What Makes A Les Paul So Special
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I ate ramen for 8 months so I could pay for mine. It's a 50s tribute. 2011 and I love it.
Nice witch Colorburst?
@@alexskywalker664 Beef pho
which flavor
Well. Eat Raman now, or eat Raman later. Got to pay the fiddler at some point 👊🏻
You say eating ramen for 8 months as if it a bad thing? All I have to do is eat one of my favourite after school foods (and breakfast when I can’t be bothered to cook) and I’ll get a Les Paul? Sign me TF up
Simply put, A Gibson Les Paul is by far the finest rock and roll instrument ever made.
my epiphone special ll LP..is special....its writtin right on it.
Winning!
I have one of them as well. Nice and inexpensive! :)
Anthony Gonzalez I have an Epiphone Les Paul Special also, was my first guitar. And now I also have an Epiphone Les Paul Standard, love it!
Own one to. It's my baby.
Epi Special ll was the first now a korean epi les paul custom with 490/498...awesome
No. 1 Thing that makes a Les Paul special: It sounds great, no matter how small or how cheap an amp you plug it in to.
The sustain... You forgot to speak about the Les Paul sound sustain, which they're famous for.
Alberto Jorge Soares what do you mean?
Does his amp go to 11?
@Brandon Ivey That's an old wive's tale, though. The reason les pauls seem to sustain longer is because the pickups do better picking up the tail end of the string vibration, and because of the weight.
If you put humbuckers in a heavy strat and strummed one next to the other, the sustain is the same. Even on a light strat, it's really close. The 6k ohm single coil strat pickups are really bad in terms of compression, though - they don't pick up the tail end of the physical string sustain that's occurring.
I love the sound of an LP clean, as much as I agree with strats w/single coils giving out the most beautiful bell-like cleans, there’s something about Les Paul cleans that are unmatched by any other humbucker equipped guitar
Took me a life time to find "the One". I'm old, been noodling around on guitars for over 40 years. I first wanted an electric guitar after hearing and seeing Paul Kossoff as a kid....but even then, LP's were expensive....Had 6 LP's over the decades, and just never connected to them like I did my Strats, or even my Grtesch's. UNTIL...I was told by the local guitar shop owner, "Man, you need to check out this used R8 VOS I have in the back.." My son's took guitar lessons there so I played this thing about three times, about a total of about 3 hours, and was in love. I NEVER was so inspired by any LP like this before...Sold 2 guitars to pay for it, went back to buy it the next week, GONE....Two years later, I get a call, " It's back...the R8 is back..." I went back and there it was....the owner traded it in for a Warren Haynes 335. The stars were aligned, I just happen to have sold one of my three Hiwatt's recently and had the funds for the R8. To this day, it is by far one of my favorite guitars in my collection. I know everybody jumps on the Gibson bashing train, but when you find one of the good ones, you know it, it's undeniable. Mine has been borrowed by three studios, and I play it, and record with it constantly. Its in the rack as one of my all time go to guitars with a small handful of others...Looking back, when I was strictly a Strat guy, or even a Gretsch guy, I would never have called the Les Paul one of my favorite guitars since i never clicked with one before...that changed. I hate ever saying "It's my single favorite..anything" But it is. Love playing all my guitars, have a room full of GREAT guitars...but if only one could be kept....it'd be my R8 VOS.
Came across a used 2013 R8 at Wildwood Guitars in Louisville, Colorado back in 2017, and Lance the sales rep had me step outside of their tiny storefront away from earshot of 2 other customers and then asked me if I had a problem with expletives. I said "not really, why? He then said " because I just had to tell you that the guitar you just bought is "Stupid Fucking Good" !!! (LoL)! He said that everyone that works at Wildwood plays all the guitars that someone trades in, and that they all agreed that it was "One of the good ones" and that it was a very special guitar. I also love and own Strats and PRS, but none hold a candle to my R8!
I’m a Hendrix, Clapton, and SRV fan so I never cared for LPs and I’ve tried so many Les Paul’s ranging from $400-2500 and oddly enough I fell in love with a $300 used MIK Jay Tursey Serpent LP… it had a more strat feeling neck and it’s so loud acoustically and resonated better than the expensive ones. Great video man, you described exactly what I went through with finding one. You’re the best, stay safe man and thank you for everything you do!
