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The Telecaster is structurally quite different from the Stratocaster. It's more of a solid piece of wood. There's no tremolo and not much routing on the body, so the sustain tends to be longer, and the density of the wood leads to a harder, sharper sound. Telecasters also tend to be somewhat heavier than Stratocasters, since the body is not routed out as much as on the Strat. Some people prefer the simplicity and purity of the guitar as well. One volume, one tone, one switch, that's it. If someone can't make a Tele sound good, they can't play, it's as simple as that. In response to the people who say Telecasters are only good for country, that's ridiculous. Early rock and roll was created on Telecasters. The Telecaster was the first commecially viable, mass produced solid body electric guitar, and many rockers have used them. Jimmy Page's main guitar on the first three Led Zeppelin albums was a Telecaster, and that's what you hear doing the lead on "Stairway to Heaven." The Stratocaster of course has three pickups as opposed to the Telecaster's two pickups. The body of the Strat has more routing in it, which makes it less dense than the Tele and usually less heavy. The three pickups of course give a wider selection of sounds, as do the dual tone controls, and the presence of a tremolo goes without saying. Strats tend to have slightly less sustain than Telecasters unless the bridge is blocked off. Overall the sound of the Telecaster is more trebly and generally more aggressive, where the Strat has a wider range of tones. Hope this helps answer your question.
I still have my old acoustic guitar, though I was never that good at playing it. It's still fun to play it every once in a while.
I still have no idea what song to learn..... Been playing for about a year, so I'm okay I guess. Been learning one by metalica, can get up to the darkness bridge but it requires fast strumming and I suck at that. Any suggestions? Want to stay in the rock/metal genre and it'd be good if it was in standard E tuning. Paint it black seems like an interesting song to play same with cult of personality (opening rift).
Stop playing songs from guitar hero
[QUOTE=SilverHammer;16124580]Stop playing songs from guitar hero[/QUOTE] Hmm, oh wait, crap. Good point. That's why I need recommendations my lack of knowledge of enjoyable songs lets me down.....The rest of the songs I know are not from GH however!
[QUOTE=lazyguy;16118377]How so?[/QUOTE] Different types and thicknesses of wood, and combinations of wood, all effect the tone the guitar will make, at first you don't notice but depending on what you want to play you'll start to notice, and start seeing ways to improve the tone to your liking, like adding new ppickups to your guitar, fitting a better bridge, even just buying a new amp.
[QUOTE=PyroCF;16123933]I still have no idea what song to learn..... Been playing for about a year, so I'm okay I guess. Been learning one by metalica, can get up to the darkness bridge but it requires fast strumming and I suck at that. Any suggestions? Want to stay in the rock/metal genre and it'd be good if it was in standard E tuning. Paint it black seems like an interesting song to play same with cult of personality (opening rift).[/QUOTE] If you want to keep trying Metallica, For Whom The Bell Tolls is really easy. Anything off the first 4 albums is fun to have a go at, really.
[QUOTE=SolidSnake52;16126247]If you want to keep trying Metallica, For Whom The Bell Tolls is really easy. Anything off the first 4 albums is fun to have a go at, really.[/QUOTE] For Whom The Bell Tolls is pretty simple unless you're playing Kirk's solo at the end Want to learn fast alt picking? Learn Whiplash. Do it. Also good for tapping, during the first part of the solo (the very first 10-15 seconds) Fast downpicking? Master of Puppets (downpick it.)
[QUOTE=TheWiseTruth;16128756]For Whom The Bell Tolls is pretty simple unless you're playing Kirk's solo at the end Want to learn fast alt picking? Learn Whiplash. Do it. Also good for tapping, during the first part of the solo (the very first 10-15 seconds) Fast downpicking? Master of Puppets (downpick it.)[/QUOTE] For Whom The Bell Tolls isn't hard even if you're playing Kirk's part, the things he is doing in the end is really only using the whammy on high pitch tones, some sliding and other easy stuff. If it's still too hard, it's also pretty easy to simplify that part.
Just finished learning Naked Burn by Mastodon. That's what my day was spent on.
I want to get an Ibanez and a Gibson to breed, the results would be... Intresting...
[QUOTE=En-Guage;16130462]I want to get an Ibanez and a Gibson to breed, the results would be... Intresting...[/QUOTE] More like: [highlight]MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE!!![/highlight] :suicide:
Why? It'd be awesome
[QUOTE=En-Guage;16130462]I want to get an Ibanez and a Gibson to breed, the results would be... Intresting...[/QUOTE] That would be horrifying and godlike all at the same time... The designs would probably look so terrible but the tone and feel would probably be sex for the ears and fingers.
okay, how about a fender and a les paul?
