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    What advantages are there to this awkward picking style?

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    Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

    Originally posted by taphappy View Post
    What advantages are there to this awkward picking style?
    Nothing.He is the only one who does it!And therefor ,he is an awfull rythm player.Mushy ,undefined ,sloppy....
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      Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

      it is odd, isn't it? it looks like it hurts. I would think he'd get muscle fatigue faster by bending his wrist so much.

      I guess the advantage is, he has a pretty distinct lead sound. I don't think I could get very close if I tried. I don't think it gives him more speed, but who knows.

      I think his magic might be more in his interpretation of scale theory, but he's got some crazy technique too.

      But yeah, I'm not too impressed with his rhythms usually. I bet him and Mustaine went round and round when Marty was learning the riffs. Probably didn't play them as tight as Dave would have liked. But I never read that - anyone have any knowledge of that type of thing?

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        Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

        What's wrong with his picking style? He holds the pick with his thumb and forefinger and bends his wrist to pick a lot . . . which is what I thought lots of people do. Sometimes he's got a weird angle that his wrist is at . . . is that what you're talking about?
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          Thats what I mean. I cant even get my wrist to bend like that.

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            i could never fathom how he can pick like that. i know i'd break my wrist if i tried

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            • #7
              Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

              Originally posted by taphappy View Post
              http://youtube.com/watch?v=uAQwDzuhEqU
              Thats what I mean. I cant even get my wrist to bend like that.
              he played a little run just picking upwards, i gotta try that.

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              • #8
                Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                If that's how he started playing, that's probably why he does it, because it's what's comfortable to him. He probably can't fathom how all of us can play the way we do.

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                  Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                  that's from melodic control i think.. the whole video is up at video.google or what's it

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                    Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                    Originally posted by Davey View Post
                    that's from melodic control i think.. the whole video is up at video.google or what's it
                    Indeed. I own that video, and when I saw it on Google Video, that annoyed me. At least I got the tabs, though

                    I don't find it hard to pick like Marty, in terms of bending my wrist, although it would take a little practice to get it right up to snuff. What I don't get is how in the world you're supposed to keep the lower strings from ringing out by doing that. I hit the high e, and if I don't have my palm slightly touching the lower strings, they start making an awful mess of noise under high gain.

                    Listen to some of Marty's stuff outside the studio and you can actually hear the noise in places.

                    Marty says he picks that way because he likes the sound of completely unobstructed, unmuted strings ringing out. Also, the position can be beneficial for a lot of upstrokes, which he tends to do.
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                    • #11
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                      Originally posted by SpiderVenom View Post
                      Indeed. I own that video, and when I saw it on Google Video, that annoyed me. At least I got the tabs, though
                      tell me about it ... it's good to see what he's talking about and apply that to your playing, but the no tabs part pisses me off lol.... it's the same with every instructional video.. save for gilberts intense rock I, where the tabs get flashed in

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                        Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                        He has the strangest looking picking style I've ever seen.

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                          Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                          Originally posted by JOLLY View Post
                          He has the strangest looking picking style I've ever seen.
                          When I first got Melodic Control, and put it on to play, my mother walked through the room, glanced the TV, and said "look at his hand - he picks really strangely".

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                          • #14
                            Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                            He gets his signature pick attack sound that way. Sometimes I find myself using that same wrist position when playing Hangar 18 or other Deth songs, and it does sound closer to him, though it's a pain to control ringing strings!

                            And yeah, daemon BBQ mentioned something very true: Marty, flat out, sucks as a rhythm player because of his picking technique. I guess Mustaine tolerated it only because Marty's leads are so good!
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                            • #15
                              Re: Marty Friedman's picking style

                              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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