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Yes it is that time. Guitar players unite and let me know what your first guitar was and what your second one was!
Switching to the bridge pickup, tuning to Drop D and playing a string on string bend, all without sounding like a dying cat, is undeniably appealing.
I feel like this will be my new phase!!
@@mikecole4489 please no i love your strat man
@@mikecole4489 yea. What the last guy said. Stay inside of your box and never expand your interests and direction.
@@mikecole4489 hell naw bro you know what you're supposed to do is never try anything new and stay in your comfort zone
@@colinnolan2212 10/10, your sarcasm KILLS
There's a bit of magic involved, too. That left-handed Tele became right-hand.
Finally someone commenting on that
Tele's are just magic like that, man.
It’s Fender’s new American Original Vintage Modified Ambidextrous Pro Ii™.
It Tele-ported.
Can someone explain I don't get it
This guy’s pumping out more vids than a flooded Blockbuster
I suppose that would be the case since Blockbuster has been gone for 10 years
😂
@@Sticknub Except for a small town in Oregon,lol!
@@blastomaticdisel6189 right
The worst part is most of his vids have ads that last longer than his vid
I've had my American Standard Telecaster since 1994. I had a Strat back in the early 2K but sold it. The new American Professional Strat in Miami Blue really has my attention. Maybe soon I will pick one up.
I love mine. I don't think you'll regret getting that beauty. (I didn't get the Miami blue however. I went with the sienna burst HSS).
I have a dark night blue one and it has to be one of the best necks Ive ever played. I got the pro II tele too which is also great
@@Squall6575 I nearly got a Am Pro tele, but then I saw the 75th anniversary commemorative and went that route instead. It's QUITE nice.
Im not concerned i ve a sg hp2. But its good for you.
Just don’t get the ones with the first vmod pickups or whatever they were called. Not great, hence they changed after one year to vmod2
I have a Player Strat and a modded classic vibe Tele and despite their similarities they sound totally different. I started out on a strat when I was 16. I never bought a tele until I turned 50 and it is the one I play more often.
Squire is on fire lately with the Classic Vibe stuff.
Teles are actually more versatile than Strats, imo. There's a lot of space between the two pickups, they're very different sounds, and the tone knob is the secret weapon. You can play soft lounge jazz or icepick blues, aggressive punk or chicken picken country, and all things in between.
I mean, you can do all that with a Strat, too...
Wrong.
A tele custom deluxe plus yea, but not your average tele. Two totally different guitars, gotta have both.
All of this is possible on a Strat as well. The Tele isn't really "more versatile". It is just a different kind of sound overall. They both are incredibly versatile and both can cover a massive range of sounds. It is silly to turn it into "my favorite guitar is better than yours!"
2 things.
1) *Than. Learn to spell.
2) You're objectively wrong.
Good day
I ended up with a Tele because I was fed up by that volume knob being to near my picking movement. Also, the duck quack sound I did not really use apparently and got away just fine with Tele these past 5 years (after several years playing mainly PRS, after leaving Strat)
"No duck quack? NO BLUES FOR YOU!!" - The Strat Nazi
@@davidjorgensen877 I get that sometimes and it makes me sad somehow. But I move on, because middle pickup is also an issue for my picking style, aside from that vol knob. LOL.
I don't like the middle 2 and 4 positions on a strat. They sound weak and thin. Changed the switch for a 3-way and now i'm happy
@@robertobrito9845 thin is not always worse. Its how it works with everything else.
Same issue here on the volume knob with my strat but as time goes by Im getting used to it to the point where I don't hit the volume knob anymore
I’ve been a Tele player for 25 years but I’m becoming a strat guy after playing one ! I’m confused as well
My go to has been a 2012 American Tele with Twisted tele pickups for the last 9 years but I'm starting to move towards a Strat as well. You just play different on them. Never really took to a strat before but the last 6 months has been different. Really weird to be sure.
Get you both.
