Marty Music i would prefer the strat for that QUACK sound and that kind of lever... was mad funny when u got crazy with it, and whats the name of the song at the end ?
My girlfriend, not a guitar player: the telecaster has a fuller sound and a wider variety of sounds, while the stratocaster is more shrill and thin. Me, a guitar player: I like the strat, I think it's prettier.
@Trevor Alicea You are so right😁😄😆👌 I have both!! Love the sound of the guitar! I started with 1 10 years ago, now I have 11😁 2 electric and 9 acoustics!!!! They all sound beautiful 😍
Played both for years. On first glance, the Tele may seem less versatile than the Strat, but I think when you get used to both long enough, you'll come to realize the Tele is actually the more versatile of the two. The Strat has 5 very similar tones and a notoriously generic bridge tone that cannot really be much-improved, due to the nature of the bridge. In contrast, the Tele has 3 *very* different tones that can be made to do very incredible things after enough experience (you can't approach it like a Strat - it's very different) - the bridge is gutsy, raw, stinging, steely, insanely lively with upper harmonics, and has arguably more bite/hard attack/spank than any other guitar....beyond the obvious use in Country, that position pumps up enough to be utterly amazing for even rock solos (Stairway to Heaven solo = Tele, pretty much all of Led Zep 1, half of the Hotel California solo, etc., ). The middle switch position is jangle-city (contrary to the perception of Ric fans, almost every song on REM's "Reckoning" is actually a Tele, The Smiths "This Charming Man", etc.). Lastly, there's the traditional neck pickup, which is largely misunderstood - listen close and you'll note a distinct lack of harmonics (go try your best - you can barely get any, due to where the pickup is placed), which is on purpose, along with the soft-attack (in contrast to the bridge pickup), which also makes it a great guitar for jazz (as Ed Bickert, Bill Frisell, Ted Greene, and Mike Stern among many others know). Anyway, I play both (among a variety of other guitars), and love both. But if it had to be just one....Tele.
d'Etroit Ultramann 8 months ago I was mocking people for using such descriptive adjectives for guitars and saying how each has its own personality but I'm starting to hear the differences
I love this comment. Thanks for posting! I love both too and I agree with everything you said about the tele 100% but to me, the strat is a little more versatile because of that 3rd pick-up, and that 5 way switch (if your guitar is 1977 and after). Really thought, there is just something about a telecaster/..
Telecasters are like an old pair of blue jeans, comfortable and are simpler to get good vibes. Stratocasters just seem like you have to fight them and constantly trying to find a good tone. I own both , love both for what they are . But the telecaster ...ahh!
@Hang Jebat216 I sold my partscaster strat for 275. Paid 250 for my Squier Standard Series tele, for 50, put a Joe Barden three barrel bridge, 35 for a GFS 63 professional reproduction tele bridge pup and 20 for some Chinese locking tuners. Plays and sounds as good as any MIM tele, if not better. Very happy with choice!
Been playing classical guitar for a few years now. Today I bought a Jimmy Page signature Telecaster. It felt strange at first, like a big piece of wood hanging from my neck and the strings sounded twangy. It felt a little disappointing and I thought I made a mistake on the purchase. However, I plugged it in and started playing with the knobs to get a decent tone. Having done that, I started jamming over a backing track and got lost in the incredible sounds of this instrument. I was smitten and fell in love with this guitar. Hard to put down and I think this love affair has taken my life to a whole new level of sound and beauty.
Tele every time. I prefer the simplicity, tone and looks of the Telecaster. I mostly play a Les Paul and kind of think of the Tele as the other side of the tone spectrum.
There’s something about the tele that one cannot explain but can feel once you start using it. It’s so versatile and fun to hold as well. That bridge pickup is just so distinct with the teles that I loved.
I just bought a Tele 2 days ago. Today was the first day i really got to play it, I was playing to a really chill backing track on my looper and running the Tele through the Julia and SLO by Walrus and i had a spiritual experience it was awsome! I have a Les Paul and a PRS and ive connected more strongly to this guitar in 2 days then ive had with the L.P and Prs, Great Guitar!
I'm so surprised to see comments overwhelmingly favoring the Tele. I thought the Strat's throatier sound killed it but to each his own. Both sounded great.
I think it’s cause strats are so basic looking. They’re the Superman of guitars. By that I mean they’re stereotypical when it comes to electric guitar design
@@Oceantreasures24 it's like "I want to be unique and different", bro, everyone wants something different, you just need someone to make it popular and it starts to collapse
Had a Tele in the 70's, then added a Strat. Loved em both. We played mostly blues so they suited me fine. Great times. Wish I could back and do it again. Still got the Tele.
go to the shop and sit down with all the guitars man you will find what you are looking for don't just take others opinion it is a personal choice, everyone has their preferences find yours
Hey guys I'm planning on buy my first guitar at end of month and I seen some guy selling a used Squier Telecaster Semi Hollow Thinline(it doesn't say Thinline on the announcement, but it is written on the end of the neck where you fine the tune so I guess it is) anyways it cost 250 dollars and it's look good just it's look a little used around the body so i was wondering if that's a good buy, honestly I don't care much about the outside because I can pay for someone restore the guitar. Btw I from Latinoamérica so maybe the price is a little different in your country
i own both, strat can make everybody happy, very versatile but not so in your face kinda type... tele is stubborn, in your face, you have to be adaptable with the character then slowly you will see the magic shine, and you will falling in love with deeply...
