Betcha Can't Play This with Marty Friedman #1

[@peterspanyiel1227]

"I hope you can tho" -so wholesome

[@Nicmccu]

Hey, this is Marty Friedman and I bet you can't learn my picking style.

[@danieldelahanty6723]

xD

[@SixStringFiasco]

Nicholas McCullough He's a testament that it's not about how you pick, it's how the sound is produced. I mean, I've seen the strictest of pinky-anchorers attempt to replicate his sounds to no avail. Friedman, if you're reading this, you rock!

[@bolch88bb8]

lolol truth

[@jasv49]

"Betcha can't play this! Hope you can though." He's such a nice guy, not wanting to discourage people from playing the guitar after seeing this.

[@CallMeNeutraL]

Hey, this is Marty Friedman and I bet Kirk Hammett can't play this.

[@Ojoe2010]

that´s an easy bet :D

[@nikosmj1]

wah the fuck?

[@Flyboy711672005]

+NeutralAtJSP but you really are Marty Friedman.....

[@dackjaniels4205]

Lol

[@omarmoriel1134]

He can tho

[@wyldeone22]

no one can sound like this guy. He is completely original.

[@mknomad5]

Pretty tame riff for Marty.

[@Metaltuerke]

mknomad5 He didn't want to make the other Betcha Can't play this competitors cry

[@martinisbutik]

"Its really easy to be technical; I mean, its a lot of hard work but its easy to do because all it is is just meticulous practice. But I think its a lot more rare to have someone whos really got their own sound because thats something you cant practice. You cant practice your own sound, you just wind up doing it. " - Marty Friedman

[@bloodydawn91]

its like hes canadien. "I betcha cant play this but I hope you can" so nice and cool.

[@DaveDexterMusic]

That's the whole point of BCPT, about teaching and encouragement rather than outright trying to be dicks to developing players.

[@bes5164]

Marty "A nice little pattern" Friedman

[@채창범-u2g]

Real musician

[@fede1736]

he´s different...

[@c4bb4g3]

Someone needs to listen to his work in Cacophony...

[@rampage222555]

The reason that hes so awesome is because he doesnt care about scale this and theory that. He makes a tune thats sounds nice to his ears. He changes scales and invents his own for nearly all his solos and thats why hes one of the more talented guys in the business. Who cares if Chris Broderick knows all the fancy theory, this guy is awesome all on his own.

[@TheMoonPhoenix21]

I love it how he takes his time to explain and play slowly.. He is not there to show off.. hes here to learn.. That is what makes him an awesome guitar player... ah and there is the awesome guitar playing skills..

[@TjTj74]

That bend at the end!!ooh yeah!classic Marty🤘

[@bveracka]

You're the best on the whole series in my opinon. I've watched about 20 in a row now and this has been the best.

[@Whyrendog]

I love Marty, his style, attitude, that sad look he always has. It breaks my heart he is always so sad.

[@anunaysharma1528]

what a great guy .firstly he says betcha cant play this and then explains it pattern by pattern.

[@thepoweroftheweed2215]

All "betcha can't play this" explain the pattern

[@johnnybgood774]

He has the sickest style out here

[@macadoolahicky]

"I bet you can't play this. I hope you can though." Love it

[@AlImagination]

He is badass!! THat picking technique is so unique..

[@weissgyz]

I hold my pick like Paul Gilbert does now. I saw a video of the way he does it now. He said he used to do the traditional "thumb on top, two fingers on bottom" but after like 15 years of playing, he switched to something else that helps you control the pick a lot more and you can pinch a bit easier. Marty is focused on upstrokes more when he picks.

[@buchana127]

Betcha Can't Play This with his right hand style picking.. awesoome thiss guy is awesome

[@LA-by6tl]

with marty it always sounds like hes about to start a minor blues lick and then some weird oriental Egyptian sounding notes get thrown in and it sounds amazing, he does like a trill on some odd notes in some of his Japanese jukebox songs

[@Parosa55]

@mdzk81 he uses the thumb of his fretting hand, works well when playing an A-Major chord to get used to doing it.

[@carlitosASJ]

holy crap that guy is amazing i love him...thanks dude that made my day...im gonna go listen to more of his stuff

[@litlemadguitarist]

Possibly one of my fav guitarists! along with Matt Bellamy

[@tomekp95]

"hope you can though"... ha ha ha, very funny, mr Friedman :D

[@nicopillay4059]

Marty has some of the tastiest bends you'll ever hear. Especially his pull off slides.

[@TheDjma1]

love that song more underated musicians!!

