of Souls, then it complements the overall solo nicely.
"Anytime you learn an exercise, learn it and then just totally FUCK IT. You know what I'm saying? This is very important, I don't know if I can say that or not"
Greatest guitar tutorial ever.
I miss you in Megadeth dude. Best guitarist that has played for Megadeth.
huh?
He is very right: just shredding is boring like hell, you need resting points!
Jason's probably watching this like "Hey, fuck you man -_-" when he was talking about sweeping, hahaha.
I feel like his sarcasm in this video is lost on so many people.
+Samuel Emmett I like his pseudo-sympathetic qualifiers to strong comments: "that's a shitty and boring way to play... unless that's what you're going for...". If I had to answer questions from hordes of guys at clinics every year who only care about playing "Rust In Peace" solos note for note, I might start to get a little weary too...
That's GOD giving you guitar lessons right there! Marty for life!!
My girlfriend told me it wasn't happening.
He needs to explain this to the dethcore/djent kids who think they're badass by using the typical ascending and descending arpeggio licks in different keys.
Anthony Lee I thought djent was 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1
@@lonelyvariety Yep! That's djent, more or less. But then some people get weird with with it and add in diminished and augmented chords and make it a little less mundane, but yeah.
And while a lot of tech death metal is indeed mindless minor, major, and diminished arpeggios, every now and again, people do some really creative and wacky shit(not personally a fan of the genre, but it does occasionally have some very atypical and creative arpeggios)
come on Marty, your friend Jason Becker is very fond of sweep picking hahaha, this guy is amazing though, i love sweep, but this new ideas are nice to incorporate dude, nice
Yes but Jason uses swept arpeggios as a melodic tool and not just for wanking, which is what Marty
against.
Daaaaaaamn Marty. Holy shit you're old as fuck! LOL. I remember you and Dave back then man. Shit. I'm old too :(
How do you like that Peace Sells VMNT? (offtopic, I know)
TwoHeavyThrash It's good.
You know any guitars to compare it to?
TwoHeavyThrash I'm not really knowledgeable when it comes to guitars and stuff. I don't think so, but I know someone who studies guitars for a living can tell you.
When it comes down to precise details, I'm not really that knowledgeable in guitars either haha
I grew up listening to him and Jason Becker and Macalpine. I'll never get over how he picks.his right hand is insane.
I'm in my 40s and these vids are a breath of fresh air. Well done sir.
this was a sermon more than it was a lesson and i appreciate that! he spoke the truth from beginning to end.
New Marty Friedman lesson ! I'm so happy now.
Marty is just THE Shit!
It must be so great to eat, sleep, breathe and fart genius riffs all day long. I often wonder what extraterrestrial-hybrid DNA he's spliced with...
No shit.
I don't actually listen to Marty's music (not because I don't like him, he is super talented, it's just not my cup of tea) but his lessons are probably the best I've ever used to develop my musical abilities.
Sweep picking is for wankers. When Yngwie does it it's cool because he's playing in context because it works with his music perfectly.
I can't figure out if this is a joke or not, if it is, it's a pretty damn good one :P
I agree yngwie is who he is, but he's pretty much a one trick pony. marty or steve vai or Dave Mustaine, or Slash all understand melody as well as variation is what keeps music alive and exciting
"wankers"
sweep picking is too technical in my opinion. it doesnt even sound like a guitar anymore and different players sound the same doing it
something is wrong with you sweep hating cuccs
I wish 90% of youtube guitar bores would listen to the first 2 mins and OBEY!!!
As a guitarist myself what Marty said between 2:46 to 2:55 is so true !
Marty’s takeaway from that lesson, “Fuck it”
There are lots of technical players in the world today. You'll never distinguish yourself from the pack in that way. Having a great sense of melody and harmony and being creative and artistic are where it's at. Gary Moore, Adrian Vandenberg, and Uli-Jon Roth reach me in an emotional way.
2:22 - I was totally going to sweep pick, but then my girlfriend said there was noooo wayyy.
Just ends up sounding like the typically "kid's music these days sucks"...anybody can bad mouth a technique if they can't do it...using it isn't lame if you put some effort into piecing it into a song at the right parts which is part of the whole skillful song writing aspect of music he seems to be preaching. So boo your highhorse opinion I'll enjoy sweeping just as I enjoy all guitar techniques
If you listened to what he said ( I'm not marty fan so don't bitch at me) He actually said, thats great if YOU like the sound of it. so he changed it up. I can sweep, and i find it boring as fuck when it's not used properly, and if you look at this video, he does actually do sweeping in these licks but not a full up and down sweep.
Implying that Marty isn't technically advanced enough for sweep picking.
What the fuck has the world come to.
It's not a "kids these days" thing because Marty has been preaching this exact same thing forever. If you watch "Melodic Control" from more than 20 years ago, his message is basically the same. And Marty has pretty much all the techniques mastered.
Good points, but he never in fact did say how to play anything fast. It was, like, I do this arpeggios this way.
But you know, choosing arpeggios is really not hard. It's just endless.
What is hard is the way to play them.