I've owned a lot of guitars as I'm 66 and been playing since I was 9. I started out on my dad's '59 330 dot neck until he took me down to the local music store and bought me a brand new Gibson 345 stereo when I was 14. Later he bought me a Marshall stack and I was set for awhile. I only wish I had been able to hang on to all the guitars I've bought and traded wheeled and dealed. I have two Telecasters now that are second to none. I have a '53 reissue that's about 30 years old and it's my main guitar. The action is just unbelievable. It's got .009's on it and it's flat and straight all the way up even as any guitar I've ever played. I get any sound I need out of it and it never goes out of tune. I also have a Schecter I built out of solid Koa with a rock maple neck. It has EMG humbuckers and a Floyd tremolo . It is my screamer for the heavier stuff. If I was a rich man I would own different guitars for different styles but............. I would love to have a Gibson '59 standard and a 335 but'.................. I love my Tele and I've owned 4 Strats that couldn't compare. Strats are great guitars but they're all different and it's the luck of the draw I think. I had a swamp ash Strat with a maple neck it was an American deluxe. It had the 5 way switch single coils , rolling nut etc. It played great with a little wider neck that fit my hand perfect. Problem was when I used the tremolo it went out of tune. I sold it. If I could afford a new custom shop guitar I'd really like to try one of the Suhr models. Or maybe a custom shop Strat built just for me. I built a Warmouth once with all the best parts money could by. Had a guitar builder set it up for me. I could never get the sound I wanted from it or for it to play right. The Telecaster is for me.
I had almost exclusively owned strat or strat-like guitars until my dad loaned me his MIM Telecaster and was so floored at how versatile that guitar was - especially since i stereotyped it as just a country or blues guitar. That bridge pickup twang transforms into an absolute monster through distortion.
I’m a Tele guy myself - love the clean sound and look of the tele. For me the Strat hasn’t aged well passed the 80’s Heavy Rock look. Aesthetically the Tele wins hands down
Iloveto Troll a Fender Modern Player Tele is your best stock bet for that. Or, replace the neck pickup of a tele to something stratty. You won't get the quack, but you'll get a pretty similar neck tone.
@@rectly i gonna help u, the Strat works for all, but u have to learn how To get those "thousand sounds" out of it, the Telecaster has a more "powerful" pickup and a weaker one, it is not as versatile but it is simpler
I've never played either, since I'm still on my Yamaha acoustic as I only started playing just over a year ago. For me though the strat has always been my dream guitar because of players like Gilmour and Clapton. I am surprised by how many people are shouting Tele in the comments though!
Tele is just too wild and if best of 60s and 70s are in concerns teles are the one responsible.......watch fenders telecaster advertisement narrated by Jimmy Page himself......and how the tele is an icon(official fender advertisement for tele)
Strat, versatility and they just sound awesome through a cranked valve amp, they also seem to be better with lots of different pedals, Teles are amazing and, again, nothing beats a Tele through a cranked high-quality valve amp and/or a good OD/Fuzz pedal. Strat neck pickup is something special.
Been a tele guy for years but when I first tried a Stratocaster I just can’t help admitting that its more ergonomic and the neck sounds amazing. There’s a reason why people from jeff beck to SRV, clapton and even John mayer and frusicante prefer it over the telecaster. It is actually good. These days I’m more of a prs guy tho.
I want a PRS so bad! Those are NICE guitars! That's one on my list after my almost all Ibanez RGs 😬 it's what I started with. 🤷 I got several acoustic varieties, mostly RGs for the electrics, beside an LTD ec1000. I need a strat or telr now, leaning towards the strat a lot more though. 🤔
Well, three years later and I bought my first Strat. Right out of the box I loved it. It plays and sounds quite different from the Tele. Marty is right: Strive to have both, you'll love them equally. You'll play different songs on them, perhaps keep them in different tunings. In the meantime, they are both super flexible and playable.
I always thought teles sounded great as rhythm guitars or for bluesy semi clean leads, but I gotta go with the strat for lead players that want variety (rock/blues/jazz) without having to switch guitars
I agree with that point. There's a lot of cool phat jazz tones that you can get with the Strat esp. when strumming closer to the neck. And that creamy sound it has. The tele is great for blues, rock and country, but can't do those same tones for other styles.
I bought a player strat a couple months back and I love it. It passes all the things I've wanted from a guitar. The single-coil pickups make the guitar sound so good and they make the strat so versatile. The contour body makes the guitar comfortable and easy to play and the neck is nice and well crafted. The only downside about it is the tremolo. The tremolo is good but sometimes it could get in the way but the good thing is that you can take it off. overall it's an amazing guitar that you don't wanna pass up on.
Tony M i agree. i am new on guitar so i watch all of these videos to get an idea of what guitar i want. so far i am planing on getting an epiphone les paul but the strat, tele, sg and ibanez gem are guitars that i want to be able to play myself someday
Im that guy who always played the strat and hated the tele, cuz of the looks, it was ugly for me, but then my eyes and ears opened for it and i began to love it too! Now i want them both. This month if i finish school i will buy a fender telecaster usa buttescotch blonde, i love that mustard like color with the black plate. And i also want the fiesta red one with white plate, which was used by legend Mark Knopfler (dire straits) in Walk of Life. And i now have a black/white strat from yamaha and one from silverado. I want the creme fender strat from ynwie malmsteen. So nice. I like that special neck.
Tele 0:591:171:41 strat 6:028:1312:01 I was expecting to prefer one pickup position on one guitar and another position on the other guitar, but on this video I like the tele more in all 3 positions. That's a nice sounding tele.