[@huntergraciano44]

What a sweet dude “hope you can thought” 💙

I think that the most dificult song that Marty play is Speed Metal Symphony with Jason Becker, i think that it is almost imposible to play that song, the best song of the speed metal lml

[@guitarzarfun]

burn the ground is a hard one too

[@McMinnManiac]

that's wild!! a grouping of 4 then 5 twice.Then that little chromatic thing he says,"youcan do as many times as you want" that is two groupings of 5. He stated in Exotic Guitar groupings of 5 were what he feels is the key. Ace and uli expounded on 5 groupings . You can think of groupings and keep adding notes or do different positions an come up with your own riffs .Most classic rock Jimmy page riffs are groupings of 5 ,any thoughts on this ?

[@jakeboynz]

I agree, havn't seen any other guitarist positioning his/her right hand like that... Pretty coool

[@KoRnescence93]

at 1:17 when he said "see that little thing in there?" I couldn't help it... Thats What She Said. =D

[@rodrigoguitarlover]

Its is a PRS Singlecut... Looks and plays great..

[@slaytalldeth18]

Dude Jason is just on a other level when it comes to the world of guitar lol. Thanks for showing me that video!

[@p3la0]

nice cant wait to have time for practicing this

[@DriveAndDesire]

Some real smoooooooooth licks in this!

[@jas123ke2]

No probs, his other tracks on that album are amazing too, my favourite being Astral Voyage.

[@justin4895]

I loved his stuff with megadeth the riffs and solos had wow factor where I would go back and back and relisten to it over and over

[@MChase12345]

he has such a unique picking style. great guitarist.

[@Avalanche1368]

@bendy44 There's no pick in his hand I looked at the vid very closely on a 60" HD flat screen. He starts off with his open hand on the guitar, then he pulls it away open and points his opened hand down vertically. No pick as gravity would of taken over. If you start and stop the vid while he plays and look closely, you can see he uses his grown out thumb nail and somtimes his 1st finger nail to play. As for tone, nails are very hard besides you'd see the pick when rotates his hand 90 degres

[@goodygoody23]

gotta love the humble guys like Friedman, Aldrich, Rhoads, Broderick, Romeo, Gilbert that know they're amazing but humble themselves to "decent" even though they're f-ing insane!

[@yuletide]

He seems like a super chill guy. Cheers!

[@spotsthecat7913]

watching his picking hand hurts me. Great sounding lick. He always play with taste and soul.

[@Ramsey1010]

eddie van halen contributed the falling...tapping, the use of delayed effects, reverb, flanger, he gave the unique feels of dive bombing and using a humbucker with a whammy bar. he introduced harmonics (artifical and natural) he basically introduced a new way of playing guitar and launched a thousand clones kindve invented shreddign. DIME well he was really good at metal style guitar. he wasnt quite as influental but he knew what he was doing and develped his own stlye with varying effects

[@CHARMINOO]

Playing the stuff that Marty does is not that difficult... What is HARD as hell is to come up with an idea and phrases as he does... freaking unique musician!

[@bozziovai]

Hope you can..... So humble

[@emreonderoglu5284]

11 years later he is still same. As look, as personality, even his voice. Nice.

[@Lanearndt]

i used to hate his picking technique, now I think it's pretty dope!! this sound on the B chord that he's taking about is a BSUS2, basically a power chord stacked ontop of another power chord!

[@jewhima]

Like him or not, he's done more than all of you put together.... Marty, you f...in rock!

[@frankenstrat25]

that is true and i have been playing guitar 2 1/2 years i was watching that metal show with over kill and eddie trunk (host) was talking with dave and he said that chris was the best he ever had

[@KetamineAddict]

your right Friedman is coolest, nicest dude ever

[@tehwakokiid]

That's why hes awesome, cause he's so humble about how much of a god damned genius he is.

[@bingefeller]

Doing clinics, playing sessions in Japan, playing gigs, he has quite a lot of solo stuff too. He probably does play on those TV shows also.

[@DiegoVT91]

An all-time GREAT. Amazing

[@lego398]

when i saw the thumbnail i literally said to myself "i bet i CANT play that! its fucking marty friedman....."

[@AmosThatBook]

"Hey this is Marty and I betcha can't play this. I hope you can though" I thought Marty couldn't be mean, but it turns out he can't even be not nice.

[@Ramsey1010]

and he was kinve the first to use heavy tunnings, but not THE first he is just kindve credited for it by some poeple. iommi was actually the firs tot do it but that because he needed to to make bending the stirngs easier, becasue has two fingers. well finger tips.

