Totally disagree with his opinion of being a hobbyist for trying to play a song EXACTLY like the original artist! I play by ear and don't read sheet music at all. Supposedly NONE OF THE BEATLES could read or write sheet music. Yet their music was beautifully crafted despite the drug influence and Indian retreat and the infighting towards the end! I am amazed at their works!! Now ifvyou know the majority of their hits you know how they sound note and chord for chord! Now imagine its 2023 and you are seeing Beatlemania or a similar tribute band. They CANNOT ad lib, modify or change the songs in any way!! They are so well established that trying to do Eddie Van Halen hammer ons as a George Harrison solo would DESTROY the illusion that you are actually listening to The Beatles!! It would have been okay if the REAL BEATLES were goofing around and changed tempo or words or both. Watch the Get Back session clips and you'll see what I mean. George Harrison was struggling to write the lyrics for his song " Something". John told him to do what he and Paul do. Just play with random words til you get the right words !' So George sang Something in the way...she moves....attracts me like.........and thats where he got stuck. John told him to add the word Cauliflower. Makes no sense; George used like a Pomegranite! It's in the session clip! Paul was no help at all. He and George were having issues!" So can you imagine a tribute band singing the song "Something" with either Cauliflower or Pomegranate as the lyric? You'd be ruined as a band!!! Trying to put your own spin on Beatles songs is like putting your own spin on the Bible!! I just heard a John John Lennon memorial tribute where major artists were singing both Beatles and solo material. Dave Matthews and Marc Antony were the two who tried to make the song there own. John Mayer also had a turn....all 3 sounded like THEY wrote the song in their style. Sorry, but I dislike their OWN music, so I don't want to hear their version / spin! Also sickening was Alanis Morissette who did her almost yodel like voice she uses for her song " You ought know" and "Ironic" . Fine for her songs but singing like that for Dear Prudence is SO WRONG!!'Next to destroy his legacy is Cindi Lauper doing Strawberry Fields with her playing a zither? Musically she was good but I was waiting for her to sing " John just wants to have fuh un!!" Her unique voice quality just overshadows the song. Her "Joisey" accent doesn't help! So I totally disagree with this musician! My theory is that if you're going to do a cover, it SHOULD sound like the band/ artist who wrote and recorded the song! Just be sure to obtain all the legal permission necessary! Roy Orbison wrote Pretty Woman, and while I liked the song, it was HIS voice I dislike! Van Halen released their revamped cover of Pretty Woman which kept the melody but DID Van Halenize the song. With Roth singing, it sounded like a new hard rock song!! Genesis did a medley of British bands at the end of their concerts for the Mama tour in 1982, and revised the medlybon the Invisible Touch tour adding in old R& B songs. You recognized " I' LL Be There, Midnight Hour, Loving Feeling, Everybody Needs Someone to Love! All great songs but the guitar sound was the unmistakable flanger effect of Daryll Steurmer! The jangly sound he is famous for. Phil Collins singing is unmistakably HIS voice and intentional goofy imitation of the original singers was absolutely amazing and fun! Why?? Because they weren't trying to be a tribute band but still preserve the melody and vocals enough so that you didn't struggle to keep the original and the Genesis versions straight while you listen! Again I will references Beatles tribute bands. They are EXPECTED to sound like the REAL BEATLES!!"YOU SIMPLY CAN'T stray or improvise!!
@@gvgv3515 iaint readin all dat but i also disagree that it’s a hobbyist thing, not that there’s anything wrong with being a hobbyist guitar player. But learning exactly how another artist plays something can also teach you new ways to add to your own personal arsenal of flair
I wouldn’t call it a hobbyist goal, unless that’s all you intend to go for. I would call it Step One. All of the greats learned from copying their heroes. But once you master a lick, you move on to another and eventually have a whole vocabulary of choices for any melodic situation.
