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Marty Friedman

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28 май 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Has Nothing Against 'Flashy' Guitar Playing: 'I Just Wanna Be Excited By What I Hear'
27 май 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN's Santiago Concert To Be Professionally Filmed For Future DVD Release
7 май 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Says 'Symphony Of Destruction' Was 'Maybe' MEGADETH's 'First Pop Song'
2 апр 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN On His Music Career: 'I've Pretty Much A Hundred Percent Only Done Exactly What I Wanna Do'
25 мар 2025 :
11 мар 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN On His Unconventional Picking Style: 'It Has Little To Nothing To Do With My Playing'
3 мар 2025 :
26 фев 2025 :	Watch: MARTY FRIEDMAN Performs At Whisky A Go Go During 'Live Drama 2025' U.S. Tour
16 фев 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN: 'When I Was A Kid, I Was A Huge ULI JON ROTH Fan'
13 фев 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN On METALLICA: 'I Continue To Respect Them, And There's Still Lots To Learn From Them'
12 фев 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN On Living In Japan: 'I Believe It's The Safest Country In The World'
8 фев 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Wouldn't Rule Out Joining Another Band: 'If I Love The Music, I'm There'
28 янв 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Opens Up About Panic Attacks He Was Experiencing At The End Of His Time With MEGADETH: 'It Was A Monster'
27 янв 2025 :	Watch: MARTY FRIEDMAN Kicks Off 'Live Drama' 2025 U.S. Tour In Las Vegas
26 янв 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Shares Official Visualizer For 'A Prayer' Single From 'Drama' Album
17 янв 2025 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN: 'Belonging Is Extremely Overrated'
14 дек 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Says He Was Initially 'Angry', Then 'Puzzled And Sad' About MEGADETH's 'Salary Offer' For 'Rust In Peace' Lineup Reunion
9 дек 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Says It Was 'Natural' For Him To Rejoin MEGADETH On Stage Last Year
28 ноя 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Explains Why Japanese People 'Of All Types' Relate To Heavy Metal And Why 'That Doesn't Happen In America'
12 ноя 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN's Advice To Young Guitarists: 'You Must Create Opportunities To Play In Front Of Other People'
6 ноя 2024 :
2 окт 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Says His Autobiography Addresses 'A Lot Of Unanswered MEGADETH Questions'
17 сен 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN On The Possibility Of Him Rejoining MEGADETH: 'I Don't Think That's Realistic'
3 сен 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Will Stay Out On The Road 'For A Long, Long Time' In Support Of His New Solo Album 'Drama'
19 июл 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN Plays His Favourite Riffs From RAMONES, THE RUNAWAYS, KISS, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT And More (Video)
14 июл 2024 :	MARTY FRIEDMAN's 'Dreaming Japanese' Autobiography Cover Unveiled

28 май 2025

MARTY FRIEDMAN Has Nothing Against 'Flashy' Guitar Playing: 'I Just Wanna Be Excited By What I Hear'

In a new interview with Bradley Hall, Marty Friedman explained why he isn't too keen on listening to guitarists who play fast just for the sake of it. The former MEGADETH guitarist said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm not at all against anything flashy in the slightest. I just wanna be excited by what I hear. If something is very cool and fast and exciting at the peak of some really important part of the song, then I get chills or something. It's the placement of these things and the originality of it. And sometimes it doesn't even have to be original. Sometimes it can be a tired old lick, but put in the right place, it's just, like, 'Whoa, bravo.' You know what I mean?

"I've never been against flashy stuff ever, and I've never really changed my outlook on playing even from back in those days to now," he continued. "But I'm all for things having a definite meaning and a purpose. And so if something is in a place where it means something, then it hits you or at least hits me when I'm doing it enough to wanna do it. But if someone's, like, 'Here's my best licks one after another,' bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, 'it means kind of less than nothing because this is a bunch of shit that I practiced. You can see the person's life, you know what I mean? When you hear music, if you get a vision of someone sitting in front of a metronome, that's not very sexy, right? But if you hear a really cool passage and then it explodes in this very interesting turn of events that you didn't expect, that's the kind of flashy stuff that I really dig, and I've always been trying to chase that. And I'm sometimes hopefully successful, sometimes not, but that's what I'm going for."