@@Mahdcat I think its good to have both, and a les paul/PRS to cover all basis. If I had to take one though, it might have to be the tele
Its treason then
I've been a strat player for 12 years. First chance I got a les Paul changed my whole playing. Made me 20x better then I was on my stratocaster.
The strats just not comfortable as the Les Paul Ig
I’ve been a strat guy for 8 years, but the Midwest Emo/math rock genre has put a tele on the top of my wishlist
I'm considering solving that same itch by replacing my strat pickups with the Seymour Duncan one that allegedly sounds like a Tele bridge and then a couple of other ones. It's... Markedly cheaper than a new guitar. I hope
same thing, i got recently a 72 style thinline tele, it still twinkles very nicely
Math rock: the most useless name for a prog genre
Midwest Emo/math rock? Dude with bad haircuts playing whale songs?
@@jasonbates2687 yes, best shit ever
Just proves that if you have one, you need the other lol
That's what I did. Love all 3. Oh, the 3rd is Les Paul. I HAD TO! lol
And more of each
You posted the most logical comment on this whole thread! I agree 100.
Why claim one is better when can have them both. I hate guitar elitetists who think a guitar type they play is superiour to what others play. Fact is strat fans can list many muscians who use them and use them well. Same for the tele fans. Room for us all here to make and play some beautiful music. Make music not war :)
That string bend at the end did it for me 😮💨💪🏾
I must say, a telecaster with either a two humbucker configuration or a P90 neck/Humbucker bridge configuration is pretty dang slick....dark, and yet snappy. Finally had this custom built with the knobs and selector routed in reverse. I have no regrets.
I've been playing for over 40 years, I've had all kinds of guitars , lespauls, lots of other gibson models, more than can remember, a few different strats, I have one now, it's funny, i feel like I've been trying to find a way to like a strat, I thought I had finally made it last week, but no ,I the tele is my still my favorite of them all, the best ever in my opinion
I became a Tele player after tuning my strat to drop D and spending the next five minutes getting all the other strings back in tune. Hard tails are the way to go I think, in fact if I do ever get another strat I’d go with a hard tail
tighten the springs so the bridge sits flat on the body, never had any tuning issues
@@chrisman456 yep, what I do is set it up to float with 3 springs, then use a fourth to deck it. When I want it to float again, I take the fourth spring out and just have to re-tune.
With the bridge set flat to the body, I can switch from drop D to standard and back without any tuning issues. You really don't wanna have the bridge floating if you care about tuning stability, I've found.
@@Giggiyygoo I think I have 5 on mine, I have no need for the float, can get some nice vibrato on chords without flowt
@@Jimbo292 how would it affect the action? With 5 springs i'll kind of be like a hard tail
best guitar video i've seen in a while! Keep on making more!
Tuning stability while bending! Gets em every time!
ironically enough, i'm sitting here with a tele in my lap when a strat is my go to. it's only a squire, but i got it for a really good deal and i freakin love it. it's bright blue with a white pickguard, i love how the telecaster is set up. it's just so simple, and it plays so well compared to my other guitars! i'm still learning, and this telecaster is helping me a lot
dude, dont say "it's only squier". nothing's wrong with a squier.
@@kojakkojak3665 it’s my favorite guitar. I’m really lucky I found it
this guy prefers his squire to an american tele
Jimmy Page first used a Telecaster in Led Zeppelin and also Ritchie Blackmore, David Gilmour ,Prince, Brian May , Rory Gallagher ,etc all the greats have used Telecasters in the past , I started learning guitar 17 years back on a Telecaster as it was the only guitar I could afford but was so 😎 cool
“Stairway to Heaven’s” legendary solo was a Telecaster, too!
@@BirdmanDeuce26 Yeah Jimmy had a Telecaster and painted 🎨 a 🐉 Dragon on it so genius he is
Prince actually had a Japanese replica of the Tele.
@@blastomaticdisel6189 Ah but it was a Telecaster shape with 2 single coil pickups
All the people you listed were more known for the guitars they switched to after playing teles.
