Rock guitar licks are the currency of the genre. Every solo you love, every moment that made you reach for your guitar, likely started with a short, punchy phrase played with absolute conviction.
Jazz guitar licks are their own dialect. If you've spent time learning blues or rock vocabulary, you already know that each genre has its own melodic logic.
To play like Marty Friedman is to commit to sounding like nobody else on the planet. His lead playing is instantly recognizable: melodic lines that pull from Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Eastern…