Added by on 2013-07-17

Marty explaining about some scale he “made up” and how to practice them, part by part. This clip was taken from Marty Friedman’s “Melodic Control” video. Video Rating: 4 / 5

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  • Edward Soto 11 years ago

    can u show mi :) my fb /edward.soto.94009

  • mcfurly 11 years ago

    lots of free guitar lessons on techniquesforguitar (dot) com also

  • justaS33ker 11 years ago

    There are literally dozens of scales that cover every possible combination and permutation of the 12-tone-chromatic scale. For every beginning guitarist that shouts “Eurika! A New Scale!” there’s literally a hundred other guitarists that shouted the same thing while hundreds of years of musical literature collect dust.

    Knowing the scales that already exist will not limit you unless you LET them. It’s like a cookbook — the recipes are there for STARTING POINTS.

  • blondbeard10 11 years ago

    you have to develop your ear if you want good improvisonal skills. “like marty” you will never develop your ear< learning from a book or another player. You have to do it yourself on your own and thats the truth :)

  • mikoregula 11 years ago

    Well considering everyone is so overly concerned about “staying in key”, I personally think going out of key isn’t such a bad thing. It adds uniqueness, and the people that say you have to stay in key always are music theoriest. It seems to me the only people that really care about the theory behind music is people that devoted their lives to learning the theory of it. But here is my theory, a theory is just a theory. It is not a fact. When they come out with music fact, then I might care.

  • TruXter Jones 11 years ago

    whole step whole step half step whole step.

  • TruXter Jones 11 years ago

    Damn straight. Music theory is where it all is.

  • MusicalMystery5 11 years ago

    really insightful guitar advice, blondbeard10, thanks for replying -
    and the name calling, very classy ;P

    It’s not “obvious” – you can be a great guitar player and still give very bad advice.

    If you learn the language of music, you can say anything you want with the guitar – you can sing your emotions through it; tell a story.

    If instead you randomly bumble around during a solo you WILL go out of KEY a LOT.

    The truth speaks for itself (no matter who says it)

    Cheers! :)

  • blondbeard10 11 years ago

    because you play an instrument right? and you know everything about music right? shutup, this guy is a great player so obviously, he knows what he is talking about. Go ahead, learn from the book and sound like everyone else, idiot.

  • ChipmunkAsylum 11 years ago

    Amen.

  • MegaWumba 11 years ago

    yes!

  • HaohmaruOfTheWind 11 years ago

    Marty should be on Metal Method.

  • Edward Soto 11 years ago

    Jess i luv learin theory yor rite

  • Edward Soto 11 years ago

    Jess!!qq

  • MusicalMystery5 11 years ago

    +1 WOW…I can’t believe my ears.
    “Don’t learn scales. Just blindly waste hours staggering around and randomly trying notes until you end up playing ‘your own scale’ that you could have learned in 5 minutes and that already has a name that you have NO idea what it is.”
    Not only that, if you take the LITERATE approach to education you can understand WHY and WHEN it works AND be able to discuss it with other musicians.
    WOW, just WOW! Goes to show you, Don’t believe everything you hear!!!

  • derrick307j 11 years ago

    Dave Mustaine is also a lead guitarist (i.e. Metallica) He plays many of the leads. This is also why his riffs use so many single note transitions and are insanely difficult to play.

  • 3reachrr1 11 years ago

    Marty is soulless, boring player

    Kirk Hammett > Marty in technique and playing with feeling

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  • Dick Johnson 11 years ago

    I do the same thing

  • sumkidd 11 years ago

    once you get comfortable with ur scales and theory your fret board looks like a tetris pattern and you can see all the scales jsut by looking at ur fret board

  • benbmusic88 11 years ago

    jazz theory, not classical theory, will open many doors

  • Sleyt707 11 years ago

    It’s awesome when you realize you been doing this naturally since you started playing. I could never use all these scales and shit, I would maybe just base it off a sound, find the notes, then just build a lick off of it. Makes more sense, also makes it where you can get exactly what you want just by going off of your ear.

  • GanjaPharmzor 11 years ago

    Theory is not made for that purpose. It’s to understand music better. Knowing what’s going on. Also, it helps ALOT for songwriting and especially improvisation. The more scales you know, the more ‘sounds’ you recognize, the easier is it to play everything you hear in your head. Marty obviously had theory stuff as well, does it looks like he’s limited ? The only limit is you.

  • ragnaroksama 11 years ago

    thank you for saying that, i’ve recently got the idea to become a bass teacher because i know soooo many bassists around my area with the same small minded logic, and they want to sound good and they think they’re there already, and they like ignoring how make things simple (with theory). If not, too bad for them and yay me hahaha

  • sprycrab 11 years ago

    ugliest right hand ive seen

  • Erick Thor 11 years ago

    3:19, Love how his mood changes so fast.