Nearly 25 years of playing guitar, I’ve tried all sort of guitars… after moving around a lot over the years I’m left with a tele and a prs and the tele is the go to for pretty much everything. Such a versatile instrument
Then they both go to guitar center and play a Jaguar and never look back.
The tele neck pickup is sooo warm and smooth yet crispy at the same time I can't explain it.
Me who plays both:
Signature look of superiority
The All-Three Master Race: Tele, Strat and Les Paul. (smug-ass look while I struggle to carry them all)
@@sundaynightdrunk you forgot Danelectro 59
@@erojerisiz1571 Yeah, and a Gretsch, Flying V, etc. etc. etc...
Been learning SRV and Jimi Hendrix with Gibsons because my grandpa gave me all his guitars. Gibson Blueshawk, les paul special. Etc
I find I can be way more brutal with my Tele. The Strat just feels like it constantly wants to be caressed, but the Tele is happy being chucked around and played hard.
uhh, have you ever heard of a guy named jimi hendrix? Not convinced you're doing as much chucking than he did with his strats.
now all he needs to do is go through his midwest emo phase and he'll truly become assimilated
No Strat can duplicate the Tele bridge pickup. I love my Tele!
I’ve been a Strat guy for many years, have 2 of them but I picked up a telie at the local music shop and it felt and sounded great. Dark side here I come
I was a Les Paul guy for 30 years...
I've been playing a Tele for the last 3 years. 😂
i've been both forever, teles and les pauls are kind of the same! single cutaway (so they hang on the strap the same), two pickups, knobs out of the way, no trem, undeniable bridge pickup tone; it feels natural to me to switch between them
strats OTOH hang different on a strap because of the top horn, the middle pickup gets in the way, the volume knob gets in the way, the trem bar gets in the way, the bridge pickup is disappointing; not for me
@@walterw2 The strap position is something that doesn't get talked about much, but I think is a massive factor in the difference in feel between a Tele and a Strat. I've always found that Strats sit slightly awkward with me. Something about the weight balance and the length of the body doesn't quite feel right.
the day i heard midwest emo is the day i got convinced of a tele
Teles are the bomb!! Clever as always I love it
Tele -> Strat. Coming from someone who has spent way too much on Strats and recently picked up a Tele. Best playing and sounding guitar ever
Do one for how tele players become strat players
That’s me, I like how comfortable strats are compared to teles because of the body contour
It happened to me after fifteen years. Once you go whammy…
Gunpoint?
I'm imagining basically the same video but the tele player discovers whammy bars.
I have both so..........
Daymn there is truly no turning back after a strat guy picks up tele 😮💨🔥
I knew the moment I first touched one that I'm a Telecaster man.
Classic Vibe Tele plugged into the amp, 50th anniversary Strat in its case in the closet next to the SG Standard, 12 string and Ibanez RG.
I use a classic vibe tele too. They're great.🤟
The telecaster will find you, if you just let it.
If you twang it, they will come!
It's in my DNA to recognize ' twangs and quacks '. IMHO Strats sing, L.P's wail and growl, and tele's, your Psychiatrist exposing your inner strengths and failures. :-).
I never enjoyed the clanky tones from strats so I always gravitated towards teles and they were just more versatile
“You know those first two Zeppelin albums? Tele.” “Hey, check out John Frusciante in this live clip. He’s playing a Tele”
This was ME! 🤣🤣 Except I like the rosewood on my strat, and maple on my tele.
I played with a strat for like 12 years, 2 months ago i bought a telecaster thinline and there was no come back to the strat
How come?
@@arzucksan2972 I just wanted another guitar to play live with a blues band
So true!! I feel bad picking up my tele instead of the strat… but….
but?
I have the same strat but HSS and same tele but with maple neck. Player series are magnificent. You da Man Mike! Love your vids. As soon as I hit the comment button im hitting the subscribe button.
Wait till you hear a Rickenbacker. It can make every song a Telecaster can make but it goes deeper into the abyss where Teles cannot follow.
Lol. Tele's certainly were/are pigeon hold as a country guitar. Is awesome.