[@rockngpa5094]

Meandering at its best 👍

[@CWZGuitar]

Howdy! I've recently built a TV/Guitar I call the "Guitelevision" and would love some guitarist's feedback. My demo video is called "Guitelevision" (First up if you search it) I'd love to hear some thoughts. Many thanks!

[@jkn2k]

2056 .... Still a legend

[@GenZ_Guitarist]

0:14-0:15 Proof that Born of Osiris(Jason Richardson) was inspired by Marty.

[@Maxxlenoxx]

I really like his style... sometimes it's kinda odd but you always recognize the Marty's signature in a solo :o)

[@TerrorizerGrindspeed]

Anyone know exactly what that apreggio is that he plays at the very end? It sounds very awesome

[@DaltonHallett]

playing prs mark tremonti, now i want to watch tremonti, dammit, i was looking for other guitarists, but it always comes back to tremonti cause hes awesome!

[@SefniAsheforr]

No problem. Just noticed you like the same guitar players as me and I thought I'd give you another player to add to your list. I like to spread the word of Testament and Alex Skolnick. I'm a huge fan and like to see more people get into them. Alex is an underrated virtuoso. Him and Marty are my two favorite guitar players.

[@Megidus]

"Bet you cant play this...but i hope you can though" what a nice dude

[@AZIARGROUS]

@galvaoguiar yeah i was wondering what PRS he was playing, is it mark tremonti signature?

[@skatebaker321]

Dude that last part is totally a Ritchie Blackmore riff, nuts

[@sixxthunderbird]

@Avalanche1368 I can see the pick clearly on a lap top screen in 360p..

[@Whathuhwhowhere]

Man the last lick he played to finish off is so typical marty haha its awsome

[@harackmw]

a blues album would be awesome from this guy...

[@mikeXdeakin]

the master of melody

[@dreadlockbanana]

Unf**kinbelievable! Did anyone notice that he never uses his fourth finger? It's INSANE!

[@McMinnManiac]

That lick was psychedelic ,i don't think i'll ever be the same

[@TheDjma1]

Alex is my fave hands down but Marty is right there with him!!

[@MetallicaA9595]

Don't know why when people talk about great metal guitarist Marty isn't one of the first names they say. He is an amazing guitarist.

[@ultimativo012]

Chris Poland was great too. In my opinion him and Marty Friedman are, to date, Megadeth's best guitarists.

[@guitaraddct94]

the last bend owns the fucking lick.

[@Matheus-ki9zo]

I love how all the other artists always stick to the catchphrase, but sweet ol' Marty goes "I hope you can tho."

[@frankenstrat25]

the guiatr he buried with dime he also hated the most becuase it had the floyd rose with out the fine tuners so it made it 100x more complicated and difficult

[@JerkyChid]

No his deal with them ended last year or before. He explains in in a guitar world interview

[@facialwhiplash]

watching videos like this make me wish i hadnt raged on my SG... cus now im stuck with a starter washburn whose strings are like an inch of the fretboard and i dont have the right tool to lower them X(

[@Lanearndt]

i used to hate his picking technique, now I think it's pretty dope!!

[@xtwwrestling123]

@Erotomaniax for the most part, because i understand the theory

[@PapaShongo25]

Crazy how if you’re blindfolded and didn’t hear him introduce himself, it’s incredibly easy to know this is Marty playing

[@JerkyChid]

He just plays whatever he picks up now, he doesn't really have a preference. Currently that happens to be PRS. He just picks guitars with the tone woods he likes with a nice feel basically.

[@serser1996529]

Extra tension? He even talked about it. It was his idea to position his right hand like that, so the pick wouldn't make too much noise especially during fast alternate picking.

[@winter_skywalker]

Marty Friedman, you rock.

[@jamescairns515]

He is the epitome of shred guitar combined with feel and style. Listen to Forbidden City and the whole scenes album to understand. Then look up his buddy Jason Becker :)

[@alderladybius9827]

lol i cant even do his bending style

[@MetroplexBias]

That’s actually the most unique part of his play, so don’t be discouraged!

[@voodookiss1976]

"betcha can't pick this" the way Marty picks his strings!

[@redw1n517]

Marty and i have the same picking style

[@TheNickJonathan]

i looove marty

[@lancifer75]

he has the most unique way of holding the pick,like his wrist is dislocated

[@MrTheguitarweirdo]

marty-- you got me INTO METAL!!!!!! rust in peace brother.. and your amzing solo shit.. just amzing..

[@AmineNacef1100]

The beginning sounds similar with X-ray eyes solo by cacophony

[@rikh78]

no it's an SC245 with a different bridge pickup