Should do a video on it. Reply to me if you do
Well i guess the premiere is over lol I think RUclips still has some bugs with the Premiere Feature
I have a 60 reissue, the smaller neck version, it's perfect! Great tone, easy to play. Humbuckers always sound better than single coils
I find my Les Paul is very easy to play. I use a .010 set, but it feels like .009s. I also like the bridge tone down a bit. The weight is the only thing that gets me. Glad you're enjoying it.☺
Glad you're enjoying your Les Paul Robert. I've got two Customs,a 1971 black beauty and a cream 1977. Nothing sounds like a Les Paul. Truly amazing works of art. You're right,they're not easy to play as my Ibanez RGs, or Super Strats. My 77' weighs 14 lbs and its truly a beast. The sustain is incredible on my Les Pauls. Wish everyone could have one!!
Gibson Les Paul Love !! Though I love my other guitars too, I just can't get that creamy sweet neck pickup sound on Fender or PRS that I can on a Gibson LP. Absolute Magic to my ears !!
Yes! So glad you said "you fight with it." my fingers kill after playing my LP for a while, I don't notice until way later, it is like a work out for your hands, but in a great way.
Dude that is an awesome song. Your versatility is really amazing. Your lead from:50 -1:06 is perfect. Don't change a thing. Please let me know when you drop this one.
As for the Les Paul,Its always been too small of a guitar for me. I love their tone.
thanks home slice
Sustain and IN YOUR FACE POWER!
YYeahhh
4:18 I’ve had the exact opposite experiences with Les Pauls. I’ve found they’re hands down by far the EASIEST guitar to play. I felt faster, more capable and more accurate. I always thought that’s why they were more expensive.
That has more to do with the scale length than the price… At it’s 24.75” scale length, an LP is noticeably easier to play, given the same string gauge and tuning, than a Strat, because Strats have a 25.5“ scale length… The longer the scale length, the more tension needed to bring the string to pitch, and therefore the more difficult it is to bend
@@JamesMurphyProducer It's not just the tension but also fretting stretch with your hand. I also find LP to be easier to play since I have small hands. If you have a LP with a 60s or more modern neck, and reasonably sized frets, it'll be easier to play than your average strat in general. I find the double cut design to be overrated as well. You rarely play that high on the neck, and when you do you almost never touch the low strings anyway. I think a more comfortable neck profile and shorter scale length are absolutely the top criteria for playability.
I love my Les Paul. I played a ton of them before I settled on mine. It was expensive too. It’s a custom and cost me a little over £6.6k but I love it.
Dang that thing must be a beast!
I just going this video now and loved it! Excellent tones!
Robert is right about finding a good one. I’ve got a 2015 Gibson Les Paul Traditional Pro III that I got in February 2017 and I love it. I’ve done a few mods to it to make it more in the realm of a vintage Les Paul but I love it to bits.
Les Paul has so much tone, but so much bite
Yes Robert! Definitely do this kind of video for some of your other guitars!
Nearly 1.5 years later and I am still loving my 2017 Honey Burst Les Paul Tribute T. She is a no frills guitar whose tone runs the gamut from a heavy rocking beast to playing squeaky mouse type cleans!
I echo your take on the LP. I love my '70 Deluxe goldtop. I did swap the minis for a pair of full-size Gibsons.
the 70s pauls are legit
the intro already explains it, great video
Robert I am 53 years old and fell in love with the guitar at a young age listening to my step dad playing along his favorite country artists on his gorgeous 1966(?) Gibson Hummingbird acoustic. One day he got out this red electric guitar and started playing along with the Ventures, I was hooked! It wasn't until years later I learned that was an Ovation ES style. At 12 years old in 1977 I started getting into the heavier music and KISS was my first favorite "modern" rock band. It was because of Ace Frehley and a post that I always wanted a Gibson Les Paul. I saw this poster that came out of a magazine of this guy, I had no clue who he was, he was standing there onstage and looked as if he had just hit this massive chord on a Les Paul that looks just like the one you own. His shirt open, that cool rock star look on his face - between those two I always wanted a Gibson Les Paul.
