Chords for Marty Friedman on Songwriting, Cacophony, and Jason Becker
Tempo:
76.725 bpm
Chords used:
F
C
Ab
Db
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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When it comes to like stuff like Inferno where it's just a lot of playing and blazing like that.
It's pretty much a lot of
Alterations on things that are kind of normal and just done in a way that I can do
Okay, and is that was that the writing process for like the dual guitar?
Insanity of the cacophony era it was more prevalent in cacophony than it is now because in cacophony [Bb] we weren't as
as
As good at songwriting for one thing and we weren't as
Concerned with songwriting as like maybe I am now
I mean you can do a couple albums like that where it's just like going crazy on guitar all the time
But at some point you're gonna have to make music and some of that is really good.
It's very musical and well
I thought there were there was just such a density of good ideas in there
Maybe they weren't all flesh.
Maybe every one of those could have been a tune.
That's a good idea
That's I mean, that's a good word.
I mean density
I mean we had so much that we wanted to like prove because there was this big guitar scene going on and we didn't really
Like it.
Oh, so this was your answer.
Yes.
It was our answer to it
I mean there was a lot of super players and we loved their abilities
But I think we like I just said we want kind of wanted to [A] yeah
Fuck that stuff and kind of do it maybe a little bit more dissonant and with a couple different influences like from obscure
Classical music I think it's it's this whole sort of very casual and spur-of-the-moment
Approach that you have is very interesting considering
I think a lot of people think of cacophony for example as it must have [Abm] been a very studied thing
but your whole approach to this [C] is
Total rock rock and roll kind of approach to or jazz approach to improvisation and capturing moments
Yeah, I mean some of these things we're talking about picking wise for example, like yeah
Where did you to take a very specific example this if you take like a C major shape arpeggio?
That's right.
You would do that where you start with the pinky that inversion where it's the root is the pinky C major like I'm
I'm sorry.
I'm I just mean the shape of C
You know how if you were to a shape of [Ab] a C
Yeah, so when you put that up the neck, you got to put a pinky on the top
Exactly.
So that like were people doing where did you pick up the sweep element?
I'm not a sweeper at all
But [Em] that when you go [Am] all the way
[F] [Db] [F]
[Db] [F] [C] [G] [Fm] [C]
[F] [A] [F]
[Ab] [Db]
[Dm] [Am] See how like perverted is [Ab] compared to the guys who will come and play a perfect [F] sweep like that
But no one was talking about that kind of approach when you were learning basic skills like sweeping wasn't thing right no and I never
Come up.
There's probably ten guys in this building who can sweep way better than me
None of those techniques with names on it kind of came into my radar
I mean Jason was sort of a poster child for for a lot of people
He's the the god of that of a certain kind of he's a god of that
But like also with Jason it really wasn't about the technique was about content
Jason was one of those fantastic guys who?
Techniques, I'm sure he worked very hard on it, but like he could master any technique anytime
But once you do that now, what do I do now?
You've got to make music
so he you know, he had all of these fantastic techniques at his command and
Whatever they call them.
I don't know what they hybrid picking and all this stuff.
He he could do all those things
I could pretty much
Interpret my own music my own way with my own weird set of abilities
But he had that plus all of the standard techniques
so he had a really big palette of stuff and you know, I was around at the time where he came from like
just having that technique
It's pretty much a lot of
Alterations on things that are kind of normal and just done in a way that I can do
Okay, and is that was that the writing process for like the dual guitar?
Insanity of the cacophony era it was more prevalent in cacophony than it is now because in cacophony [Bb] we weren't as
as
As good at songwriting for one thing and we weren't as
Concerned with songwriting as like maybe I am now
I mean you can do a couple albums like that where it's just like going crazy on guitar all the time
But at some point you're gonna have to make music and some of that is really good.
It's very musical and well
I thought there were there was just such a density of good ideas in there
Maybe they weren't all flesh.
Maybe every one of those could have been a tune.
That's a good idea
That's I mean, that's a good word.
I mean density
I mean we had so much that we wanted to like prove because there was this big guitar scene going on and we didn't really
Like it.
Oh, so this was your answer.
Yes.