Tele, Strat & LP have the most distinct characters of all the guitars available today imo. Interestingly too is that all were designed from first principles with a specific aim in their creation. I think that's defined their sound almost. They were built organically & with purpose. There are a lot of great guitars out there, but I rarely find one outside this holy trinity that has it's own unique & distinctive sound/character. There are some incredibly well made guitars out there made of contemporary materials & construction methods but they often don't bring anything new to the table tonally or are particularly dynamic. You can really thrash & play these 3 classic guitars.
Real MVP here: a guitar sound comparison video that *actually* spends most of the time comparing the sounds instead of regurgitating a Wikipedia article and talking endlessly! Well done, you got a new subscriber!
I’ve had a telecaster for about 6 years, and I love it. I’ve played it so much. But the more years that pass by, I find myself wanting a Strat more and more. I much prefer the look and feel of a Tele. But there’s something about that Strat tone…it’s unmistakable.
I love my Tele. It`s such a simple design - but with simplicity comes reliability. A Tele never let you down and stays in tune for ever. The tone is very straight forward and fit perfect to my style of music.
Stays in tune. . . Oh, the Net!! If there's something Tele, through the years, was VERY well known for was (and sometime is) INTONATION problems. That's why they changed the bridge to put individual saddles (which I don't care for in a Tele) until they got smarter and began creating compensated brass saddles Tele-style.
"The Stratocaster has a tremolo-bar, which the Telecaster does not"... Mine does! - I have a 1973 Fender Telecaster Custom with rosewood neck (you're right, it's lovely to play) and a Fender 'Bigsby-style' tremolo. Bought it in a junk-shop for £165 in South London in 1976, when I was only 16 years old... I still have it and it is still my fave-rave. I do indeed prefer it to my 1977 Strat (maple neck - hard work for small hands!), although also gorgeous. I also prefer it to my Gibsons, Martins & Guilds... Absolutely wonderful guitar. I read somewhere that they only made 400 of them... I have only seen photos of a certain John Lennon and Tom Petty with one... and, no it is not for sale!! I still use it. Best guitar I ever played.
Love your Vid's ! Great comparison ... It would have been interesting IF you had played the same works on both guitars. Allowing us to see and hear exactly how they are similar and different all at the same time. thanks.
strats are years more comfortable than teles with their bellycuts and armrests, but teles sound great, look great, and are more functional with their knob and pickup-switch placement.
My two cents on the subject : - I’ve always been a Les Paul lover, and it’s still my number one. Lately I really wanted that fender single coil sound (which I can’t get with P90...). So I bought a strat, sounded good to me in the store (original 50). Didn’t even thought about testing a tele... After a few weeks, the strat was back to the store. That was a guitar I loved and hated at the same time. So I decided to try a telecaster. A Jimmy page Mirror signature. F*** me man, that was THAT sound I was looking for ! Snappy as fuck, very touch responsive, all the three mic position are awesome. Now I have 2 of those, the Jimmy Page and an original 50. My 2nd guitar love along with the Les Paul for sure So for me is Tele all the way.
i just got my first telecaster the other day, been playing for about 1 week on acoustic but i’ve been studying the guitars for years, and just always wanted a telecaster specifically a daphne blue squire bullet, and i got my dream guitar!!
Marty, one of the things I really enjoy in this video is that you immediately cut-to-the-chase with your opinion. Then, you spend the rest of the video laying out the various pros/cons of each instrument. Well done sir!
I played my stratocaster more when I was young, but now I'm older it's the tele. A lot has to do with the variety of music you play and as I got older I migrated from rock to jazz and Christian music. But I still love the feel of the stratocaster. I would really like to have the tele sound in a stratocaster body!
My first guitar was a strat and was a pain to learn but once i learned it i could make it sound the exact way i wanted it to. Played my brother's telecaster and i think no matter what you do it sounds good but i found myself feeling limited in what i could make it do. Could be lack of experience with the tele but i still prefer strats.
It's important to have them both and to keep them both. Get a Les Paul, too. And a Thinline Tele with wide-range humbuckers. Buy, sell, and experiment with everything else. I've gone through so many changes in taste, and lost so much money because I sold gear that I fell out of love with, only to fall back in love with it and buy it again at a higher price. Buy and keep the gear that stands the test of time: Strats, Teles, LPs, Fender tube amps. They all have their advantages and disadvantages, but when you have one and not the other, you'll never feel completely satisfied. Save your money, be patient, buy the holy trinity of guitar styles, and hang on to them.
Thanks for watching! Also fyi, you get a free Multi-Hour long digital course based on your skill when you sign my newsletter at www.MartyMusic.com
Marty Music what gauge do you use for tele? I use 9s sounds like you do to be fair
Marty Music Gibson Es 335 vs Gibson les paul
Marty Music a song devil's kind from ordinary world by Green day. awesome some.. I would love to have a video on it..
Marty Music i would prefer the strat for that QUACK sound and that kind of lever... was mad funny when u got crazy with it, and whats the name of the song at the end ?
The tele is the original quackmonster! Plug it into a decent wah and you can quack with Daffy.
I've always been a telecaster guy ever since i ordered one today.
Cosmic Turtle37 even though this was a year ago, this comment is gold
Samuel Beebe yes
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Me too buddy
Same
Ex got mad one night and slammed my tele into the wall baseball style... gave it a little ding in the paint but was fine. Tele for durability.
RumzDizzle there's surely a story behind that
Hahaha. Your story... made an impression on me. "'Tele' is for durability."
I assume you gave your ex a ding on the head after that?
You probably broke up with her because she slammed one of your guitars huh
so the hot chick was a little crazy ?
My girlfriend, not a guitar player: the telecaster has a fuller sound and a wider variety of sounds, while the stratocaster is more shrill and thin.