At 53 I own over 20 guitars right now and 6 of them are Gibson Les Paul studio models. 3 Epiphone Les Pauls, 1 Gretsch style and a couple of others known as el cheapos lol. What you said is so very true - every guitar feels differently and even though my 6 Les Paul's are all studio models they feel different which in turn makes me feel different when I play them. My favorite is my alpine white 2005 with a 490R in the neck and 57 classic on the bridge. My second favorite is my beast Les Paul. It is a 2013 Sully Erna signature model. I call it a beast because even though it only has one pickup this thing feels like it weighs 20 pounds lol. It is a full 2 inches thick and has a 57 classic pickup. The sustain on this guitar will blow your friggin doors off!! My white is my favorite because of the two pickups though.
2017, I am checking out some posters for my grand daughter, glow in the dark ones, in a local head shop. I decide to look through the posters that are not rolled up but are on cardboard backs and ready to hang up. About halfway through this stack of posters what do I find? a much larger version of that magazine pull out poster of that guy I told you about in the beginning of comment. There he was, it was like stepping back into time when I saw and I recognized him immediately now that I know more about rock music. All these years and I could never really remember what his looked like, but as soon as I saw that poster I knew him and I knew I had to have it, none other than Jimmy Page himself!
I own several other models of guitars, the Strat and Strat types are just not my thang, I don't like the way they feel in my hands and I don't like the sounds of them. I do however own a cheap $100 starcaster made by fender that I love! I put a hotrail at the bridge and changed out the pickguard and for some reason I love playing that thing, hated and sold within 6 months after buying my brand new Strat, love the cheap one most would consider junk lol. I just purchased a brand new Tele with a double humbucker at the bridge and I gotta tell ya, I love it!!
Anyway, great video and man that opening song you did!! WOW!! Loved it!!
Really diggin that Opening jam!!
My man, you are the reason i bought a Les Paul! And thank you for that!!
I was 5 years old at my friends house. He brought out Kiss Alive..I instantly fell in love with the guitar sound.... especially on Cold gin on the intro when Ace was using the toggle as a kill switch...then I saw the cover and instantly knew that was a guitar!! I even built a guitar in the style of his....still have it and I’m 47 now lol..I have some other nice guitars. Ibanez and a couple others... I ALWAYS go to my LP. It’s an 87 Les Paul custom lite and I’ll be buried with it..lol
A quick fix for your volume pots might be dirt. DeoxIT works wonders, just blast it in, let it dry and you're good as new. It fixed my Paul's three way switch.
I have to remember what that stuff is called. Ive been told it 3 times but can never remember it lol. Thanks homie
@@RobertBakerGuitar Buy the screw on applicator from Stew Mac and it will ensure the deoxit is injected properly into the pot. Even brand new guitars will suffer from static.
Robert Baker DeoxIT DeoxIT DeoxIT DeoxIT DeoxIT DeoxIT DeoxIT
Repeat this outloud a few times and you won’t forget lmao
I have a Slash Piezo Les Paul from 2004. First off the tabacco burst is amazing and my personal favorite. But it just has such an amazing, thick, screamy sound about it.
I have a 7.5 weight LP fret less wonder with P90s Black Beauty that is so thick and creamy tone I can't put it down.
I have an 89 Les Paul standard and my buddies I jam with always want to play it when we get together to play in their garage. The thing that blows me away is how long he notes will last. I've gotten spoiled by it and didn't really notice it until I switched guitars with my buddy and played the strat copy he's playing. You hit a note and it just dies off... and I'm like 'where did the sound go?" The LP just lets that note ring for a long time.
Your LP sounds amazing man... and it's got an absolutely beautiful finish. Love your playing!
After watching you and Joe Bonamassa play LP's I went out to Sam Ash in Columbus and got great deal on a new leftover. I too love it and my grandson was playing his Epiphone LP I gave him on stage Sunday night at Skullys in Columbus. It is his favorite and I will pass mine to him when I get another one. Thanks for helping me spend a lot of money!
I agree with you Robert I have a Les Paul studio and I love it wish I could afford a standard but the studios are close! Just not the extra looks and frills.
One thing is TRUE.... it can be very frustrating finding the right one. The one I like the NECK does not have the tone, the one I like the TONE does not have the feel in the neck that i like. But if the MAN - LES PAUL himself designed and played it who am I to argue.
I waited years to own one !! Now that I have one I'm glad !! You're Right, it does have a Bigger sound to it. The difference between this and something else is as different as night & day !!