A fantastic and simple to grasp lesson from Marty. I think thats why back in the day there were many more 'unique' guitarists with their own style and flair; because they didn't have the access to the tabs and internet lessons that many do now.
In my opinion it has nothing to do with tabs or lessons but rather the fact that people don’t want to be original, people wanna sound exactly like one thing and copy it perfectly note for note. Not to say that’s necessarily always a bad thing but we need unique artists and people don’t want to put in the effort to come up with their own sound because why do that when you can just copy what everyone else is doing 🤷♂️
I think the access to a more simple approach being so readily available, or even the DAW that provides so many tools at the click of a button allows for laziness and "artists" don't have to dig so deep for creativity. A lot of shallow thoughtless music with sampling across the airwaves
I disagree, if you go back and look at the artists a generation back, sooo many of them cited the same inspirations. Nowadays things have branched out probably too much if we're being honest, but there's so much creativity going on if you just look for it and there's more variety than ever
People fall in love with certain genres, and because the genre has existed for so long, there really isn’t much innovation you can do to be original without crossing over into another genre or playing something that you don’t really like or want to play. There were more opportunities to be innovative back then. Can you give me an example of something you would do to be original that hasn’t already been done before within the rock genre?
Sure some people just want be able to just play, as opposed to being great players. But if you are a musician, yes; having your own voice is the goal. Otherwise your art is expressing someone else’s art. Which is fine, but is that still self expression? It’s certainly a lesser form, if it is
@@mo-em1ke Is Art self expression or the expression of another persons self? I think all artists across all mediums would agree it's the 1st point and that is the true essence of art. If you're a painter, the ultimate goal is to have your own approach, style etc. If this isn't your goal, are you really an artist or are you just good at mimicking? Yes, we all steal and live on the backs of giants, that's aside from the point. If you can't create or make ideas your own, even if they are someones else's, then you are entirely missing YOUR OWN art and creating your own voice, sorry, it's just that simple. Some people play, others create, these are very different things and abilities.
Marty has such a unique approach to his playing. You can instantly know it’s him just like all the great players out there. His playing blew me away when I first heard Rust in Peace and have been listening to him ever since. I always try to look at melodies and experiment with different fingering, sliding or bending styles to make it sound original. This approach influenced me.
Seeing him play at the World Theater with Megadeth opening for Aerosmith at 7 years old made me pick up a guitar and that's how I make my money today. Thank you Marty Friedman and also thank you for putting out Cacaphony with Jason Becker. You taught me how to sweep pick and made me the man I am today. -Tim "The Fresh Prince of Darkness" Ficker
It's cool that this perfectly mirrored what John Petrucci/Tosin/Devin were talking about with Rick. How they grew up learning songs by just listening to the audio without seeing how it was played...so they created their own style in an attempt to emulate another guitarist without actually knowing exactly what he was doing. So they essentially played it wrong in a good way. They played their version of the same lick, which created their unique sound when they wrote their own stuff.
Such a Great Guitarist, such a great band member & musician, but, Such A GREAT, HONEST, & KIND DUDE. I Was Lucky Enough to meet him & Dave Mustain, Backstage at a Megadeth Concert. Marty is a great human being, & he really is a Kind, & Nice Dude.
Love it! Marty's wisdom is straight to the core! more so when he has such a mastery himself. Always loved Marty for being Marty. And always encouraging people to be themselves and unique instead of wanting to be and sound like someone else.
Yup. A great way to approach melodic playing on guitar is to decide what the targets are and then you can figure out how best to get to them, whether that'a sliding down, sliding up, bending, vibrato, bit of a pinch in there, etc. Fundamental stuff.
This advice applies to ANYTHING we do, from the most simplest task, to the most complex. Make whatever we do our own expression. As an electrician, I know when it was me who did the work just by how I arrange and staple my circuits, how I land my circuits in to a j-box, or how I detail a panel. And, I can easily tell who, on our team, did the same. It brings satisfaction from the most mundane task, rather than a boring, rote task hoping it'll be over soon.