Me, a guitar player: I like the strat, I think it's prettier.
Your girl has a point
Wait you guys have girlfriends
DerSchwarzeJulian wait, you’re getting friends
Nehemiah Zo we on the same boat my friend
Vain Dreamer shut tf up
It's not a matter of which one you buy, but which one you buy first because you'll definitely end up having both.
@Trevor Alicea You are so right😁😄😆👌 I have both!! Love the sound of the guitar! I started with 1 10 years ago, now I have 11😁 2 electric and 9 acoustics!!!! They all sound beautiful 😍
True.
Exactly
True! I’ve got a Strat and 2 telecasters. Need another Strat now!! 😄
I laughed so hard at this, thank you.
Who else wants both but can't afford either
Edit 1 year later: saved up for ages and got a strat
I cant even afford internet subscription to look at their pictures online! 😅
Get the Squier Affinity version of these.
pawn shops may carry a good one, just check the serial numbers before you pick one up and make sure its legit
I own both, a Les Paul, an SG and the Squire Affinity versions of the strat and the tele
Always Squier, or the player series
Could not decide so I bought a Fenson Stralecaspaul
underrated comment representing the indecisive population
I like that guitar but I think im leaning more towards the Gibder Semi-Hollow Double Neck Les Epicaster V 1960s edition
LOL ! Good comment man 👍 🇺🇸.
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Played both for years. On first glance, the Tele may seem less versatile than the Strat, but I think when you get used to both long enough, you'll come to realize the Tele is actually the more versatile of the two. The Strat has 5 very similar tones and a notoriously generic bridge tone that cannot really be much-improved, due to the nature of the bridge. In contrast, the Tele has 3 *very* different tones that can be made to do very incredible things after enough experience (you can't approach it like a Strat - it's very different) - the bridge is gutsy, raw, stinging, steely, insanely lively with upper harmonics, and has arguably more bite/hard attack/spank than any other guitar....beyond the obvious use in Country, that position pumps up enough to be utterly amazing for even rock solos (Stairway to Heaven solo = Tele, pretty much all of Led Zep 1, half of the Hotel California solo, etc., ). The middle switch position is jangle-city (contrary to the perception of Ric fans, almost every song on REM's "Reckoning" is actually a Tele, The Smiths "This Charming Man", etc.). Lastly, there's the traditional neck pickup, which is largely misunderstood - listen close and you'll note a distinct lack of harmonics (go try your best - you can barely get any, due to where the pickup is placed), which is on purpose, along with the soft-attack (in contrast to the bridge pickup), which also makes it a great guitar for jazz (as Ed Bickert, Bill Frisell, Ted Greene, and Mike Stern among many others know). Anyway, I play both (among a variety of other guitars), and love both. But if it had to be just one....Tele.
d'Etroit Ultramann
8 months ago I was mocking people for using such descriptive adjectives for guitars and saying how each has its own personality but I'm starting to hear the differences
Great comment, d'Etroit!! And thats is true!!
Great comment. Thank you. Very informative and helpful
I love this comment. Thanks for posting! I love both too and I agree with everything you said about the tele 100% but to me, the strat is a little more versatile because of that 3rd pick-up, and that 5 way switch (if your guitar is 1977 and after). Really thought, there is just something about a telecaster/..
Wow man ! Great info thanks
Telecasters are like an old pair of blue jeans, comfortable and are simpler to get good vibes. Stratocasters just seem like you have to fight them and constantly trying to find a good tone. I own both , love both for what they are . But the telecaster ...ahh!
Sold my partscaster strat to buy a Tele, best move ever!
@Hang Jebat216 I sold my partscaster strat for 275. Paid 250 for my Squier Standard Series tele, for 50, put a Joe Barden three barrel bridge, 35 for a GFS 63 professional reproduction tele bridge pup and 20 for some Chinese locking tuners. Plays and sounds as good as any MIM tele, if not better. Very happy with choice!
@Hang Jebat216 oh, and also $8 for a treble bleed.
@Hang Jebat216 and that is a total with everything bought new, nothing used
Until you have a good one thats setup right. My strat plays so easy I have to actively make myself slowdown and not play nonstop
Couldn’t decide so I bought none of them because I don’t have the money
I feel that
Order a kit. EY guitar parts for pickups
Been playing classical guitar for a few years now. Today I bought a Jimmy Page signature Telecaster. It felt strange at first, like a big piece of wood hanging from my neck and the strings sounded twangy. It felt a little disappointing and I thought I made a mistake on the purchase. However, I plugged it in and started playing with the knobs to get a decent tone. Having done that, I started jamming over a backing track and got lost in the incredible sounds of this instrument. I was smitten and fell in love with this guitar. Hard to put down and I think this love affair has taken my life to a whole new level of sound and beauty.
Beauty man
Which one did you get? The dragon or mirror?
Agreed. The more the telecaster is played the more its suits me.
Tele every time. I prefer the simplicity, tone and looks of the Telecaster. I mostly play a Les Paul and kind of think of the Tele as the other side of the tone spectrum.
I've always said that the SG and TELE were opposite sides of the same coin. More so if the SG has P-90s
the tele looks the most retarded out of all of them
Krisztian Szemak your oppinion. it's the most beautiful to myself and many others like me
Devin Hanson - Not to mention they have smokin hot tones when you drop a humbucker in them. I've had 2 that way. I swore off of Gibson and strats.
lotta Les Paul guys seem to go for the Tele first
There’s something about the tele that one cannot explain but can feel once you start using it. It’s so versatile and fun to hold as well. That bridge pickup is just so distinct with the teles that I loved.