Guitar Jesus, your tones are always so dialed in. Sounds amazing keep it rocking. 👍
I finally bought a Les Paul a few weeks ago, been wanting one for 30 years. Thanks for explaining the origin of guitar player face Robert. I'll blame it on the Les Paul.
One of the best tobacco burst finishes I have ever seen on an LP. 👍. Would love to find that!
Great video and well put. I agree with how 100% of what you said.
The Les Paul is my favorite guitar. Of course that may have something to do with having the same Birthday as Slash but who knows. Currently half of my electric guitars are Les Paul style.
I've got a Gibson Les Paul Studio Premium Plus, Gibson Les Paul Studio Swirl with the goldtop finish, Gibson Les Paul Special with P90s, PRS SE Zach Myers and the one I built myself when I went to Luthiery School.
The one I built is a mix of my favorite stuff and has 24 frets with a 25" scale length and the control layout is like an SG with the output jack on top. Also put a mini switch for each humbucker (59 and JB combo) for series/split/parallel. Gave the neck a nice beefy 50's profile as well.
Oh absolutely I own only one les Paul but it's all I'll ever need it's a 2004 Gibson les Paul supreme in wine red named Stella and it's a beautiful playing and sounding machine
I love the Sound of your Guitar. I have an Epiphone Les Paul with Gibson Burstbuckers and other changed hardware. I put it aside for awhile to accustomed myself to my ESP/LTD, but am inspired to get back on it. I hope you publish some of your licks you played in this video. Awesome!
I have the opposite view. Les Pauls play easier to me. I always feel like they can be a finesse guitar if you want to play it that way. Strats are the guitars that I feel fight me. I have to work to play a strat. I play strats in some situations because of that. I can get really aggressive with a Strat. It is easy to get too aggressive on a Les Paul. You are the first person I remember saying the Les Paul fights you more than a strat. Maybe it has to do with setups. I tend to run action higher on a Strat with heavier strings to get more oomph and less string buzz.
I know dude, with my Les Paul I feel like I can easily glide around the fretboard without needing too much work and aggression
LPs have a flatter radius so it makes bends and shreds kind of easier from what I gather. Shorter scale makes the strings looser so they feel less combative
Same here. Started on a strat. Then got my first LP, and never looked back. It was so much easier on the hands, imo.
Ironically i have a les paul. Id love a tele but i would never sell my lp... But from my personal experience teles and strats are easier for me but for sum reason theyre just fun. The lp on the other hand is like a lover i feel the need to prove myself to
Totally agree. I find more Les Paul's more user friendly and easier to play as opposed to a strat, where you have to work harder to get a great sound: but boy when you work hard enough the sound is fantastic.
I love it, you have all those new guitars and you keep coming back to the Paul! When you say you have to fight yours, can you describe it more. My Les Paul wants a light touch, I can't fret down hard like my Strat. Just wondering if I have some sort of set-up problem, like a high nut or something.
Yeah, there's just something magical about a Les Paul. Even in online demos here on YT, whenever someone grabs a LP, the musician just starts playing something totally different to get those great classic tones out of it.
Can't believe I just saw this video. My first "real guitar" was a mid-1990s Gibson Les Paul Standard that I saved up for back in my high school days...back in the 1990s. Sadly, I was pushed into selling it a few years ago to pay bills. I just recently managed to get a newer one, and the awesome feeling came roaring back.
Hey Robert, we actually met before your Vola demo at Flipside Music in Denver. Great store and the guitar tech there is a personal friend of mine, whom I brought my Charvel Crackle model 3Dr for a setup. Anyways, I DO have a very special 1988 Les Paul custom that I bought in 1996 and had it since. The frets are about roached on it but it is an absolute tone monster and has the thinnest neck profile I have ever played on an LP. It didn't come with the stock pickups, which whom the previous owner put a JB in the bridge. I put a Gibson 500T in it a few months after getting it, but the neck pickup has remained a Duncan Alnico II pro, which has become my favorite neck pickup. Just soooo smooth and buttery. I will go to my grave with this guitar.
Yep you are right you definitely have to find the ones that speak to you. I have two of them and a killer epi lesspaul and I can’t live without them.
I have a Gibson Les paul LPJ and i love that guitar !!!!
Hell yeah Robert!!
My '96 Les Paul Studio with stock pickups does it for me. It's the guitar I grab when I want to write some new riffs.
