Guitar Lessons

Most people start of learning to play guitar scales by buying a beginner guitar tutorials book and following along with the patterns right? We then remember the boxes of dots described in the book, and these dots are notes in the music scale. This is the most orthodox method.

Then, we have Marty Friedman. Those of you who don’t know him, he’s somewhat of a musical genius and friend of Jason Becker. Anyway, back to the guitar lesson!

He explains in this guitar lesson that got a bit of an unorthodox way of playing. What he does is improvises using the notes in the chord progression being played for rhythm – he NEVER learned any guitar scales! It’s much like learning how to use arpeggios to improvise. This is a very difficult and long-winded way of learning to play guitar scales but then again, if you set your mind to it, anything is possible!

At one point, I did attempt this technique ( with a backing track ) and put aside what I’ve learned in other electric guitar tutorials and the result was that I found some really nice notes that actually sounded in tune, yet very unique! It helped me break out of the rut of my usual improvisation ( ie. playing the same notes all the time ).

I would not recommend any beginners who are learning guitar to try this. Wait until you’ve mastered your scales, and you’ll find that Marty’s technique will start to make sense.

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