50 UNPOPULAR Guitar Opinions (according to you guys)
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What's your most unpopular guitar opinion?
An unpopular (and bad) opinion: “guitar stores are useless - just go online”
Bass is one of the most important parts of a band.
I like the way Telecasters play but think they're ugly
Strapping your guitar very low is just better. Looks badass and you can still play very difficult chords and stretches
Guitarsolos are irrelevant to the non-musician audience
A great riff can do a lot more for a song than a great solo can. There's always room for a solo to be improvised each time it's played, but every note in any iconic riff is eternal.
Also, as a music fan, it’s nice to hear the riff instead of a solo crammed into the arrangement, especially when you’re at a show.
that's not really a opinion it's more of a fact
that's not true. There are plenty examples of artists playing their riffs differently live vs. in the studio.
Hot take I fucking hatttte 95 percent of solos. There are a few that I actually look forward to hearing but most of the time I would rather here the riff again or just end the song before it. I defiantly gravitate to songs with no solos, or very short ones that are over before I can be bothered by it.
The solo Eric Clapton did on "Old Love" MTV unplugged. That's one of them.
To answer the heavy guitar/light guitar tone debate just buy the heaviest Les Paul you can find, record something with it and then start removing wood by taking a belt sander to the back of the guitar's body. Every few millimeters or grams of wood removed just re-record the piece and compare its tone to the original recording.
C'mon Tyler, you can afford to do this experiment!
I think people are just feeling the extra vibrations and interpreting it as sound.
Does it have to be a Les Paul? Or can he use a knock-off?
Darrell Braun guitar took a guitar and recorded various takes and slowly sawed off parts of the body
This experiment would work best if you used a 1959 L.P.
@@bloemundude You can't. Joe Bonamassa owns all of them now.
Doesn’t matter what you play. How you learn. How fast you learn. Or any of that. As long as you are playing and having a good time that’s all that matters
i was wondering why you were such a chill cool guy and then i saw your picture and i know why now
I think that’s true until you take the stage at a paying gig. Then what matters is whether the audience is having a good time
This is the kinda mentality I'm going in with as I'm about to purchase my first guitar and try to self teach myself at 32. Glad to see others who think the same
@@dealphawolfI highly recommend Rocksmith if you're going the self taught route. It keeps playing fun even through challenging times too.
That's not unpopular lol
I enjoy restringing on a Floyd Rose. Tuning one string while simultaneously detuning all the others is a really fun challenge.
A floating one anyway. If it's decked ala van Halen, it won't be a problem.
Just no😭😭😭it’s hell
YOUR A PSYCOPATH
Definitely went thru some growing pains with my Floyd rose too lol
You're a masochist
My old bass player got all pissy when I called him a "four string drummer". Funnily enough the drummer wasn't offended. 😁
Four string drummer sounds cool tho he should've played it off 😅
@@Hevvvyyy 🤣🤣
lmao, good one !
If I was the drummer I'd be more offended that the bassist is offended
A good drummer who isn't a fucking weirdo is a unicorn.
Unpopular opinion, it does not matter what guitar you play for a genre, you get can a good sound for any genre with any guitar
True
I agree with that
Squier affinity strat for metal
I think its more the amp and pedals than the guitar
Popular opinion
not necessarily unpopular, but i strongly believe every guitar player should build at least one kit guitar from scratch so we know how to do basic repairs.
I like that, do you know how addictive that is?
honestly i should try it. it looks like fun but for some reason i really hate fakes or look alikes. like if i want a les paul it should be a gibson and if its a strat it should be a fender. i dont know why im like this.
but i guess i dont have a fender. im more of a gibson fanboy but a telecaster kit would be cool :).
im pretty sure this is an unpopular oppinion as well XD im sure there are alot of les paul style guitars that are better than gibsons but it doesnt feel right XD
@@Peron1-MC It’s a weird emotion right? Intellectually I know I shouldn’t care, but I do for some reason. I hate it. Have you ever noticed though if a player amazing like Steve Vai, they can play whatever they want and it’s cool anyway?
i built my current guitar body from scratch
@@Peron1-MC All guitars are just wood with strings on, now enjoy!
Shecters are kinda insane for the price. An example of this is a shecter guitar for $1299 with glow in the dark inlays, an emg pickup with a sustaniac, and a floyd rose 1500. Its also the same price as a guitar that has none of that.
