Betcha Can't Play This with Marty Friedman #2

[@bornwithclothes]

Friedman uses the coolest most unusual scales. Its nice to hear players doing something besides running up and down the pentatonic scales.

[@Regolith]

bornwithclothes double harmonic minor always spices up music

[@jbasti227]

Look into the hirajoshi scale, apparently that’s one he uses a lot

[@THEPUREAMERICANMETAL]

Its hilarious reading the incredibly long criticising comments from people who probably cant play a fucking chord lmfao

[@dhikayudhaperdana8161]

his right hand movement, that's supposed to be "betcha can't play this"

[@yancesar3961]

Lmao

[@gunjansingh686]

Haha exactly ..

[@B1GMegadeth]

marty is by far the most insanely unique guitar player in the world, and no matter what you say about his skill or style, he uses tones in his solos that dont even cross most guitarists minds these days, and that is truly priceless

[@tollerest]

thats my warming up exercise before i stretch my fingers

[@mayanktrakru]

are u buckethead?

[@iGuitarGuru]

Marty Friedman: Best guitar player ever. He even said good luck at the end. what a nice guy

[@darthmorbous]

Marty changed my life forever; the first time i heard his solos i started to take the guitar really seriously, so seriously that now i have a collegue degree in jazz guitar, i teach in germany, i tour with my band "the outside" all over europe and have endorsements and all that shit....and Marty is still THE god in my pantheon.(the metal one).

[@evarojasbassist9271]

I am so so so glad to have seen Martly Freedman on the Rust in Peace tour back in 1991. He is so amazing.

[@H057IL3]

"If I can remember it..." So Marty just improvised a Betcha Can't Play This Lick on the spot. God dammit, I want more skills.

[@AUBCodeII]

You gotta train, nigga.

[@SlinkyT82]

It's insane that he whips these things out off the top of his head. Such a great player.

[@samuelleevallongo9752]

Wow Marty I wish I had 10 % of ur creativity ur awesome

[@MagnumBullets47]

That´s a beautiful shred!! I LOVE that man!! The best composer of solos that i´ve ever seen.

[@pedcie]

i love his chord progression,scales,styles,the picking and how he makes this betcha can't play this so long =D he's my idol

[@fattirevsbud]

@HigherDownHere thanks! The scale is extremely common in Middle Eastern music, particularly Arabic and Egyptian music or as the Hijaz-Nahawand maqam when used in Turkish or Arabic music. It is often known as a Spanish Phrygian scale, Spanish gypsy scale (see: gypsy scale) or Phrygian major scale (see: phrygian mode and major scale) as it is also commonly used in Flamenco music

[@Graiskye]

Marty is a great teacher, some guys have a gift for it, and Marty has it, as well as being a killer player as well. Look how he relates everything in terms of how it will add to your playing on a whole level. not just a neat little riff to play and memeorize. he relates how you can use this stuff in your own playing and it seems like he designed the riff to learn from, but I doubt he did, he just looks at it after and extrapolates and expands on it. Thanks Marty.

[@martinulstein9087]

Awesome licks. Nice lesson. Thanks.

[@evolutionmb]

Such a beast on guitar and so unique in style. One of the best ever!

[@RonPaulMountainBiker]

"Now.. what that is" Awesome. I believe he is improvising each of these betcha can'ts!!

[@JonahGui]

his picking hand curls INWARD..thats so AWESOME.

[@8JobForAMexican8]

I agree, if Jason never received Lou Gherigs Disease, he'd be even more talented than he was before. I wish there was a cure for anything. Jason was VERY inspirational.

[@FuzzCulture]

I’ve not even started to see the video yet but I agree with the title.

[@Florida_guy]

I love how he doesn't quite sound like anyone else ,he's so original..its like I've heard it all until I started getting into Marty now I'm hearing new riffs every time I see him on you tube it's just different weird but very good note sequences

[@MadMedic.]

Come back Marty! I love the way this guy plays.

[@Metalcorefreak]

"Betcha can't hold your pick like me" xD

[@Striated]

Just awesome. I would like to be able to play that someday.

[@dylanstritan]

What a modest guy, Great guitarist, great person.

[@chunkyfudgelover]

@XavSch I think what he meant was that because Marty picks in this way certain licks would be easier for him to play, licks that he has come up with. I also recall Marty saying that because of his picking technique he does up-strokes a lot more than we would which would make it a lot easier for him to play certain things.