Simple genius......but maybe initially not so simple? love this genius thinking I feel that I can now better understand how much influence we truly have over what create,..and how there are so many more details "within the details"...more than I ever imagined, or even knew were possible. Thank you Rick,.. And thank you to the other "greats" who have opened these doors for the rest of us. "Curiosity.....it didn't kill the cat... Curiosity is the Gateway to Wisdom"
There are a billion people who can shred. You can find them in any local guitar store. But originality is truly rare. I've played music with a lot of people, and the vast majority are scared to do anything original. In fact, they don't even know where to start.
Such a profound and important concept. You can learn by trying to understand other people's choices, but there comes a point where you have to make your own choices (or, if you're really good, your own options).
That is exact the way I looked at it back in the 80’s when I, after copying solos from Randy Rhoads to Eddie Van Halen to Michael Schenker, decided I should probably start playing melodies/solos in a different way. It’s great to hear Marty describe it the way I perceived it mentally. 🎸🤘🏽👍
That's all he's saying. People are getting defensive and the wrong idea. Marty talks about his own days of trying to sound like his heroes. Nothing wrong with that. It's just a step on the way to fulfilling the growth to a real artist. He's just saying that if you don't have a goal to make it past that step then you're more of a hobbiest than an artist. Which is spot on.
It feels really good to say almost the exact same thing to someone a few days ago and then randomly see Marty Friedman of all people say it. I fuckin knew it lol.
I pissed it when he said hopefully I can help people decide how to make their own sound. Cos you can't is my thinking. It just flows. There's no pushing it everyone knows that turned out to be a good, creative artist.
I completely agree with Marty. When I started, I tried to learn exactly how people did stuff. Now, that’s fine if you’re playing covers and learning. I did not really start growing as a musician until I started writing my own music and coming up with my own ways of doing things. THAT is how I progressed, THAT is what kept my interest alive.
I think a lot of what forms a players style isn't the things they CAN do, its their LIMITATIONS. Your limitations are like a fingerprint that stamps your personal style on your phrasing.
Doing this since I started playing. Can't play somebody else's music till today. Never understood people who play everything note by note. Too much work and time you could you use to play own music. Or maybe I'm just lazy.. 😂
Truer words ! We have alot of hobbyists type of musicians now even in semi popular bands because they sound exactly like the other. Ive heard so many play those 7 string djenty down tuned riffs in each song on the lower 3. That's cool and all but when you can do things that separate your playing that stands out and yes theres a millions of options on a guitar to play any note, scale, chord etc. That's why i will alway play guitar theres endless possibilities.
Met Marty and Megadeath in our Z-Rock studio during an interview. SHORT guy (I'm 6'4")....super cool, and a world class talent guitar player. Whole band was great!!
When you can make music your own only comes with knowing how to duplicate it but know "how to put your signature sound, tone, and articulation" is what will define you as an musician..🎵
I've played guitar for a long time. In the beginning, I wanted to play exactly like my favorite guitarists. Not just the music, the sound as well. It was an obsession. But as I learned and grew, I realized, it's not a signature pedal or guitar that makes them sound the way they do. It's them. And..I'm never going to match them perfectly. My tip, is to learn from your favorites so you can create something with your own style and techniques. You don't need an expensive guitar or high end pedals. Just play what comes from within and build upon it.
This dude is one awesome dude 😎 he's the epitome of humble showing the young and old how to approach to be in the end original and not a carbon Copy blessings to you Mr Friedman
That is besides his playing I really appreciate about Marty, his instrumental videos I have seen always talks about developing YOU as a player, musician.
When I started writing. I wanted my sound to be distinctive. I wrote the majority of my songs playing triads with open notes adding unusual coloring, the other musicians would play standard chords and I let the bass player fill the holes. The songs draw the listeners ear because of the undertones they weren't expecting.
