Get to grips with the Hirajoshi Scale, one of Marty Friedman's most recognisable traits.

This lesson is about the Japanese scale named the Hirajoshi scale in Dmin. It involves wide stretches but it is played fairly slow so guitarists of almost all levels can practice it.

This is the second part of the Marty Friedman style series. In this lesson we are going to focus on his "Introduction" album era.

Example of soloing and creating phrases and melodies over simple 2-chord harmony!

Learn to bend more precisely and also in the minor scale. We'll use the minor and the pentatonic scale here and we'll see the difference between them.

We'll work over 4 variations on the chord cadence of the ultra-well-known Pachelbel Canon.

A classic 12 bar blues solo in the key of D, combining major and minor pentatonic licks. Suitable for beginner players who want to extend their lick vocabulary.

Drop-d riffing + pinky challenge.

A powerful song in D minor scale.