[@kalma5003]

His such a great man. "Betcha can't play this, maybe you can, hopefully you can" You make me feel so much better already :)

[@EllTeeTwoThree]

Holy shit BADASS! Best one of these I've ever seen.

[@terrorking01]

this video is great. marty always tosses little ideas of cool things you should try.

[@Takunrsx]

i love how he bends the strings he makes it sound so tastefull

[@GenZ_Guitarist]

Infinity times better than a regular blues player, for sure.

[@IzzyOnGuitar]

Great Guitar Player, nice Guy, good teacher. Awesome man!

[@wisesatyr72]

This guy's playing just flows like the purest mountain spring

[@DraXgonProductions]

that was the longest "betcha cant play this" ever........awesome..... martys the man!

[@AceOfBladesJK]

He's self taught, so it's basically his own technique. As you can see he has a weird hand position that floats way above the strings, and he uses a lot of upstrokes in preference to down strokes.

[@nikovan]

@lotrringereras And the song "Wake Up Dead", which was the one used for Mary's first audition with Megadeth, just flew straight to my head, cool!

[@dodgepeters2050]

dat smoothness.hes tops in my book.

[@KenBory]

Awesome stuff!

[@Cortex606]

This is not just an exercise for guitar is an exercise for the mind!

[@sweettilmonday]

omg it's like he does not care whether he plays a wrong note... he does not even care to look at the frets. now that is legendary.

[@tizoooc]

Full sweetpicking!!....just perfect

[@stringfinity]

Classic Shred Master!

[@keithadarkwa8381]

I like how he's nice enough to break it down, note for note. ( Not that I expected to get a whole lesson) It's almost like he wants you to get it. Most of the other guys just play a lick real quick and that's it.

[@filiperam]

for some people, heavy metal isn´t only about flawless guitar playing... that´s why people love the earlier metallica and the almighty slayer... if you consider the four first tallica albums you will not deny that metallica has uncanny compositions that express really well what metal is all about.

[@harackmw]

the exotic japanese and other exotic phrasing in marty's playing still sets him apart from so many players

[@fattirevsbud]

love this guy so good

[@hybris159]

Wow I LOVE Marty Friedman 🤟

[@MartyFriedmanRulez66]

What I find magnificant is he's fighting with himself while teaching "dammit Marty stop feeling the music just play the lick, don't bob your head close your eyes DAMMIT MAN SHOW THE LICK JUST GET IT TOGETHER" :P He's my hero

[@DragonForcebest]

´´hopfully u can´´ awesome guy.

[@HolyAmitz]

"hopefully u can"... what a nice dude

[@80sguitarnut99]

It always amazed me how Marty developed such a cool sound and technique with that picking style. He has used it that way for ever. I recall seeing a vid with Marty jamming along side Jason Becker back in the Cacophony days. He ripped it up, but looks so bloody uncomfortable doing it. Each to their own and thankful for it. Marty f...ckin shreds it.

[@CodyGOfficial]

That's a guy i'd knock some ales back with.. Very few professionals are that laid back, and to pull off the vibe in an enterprise video is pretty killer man lol.

[@dangnola69]

@Greenballed That's awesome! I thought I was the only one! And his wrist seems so curved inward. But hey, obviously it works for him.

[@SantiagoRebella]

the best album of him, by far..

[@JoeyDND]

Marty has always had that picking pattern and it;s fucking immense :')

[@oblivion4lcf]

this guy is teaching...and all should listen!!! Marty--->respect man!!to you and ur other half,becker!

[@viddelt]

He is unique and has feeling

[@ryandevison]

@dagster115 last "Betcha Cant Play this" was posted last week. It was performed By Glen Drover (Who also played for Megadeth)

[@MrRhanths]

marty is agood teacher bcoz of him now i can play guitar soooo well

[@jamesrockford2626]

he is so fluid

[@fattirevsbud]

I Love his style! he's on different scale that sound arabic

[@super7o]

in a interview he said he taught himself and he did that because he played music with clean setting so he would do that and now he cant stop

[@lotrringereras]

0:22 no we cant play it u melted my hands and my brain

[@1bol1]

@ryudragon12 yeah that lick @ 1:07 was from Hirajoshi scale

[@nielda155]

best teacher ever!!!

[@RobPalmer454]

you bet! hes my favorite guitarist of all time!

[@CheeseCakeee]

Alright, thanks a lot man :) that really clears some things to me.

[@TylerVardy]

@alstartheman,i read somewhere,not sure where that its because he misunderstood a picking lesson and now he mainly relies on upstrokes,i could be wrong but i think it was in a magazine or something

[@NickKronner]

Marty is the man! Man is legend.