I find it a letting go experience. Allowing that attraction inside to lift you and take over. If you get stuck then change your sleep pattern . As much as too disrupt your cycle. It will connect you too your subtle deeper level where it all happens ❤ Good luck
"A hobbiest's goal" is a great term for the guy who goes out and buys the most expensive gear and plays nothing but "Sweet Home Alabama" A true guitarist plays something that sounds good to their ear and is unique to their style and tones. A true guitarist can find an audience playing their own material and not someone else's. Mind you, there is nothing wrong with being a hobbiest guitar player.
I definitely prefer to play my own sound. I learn others music play it over and over, but I feel more free and relaxed when I’m just playing from my inner being
I think I feel that, when I'm learning some tune on my acoustic guitar to play and sing, almost always it comes somehow different from the original song, I play some part different, try sing along with the melody, improvise something... and its always more fun that way, its like im just recreating something that already exists and letting a little part of me with this art... man I'm just talking kinda nonsense things here but... that's my way of doing things. Anyway... just wanna say I love music and I love art so much 💕
okay that "it's an hobbiest goal" hit me like a truck
Yeah 😅
Nothing wrong with hitting something exactly the same also helps us move in other directions
Totally disagree with his opinion of being a hobbyist for trying to play a song EXACTLY like the original artist! I play by ear and don't read sheet music at all. Supposedly NONE OF THE BEATLES could read or write sheet music. Yet their music was beautifully crafted despite the drug influence and Indian retreat and the infighting towards the end! I am amazed at their works!! Now ifvyou know the majority of their hits you know how they sound note and chord for chord! Now imagine its 2023 and you are seeing Beatlemania or a similar tribute band. They CANNOT ad lib, modify or change the songs in any way!! They are so well established that trying to do Eddie Van Halen hammer ons as a George Harrison solo would DESTROY the illusion that you are actually listening to The Beatles!! It would have been okay if the REAL BEATLES were goofing around and changed tempo or words or both. Watch the Get Back session clips and you'll see what I mean. George Harrison was struggling to write the lyrics for his song " Something". John told him to do what he and Paul do. Just play with random words til you get the right words !' So George sang Something in the way...she moves....attracts me like.........and thats where he got stuck. John told him to add the word Cauliflower. Makes no sense; George used like a Pomegranite! It's in the session clip! Paul was no help at all. He and George were having issues!" So can you imagine a tribute band singing the song "Something" with either Cauliflower or Pomegranate as the lyric? You'd be ruined as a band!!! Trying to put your own spin on Beatles songs is like putting your own spin on the Bible!! I just heard a John John Lennon memorial tribute where major artists were singing both Beatles and solo material. Dave Matthews and Marc Antony were the two who tried to make the song there own. John Mayer also had a turn....all 3 sounded like THEY wrote the song in their style. Sorry, but I dislike their OWN music, so I don't want to hear their version / spin! Also sickening was Alanis Morissette who did her almost yodel like voice she uses for her song " You ought know" and "Ironic" . Fine for her songs but singing like that for Dear Prudence is SO WRONG!!'Next to destroy his legacy is Cindi Lauper doing Strawberry Fields with her playing a zither? Musically she was good but I was waiting for her to sing " John just wants to have fuh un!!" Her unique voice quality just overshadows the song. Her "Joisey" accent doesn't help!
So I totally disagree with this musician! My theory is that if you're going to do a cover, it SHOULD sound like the band/ artist who wrote and recorded the song! Just be sure to obtain all the legal permission necessary! Roy Orbison wrote Pretty Woman, and while I liked the song, it was HIS voice I dislike! Van Halen released their revamped cover of Pretty Woman which kept the melody but DID Van Halenize the song. With Roth singing, it sounded like a new hard rock song!! Genesis did a medley of British bands at the end of their concerts for the Mama tour in 1982, and revised the medlybon the Invisible Touch tour adding in old R& B songs. You recognized " I' LL Be There, Midnight Hour, Loving Feeling, Everybody Needs Someone to Love! All great songs but the guitar sound was the unmistakable flanger effect of Daryll Steurmer! The jangly sound he is famous for. Phil Collins singing is unmistakably HIS voice and intentional goofy imitation of the original singers was absolutely amazing and fun! Why?? Because they weren't trying to be a tribute band but still preserve the melody and vocals enough so that you didn't struggle to keep the original and the Genesis versions straight while you listen! Again I will references Beatles tribute bands. They are EXPECTED to sound like the REAL BEATLES!!"YOU SIMPLY CAN'T stray or improvise!!