Asked if he is familiar with Tim Henson, who is the lead guitarist of the progressive band POLYPHIA and is widely considered one of the hottest guitarists in the world, Marty said: "Oh, yes. I toured with them in Asia — and super band and super guitar playing. I really like a lot of what they're doing." As for other newer guitarists he likes, Friedman said: "My friend Ichika Nito is also just a drop-dead, fantastic guitar player and composer, the stuff he writes.

"I kind of, a long time ago, got over people being good guitar players," Marty added. "They have to come up with something musically that interests me, because, let's face it, there's good guitar players everywhere, but are they gonna come up with a nice piece of music and present it in such a way that I wanna sit down and listen to it? Technique is really kind of a given. But guys like Ichika Nito is great. Who else? There's just tons of guys that I'm probably slipping up. Mateus [Asato] from Brazil is just a super, super player. There's just a long list of guys and girls out there. Really good."

Back in June 2021, Friedman discussed why he hates being called a "shredder." He told Kylie Olsson's YouTube show "Life In Six Strings" at the time: "To me, it just sounds like someone just playing mindlessly fast. When I played in the really early part of my career and even now, sometimes things sound really fast because the choice of notes is so unusual that the notes go by and they make different clicks in your head when it's registering in your ears. If you play a succession of notes that people are used to hearing, you have to really play it fast, like two hundred beats per minute, for it to sound fast. Like, if you just play a scale up and down, it's gonna sound fast. But if you do unusual groups of notes and unusual subdivisions of notes and unusual melody note choices, it can be not even that fast at all and it'll just sound fast because so many things are going by that you're not used to; you're not accustomed to hearing these sequences of notes. So people think that, 'Oh, it's so fast,' because they try to play it and it's quite difficult. But there's a difference between speed and difficulty, for sure."

He continued: "It's a term that happens with a lot of young guitarists that doesn't exist in the real world. I think a lot of young guitarists, and myself included when I was a little kid, they're fascinated with things that they're unable to do, and one thing that they're not able to do is play really fast when you're a beginner. Your fingers just don't work that way, and your mind doesn't work that way yet. So when you see a guy across the street in his basement playing really fast, you're, like, 'How come I can't do that?', and it just becomes this holy grail for one-year-, two-year, three-year guitarists. And those are the people who are active [in online] chats and things like that, and those are the people who buy guitar magazines and buy lots of gear, those are the people that are keeping the industry of guitar alive, and those are the people who are fascinated by quickness of fingers and just really fast playing. But little do they know, playing slow is a thousand times more difficult than playing fast — it really, really is. Playing slow is where you can separate the men from the boys, so to speak… When you hear somebody play something slow, you can tell if they're any good right then and there; you can tell. When you hear something fast — even eight-year-old kids can play really fast and really clean and really accurately. So it's really an illusion, but it's the thing that keeps guitars selling. You've gotta have something that is like a holy grail for beginner people to get inspired by. So a lot of 'em hear this fast stuff and they're, like, 'I wanna do that so bad.' Okay. Now you've done it. You practiced for a couple of years. You've done it. Now what? I kind of don't like being lumped into that because there's a lot of people out there who just play really, really fast all the time, and to me, it just sounds like noise.

"Playing fast was interesting when I just picked up the instrument, but it certainly lost its interest quite quickly after you were able to do it," Marty added. "Then it became interesting [to play] interesting things on the instrument, creating interesting music. Now, it has really has nothing to do with speed, whether it be slow, medium, fast or anything in between, because music is of all tempos — every tempo is in music; every single tempo. But, again, that term is just something I don't like to be lumped into. But at the same time, if you love shredding and you think I'm a shredder and you love my music, we're bros. I still love you. It's all good. It's all terminology. It doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is if you like the music or not. So you can call me anything, as long as you like the music. And even if you don't like the music, it is what it is."

Friedman's latest solo album, "Drama", came out in May 2024 via Frontiers Music Srl.