It was our answer to it
I mean there was a lot of super players and we loved their abilities
But I think we like I just said we want kind of wanted to [A] yeah
Fuck that stuff and kind of do it maybe a little bit more dissonant and with a couple different influences like from obscure
Classical music I think it's it's this whole sort of very casual and spur-of-the-moment
Approach that you have is very interesting considering
I think a lot of people think of cacophony for example as it must have [Abm] been a very studied thing
but your whole approach to this [C] is
Total rock rock and roll kind of approach to or jazz approach to improvisation and capturing moments
Yeah, I mean some of these things we're talking about picking wise for example, like yeah
Where did you to take a very specific example this if you take like a C major shape arpeggio?
That's right.
You would do that where you start with the pinky that inversion where it's the root is the pinky C major like I'm
I'm sorry.
I'm I just mean the shape of C
You know how if you were to a shape of [Ab] a C
Yeah, so when you put that up the neck, you got to put a pinky on the top
Exactly.
So that like were people doing where did you pick up the sweep element?
I'm not a sweeper at all
But [Em] that when you go [Am] all the way
[F] [Db] [F]
[Db] [F] [C] [G] [Fm] [C]
[F] [A] [F]
[Ab] [Db]
[Dm] [Am] See how like perverted is [Ab] compared to the guys who will come and play a perfect [F] sweep like that
But no one was talking about that kind of approach when you were learning basic skills like sweeping wasn't thing right no and I never
Come up.
There's probably ten guys in this building who can sweep way better than me
None of those techniques with names on it kind of came into my radar
I mean Jason was sort of a poster child for for a lot of people
He's the the god of that of a certain kind of he's a god of that
But like also with Jason it really wasn't about the technique was about content
Jason was one of those fantastic guys who?
Techniques, I'm sure he worked very hard on it, but like he could master any technique anytime
But once you do that now, what do I do now?
You've got to make music
so he you know, he had all of these fantastic techniques at his command and
Whatever they call them.
I don't know what they hybrid picking and all this stuff.
He he could do all those things
I could pretty much
Interpret my own music my own way with my own weird set of abilities
But he had that plus all of the standard techniques
so he had a really big palette of stuff and you know, I was around at the time where he came from like
just having that technique
Key:
F
C
Ab
Db
A
F
C
Ab
When it comes to like stuff like Inferno where it's just a lot of playing and blazing like that.
It's pretty much a lot of
Alterations on things that are kind of normal and just done in a way that I can do
Okay, and is that was that the writing process for like the dual guitar?
Insanity of the cacophony era it was more prevalent in cacophony than it is now because in cacophony [Bb] we weren't as
as
As good at songwriting for one thing and we weren't as
Concerned with songwriting as like maybe I am now
I mean you can do a couple albums like that where it's just like going crazy on guitar all the time
But at some point you're gonna have to make music and some of that is really good.
It's very musical and well
I thought there were there was just such a density of good ideas in there
Maybe they weren't all flesh.
Maybe every one of those could have been a tune.
That's a good idea
That's I mean, that's a good word.
I mean density
I mean we had so much that we wanted to like prove because there was this big guitar scene going on and we didn't really
Like it.
Oh, so this was your answer.
Yes.
It was our answer to it
I mean there was a lot of super players and we loved their abilities
But I think we like I just said we want kind of wanted to [A] yeah
Fuck that stuff and kind of do it maybe a little bit more dissonant and with a couple different influences like from obscure
Classical music I think it's it's this whole sort of very casual and spur-of-the-moment
Approach that you have is very interesting considering
I think a lot of people think of cacophony for example as it must have [Abm] been a very studied thing
but your whole approach to this [C] is
Total rock rock and roll kind of approach to or jazz approach to improvisation and capturing moments
Yeah, I mean some of these things we're talking about picking wise for example, like yeah
Where did you to take a very specific example this if you take like a C major shape arpeggio?
That's right.
You would do that where you start with the pinky that inversion where it's the root is the pinky C major like I'm
I'm sorry.
I'm I just mean the shape of C
You know how if you were to a shape of [Ab] a C
Yeah, so when you put that up the neck, you got to put a pinky on the top
Exactly.
So that like were people doing where did you pick up the sweep element?