Hahahahahaha
@@gvgv3515 iaint readin all dat but i also disagree that it’s a hobbyist thing, not that there’s anything wrong with being a hobbyist guitar player. But learning exactly how another artist plays something can also teach you new ways to add to your own personal arsenal of flair
Little known fact: Marty and Weird Al Yankovic use the same shampoo and conditioner.
I heard Kenny G was in that club as well 😂
The sad thing Marty is trying to look good, but Weird Al is just trying to get a chuckle.
He shaves his head an turns into Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater 😋
They shop at the same clothes store too
That means Marty is a hobbyist shampooer.
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.” - Matsuo Bashō
Thank you
I love that! In remarkable ways! To seek what they sought.
Beautiful .
This!
Damn.
John Mayer said something like 'learning a riff note for note is like reading yesterday's newspaper'.
Make the music your own...
Ok he just called me a hobbyist now I’m gonna go cry for an hour before I can watch this again
It’s ok we’re live and learn 😂😂
You’re better than 99% .. most people can’t get over the first week , then another 90% fail in the first month .. takes passion & commitment .
Just the crying and stopping is your birth as an artist.
Try to write some tunes dude! Or some riffs at least.
I wouldn’t call it a hobbyist goal, unless that’s all you intend to go for.
I would call it Step One. All of the greats learned from copying their heroes. But once you master a lick, you move on to another and eventually have a whole vocabulary of choices for any melodic situation.
A fantastic and simple to grasp lesson from Marty. I think thats why back in the day there were many more 'unique' guitarists with their own style and flair; because they didn't have the access to the tabs and internet lessons that many do now.
In my opinion it has nothing to do with tabs or lessons but rather the fact that people don’t want to be original, people wanna sound exactly like one thing and copy it perfectly note for note. Not to say that’s necessarily always a bad thing but we need unique artists and people don’t want to put in the effort to come up with their own sound because why do that when you can just copy what everyone else is doing 🤷♂️
I think the access to a more simple approach being so readily available, or even the DAW that provides so many tools at the click of a button allows for laziness and "artists" don't have to dig so deep for creativity. A lot of shallow thoughtless music with sampling across the airwaves
@@fishboy2011 thats a better worded way of what I was trying to explain. Thank you
I disagree, if you go back and look at the artists a generation back, sooo many of them cited the same inspirations. Nowadays things have branched out probably too much if we're being honest, but there's so much creativity going on if you just look for it and there's more variety than ever
People fall in love with certain genres, and because the genre has existed for so long, there really isn’t much innovation you can do to be original without crossing over into another genre or playing something that you don’t really like or want to play. There were more opportunities to be innovative back then. Can you give me an example of something you would do to be original that hasn’t already been done before within the rock genre?
So many need to hear this. Creating your own sound is THE goal
Couldn’t agree more! It’s easy to copy. But much harder (and more fun) to be original
Not really 100% true bro
There are many goals that people have, every player is different.
@@Moondog19that entirely depends on the individual, I find improvising easier than learning covers
Sure some people just want be able to just play, as opposed to being great players. But if you are a musician, yes; having your own voice is the goal. Otherwise your art is expressing someone else’s art. Which is fine, but is that still self expression? It’s certainly a lesser form, if it is
@@mo-em1ke Is Art self expression or the expression of another persons self? I think all artists across all mediums would agree it's the 1st point and that is the true essence of art. If you're a painter, the ultimate goal is to have your own approach, style etc. If this isn't your goal, are you really an artist or are you just good at mimicking? Yes, we all steal and live on the backs of giants, that's aside from the point. If you can't create or make ideas your own, even if they are someones else's, then you are entirely missing YOUR OWN art and creating your own voice, sorry, it's just that simple. Some people play, others create, these are very different things and abilities.
