Marty Friedman
Sign in to saveAlso known as Martin Adam "Marty" Friedman, Martin Friedman, Martin Adam Friedman
American guitarist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Dreaming Japanese
- Ījan J-POP
- Marty Friedman - Exotic Metal Guitar
- Wall of sound
- Melodic Control
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1962-12-08
Discography
- Dragon's Kiss1988
- Scenes1992
- Introduction1994
- True Obsessions1996
- Music for Speeding2002
- Loudspeaker2006
- Future Addict2008
- Tokyo Jukebox2009
- BAD D.N.A.2010
- Tokyo Jukebox 22011
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 178,946
- Total plays
- 3,689,339
Tags
Marty Friedman (born December 8, 1962 in Washington, D.C.) has become recognized worldwide as a guitarist and composer of consummate skill and a style of playing that is instantly recognizable as uniquely his. Marty is a self-taught guitarist famous for his natural improvisation abilities and for pioneering the fusion of exotic Eastern musical scales with Western musical styles such as neo-classical, thrash metal and later on into rock, pop, jazz, metal and anything in between. <a href="https://
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Elements of Statistical Learning
· 2009 · cited 23,187x
- Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine.
· 2001 · cited 21,702x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,416x
- Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent
· 2010 · cited 14,363x
- Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches
· 1981 · cited 13,514x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1962-12-08 ) December 8, 1962 (age 63) , Washington, D.C. , U.S.
- Genres
- Heavy metal thrash metal speed metal hard rock instrumental rock neoclassical metal
- Occupation
- Musician
- Instrument
- Guitar
- Years active
- 1981–present
- Labels
- Avex Trax Gokukara Shrapnel Prosthetic Universal EMI
- Formerly of
- Hawaii Cacophony Megadeth
- Spouse
- Hiyori Okuda (m. 2012)
- Website
- martyfriedman .com
via Wikipedia infobox
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Martin Adam Friedman (Japanese: マーティン・アダム・フリードマン, Hepburn: Mātin Adamu Furīdoman) is an American guitarist, best known for his tenure as the lead guitarist of thrash metal band Megadeth from 1990 to 2000. He is also known for playing alongside Jason Becker in Cacophony from 1986 until 1989, as well as his 13 solo albums and tours. Friedman has resided in Tokyo since 2003, where he has appeared on over 700 Japanese television programs such as Rock Fujiyama, Hebimeta-san, Kōhaku Uta Gassen and Jukebox English. He has released albums with several record labels, including Avex Trax, Universal, EMI, Prosthetic, and Shrapnel Records.
Early career (1982–1989)
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