I love me Schecters ❤️
Mine: while not entirely unpopular, there is absolutely nothing wrong with learning overplayed/forbidden/annoying riffs because most of these riffs offer some value.
Stairway taught young me a very rudimentary finger-style picking
Smells like Teen Spirit was my intro to power chords
Crazy train taught me palm muting
The list goes on for things 15 year old me learned from the hated riffs.
Not to mention Sweet Child O Mine which is literally an exercise for alt picking and string skipping
I feel like making a point of playing stairway in guitar shops. Anyone who would (pretend to) have a problem with that is basically a hipster.
I went to college for music and then life happened for 21 years. I've used both of those songs to learn several different styles for those exact reasons. I have I only focused on listening to music with my kids and showing them my party trick of "learning a song in 10 seconds" it's been absolutely amazing for re-developing my improv skills. Im remembering scales scales I forgot for decades and my playing is so much smoother than it ever was before. I'm just happy to be playing again to be honest.
Well I think we all lost the plot in terms of why this riffs are "annoying" in the first place. They kick so much ass and so many people agreed that they kick ass and wanted to play them, to the point where sooo many people loved these chords that it became annoying because EVERYONE already knew and loved them. that means they most have been some pretty fucking tasty riffs you were making.
agreed
If you have a Les Paul (even Epiphone), you have a signature guitar anyway.
All of them have his name on it.
The guitarist being the most replaceable member is probably the most true honestly. Drummers are the *hardest* to replace, then singers, then bassists, keys and then Guitar as the easiest. Everyone wants to do the cool guitar frontman thing.
I don’t know man, I know a lot of drummers
@TH-camr well, most good guitar players are able to play the bass as well and vice versa. So I think theyre both as replaceable after this the drums and then the singer
Actually idk if its bass players or drummers or maybe singers
As a guitar player, I agree 110%
@@therealtartigrade5916you might know a lot of drummers but really great drummers are hard to come by because they get snatched up for all sorts of projects. I’m talking about the sort of players that end up on zildian live or vf jams
My unpopular opinion is that you can push and mod medium tier gear to become something special in your hands and make it become top quality or highly regarded
The valvestate used on the in flames album or the lead 12 used by Billy Gibbons in studio, Kurt Cobain used the little lead 12s also as practice amps and used them as stage props, things like that
That's just fact...
Unpopular opinion: guitarists are by far the snobbiest group of musicians out there. Doesn't matter what you play or how well you play it, you'll always have multiple comments crapping on what you're doing. Playing something fast and technical? "pfft sounds like crap" or "no feeling/soul whatsoever." Playing something slow and melodic? "THIS has ### views? my six year old could play this." I once saw a video of a kid playing a Metallica song for a middle school talent show, one of the comments from a 30 something year old was "I'd be embarrassed to play in front of people if that was my guitar tone." FFS let people play what makes them happy
I think this goes for any hobby honestly, especially popular hobbies like guitar
That's not an unpopular opinion, that's just a fact. And it is indeed annoying.
I guess you haven’t met many classical Piano players…
@@dirgmario I only know a handful of classically trained pianists. While some of them are definitely snobby, from what I've seen it's mainly towards other classical pianists who don't have proper technique or timing or whatever it is they're looking at. This is definitely anecdotal, but I don't see them go out of their way to crap on players outside their genre. I never hear them say "Billy Joel is a trash pianist, pop music sucks!" the way I hear some guitarists hate on others outside their genre. I've seen people say John Mayer is outright bad, Hendrix is overrated, Joe Pass just makes noise, etc. It's like so many people can't understand that others want to make their own music that suits their own tastes, and rather than just not listening to it they feel compelled to tell them they suck
Yes - guitar players are competitive idiots who are making up for their inability to play sports - and very jealous of each other.
Also - "audiophiles" are stupid and they listen to their equipment instead of enjoying music - and many likely have hearing damage and not even aware of what they can't hear anymore.
that's the sound of every Smashing Pumpkins fan dying inside when he called Bullet With Butterfly Wings "Rat in a Cage"
I was elated to see that comment featured, because I very much agree with that person about Corgan being an underrated guitarist - and then, yeah, Tyler butchered the name for that song and I physically felt pain.
ha, I didn't even catch that.