I just bought a Tele 2 days ago. Today was the first day i really got to play it, I was playing to a really chill backing track on my looper and running the Tele through the Julia and SLO by Walrus and i had a spiritual experience it was awsome! I have a Les Paul and a PRS and ive connected more strongly to this guitar in 2 days then ive had with the L.P and Prs, Great Guitar!
I’ve heard many people say the same thing
My opinion
design: stratocaster
sound: telecaster
LEXON4X Opposite for me :)
I used to hate he telecaster body. It grew on me like a vine. Can’t get enough of my green baby
LEXON4X nah tele all the way
sgtgiggles same
Exact opposite mate
I love the sound of the strat, but the tele looks so good to me.
Larry Arthauer
Go with the sound trust me
Sound STRATO body tele
Funny the double cutaway body makes the strat so much sexier and sleek to me
Coming back almost a year later I’m in love with the strat, but the tele has an old fashioned look I like
I’m contemplating between the two options and I really like the shrillness of the strat, but it looks like a Barbie prop to me.
Guitar Shop: "Do you want to buy a strat or a tele?"
Me: "Yes."
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I laughed 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Made my day! 🤣
It's the guitarist's version of "soup or salad?"
I'm so surprised to see comments overwhelmingly favoring the Tele. I thought the Strat's throatier sound killed it but to each his own. Both sounded great.
I think it’s cause strats are so basic looking. They’re the Superman of guitars. By that I mean they’re stereotypical when it comes to electric guitar design
@@Oceantreasures24 it's like "I want to be unique and different", bro, everyone wants something different, you just need someone to make it popular and it starts to collapse
@@Oceantreasures24 I've played guitar for 25 years and I can't stand how Telecasters look so would never buy one.
Tele is such a good sounding clean tone, get one, and also a Les Paul for melting things.
The Strat was an original design, calling it stereotypical is silly
When in doubt, buy them all
When no money, buy none
When in debt, sell them all
My girlfriend disagrees
When a prodigy, ask the fam in a way that doesnt sound like asking
While your there buy a sg and les Paul
When you just bought your first guitar and your friends ask for a solo @ 12:20
Me when I play guitar high
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I think that shit was dope
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61 year old beginner says THANK YOU..
43 year old beginner. Enjoying the hell out of it.
51 and loving it.
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17 and I'm gonna go for tele
41 year old beginner. Bought a 61' SG. Tele or Strat are next though! or a Les Paul...
Stratocaster vs Telecaster is like a Civil war
Are you high?
Alfonso Jael Rodriguez how is he high?
Winner: Jaguar
Neutra nope, mustang :)
Thus, buy a Parallel Universe Stratotele for maximum confusion.
Had a Tele in the 70's, then added a Strat. Loved em both. We played mostly blues so they suited me fine. Great times. Wish I could back and do it again. Still got the Tele.
My Tele , My Wife & My Puppy
3 things I love most in the order in which I love em....
spoken like an honest man
Mike No I would go tele than puppy
A true honest American
I thought your Tele is your wife and puppy at the same time.
Need a tele...love that American twang it holds...forever a classic
This comment section just make me confused asf
General consensus is that the Telecaster sounds better and the Stratocaster looks better.
Just play what you like.
go to the shop and sit down with all the guitars man you will find what you are looking for don't just take others opinion it is a personal choice, everyone has their preferences find yours
Hey guys I'm planning on buy my first guitar at end of month and I seen some guy selling a used Squier Telecaster Semi Hollow Thinline(it doesn't say Thinline on the announcement, but it is written on the end of the neck where you fine the tune so I guess it is) anyways it cost 250 dollars and it's look good just it's look a little used around the body so i was wondering if that's a good buy, honestly I don't care much about the outside because I can pay for someone restore the guitar. Btw I from Latinoamérica so maybe the price is a little different in your country
@@ghazypangerang6118 idk what i like tho
i own both, strat can make everybody happy, very versatile but not so in your face kinda type... tele is stubborn, in your face, you have to be adaptable with the character then slowly you will see the magic shine, and you will falling in love with deeply...
that doesnt make sense
konpaleo its ok, u have ur own perception 😊🙏👍
Monsieur Barnabas makes perfect sense to me
Nice comment! I love them both, but I understand your point completely
Fire and Ice Arpeggios from hell made me realize that, even when I think I’m good, I’m really really not.
Can we all take a break from the guitars and appreciate how damn good of a player Marty is!
We know he is gud that's why we are here am i right
@@fishnimo2616 yes fish
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I've owned a lot of guitars as I'm 66 and been playing since I was 9. I started out on my dad's '59 330 dot neck until he took me down to the local music store and bought me a brand new Gibson 345 stereo when I was 14. Later he bought me a Marshall stack and I was set for awhile. I only wish I had been able to hang on to all the guitars I've bought and traded wheeled and dealed. I have two Telecasters now that are second to none. I have a '53 reissue that's about 30 years old and it's my main guitar. The action is just unbelievable. It's got .009's on it and it's flat and straight all the way up even as any guitar I've ever played. I get any sound I need out of it and it never goes out of tune. I also have a Schecter I built out of solid Koa with a rock maple neck. It has EMG humbuckers and a Floyd tremolo . It is my screamer for the heavier stuff. If I was a rich man I would own different guitars for different styles but............. I would love to have a Gibson '59 standard and a 335 but'.................. I love my Tele and I've owned 4 Strats that couldn't compare. Strats are great guitars but they're all different and it's the luck of the draw I think. I had a swamp ash Strat with a maple neck it was an American deluxe. It had the 5 way switch single coils , rolling nut etc. It played great with a little wider neck that fit my hand perfect. Problem was when I used the tremolo it went out of tune. I sold it.