Marty is the most effortlessly melodic player I’ve ever heard
Friedman is and always will be a genius!!
I love the way he holds the pick
It looks like the correct way. Make a fist! ✊
@@GimmeJimmy23the “correct” way 😂
"The difference between a player and an artist." That is key!
I love the Joggers/shirt combo.
That’s a concept that’s close to my heart.🤘🏻
this is 666 percent FACTS
Marty has Japanese intonation in his speech, it’s super interesting 😂
Funny thing is, he'd not even notice. I'm Aussie, moved to England for 3 years. Apparently I came back with a twang, but didn't notice it.
He says he’s started thinking in Japanese now and it gets super tricky. 😂
Well he's been living in Japan for like, 20 years
nope he speaks japanese in another accent. i speak japanese too
He's turning Japanese he's turning Japanese I really think so......
He says what I told all of my students. Stylize EVERYTHING!!! Know your thing and leave YOUR mark on everything you play.
I feel you Marty. Loved Scenes!!
I love Marty sooo much
Marty has such a unique approach to his playing. You can instantly know it’s him just like all the great players out there. His playing blew me away when I first heard Rust in Peace and have been listening to him ever since. I always try to look at melodies and experiment with different fingering, sliding or bending styles to make it sound original. This approach influenced me.
Seeing him play at the World Theater with Megadeth opening for Aerosmith at 7 years old made me pick up a guitar and that's how I make my money today.
Thank you Marty Friedman and also thank you for putting out Cacaphony with Jason Becker. You taught me how to sweep pick and made me the man I am today.
-Tim "The Fresh Prince of Darkness" Ficker
That's awesome!
Scott "not my real name" Ashe
@@scottashe984 Hahaha, well played Scotty!
What a great lesson. I’m spreading this message, imitating him exactly when I do
This interview was so cool, still mind blown that Rick and Marty are good friends. This part was definitely an important highlight
This was a great interview. Marty is a pretty brilliant guy
It's cool that this perfectly mirrored what John Petrucci/Tosin/Devin were talking about with Rick. How they grew up learning songs by just listening to the audio without seeing how it was played...so they created their own style in an attempt to emulate another guitarist without actually knowing exactly what he was doing. So they essentially played it wrong in a good way. They played their version of the same lick, which created their unique sound when they wrote their own stuff.
Words of wisdom from the master.
I love his videos and how he explains everything. He tells you how to make whatever you play, you and how to make it personalized in your own style
Such a Great Guitarist, such a great band member & musician, but, Such A GREAT, HONEST, & KIND DUDE.
I Was Lucky Enough to meet him & Dave Mustain, Backstage at a Megadeth Concert.
Marty is a great human being, & he really is a Kind, & Nice Dude.
Perfect!!! That’s the difference in having a voice on your instrument and just playing it. Well said
Love it! Marty's wisdom is straight to the core! more so when he has such a mastery himself. Always loved Marty for being Marty. And always encouraging people to be themselves and unique instead of wanting to be and sound like someone else.
Yup. A great way to approach melodic playing on guitar is to decide what the targets are and then you can figure out how best to get to them, whether that'a sliding down, sliding up, bending, vibrato, bit of a pinch in there, etc. Fundamental stuff.
This advice applies to ANYTHING we do, from the most simplest task, to the most complex. Make whatever we do our own expression. As an electrician, I know when it was me who did the work just by how I arrange and staple my circuits, how I land my circuits in to a j-box, or how I detail a panel. And, I can easily tell who, on our team, did the same. It brings satisfaction from the most mundane task, rather than a boring, rote task hoping it'll be over soon.