Totally understand. You have to find yours. Harder to do than it sounds. Love this channel dude!
thank you Paul
Those guitars are amazing and you make it sound great as well, I really hope it works out to get one next year...fingers crossed.
A SD 59 in the neck of a Les Paul is the best solo tone one can ask for...you can even get some great crunch rythm tones...it sounds full but not muddy...awesome pickup. A custom 5 in the bridge position of a Strat also sounds awesome
Own a 96 Les Paul Studio, it’s beat to hell and the finish is starting to wear off the top and sides. I installed a 57 classic in the neck and 57 classic plus in the bridge. It’s a Tone monster and my number one go to guitar. It’s just magical.
I installed those in my epiphone Les Paul, didn't like them until I changed the tone caps with orange drops, made a huge difference in tone.
I've been trying to play my Dean a bit more but my all time favorite still, is my Gold Top LP. It plays and sounds like no other.
Les Pauls are wild beasts of guitars. You don't master it, you sorta work with it on equal terms.
A true design classic that will never age.
I have a Yamaha Les Paul with the open book headstock from 70s..I found it in a local store...it sounds so big and I compared to a Gibson and sounded just as good...it's very unique because most Yamaha lps are called Studio Lord with a different shape on headstock..
Loved the song at the start. Kinda reminds me of Good Times Bad Times, but done in a way that it isn't a rip off, but inspired by
Sounds great 👍 👍
Nice playing, fun video! I share your sentiments - if you find the right one then go for it. I got lucky, in 1974 I bought my first electric from a friend who was already an established player in NZ - it was a 1968 LP Custom (NZD 800 / USD 550 approx). I used it thru the 70s with the band live and it's lived in my studio ever since. I have tried a lot of LPs since but I'm so used to the 60s neck and the 'fretless wonder' neck that I struggle with some of the 59 re-issue types etc. Anyway - enjoyed your playing, cheers!
I'm a Fender fanboy, til about the last two years SG first then a Les Paul (which is acually the first electric I ever played.). 17 guitars, and the Les Paul stuns me. It does EVERYTHING
Alright! So I just picked myself up a Wine Red Gibson Les Paul Studio, gold hardware, all original from 97' (i was a freshmen in Highschool) it even has the original Gibson USA case! Man I love it, I've always been a Fender guy ever since the beginning! But now....I just can't put this thing away! Haha! 🤟😁 RAWK!
What amazes me is how so many younger guitarist say " awww I bought a brand new one and it plays like crap". Maybe you might do a video on how many times you need to do a set-up on a new guitar versus a used one. I've had one for 10 years and it plays better every year. YOU'RE AWESOME !!!
Yes! You definitely have to do battle with a Les Paul but the sounds you can get are worth it.
Have the same burst on my 1996 Std and I agree with all that's said here
Killer tune
Really nice sound !!! Please try a Gibson Explorer. I will have a new one in a couple of weeks. What is the price and model of your Les Paul ?
I have an r8 and it’s my favorite guitar that I’ve ever picked up.
Les Paul lovers I felt in love with my epiphone les Paul Jr. and in thinking to buy the traditional or standard
That one has that Carry On Wayward Son kinda vibe/tone, great stuff! 😎
Couldn’t agree more, been playing 2019 bbq/smokehouse burst studio LP.
Wish I could post a picture of it on here:)
Those double cream are so bad ass!. Thanks Robert.
I bought an Ibanez RG7420 a few years ago but I’m honestly thinking of buying a Les Paul to take things back to basics. I enjoy playing my 7 string but for some reason the Les Paul takes you to a completely different place musically speaking that is unmatched. I wish they were more affordable.....but maybe an Epiphone LP is a good starting point.
The TOM bridge -- it anchors so many players and gives some natural palm muting. Pick up a Tele and many players hand rests behind the saddles or behind the bridge plate (picking over top the bridge pickup), or a Strat where the volume knob makes you play closer to the neck pickup. Cycle through your guitars, play some songs, and stop to see where your picking hand is resting and picking. Now go back to the LP and pick in those other places. LP will twang... look up the Bill Kirchen Hot Rod Lincoln video (the one with the brown Tele) and watch where he picks.
Amazing intro!!!
Totally agree, there is NOTHING like a Les Paul! My (non-musical) wife didn't understand until she heard Gary Moore's "Still Got The Blues" -- after that, she gave me carte blanche: if I ever find THE Les Paul, I should buy it on the spot. Unfortunately, I've never even come close to finding the right one, but I'll never give up!