I'm not a sweeper at all
But [Em] that when you go [Am] all the way
_ [F] _ _ [Db] _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Db] _ [F] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [Fm] _ [C] _ _
_ [F] _ [A] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Am] See how like perverted is [Ab] compared to the guys who will come and play a perfect [F] sweep like that
But no one was talking about that kind of approach when you were learning basic skills like sweeping wasn't thing right no and I never
Come up.
There's probably ten guys in this building who can sweep way better than me
None of those techniques with names on it kind of came into my radar
I mean Jason was sort of a poster child for for a lot of people
He's the the god of that of a certain kind of he's a god of that
But like also with Jason it really wasn't about the technique was about content
Jason was one of those fantastic guys who?
Techniques, I'm sure he worked very hard on it, but like he could master any technique anytime
But once you do that now, what do I do now?
You've got to make music
so he you know, he had all of these fantastic techniques at his command and
Whatever they call them.
I don't know what they hybrid picking and all this stuff.
He he could do all those things
I could pretty much
Interpret my own music my own way with my own weird set of abilities
But he had that plus all of the standard techniques
so he had a really big palette of stuff and you know, I was around at the time where he came from like
just having that technique
It's pretty much a lot of
Alterations on things that are kind of normal and just done in a way that I can do
Okay, and is that was that the writing process for like the dual guitar?
Insanity of the cacophony era it was more prevalent in cacophony than it is now because in cacophony [Bb] we weren't as
as
As good at songwriting for one thing and we weren't as
Concerned with songwriting as like maybe I am now
I mean you can do a couple albums like that where it's just like going crazy on guitar all the time
But at some point you're gonna have to make music and some of that is really good.
It's very musical and well
I thought there were there was just such a density of good ideas in there
Maybe they weren't all flesh.
Maybe every one of those could have been a tune.
That's a good idea
That's I mean, that's a good word.
I mean density
I mean we had so much that we wanted to like prove because there was this big guitar scene going on and we didn't really
Like it.
Oh, so this was your answer.
Yes.
It was our answer to it
I mean there was a lot of super players and we loved their abilities
But I think we like I just said we want kind of wanted to [A] yeah
Fuck that stuff and kind of do it maybe a little bit more dissonant and with a couple different influences like from obscure
Classical music I think it's it's this whole sort of very casual and spur-of-the-moment
Approach that you have is very interesting considering
I think a lot of people think of cacophony for example as it must have [Abm] been a very studied thing
but your whole approach to this [C] is
Total rock rock and roll kind of approach to or jazz approach to improvisation and capturing moments
Yeah, I mean some of these things we're talking about picking wise for example, like yeah
Where did you to take a very specific example this if you take like a C major shape arpeggio?
That's right.
You would do that where you start with the pinky that inversion where it's the root is the pinky C major like I'm
I'm sorry.
I'm I just mean the shape of C
You know how if you were to a shape of [Ab] a C
Yeah, so when you put that up the neck, you got to put a pinky on the top
Exactly.
So that like were people doing where did you pick up the sweep element?
I'm not a sweeper at all
But [Em] that when you go [Am] all the way
_ [F] _ _ [Db] _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Db] _ [F] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [Fm] _ [C] _ _
_ [F] _ [A] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Am] See how like perverted is [Ab] compared to the guys who will come and play a perfect [F] sweep like that
But no one was talking about that kind of approach when you were learning basic skills like sweeping wasn't thing right no and I never
Come up.
There's probably ten guys in this building who can sweep way better than me
None of those techniques with names on it kind of came into my radar
I mean Jason was sort of a poster child for for a lot of people
He's the the god of that of a certain kind of he's a god of that
But like also with Jason it really wasn't about the technique was about content
Jason was one of those fantastic guys who?
Techniques, I'm sure he worked very hard on it, but like he could master any technique anytime
But once you do that now, what do I do now?
You've got to make music
so he you know, he had all of these fantastic techniques at his command and
Whatever they call them.
I don't know what they hybrid picking and all this stuff.
He he could do all those things
I could pretty much
Interpret my own music my own way with my own weird set of abilities
But he had that plus all of the standard techniques
so he had a really big palette of stuff and you know, I was around at the time where he came from like
just having that technique