Marty's first major impact in music was in the game-changing guitar duo CACOPHONY, which he founded with equally enigmatic and now-legendary guitarist Jason Becker. He then spent 10 years as lead guitarist in the genre-defining thrash metal act MEGADETH before moving to Tokyo due to his love for Japanese music, language, and culture.

Following his move, he landed a starring role for a new TV comedy "Hebimeta-san" ("Mr. Heavy Metal") and its spinoff, "Rock Fujiyama", which ran for six seasons and propelled him into the living rooms of Japan's mainstream. He has since appeared in over 800 TV shows, movies and commercials, including a two-year campaign with Coca-Cola for Fanta, authored two best-selling novels and was the first-ever foreigner to be appointed as an ambassador of Japan heritage and perform at the opening ceremony for the Tokyo Marathon.

At the same time, Marty has continued his career in music with several solo albums in addition to writing and performing with the top artists in Japanese music, racking up countless chart hits, including a No. 1 with SMAP, two No. 2 songs with MOMOIRO CLOVER, a No. 2 with SOUND HORIZON — just to name a few.

Friedman's autobiography, "Dreaming Japanese", arrived on December 3, 2024 via Permuted Press.

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28 май 2025

decided

наконец-то хоть кто-то об этом осмелился сказать)

28 май 2025

Gustaff

А что имеется в виду, когда пишут о том, что гитарист Полифия является одним из самых востребованных в нашей галактике?

28 май 2025

Nerferoth Drake

Gustaff, То, что его звали в Метлу вместо Кирка, но он отказался.

28 май 2025

Gustaff

Nerferoth Drake, Не знаю, даже, как расценить данный отказ. Но дело его. Так а, все же, каким образом его все востребовывают, чтобы таким считаться?)

28 май 2025

ElectricRetard

Gustaff, Полифия стала очень популярной и повлияла на многие современные группы, что тут непонятного.

28 май 2025

Gustaff

ElectricRetard, А причём тут востребованность? Он в фильмах играет что-ли.. Может влиятельность все же это называется?

28 май 2025

ElectricRetard

Gustaff, Востребованным у слушателей, на концертах, например? Видеоуроки его востребованные, хуй его знает. Что не так то?

28 май 2025

Gustaff

ElectricRetard, Все не так с этой формулировкой. Но, я не просто доебался, знайте это.

29 май 2025

GlowoErzum

Gustaff, Хз кому как, но мне Полифи(ли)ю слушать неинтересно. Много нот, мало смысла. Само собой, незнакомого с прогрессивом слушателя такое может впечатлить, но слушать такое на постоянку... Ну не знаю.

29 май 2025

Орион

GlowoErzum, Поддерживаю

29 май 2025

Gustaff

GlowoErzum, Я специально послушал вчера. Нахуй его было звать в Метлу именно из-за навыков игры, лично мне не понятно. Любой хороший гитарист может играть их партии, их все знают наизусть и делают еще и лучше, чем сами члены группы. Интересно, чья это идея была? Кирка просто вышвырнуть хотели? В чем причина, знает кто?

29 май 2025

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Gustaff, У Кирка мать филиппинка, он на 1/2 филиппинец. а все на "ф" кто? Думайте.

29 май 2025

Gustaff

Вашингтон Ирвинг, Феномен?

29 май 2025

Rocky Wolfsson

Вашингтон Ирвинг, получается, Кирк - латентный феномен?

28 май 2025

Nord61

Марти Фридман ничего не имеет против «броской» игры на гитаре: «Я просто хочу получать удовольствие от того, что слышу»

29 май 2025

Rocky Wolfsson

Nord61, и Андрей Смирнов ему молча поддакивает...)

30 май 2025

LU---

Зачем кто то там про полифию задвинул:-)
ну просто ничего,если о гитаристах
Посмотрите видео джема со Стивом Ваем,Джо и другими.........я думал что мальчики могут играть в джеме,но-НЕТ!
Гитарист который не может сразу вписаться в тему,находясь на сцене,причём с Такими парнями,которые дают место для импровизации-ШЛЯПА!!! это Без вариантов