If I could afford a new custom shop guitar I'd really like to try one of the Suhr models. Or maybe a custom shop Strat built just for me. I built a Warmouth once with all the best parts money could by. Had a guitar builder set it up for me. I could never get the sound I wanted from it or for it to play right. The Telecaster is for me.
Ur a king
Check Eastman SB 59 if you want to go back in time and grab one of those guitars you wish you still had truly amazing guitar
The full black telecaster with a maple neck is one of the things that made me fall in love with guitar
for reall
Thats the exact tele I have!! I love it!
YESSS
I have a dark green one with a maple neck. I love it! Especially since green is my favorite color
I had almost exclusively owned strat or strat-like guitars until my dad loaned me his MIM Telecaster and was so floored at how versatile that guitar was - especially since i stereotyped it as just a country or blues guitar. That bridge pickup twang transforms into an absolute monster through distortion.
I’m a Tele guy myself - love the clean sound and look of the tele. For me the Strat hasn’t aged well passed the 80’s Heavy Rock look. Aesthetically the Tele wins hands down
what in the blue hell??? Where do people get these stupid comments from????
@@maraviyoso8473 idk
How has the strat not aged well?
wdym by "strat hasn't aged well"?
Strat looks modern even now.. it has aged incredibly well..
Dude the strat is so versatile blues rock hard rock hip hop you can literally get so many sounds out of that guitar 🎸
It seems like all guitars sound awesome if you can play awesome.
@forgor I see what you did there
I actually prefer the sound of a strat but fuck teles are beautiful!
LepLaz that's how I feel! I wish I had a tele that sounded like a strat
Iloveto Troll a Fender Modern Player Tele is your best stock bet for that. Or, replace the neck pickup of a tele to something stratty. You won't get the quack, but you'll get a pretty similar neck tone.
LepLaz
Funny enough my opinion is the opposite, I love the sound of the tele more but think the strat is the supermodel of guitars XD
nahh the other way imo lmao
Then get a fusion like a nasheville tele
The Tele is THEE guitar Hands down! Perfect in every way. Every time you play a Strat you’re cheating on your Tele!
Nah, I'm at home on a strat; however I'm in a foreign country on a Tele. Theres no place like home.
i underestimated the telecaster i liked the bridge pickup tones a lot
I’m literally about to buy a strat but now I am conflicted
buy a tele
Buy a strat
Same I BIG confused like tele or strat
@@rectly i gonna help u, the Strat works for all, but u have to learn how To get those "thousand sounds" out of it, the Telecaster has a more "powerful" pickup and a weaker one, it is not as versatile but it is simpler
@Any Rebel I’ve owned everything you stated aside from a BMW, but I’ve driven many. Oddly good comparison.
I have both and telecaster feels more fun in general
I'm a Tele guy all the way, but I definitely wouldn't argue that the Strat is a bit more versatile...but, the Tele tone is just where it's at for me
Hey Marty, can you compare Mc Donalds vs Burger King?
LMAO HAHA
Wendy's
KFC bucket is what you want, man.
😂😂😂
Wendy’s
But i prefer Telecaster for its simplicity & crispier sound like you're eating a fried lechon skin..
I completely understand. And now i'm hungry.
i have both fender tele and strat..
both has their use and purpose.. i also love lechon!
I agree with your choice, I have a Tele. I could only afford one guitar and even though I can get used Strats cheaper I went for a used Tele.
ayyyyye lechon gang
Ahhhh lechon!
I've never played either, since I'm still on my Yamaha acoustic as I only started playing just over a year ago. For me though the strat has always been my dream guitar because of players like Gilmour and Clapton. I am surprised by how many people are shouting Tele in the comments though!
Tele is just too wild and if best of 60s and 70s are in concerns teles are the one responsible.......watch fenders telecaster advertisement narrated by Jimmy Page himself......and how the tele is an icon(official fender advertisement for tele)
I have a Pacifica but want a tele
Strat, versatility and they just sound awesome through a cranked valve amp, they also seem to be better with lots of different pedals, Teles are amazing and, again, nothing beats a Tele through a cranked high-quality valve amp and/or a good OD/Fuzz pedal.
Strat neck pickup is something special.
Been a tele guy for years but when I first tried a Stratocaster I just can’t help admitting that its more ergonomic and the neck sounds amazing. There’s a reason why people from jeff beck to SRV, clapton and even John mayer and frusicante prefer it over the telecaster. It is actually good. These days I’m more of a prs guy tho.
I want a PRS so bad! Those are NICE guitars! That's one on my list after my almost all Ibanez RGs 😬 it's what I started with. 🤷 I got several acoustic varieties, mostly RGs for the electrics, beside an LTD ec1000. I need a strat or telr now, leaning towards the strat a lot more though. 🤔
Careful with that whammy bar...have broken two off from my strat
Tele all the way! I do love the strat for some david gilmour sounds but my favorite will always be a telecaster
Danny Matthijs Gilmour is no stranger to the Tele! He uses one still to this day interchangably with his Strats.
orangewizard GE Smith used Telecasters frequently touring with Roger Waters.
What fuzz pedal you using
This video contained some fantastic "guitar faces"
ha ha thanks Josh.
Well, three years later and I bought my first Strat. Right out of the box I loved it. It plays and sounds quite different from the Tele. Marty is right: Strive to have both, you'll love them equally. You'll play different songs on them, perhaps keep them in different tunings. In the meantime, they are both super flexible and playable.
What type of different songs ?