[@McMinnManiac]

Awesome .Page is so great .Zep Sabbath and Purple started it all .Rainbow used an indian feel,on Temple of the king what did Zep do with indian feel? Purple "Burn was probably the first of the "Yngwie structured songs" where there is a classical interlude as a bridge .Later Blackmore used outside songwriters and did that formula with JL Turner . Thrash metal had a lot to do with Sabbath,motorhead and venom.Yngwie 2ed album was metal,then he started leaning to commecial.hardrock.

[@benthompson7221]

His face when he bends that high note is like Damm that sounded great

[@led96zeppelin]

In the end he said "good luck" thanks Marty I'm actually gonna need veeery good luck

[@1madaboutguitar]

0:11 that is the trippiest run ever

[@rufuguru]

"What that is... if I can remember it..."

[@exploremagic23]

Thanks man, appreciate it.

[@MartinPrietoo]

I once heard him say that the reason why he holds the pick the way he does is to get a cleaner sound of the stuff he plays

[@SpicyDragoon]

I love Marty to bits but he did actually have a lot of influence over Risk. On the writing credits Marty is with Dave on everything, Dave at this point was in foreign territory, I don't like to blame either of them, I just see an experiment that didn't work as well as it should have. I like the album regardless of all that negativity attached to it, but I think he left at the right time. I've really dug his later solo albums as well. Loudspeaker was amazing, and he's really cool in person too.

[@nyyguitar3387]

It's a Paul Reed Smith single cutaway of some sort. Probably an SC-24 (single-cut, 24 frets) but it looks like he's modified it a bit.

[@jamescairns515]

1:09 is Marty Friedmans japanes note high bend style to a tee. I get tingles

[@bdamotta]

Because every great guitarist should be more concerned with how they look instead of how they play? It's the technique he developed for his style of playing. Marty had stated in one of his instructional videos that he holds the pick the way he does because he doesn't mute the strings and he's trying to keep the sound as clean as possible. Given his unique sound and body of work over 25+ years I would say it hasn't hindered his playing at all.

[@THRASHFKINFILLETS]

He has some country and jazz sort of phrases in that lick.

[@bdamotta]

I've never heard/read him saying anything to that degree. Chris Poland (another former Megadeth guitarist) had some sort of accident involving the index finger on his left hand. If you watch him play, that finger doesn't bend. Really looks odd, but he makes it work.

[@netorockerg]

This and michael romeo's are the best "sounding" betcha can't play this!

[@PhilosophyofGuitar]

Marty Friedman is the God of Melody and Harmony!!

[@DidooFilm]

Marty recorded Risk with Deth. When Dave said they need to "get back to their roots" (actual quote there) Marty was not into metal anymore. He was already Japanized before they even started to record Risk.

[@DanielGammelgaard]

because only partners can select "autostart" as a feature to the video on their channel, and some dont even choose to do that

[@anahowana]

@mercilessmax2009 yeah i agree, friedman used his ke1, jcm stack& a couple of ovedrive pedals, on the other hand he had a rack configuration when touring for rust in peace: triple hafler preamp+vht 2150.

[@ninjabeesh1]

@smokedaddyo I know right!cause he's so awesome

[@BlakeBagnell]

@Pendrakulya that is the first time i've SEEN him do a sweep EVER. sounded so nice i just barely noticed though

[@panayiotis131]

Oh this mid-boosted, reverb tone reminds of Marty's days with Megadeth... God did he play some mind-blowing stuff back in the day!...

[@OyvindBjorgo]

Some sort of regular PRS Single Cut, I think. Most likely with the half moon inlays.

[@rofflesmini]

Cacophony and Megadeth, those were the two most famous bands he played in. He's solo now.

[@megapimpsword]

i could listen to this shit all day

[@XavSch]

@yamaha4888 actually the picking "technique" he uses is the same as normal picking to us... so you're not forced to play it that way...

[@Markleadguitar]

0:12 sounds like the same shape he used in tornado of souls.

[@ChineseCow709]

I love how he just improvised this ahahaa

[@slayerlambert]

@daniyluppert I think that is something like "I bet you" --> "I betcha" (american pronunciation )--> "Betcha"

[@guitwizzz]

Great freakin expression!

[@aliendancer]

Pentatonic heaven, but as always mixed in with Friedman's exotic oriental sauce.

[@Phoenix_VanDerWeyden]

He has a unique picking style, he and Jason Becker were the best guitar duo.