One of the best! So grateful he is still with us sharing his wrath of insights!
Yeh. An artist gives us a part of them self. They’re not copying anyone 👍🏻🙏
Who could ever say a bad thing about this dude. Long live Marty!
Simple genius......but maybe initially not so simple? love this genius thinking
I feel that I can now better understand how much influence we truly have over what create,..and how there are so many more details "within the details"...more than I ever imagined, or even knew were possible.
Thank you Rick,.. And thank you to the other "greats" who have opened these doors for the rest of us.
"Curiosity.....it didn't kill the cat...
Curiosity is the Gateway to Wisdom"
Wise words from a wise man.
There are a billion people who can shred. You can find them in any local guitar store. But originality is truly rare. I've played music with a lot of people, and the vast majority are scared to do anything original. In fact, they don't even know where to start.
Loved this interview. Love all of Ricks interviews for that matter lol
Gracias Marty. La mejor lección para los jóvenes músicos.
I have never learned another player's solos, never will. I play for me and what my soul wants to sing.
Such a profound and important concept. You can learn by trying to understand other people's choices, but there comes a point where you have to make your own choices (or, if you're really good, your own options).
absolutely on point, EPIC and well put
Always loved Marty's gifts
That is exact the way I looked at it back in the 80’s when I, after copying solos from Randy Rhoads to Eddie Van Halen to Michael Schenker, decided I should probably start playing melodies/solos in a different way. It’s great to hear Marty describe it the way I perceived it mentally. 🎸🤘🏽👍
That's all he's saying. People are getting defensive and the wrong idea. Marty talks about his own days of trying to sound like his heroes. Nothing wrong with that. It's just a step on the way to fulfilling the growth to a real artist.
He's just saying that if you don't have a goal to make it past that step then you're more of a hobbiest than an artist. Which is spot on.
He made some of the best albums with Megadeth that they ever made got nothing but respect for this guy!!!!
These kind of dudes crack me up.
And now I’m your fans Marty
It feels really good to say almost the exact same thing to someone a few days ago and then randomly see Marty Friedman of all people say it. I fuckin knew it lol.
Well put ! Definitely right!
❤
Now that´s one of the smartest things I´ve heard for a long time.
Don´t be a copy cat, do your own thing.
EVH has said that for years, as far as I can recall.
Take influence from all, but play it like you..
And this is why he is my favorite guitar player, not only playng, but making art
This is effin ridiculous!!! Amazing work man, truly impressed 🎸🔥
This is what I needed to hear
That’s an amazing lesson .
"Devil take tomorrow" is the one of my favorite guitar instrumen
Always appreciated this dude, express yourself musically you don’t need to copy everyone else’s work just do you !
I pissed it when he said hopefully I can help people decide how to make their own sound. Cos you can't is my thinking. It just flows. There's no pushing it everyone knows that turned out to be a good, creative artist.
I completely agree with Marty. When I started, I tried to learn exactly how people did stuff. Now, that’s fine if you’re playing covers and learning. I did not really start growing as a musician until I started writing my own music and coming up with my own ways of doing things. THAT is how I progressed, THAT is what kept my interest alive.
I think a lot of what forms a players style isn't the things they CAN do, its their LIMITATIONS. Your limitations are like a fingerprint that stamps your personal style on your phrasing.
Very profound. A hobbyist goal.
Great point made here.
Ikaw na nga
Ang hinahanap ng puso 🎶
Doing this since I started playing. Can't play somebody else's music till today. Never understood people who play everything note by note. Too much work and time you could you use to play own music. Or maybe I'm just lazy.. 😂
The best 'adaption' to learn....
Friedman has always been an under-rated genius!!!