I’m in love with Stratocaster, it’s just a different guitar from above all. It’s a guitar that touches your soul and you can play with
I always thought teles sounded great as rhythm guitars or for bluesy semi clean leads, but I gotta go with the strat for lead players that want variety (rock/blues/jazz) without having to switch guitars
I agree with that point. There's a lot of cool phat jazz tones that you can get with the Strat esp. when strumming closer to the neck. And that creamy sound it has. The tele is great for blues, rock and country, but can't do those same tones for other styles.
I bought a player strat a couple months back and I love it. It passes all the things I've wanted from a guitar. The single-coil pickups make the guitar sound so good and they make the strat so versatile. The contour body makes the guitar comfortable and easy to play and the neck is nice and well crafted. The only downside about it is the tremolo. The tremolo is good but sometimes it could get in the way but the good thing is that you can take it off. overall it's an amazing guitar that you don't wanna pass up on.
The body sculpturing is definitely a massive plus , it makes the Stratocaster so much more comfortable and personal to play
I prefer the Tele! Palm muting so much easier, no toggle switch in the way. The first and still the best one! Also great for jazz...Thanx Marty!
Damn. This video just convinced me I need a tele.
The Strat sounds a little more pleasant to me. The Tele sounds fantastic in a good mix but it can be annoying on its own.
Annoying?
@@wwekane2468 I believe the word is right, at least according to my dictionary. The piercing, very direct highs and all that.
Of course now there is the Modern player Tele with three pickups which to my mind gives the best of both but still without the trem!
That's one really nice tele
that's one really nice blue
that's one really nice Billie
Tony M i agree. i am new on guitar so i watch all of these videos to get an idea of what guitar i want. so far i am planing on getting an epiphone les paul but the strat, tele, sg and ibanez gem are guitars that i want to be able to play myself someday
Im that guy who always played the strat and hated the tele, cuz of the looks, it was ugly for me, but then my eyes and ears opened for it and i began to love it too! Now i want them both. This month if i finish school i will buy a fender telecaster usa buttescotch blonde, i love that mustard like color with the black plate. And i also want the fiesta red one with white plate, which was used by legend Mark Knopfler (dire straits) in Walk of Life.
And i now have a black/white strat from yamaha and one from silverado. I want the creme fender strat from ynwie malmsteen. So nice. I like that special neck.
12:21 See Marty lose his mind momentarily.
The strat with fuzz a distortion doesnt produce nearly as thick and heavy a sound as thr Tele
I decided to buy a telecaster after watching this video! Thanks Marty❤️
The Strat in my opinion is the best and most versatile guitar ever made. You can play anything on a strat and get any tone on it.
When you see a guy holding a telecaster, you know this guy probably already has 12 guitars and he has the chops.
I still like the stratocaster though
Never realize that telecaster has an incredible sound. Gonna love it!!!
They are both amazing... but i prefer tele :)
Man I just love the warm, clean tones a Tele produces.
Tele 0:59 1:17 1:41
strat 6:02 8:13 12:01
I was expecting to prefer one pickup position on one guitar and another position on the other guitar, but on this video I like the tele more in all 3 positions. That's a nice sounding tele.
God there's something about the way the tele just ROARS on the lower strings that gets me
I love my tele, but damn sometimes I wish I had a tremolo on it
Get one with a Bigsby... or you can get the Parallel Universe 'Casters (eg Tele hardware on a Strat body, and vice versa)
I have a trem king on my mexican tele. Humbucker and a strat single, roller nut, locking tuners... favorite guitar in the world.
Get a pedal
It fun for about 20 minutes. I have both a telecaster and a strat, and I would be perfectly fine without my strat lol.
Im on the verge of buying my first guitar and this is also a thing that i've been thinking about
I have a strat
I now want a tele
I hav had expensive Telecasters always go back to Strats,the cut out for the body on back,That Strat tone cannot b beat..jmho
me too
Same.
Update: I got a tele for my bday
@@goofy9697 good for you you mate.
Me: Satisfied with what I have.
Doesn’t have money
Doesn’t need another guitar
Watched anyway
Tele, Strat & LP have the most distinct characters of all the guitars available today imo. Interestingly too is that all were designed from first principles with a specific aim in their creation. I think that's defined their sound almost. They were built organically & with purpose.
There are a lot of great guitars out there, but I rarely find one outside this holy trinity that has it's own unique & distinctive sound/character.
There are some incredibly well made guitars out there made of contemporary materials & construction methods but they often don't bring anything new to the table tonally or are particularly dynamic.
You can really thrash & play these 3 classic guitars.
Real MVP here: a guitar sound comparison video that *actually* spends most of the time comparing the sounds instead of regurgitating a Wikipedia article and talking endlessly! Well done, you got a new subscriber!
I’ve had a telecaster for about 6 years, and I love it. I’ve played it so much. But the more years that pass by, I find myself wanting a Strat more and more. I much prefer the look and feel of a Tele. But there’s something about that Strat tone…it’s unmistakable.
I love my Tele. It`s such a simple design - but with simplicity comes reliability. A Tele never let you down and stays in tune for ever.
The tone is very straight forward and fit perfect to my style of music.
what exactly is your type of music?
Stays in tune. . . Oh, the Net!! If there's something Tele, through the years, was VERY well known for was (and sometime is) INTONATION problems. That's why they changed the bridge to put individual saddles (which I don't care for in a Tele) until they got smarter and began creating compensated brass saddles Tele-style.
I use my dad's telecaster that he got as a wedding present in 2001. Still holds up amazingly
"The Stratocaster has a tremolo-bar, which the Telecaster does not"...