@@autumnvolume4181 Billy Corgan says "Billy Corgan is an underrated guitarist."
I know, triggered my nostalgia arthritis....
That reminds me, I mustn't forget to by Billy Corgan Tone Paint.
Frank Zappa is underrated. The people who already know about his playing have a lot of respect for him, sure. But he is very rarely mentioned when people talk about the pantheon of great Guitar Players (they mostly mention Hendrix, Clapton, Page etc.). But in terms of Blending Skill with Creativity, there really isn't anyone quite like him.
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@Chuck Wood Carolina HC ecstasy is some of my favorite Frank guitar work ...The whole album is amazing
Frank Zappa was a better politician than songwriter.
@@madamkirk Hes not for everybody
@@gilwood7530
All good.
I definitely enjoy his work ☺️
Les Paul's are too heavy. I played a Les Paul live for years and never thought it felt uncomfortable.
I Remember my first time picking up a strat as a bass player i thought it was a toy lol. The weight difference was huge
12:25 people always judge "simple" art by saying "I could've done that" but the point is... you DIDN"T. They did. It isn't about the complexity, it's about the creative vision.
Very well said!! 👍👍
Absolutely. 👍👍👍
This.
I agree with you here. I tend to find simple music more enjoyable anyway. Prime example is yesterday by the Beatles. Such a simple song musically, rhythmically, and lyrically but man is it a great song. On the other hand while "Through the fire and flame" is certainly impressive from a technical standpoint, I cant really say I particularly enjoy it.
This is what I have said about art all my life, particular to abstract painting, but also about musicians. As he said, no one did The Edge's sound before he did. I didn't do it. You didn't do it. Have some respect for the people who create sounds (or art) that is new and innovative. I know I do, no matter the genre.
Robert Smith of the Cure is an amazing/underated guitar player I stand by this.
guess what
@@robertsmith4433 I'm afraid I can't.
I stand with you on this one. He's incredibly creative...
Great musician and creative; not the best guitarist out there.
There is a Danish band called Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, an amazingly technical, yet melodic rock band; very mudically oriented. On their first record, the guitarist had two metalzones after each other and he has an AMAZING tone!
Might actually give them a listen
Just two? Smh
On the Open tunings, the songs that got me back into guitar after failing to learn most barre chords and thus any real songs where all in CGCFGC. On a nylon acoustic. Yeah. Go nuts out there folks.
Unpopular opinion - Not everything in guitar playing has already been invented. Actually I think that we barely scratched the surface, and there is still plenty of room for new guitarists to make revolutions, big changes and creating new trails.
I just recently started learning guitar about a month ago and this comment gives me hope lmao. What excatly do you mean? Seems like Hendrix and EVH have set the bar high
yeah, that would be possible if guitar centred music was mainstream
True! Just look at ichika nito!
If you ask me, I think you just pointed very interesting thing - the height of a bar. Is there really a bar on certain height? Isn`t it just that Hendrix pushed guitar in a new spot, and Eddie did exactly same thing, just different area? Come on, Page used even violin bow on his guitar. Did it go anywhere high? I don`t think so, but after all it`s all about trying things that no one has ever tried and seeing if it works. For example let`s take a look at playing techniques. We got tapping, we got the pick, and fingerstyle, probably way more if you get more precise. But is it really all? Sound is vibration. Guitar is as simple instrument as it gets in therms of physics - vibrating strings that send vibrations to the air. Possibilities are limitless. Maybe you`ll find this comment inspiring, maybe naive and dumb, maybe a little bit of both. This is just my point of view and it serves only one real point - to give me hope, and it does it well. Have a great day and may your strings always remain fresh.
@@kuba6344 Recent exemple is tosin abasi with his thumping technique, or selective picking (sorry for my bad english)
If guitar players cared about music and composition as much as they obsessed over equipment and “tone”, there would be a lot more good music out there.
For me, the right equipment and tone is integral to the kind of music I'm writing. Certain things are simply impossible to play unless I have a six string fretless bass. Certain sounds I would have never discovered if not for a loop pedal and effects. I've heard great music ruined by shitty equipment or poor tone.
@@alecrisser12 I understand what you mean. But, I also listen to a lot of music that many people would consider lo-fi or just plain bad production. 😂 Joy Division, early Swans. Old Elliot Smith stuff. It’s more about the atmosphere and songs than a pristine sound.