I mean... The Strat neck and body shape is waaaaay more comfortable...
this is why i own both a strat AND a tele! why choose when you can have both
Exactly
I mean, you can play Tele licks on a Strat. Both have a slanted single coil in the bridge. The only real difference is that people *associate* certain licks with a Strat or a Tele, and only play them on those guitars. In a mix, you wouldn't be able to tell if a lick was played on a Tele or Strat bridge PU.
You can play any licks on any guitar, but it won’t sound the same. Also no one uses the Strat bridge pickup by itself. They turn it on with the mid one to play SRV songs
@@Augrills lol wtf. Jimi Hendrix used it a lot and many others, its my favorite pickup (if its higher gain)
@@gabrielbraga1981 jimi used the bridge pickup sometimes but he also played strats before they had 5 way switches. I personally don’t like the sound of the bridge pickup without the middle supporting it. I replaced mine with a hotrail
If you listen to Jimi, he used the neck/bridge pickup in his early songs, and he would use a matchstick to get 2 and 4 selections in his later songs. The only artist I know that really used the middle pickup heavy on its own is David Gilmore
i currently have a yamaha pacifica with SSS pickups and a weird hybrid strat-style hard stop vibrato bridge but modern tele smooth-top saddles, it's an unholy bastard child but honestly sounds and plays really good, particularly for the really bright quacky funk tones i'm going for at the moment.
at some point i'm likely to invest in one of the reverends that goes for a tele vibe, but right now i can get fairly close with my schecter corsair with both the coils split. it's not getting a lot of use right now because 1. the pacifica is just getting the sounds i want right now 2. i'm more focused on playing keys for my funk band, but someday, when i have more money, and space, and more actual justification for spending money to fill that space with more guitars...
The crocs of guitars
They just hear American Football for the first time and then spend the next 2 weeks listening to math rock exclusively
That is a remarkable telecaster
LOL!! You went all Caleb City on this one.
Squier Contemporary Telecaster in White. Came from the SG/LP/Explorer side. And I am in love.
Listen guys, we all are guitar players. It's the same instrument.
Hah! I have that same Tele. Love it. It's underrated in it's versatility
Both have their own distinct type of twang and both are delicious. There can be no doubt.
My Tele and my 335 are my go to guitars. But some stuff just needs my Strat because of the trem.
Pink Floyd , Hendrix type action ya know.
✌👽👍🧠🌌♾🎸🎼🎶🎵⚡
Got an American special Tele after years of cheap guitars. I’ve never looked back.
It was said that you would destroy the Teles, not join them.
Suddenly Twang took a hold on him.
"its impossible for a tele to sound brutal you know like in metal... even strats can't go there"
(storekeep walks in with a humbucker tele)
"Gimmie that AXE"
You legit believe that? You do realize how many awesome muscians use strats? And yes in metal. LMAO with right pedals can make most any guitar jam to whatever you want. Strat or tele who cares. Just enjoy what ever you're playing and keep making beautiful music.
NOW you can play BOTH kinds of music: Country AND Western.
The clean tone double stop bends are comin for ya 👹
I have tried to get into Teles so many times. I have owned multiple styles, and ended up selling them all. I’ve had traditional 50’s style, Nashville Deluxes, thin lines, and everything in between, and they just don’t click with me for some reason. Not sure if it’s the heavier weight or the lack of comfort cuts in the body shape, but I just don’t bond with them the way I do with S type guitars. I know I’m probably in the minority.
I don't know - I think Strats are still more popular than Teles, aren't they?
Love the supro amp. I had a supro bass back in the late 60's.
Two words. Roy Buchanon.
Yes Roy and Danny gatton also.
Reject stret, become tele
I personally play the reissue of the Guild Thunderbird, and that guitar is the best of both worlds for me. Twangy on the bridge and real smooth on the neck, with a switch to change the pickups between humbucker and single coil. Genuinely my favorite guitar I've played
I thought Tele's were ugly, so I never gave them a chance. Had an unexpected jam session where my buddy let me play his Tele. Now a Silverbust Tele has been my main squeeze for over a decade.