Mine does! - I have a 1973 Fender Telecaster Custom with rosewood neck (you're right, it's lovely to play) and a Fender 'Bigsby-style' tremolo. Bought it in a junk-shop for £165 in South London in 1976, when I was only 16 years old... I still have it and it is still my fave-rave.
I do indeed prefer it to my 1977 Strat (maple neck - hard work for small hands!), although also gorgeous. I also prefer it to my Gibsons, Martins & Guilds...
Absolutely wonderful guitar. I read somewhere that they only made 400 of them... I have only seen photos of a certain John Lennon and Tom Petty with one... and, no it is not for sale!! I still use it. Best guitar I ever played.
Post a photo of it!
Wow
I saw of of those for sale in Norway. Fucking expensive today.
Fuck this guy!
Love your Vid's ! Great comparison ... It would have been interesting IF you had played the same works on both guitars. Allowing us to see and hear exactly how they are similar and different all at the same time. thanks.
I have a Strat. My Tele is scheduled for a delivery tomorrow. Cannot wait!!
Went to the guitar store today to buy a Strat, came home with a tele instead. 0 regrets.
Smart choice. I love Telecasters but I've never been able to get myself to like the Stratocaster.
I love both, but I am glad i got a tele
Teles are usually better - less is more.
I never thought about buying a Tele until I bought every other guitar on earth. Now, I need one!
I've owed 5 strats and 1 tele in my whole career. I currently own 0 strats and the same 1 tele. The workhorse of guitars. Team Telecaster!
Fender Stratocaster!!!
Iván Maguiña I prefer Squier
L B Squire* And I doubt something that's identical but simply cheaper made.
^ actually it's spelled Squier, unless you mean the Yes' bassist
M4D Yeah I realized my idiotic mistake.
L B I just got one today
strats are years more comfortable than teles with their bellycuts and armrests, but teles sound great, look great, and are more functional with their knob and pickup-switch placement.
Strat because Gilmour is the Man!
My two cents on the subject :
- I’ve always been a Les Paul lover, and it’s still my number one. Lately I really wanted that fender single coil sound (which I can’t get with P90...).
So I bought a strat, sounded good to me in the store (original 50). Didn’t even thought about testing a tele...
After a few weeks, the strat was back to the store. That was a guitar I loved and hated at the same time. So I decided to try a telecaster. A Jimmy page Mirror signature. F*** me man, that was THAT sound I was looking for ! Snappy as fuck, very touch responsive, all the three mic position are awesome.
Now I have 2 of those, the Jimmy Page and an original 50. My 2nd guitar love along with the Les Paul for sure
So for me is Tele all the way.
i just got my first telecaster the other day, been playing for about 1 week on acoustic but i’ve been studying the guitars for years, and just always wanted a telecaster specifically a daphne blue squire bullet, and i got my dream guitar!!
Marty, one of the things I really enjoy in this video is that you immediately cut-to-the-chase with your opinion. Then, you spend the rest of the video laying out the various pros/cons of each instrument. Well done sir!
Yes, I really appreciate this too
I can't listen to a stratocaster without thinking of Hendrix.
I think Jimi used a Tele on his records and Strat live.
just bought my first electric guitar today and i decided to go with the fender tele. i already love it
10:11 That's a great sound. Digging it.
I play on a Fender Telecaster, really liking the design of the telecaster! 🎸
I played my stratocaster more when I was young, but now I'm older it's the tele. A lot has to do with the variety of music you play and as I got older I migrated from rock to jazz and Christian music. But I still love the feel of the stratocaster. I would really like to have the tele sound in a stratocaster body!
So for a beginners who love Christian and country or even R&B, you would recommend a tele?
Ditch the Christian music please
@@oldgit4260 let people do what they want, no one is forcing you to do anything
I think the strat probably looks better but the tele sounds better, I think I'm going to get a tele, also love the playing Marty!
2:13 YES that is the exact song i wanted to hear in the exact guitar!
What's it called
@@agastya6799 Communication breakdown by Led Zeppelin.
Listening to how he is playing, I prefer his telecaster to his Stratocaster
Hi Marty! How about the mustang versus the jaguar??
yes
Ben Dodd I mean mustang has the muscles it's all about power.. it's a muscle car you know, jaguar is more luxurious.
+Raphael Nano I can't tell if you're talking about the cars or guitars haha
+Raphael Nano it's sort of the same principle with the guitars.
Both are the potato brothers of the Strat, not much else to say.
I've been playing super-strats for decades, finally bought a tele. She'll be here tomorrow. I'm excited to see where this new path leads :)
What do you think of it?
@@lucilio1215 he died
I like how I came here for a simple comparison but left blown away by Marty's effortless playing and groove!
My first guitar was a strat and was a pain to learn but once i learned it i could make it sound the exact way i wanted it to. Played my brother's telecaster and i think no matter what you do it sounds good but i found myself feeling limited in what i could make it do. Could be lack of experience with the tele but i still prefer strats.
7:14 that solo made me buy a STRAT immediately.
It's important to have them both and to keep them both. Get a Les Paul, too. And a Thinline Tele with wide-range humbuckers. Buy, sell, and experiment with everything else. I've gone through so many changes in taste, and lost so much money because I sold gear that I fell out of love with, only to fall back in love with it and buy it again at a higher price. Buy and keep the gear that stands the test of time: Strats, Teles, LPs, Fender tube amps. They all have their advantages and disadvantages, but when you have one and not the other, you'll never feel completely satisfied. Save your money, be patient, buy the holy trinity of guitar styles, and hang on to them.
I prefer the sound of the Tele but the Strat is definitely more versatile especially as a budget musician.