@Mr Nobody Never thought his tone was much removed from a good Fender tone. And a Neve is not gonna add anything that you'll hear in the mix.
@Mr Nobody "Usually know" Approaching 50% maybe? lol.
@Mr Nobody Lol. There are many things you can do in recording that affect tone more. How do you know a certain sound is not the compressors or limiters? Who knows what was used?
Ray Toro of MCR is actually an extremely underrated guitarist. One of the best guitar players of the 00s.
This opinion is a gift from God
Fat agree
MCR is what got me back into guitar :D
Jim Lill did the heavy/light guitar test plus many others. Recreated a tele tone without a body at all. Amazing work.
More people will always adore David Gilmore’s bends and simple runs more than any arpeggio sweep from yngwie malmstein
Yup me too. Can admire the shredders for their skills but it leaves me dead emotionally :)
@@martin-1965 Both of these comments resonate with me. Gilmour's playing is beautiful and emotional to the point of being me to tears. (There, I said it!)
That sounds like a popular guitar opinion.
Listen to Brothers and then tell me Yngwies music won't touch you
I actually enjoy yngwies vibrato and bends more than gilmores lol
Here's a good one; "You have to write songs on an acoustic, then you can play them on a solid body".
And "Green guitars are louder". Great video. Really like your humor!
uh sure, red things are faster so green things must be louder....
Some songs wouldn’t be written if they were played in an acoustic first.
Re: "Green guitars are louder": Coors Light (the silver bullet) has, for pretty well its entire existence, based most of its advertising around it being the coldest beer.
I like the sound and feeling of old acoustic guitar strings. Such a unique and “folky” sound that I love on acoustic. Takes out some of the high end. Definitely not on an electric though!
I agree, I have a 50 year old junker acoustic with old strings and its the best sounding acoustic I've ever played. Too bad the frets look like someone sat on them though. When I get enough money I'll refret it.
I second the Billy Corgan thing. Soma and Geek USA are 2 of my favorite solos ever. Great songwriter at the very least Gish through Adore.
Brian Setzer is the most underrated guitar player. Especially true in the 1980's when I first started listening to him. Everybody just thought he was a rockabilly hack. Still one of the greats. IMHO
I totally agree. My jaw drops every time I watch a video of him performing live
bass player here to confirm that bass strings do need to be changed regularly, maybe not as often as guitar strings but every quarter of the year is pretty standard. they sound very dull and woody after a while which depending on what kind of tone/music style youre going for could be a dealbreaker. Personally im a more technical player (by that i mean i know like 3 scales and just studied at the church of Jaco and Clay Gober for the past two years) so for me it depends, if im gonna do any sort of pop or pick slap i want fresh fresh strings, but I find harmonics and more jaco style soloistic stuff sounds kind of nice on dead strings.
I keep old rounds on my p bass. TI flats on my fretless jazz bass. Fresh rounds on my stingray. Different tones for different basses for different styles.
I haven’t watched your videos in a long time, I freakin loved this video, I’m so glad you still make content🤘🤘🤘
3:48 Schecter makes a killer mid range price point guitar in the Demon 6. Maybe it is the active pickups or the thinner neck, but the Demon 6 stays in tune and is just so much fun to play! My next level axe purchase will be a Hellraiser.
I play a Les Paul because when I went to buy my first electric guitar I found it way more comfortable to play than a Stratocaster.
That’s the same reason why I play an SG haha
@@Seanph25 I really dislike playing SGs only because they're so incredibly light. You can probably guess what guitar i prefer
@@MrPonthus yeah I probably can haha, weight was never really a problem for me, I just really liked the upper fret access on the SG, and the neck position being a little further to the left was similar to my acoustic at the time.
I just switched from Fender strat to Les Paul. My only regret is that I wish I would have done it sooner
yeah, Strats are odd to play with the low bridge, mid pickup in the way, volume knob in the way and trashy sounding low E.
2:57 I have to agree with Scott Martin on this. I keep my strings for years and only change them when one snaps.
I have watched videos comparing new and old strings side by side and had to say that I slightly preferred the sound of the old strings.
Linsey Buckingham is an ultra underrated guitarist
If you’ve never listened to Frozen Love by Buckingham Nicks (pre Fleetwood) do yourself a favor and give it a listen. So much tasteful playing.