I can't even imagine such a thing...
Why not :v: [b]PHOTOSHOP![/B] [B]PRONTO[/B]
[QUOTE=En-Guage;16131616]okay, how about a fender and a les paul?[/QUOTE] [media]http://wizardguitars.co.uk/products/godin-lgt.JPG[/media] Meet the Godin LGT. Sweet love between a Tele and a LP to create one sexy guitar. They stopped production a while back, but I managed to grab one :D
:v::fh: That's beautiful
the pickguard is ugly :(
[QUOTE=Water|Marine;16132119][media]http://wizardguitars.co.uk/products/godin-lgt.JPG[/media] Meet the Godin LGT. Sweet love between a Tele and a LP to create one sexy guitar. They stopped production a while back, but I managed to grab one :D[/QUOTE] Greg Bennett made an interesting mix too... [url]http://www.gregbennettguitars.com/video/high/havion.wmv[/url] It's at the end of the video It looks nicer than this Godin for me [img]http://imgur.com/ydwrR.png[/img]
That Godin is more like LP + Strat, the Greg Bennett is more like LP + Tele EDIT: wtf automerge?
i hate anything fender, i just hate the look of anything except the strat
[QUOTE=bravehat;16136309]i hate anything fender, i just hate the look of anything except the strat[/QUOTE] I don't much like Fender's offerings either, except maybe the Jaguar.
[media]http://dantheman1969.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/kirk_hammett_escape06_1024.jpg[/media] something thats bugged me for a while, why does kirk hammett wear a white strap on his strumming hand?
I think it's something to do with palm muting.
its something to do with his hand "taking a beating" because of all the palm muting i read it somewhere edit: "Hammett is also known for always having his picking hand taped up. During the course of a full tour, due to constantly palm muting and fast picking, the back of his hand takes sizable abuse.[3]" [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Hammett[/url] [url]http://explicate.blogspot.com/2007/03/kirk-hammett-why-taped-hand.html[/url]
James Hetfield has a white strap around too in the live concerts.
[QUOTE=CrazyV2;16118386]The Telecaster is structurally quite different from the Stratocaster. It's more of a solid piece of wood. There's no tremolo and not much routing on the body, so the sustain tends to be longer, and the density of the wood leads to a harder, sharper sound. Telecasters also tend to be somewhat heavier than Stratocasters, since the body is not routed out as much as on the Strat. Some people prefer the simplicity and purity of the guitar as well. One volume, one tone, one switch, that's it. If someone can't make a Tele sound good, they can't play, it's as simple as that. In response to the people who say Telecasters are only good for country, that's ridiculous. Early rock and roll was created on Telecasters. The Telecaster was the first commecially viable, mass produced solid body electric guitar, and many rockers have used them. Jimmy Page's main guitar on the first three Led Zeppelin albums was a Telecaster, and that's what you hear doing the lead on "Stairway to Heaven." The Stratocaster of course has three pickups as opposed to the Telecaster's two pickups. The body of the Strat has more routing in it, which makes it less dense than the Tele and usually less heavy. The three pickups of course give a wider selection of sounds, as do the dual tone controls, and the presence of a tremolo goes without saying. Strats tend to have slightly less sustain than Telecasters unless the bridge is blocked off. Overall the sound of the Telecaster is more trebly and generally more aggressive, where the Strat has a wider range of tones. Hope this helps answer your question.[/QUOTE] I own a Strat, I never got my hands on the Telecaster until recently and I fell in love with it.
[QUOTE=lettuce_head;15301278] I also want a Boss MT-2 pedal, but there's loads of other Boss Distortion pedals, I'm wondering whether any of the others will be more suiting to my needs (want a good thrashing, good for power chords but also good for solos sound. Maybe like early Metallica, or even recent Metallica) Anybody got experience with Boss' distortion range? [/QUOTE] The MT-2 is really high gain, does more than just plain metal distortion(it can do fuzz and rock as well), and sounds great. You probably want to get the AC adapter for it as well, so you don't spend a fortune in 9-volt batteries. The one I own was $89.99 without the adapter. It has a 4-band EQ(+ to -15 high and low, 200 to 5k middle and mid freq knobs) and adjustable level and distortion.
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