This seems to be the popular opinion, but nobody says why. Could you please elaborate as to why the tele appealed more to you than the strat, and in what regards?
@@gururajchadaga For me the big revelation was the versatility of a Tele... It seems counter-intuitive seeing as a Strat has more options, but I find the Tele's 3 basic switch positions each cover more range than a Strat...
The best example I can give is if I had a Strat and had to play AC/DC stuff, or if I had a Les Paul and had to play Stevie Ray Vaughan stuff, in each I'd feel like I had the wrong guitar for the job. But with a Tele I'd feel at home with both.
It's bright enough to do the spanky, clean leads, but gutsy enough to rock the chunky power-chords too.
I know this is a guitar channel, but I used to be a P-bass player for 20 years and now I only do J-bass. Strange how this goes….
Jazz bass neck says "play fast" p bass neck says "choose carefully "..... I like them both, but something about how a p bass sits in the mix
Born at the junction of form and function!
this actually happened to me 3 days ago. Tele man for life now.
I struggle with a Strat because the controls are in my "sweep" arc. For this reason I'm going to get a non branded cheap left handed body with a right handed neck with some nice hardware.
this is the reason why i have only one volume knob on my strat, well outta the "sweep" or strumming arc. well, you may want tone knobs, but i find i don't need them. also i moved the pickup selector up to avoid hitting it when strumming.
You keep posting, I’m gonna keep ‘liking’ 😤
Total opposite for me, I had an American deluxe tele ( very beautiful guitar ) but the sound I just couldn’t get used to so I traded it for an American professional ii strat and Man I found my dream guitar ( that neck pickup tho 🎸😍)
Man Man Man Man Man i love the neck pickup! Under the bridge ....
Was a huge hard core metal head in my teens and hated anything with single coils and particularly teles... grew up and am in the market to scratch that itch for some twang as i type this.
Literally what happened to me years ago lol. Been a strat guys for years until I decide to give a tele and try....now my g&l tele is my main guitar.
Welcome to the Dark Side, the best side.
Never abandon the Stratimus Maximus
Pingy and quacky is how I describe the Stratocaster. Even the great one Jimi sometimes had that oinky sound they throw....Gilmour's cool, but his pingy oinker is smothered beneath a handful of effects ....the Tele just sounds more badass, dry, ringin and rockin
Add in craft beer: This 100% checks out.
Oh yes the Stratocaster. Everyone's first guitar
After listening to Stevie ray, Hendrix and the guitar tones used in blood sugar sex magik.. that’s all my ears wanna hear. Been that way sense 16, 24 now:) strats all the way… it’s worth the weird spot they put the pickup switch..
Maybe ones not better than the other but rather after playing a strat or tele for a long time the other one becomes appealing because it’s different than what your used to
I like a man who likes a Tele.
as amazing as teles can sound, i just can’t live without the neck/middle position on a strat. something about it just feels right to me. i do need to pick up a decent tele though. you gotta have at least one of everything
It don't mean a thang, if it ain't got that twang...
I just picked up an ultra telecaster and am wondering why I never made the switch sooner.
I've been a strat player for many many years, i have always gravitated towards them and I still do. However, I do have moments where all I do is pull out the tele and play it for months before going back to the stratocaster.
I'm only a tele guy because the double bound body on my 60's CVC looks so sick, man!!!
I used to hate the look of them when i was young. Then many years later here i am... a tele player. Love the feel and sound.
@@gtrriffs
Same here!
I've played stats way less than my teles but I think it's all about the neck pickup sound and the fixed bridge
Standard Tele neck is the best sounding PU ever. It's science
"Welcome to Tele-Side"
I love my Tele, it just felt right
If tells had a stratesque whammy then I’ll d be all in. Alas..............
It’s that thicccness in the bridge, especially with the gain up 😩
Literally the dark side.
Have both guitars, Love both of them.Cant choose one over the other,
Mike…try a Waterslide Telebacker with Fralin Hum-cancelling P90s, and then get back to me. It was my next step in my journey and I’m glad I took it.