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The band Marty Friedman was founded in 1962. Before coming to fame, the band got it’s start in Laurel. Generally, music journalists would define Marty Friedman’s style within the genre/s of thrash metal, neo-classical metal, power metal, progressive rock, speed metal, enka, traditional heavy metal, instrumental music, and other rock music.

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Jason Becker

Jason Eli Becker (born July 22, 1969) is an American musician, songwriter and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Shrapnel Records-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released the albums Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go... [wikipedia]
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Vinnie Moore

Vincent "Vinnie" Moore (born April 14, 1964) is an American guitarist and a member of the British hard rock band UFO. Moore is one of the most influential and important guitarists to emerge from the virtuoso boom in the mid to late eighties.... [wikipedia]
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Joe Stump

Joe Stump (born September 18, 1960) is an American guitarist and composer. He is currently playing for the band Exorcism, Raven Lord, HolyHell, his solo project, and most recently with the newly relaunched heavy metal band Alcatrazz. Stump plays in a style ori... [wikipedia]
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Yngwie Malmsteen

Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (; born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck; 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, composer, and bandleader. Malmsteen first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical metal playing style in heavy metal, and has released 20 studi... [wikipedia]
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Paul Gilbert

Paul Brandon Gilbert is an American hard rock and heavy metal guitarist. He is best known for being the co-founder of the band Mr. Big. He was also a member of Racer X, with whom he released several albums. In 1996, Gilbert launched a solo career, for which h... [wikipedia]
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Tony Macalpine

Tony MacAlpine (born August 29, 1960) is an American musician and composer. In a career spanning three decades and thirteen studio albums, he is best known as an instrumental rock solo guitarist, although he has worked with many different bands and musicians i... [wikipedia]
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Steve Vai

Steven Siro Vai (; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, composer, singer, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Z... [wikipedia]
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Cacophony

Cacophony was an American heavy metal band formed in 1986 by guitarists Marty Friedman and Jason Becker, and signed to Shrapnel Records. They released two studio albums and remained active until 1989, after which both guitarists forged their own solo careers a... [wikipedia]
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Michael Angelo Batio

Michael Angelo Batio (; born February 23, 1956), also known as Mike Batio or MAB, is an American heavy metal guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois. He was the lead guitarist for the Los Angeles-based glam metal band Nitro in the late 1980s and early 1... [wikipedia]
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Racer X

Racer X were an American heavy metal band formed in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. The group has gone through a hiatus, and a few lineup changes with bassist Juan Alderete and vocalist Jeff Martin being the sole constant members. The band is signed to Shrapn... [wikipedia]
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Joe Satriani

Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and guitar teacher. Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, such as Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt,... [wikipedia]
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John Petrucci

John Peter Petrucci (born July 12, 1967) is an American guitarist, composer and producer. He is best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. He produced or co-produced (often with former member Mike Portnoy before he departed th... [wikipedia]
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Jeff Loomis

Jeff Loomis (born September 14, 1971) is an American musician, best known for his role as lead guitarist in the progressive metal band Nevermore. In November 2014, it was announced he was to be the new guitarist for Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy.... [wikipedia]
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Kiko Loureiro

Pedro Henrique "Kiko" Loureiro (born 16 June 1972) is a Brazilian guitarist, best known as a member of heavy metal bands Angra and Megadeth.... [wikipedia]
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Andy Timmons

Andy Timmons (born July 26, 1963) is an American guitarist who has played in the bands Taylor Bay Band, Danger Danger, Pawn Kings, and Andy Timmons Band (ATB). He has also released several solo albums and has worked as a session guitarist.... [wikipedia]
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Steve Morse

Steve J. Morse (born July 28, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer, best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs and as the lead guitarist of Deep Purple since 1994. Morse has also enjoyed a successful solo career and was briefly a member of the group K... [wikipedia]
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What Genre is Marty Friedman?

Marty Friedman genre is not easily defined. Music magazines and journalists have different opinions on a clearly defined genre for Marty Friedman. However, many describe the style within the genre/s of thrash metal, neo-classical metal, power metal, progressive rock, speed metal, enka, traditional heavy metal, instrumental music, and other rock music.

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