Marty Friedman (ex-Megadeth) likens guitar playing to sex: “If you practise at home, you’re going to get good at practising at home. If you go out and do the real thing, you’re going to get good at doing the real thing.”

Marty Friedman playing guitar onstage.

Former Megadeth member Marty Friedman offers guitar tips with a sensual twist in a new interview.

Talking to Ultimate Guitar, the famed thrash metal player, who left Megadeth in 2000 and has since pursued a successful multimedia career in Japan, likens mastering the instrument to getting better at sex, in that practising alone doesn’t necessarily correlate to improving at “the real thing”.