That riff at the beginning is absolutely kille. Great chording, effective wankery, and room.
The shorter scale is part of the Les Paul equation. I'm an LP man all the way, except when I'm playing a tele. The original and best RnR machines.
I got my first Gibson Les Paul about a month ago. A 2018 in faded bourbon
Well what makes it so special to me is it is a tone monster.
Spot on. I tried dozens of them for years until I found mine, a 96 Custom, it's the most comfortable of all my guitars and I grab it first naturally. It's like slipping my arm around my wife.
Just bought my 4th.....this time a Black Custom from Sweetwater.....in HEAVEN!!!!
Even a one pickup dc junior kicks butt, they sound huge cranked up, love all of them
That Kalamazoo is so sweet...
I think Les Paul’s are the only guitars that inspire me to play everything. Once I pick mine up I never want to put it down. Where when I play my Strat. I’m finding the Strat sounds I know and love. I think it’s hard to find your own sound. But when I play my Les Paul I feel more like it’s me. Even when I play my custom 24 or rg. I love them and love how they sound and feel but once my Les Paul is in my hands. I’m like this is it. This is how I want to sound all the time. I’d like to at some point get my hands on a McCarty 594 single cut and see if I feel the same way. But I’m pretty sure I will because the Les Paul like you said sounds big and when I played a 245sc it sounded almost identical to my custom 24. But I trust Paul to make his top core model to sound the best
I have a '08 LP standard, '77 Special, '91 Studio lite and R56 Goldtop - all good - all different. What blows me away is I recently bought the Epiphone Les Paul Tribute (rainbow finish) which has Gibson 57's in it as well as push/pull pots. What an astonishingly good Les Paul! Paid $750 for it. Paid $3k for my Standard, $.4.5k for the R56. The Epiphone Tribute is unbelievably close in sound - to the Standard...I suppose because Epiphone/Gibson sprung for the 57's. Blind test would be very difficult to discern which is the Standard and which is the Tribute. What a buy. I've recently ordered the Epiphone Joe Bonamassa '58 "Black Beauty" Custom ($800) to see what it can do. Anyway I played Fenders for most of my career and love 'em. Didn't find a Les Paul I could get along with until years later. Learned how to control them - because indeed, as you say, they have to be played differently. Anyway - LP's are wonderful guitars. Thank you for the video.
For years I played a Les Paul then got into Telecasters then just had to have a Les Paul once more. Mine only has the PAF humbuckers though I love the sound yours makes. Damn they smoke.
Hey Robert, big fan of your content! I do have a question for you.. I never see you playing a PRS custom or CE version (any PRS at all, really). Is it because you have an aversion to them? I’m on the fence about a LP or a PRS CE24. Would love to hear your perspective.
I have a 2005 Epi LP Classic that is my baby, also had a Gibson but sold it, granted it was a special but still, couldn't compare!
You need to add the 4 push/pull pots with coil split &phase shift Page wiring scheme
Robert, can you tell me how to build the same type of set up you have going on there. I want to continue to play through my JTM but i would like to have the option of headphones and the whole computer set up like you have there in this video.
love your stuff.
Compared to the strats are les pauls harder to play? Before I got my Strat I had an esp ltd and they are very similiar to les pauls, and it seems like it was so much harder to play than the strat. Do you think the les pauls have the edge when it comes to clean sounds as well? I thought about getting an epiphone just to have some type of les paul.
I have 2 Gibson Slash lespauls the 2008 Tabaco burst and the 2010 AFD lespaul :D
That into was WICKED!!
Hi Robert, grettings from chile!!!.. i dont have the money to buy a gibson, but i got a bunch of ibanez rg superstrats and one epiphone les paul standard hardly moddified and a Edwards e-lp 130 cd ( edwards / esp take of les paul custom black beauty). i love my les pauls
Wena wn
I have an "84 Greco LP custom mint collection with a dimazio in the bridge.
Sounds and plays beautiful. Hard to put it down.
Love this vid. One thing for me, though, is I've always found playing a Les Paul to be easier than other guitars. The reason I spend more time practicing with my Tele is that it is harder for me to play than my LP. Anytime I'm practicing something new, I do it with the Tele first because even if I nail it on the LP, the Tele is like starting over.