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  • #16
    Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

    Slightly offtopic, but it's interesting to note, looking back at a lot of his old stuff, he employed his pinky a lot more than he seems to do nowadays.
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    • #17
      Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

      Not to mention he uses much more pentatonic and much less exotic scales now... yet it still sounds like him.
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      • #18
        Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

        Originally posted by ChileanGuy View Post
        Not to mention he uses much more pentatonic and much less exotic scales now... yet it still sounds like him.
        Guess that goes hand in hand with the three-finger blues fingering approach.

        But you're right... quite different scale approach, but it really proves that it wasn't the exotic scales that defined him.
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        • #19
          Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

          Originally posted by I_M_Ken View Post
          Yeah it is a weird picking style. As SpiderVenom said, he explains it in his video why he picks like that.
          Anyway still pretty amazing that he can pull of those licks (eg. Hangar18, Tornado, etc) at that kinda speeds with that style of picking.

          Plus the way his left hand works with bends and vibratos and the scale theory, creates that very unique sound.

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          • #20
            Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

            We should create the "Marty Friedman > You" club. I saw that in another forum and I laughed my ass off...
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            • #21
              Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

              Originally posted by ChileanGuy View Post
              We should create the "Marty Friedman > You" club. I saw that in another forum and I laughed my ass off...
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              • #22
                Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

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                • #23
                  Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                  Originally posted by ChileanGuy View Post
                  We should create the "Marty Friedman > You" club. I saw that in another forum and I laughed my ass off...
                  On MSN, my personal message is usually "Marty Friedman + Paul Gilbert > You"
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                  • #24
                    Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                    Marty Friedman's hand is like that because of an injury, either while playing softball, or while playing guitar without warming up. And I think that without positioning one's wrist like that, one can get those bright harmonics and that vocal quality that make Marty's solos jump out to one's articulation by using upstrokes the way he does.

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                    • #25
                      Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                      Sorry, I see this is a dead thread.

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                      • #26
                        Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                        Thats the biggest load of **** because marty freidman is one the greatest guitarists on earth sooo...

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                        • #27
                          Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                          Originally posted by Letus View Post
                          Marty Friedman's hand is like that because of an injury, either while playing softball, or while playing guitar without warming up. And I think that without positioning one's wrist like that, one can get those bright harmonics and that vocal quality that make Marty's solos jump out to one's articulation by using upstrokes the way he does.
                          In the metalhead to head on fuse he said it was his way of not muting the strings.

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                          • #28
                            Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                            Reminds me of a bass pop/slap hand position adapted to pick. Makes sense about the no mute thing; I sometimes put my pinky down on the guitar to hold my hand away.
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                            • #29
                              Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                              Originally posted by Letus View Post
                              Marty Friedman's hand is like that because of an injury, either while playing softball, or while playing guitar without warming up. And I think that without positioning one's wrist like that, one can get those bright harmonics and that vocal quality that make Marty's solos jump out to one's articulation by using upstrokes the way he does.
                              I couldn't find references for that.
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