Truer words ! We have alot of hobbyists type of musicians now even in semi popular bands because they sound exactly like the other. Ive heard so many play those 7 string djenty down tuned riffs in each song on the lower 3. That's cool and all but when you can do things that separate your playing that stands out and yes theres a millions of options on a guitar to play any note, scale, chord etc. That's why i will alway play guitar theres endless possibilities.
I totally agree with Marty!
Great guy. Definitely. And you too Rick 🤟🏻
Sensei Marty♥️
That's actually very insightful
Thank you for saying that fucking truth
Brilliant insight founded in obvious humility from a Master
A hobbyist’s goal.” Well put.
The most great guitar player of the world Mr Marty Friedman!!
Couldn't be more truth...there are so many technical players on Instagram today playing it exactly the same or trying to,no one is playing their stuff
Simple and a true explaination👍🏻
Met Marty and Megadeath in our Z-Rock studio during an interview. SHORT guy (I'm 6'4")....super cool, and a world class talent guitar player. Whole band was great!!
My god.... The man himself....EPIC
When you can make music your own only comes with knowing how to duplicate it but know "how to put your signature sound, tone, and articulation" is what will define you as an musician..🎵
I've played guitar for a long time. In the beginning, I wanted to play exactly like my favorite guitarists. Not just the music, the sound as well. It was an obsession. But as I learned and grew, I realized, it's not a signature pedal or guitar that makes them sound the way they do. It's them. And..I'm never going to match them perfectly.
My tip, is to learn from your favorites so you can create something with your own style and techniques. You don't need an expensive guitar or high end pedals. Just play what comes from within and build upon it.
Wide words from a man who lived it all.
Not only as a guitarist. I'm a painter. And already have my style.
This dude is one awesome dude 😎 he's the epitome of humble showing the young and old how to approach to be in the end original and not a carbon Copy blessings to you Mr Friedman
Marty Freeman 🤘🎸🤘
Classical musicians are rolling their eyes up.
That is besides his playing I really appreciate about Marty, his instrumental videos I have seen always talks about developing YOU as a player, musician.
When I started writing. I wanted my sound to be distinctive. I wrote the majority of my songs playing triads with open notes adding unusual coloring, the other musicians would play standard chords and I let the bass player fill the holes. The songs draw the listeners ear because of the undertones they weren't expecting.
Also you can say "don't be discouraged if you don't play it exactly like the original."
I find it a letting go experience. Allowing that attraction inside to lift you and take over.
If you get stuck then change your sleep pattern . As much as too disrupt your cycle.
It will connect you too your subtle deeper level where it all happens ❤
Good luck
Honestly, one of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard in my life - and I’m 50.
man Rick does the best interviews.
Marty is, and always will be a badass
Exactly, a guy that has Mustaine on his feet can't be anything else than a badass.
Sad thing is when nobody notice because the room is full of hobbiest people… wait my entire life to hear somebody like this guy
That last line tells me I was only ever a hobbyist
"A hobbiest's goal" is a great term for the guy who goes out and buys the most expensive gear and plays nothing but "Sweet Home Alabama" A true guitarist plays something that sounds good to their ear and is unique to their style and tones. A true guitarist can find an audience playing their own material and not someone else's. Mind you, there is nothing wrong with being a hobbiest guitar player.
Back in the days where originality is a must. Now, whatever makes money
I definitely prefer to play my own sound. I learn others music play it over and over, but I feel more free and relaxed when I’m just playing from my inner being
Fred Armisen rockin that Jheri curl
Words to live by!
Most of us start as hobbyists! The other thing is as a hobbyists I will learn how to play with different styles that allow me to develop my own.
That’s a concentrate lesson delivered brilliantly.
I think I feel that, when I'm learning some tune on my acoustic guitar to play and sing, almost always it comes somehow different from the original song, I play some part different, try sing along with the melody, improvise something... and its always more fun that way, its like im just recreating something that already exists and letting a little part of me with this art... man I'm just talking kinda nonsense things here but... that's my way of doing things. Anyway... just wanna say I love music and I love art so much 💕