Definitely! He never gets onto any "greatest guitarists" lists, but his playing is incredible!
I dont like the band or the songs but yeah he is really good
Having multiple guitars is also a good idea for each guitar to have a different tuning system for different playing styles, that way you don't have to restring, retune or fix any tone difference that you already have.
Especially if you use a floating bridge.
Even though I play a lot of things in E standard, I think D standard sounds great, at least on my strat. I think the opinion you should learn standard tuning just comes from the idea that you should understand the instrument. I spent years noodling around, before I finally took the time to learn (I was stupid) some music theory. I would guess if you learned in alternate tuning, like Eb standard or D standard, that you'd have to adjust yoru thinking just like when I tune down.
Eb or D standard is not an alternate tuning, its just a bit lower than standard
I recently learned the reason guitars are tuned to E standard is due to the circle of fifths BEADGFC (Adjusted to EADGBE to make chords easier and the low B requires an extra string).
Same here. With unlimited amount of tabs available, I played for several years before learning some theory (still have never taken a lesson), and it's amazing how the fret board becomes so much easier to understand after knowing just a little theory. That also helped in breaking down the fret board into shapes where you know which notes should and shouldn't be played. I remember hearing guitarists always talking about visualizing the fret board in shapes and never understood what they hell they were talking about, haha.
@@travis9368 The CAGED theory saved me. I really began to understand the interconnecting fretboard with that.
E flat standard and D standard are not alternate tunings, hence the name D "standard". The standard refers to the intervals between each string. So it doesn't matter if your tuned E-A-D-G-B-E or D--G-C-F-A-D. Your still tuning in standard intervals.
Learned how to play in Drop C. Was a rough learning experience but long term it helped dramatically!
Loved the Squier comment. I have one. HSS HT in black and white. Love it. Didn't break the bank. 👍
I agree with the guy doesn’t like strat knob placement. Before I got a strat I was always playing my Tele or an acoustic, and I tend to rest my hand on the bridge because it is very convenient for Palm muting. I have got a strat I have had to re-learn how to palm mute😂
I still haven’t mastered it!
same because I started with a yamaha pacifica
I don't care for the strat knob placement but i do agree with the middle pickup getting in the way with picking, not finger picking but picking with a pick. I lowered my middle pickup all the way because of it.
same. I guess I never worked on picking technique bc I always just let my pinky flop around lol. It never occurred to me to tuck that mf so it's always grazing the vol knobs
@@Healcraft Exactly - and where they put the jack for the cord is BS too.
I agree. My solution for my cheap squier strat was to modify the pickguard and convert my volume knob into a roller knob like the ones on a jazzmaster or jaguar rhythm circuit. That way the volume is in the same place without getting in the way. Works great for me. It would only be a downside for people who like to use the volume knob for swells.
Popular Opinion: Tyler is one of my favorite content creators.
Unpopular opinion: Tyler is a poser.
Tyler the creator?
Tyler the creator?
I love this video. This is the best one you’ve done yet getting people to open up and talk about what they don’t like. I’m a say that’s pretty cool thanks for the video. Have a great day. I will be making comments.👍🏼🎸🎼🎶😄
I got a beautiful Jackson electric guitar earlier this week, and I love how it sounds. I am self taught and only ever played acoustic, but I don't regret getting my jackson
I tuned my son's first guitar to a open D major when he was like 5, so he could just fiddle around and get a feel
I did the same for my mates little one, but open C. She loved that. Perfect for beginners as they can just strum open, or use a finger or two up and down the fretboard and find what sounds good to them.
I started on banjo(open G). It made transitioning to guitar so easy! I love open tunings!
I have a hand me down bass guitar that I started playing again after 10 years, the strings were black with all the stuff that settled on it and I spent a lot of my time playing it and wondering why it sounds like ass no matter what effects I add. I finally changed the strings and it sounded incredible.
I agree with the strat knobs being in the way, I take them out and solder the wires together.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is the most underrated guitarist of the 2000s.
Correct
Who?
Guitarist from At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta
Jim Lill did a video called "Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar?" and he takes away as much as possible from the guitar. I without a doubt, whole heartedly support this video, and you'll see why when you watch it.
Fax. Tonewood on guitar doesn't make much of a difference. I think it makes more of a difference on bass.
@@abowla7187 tonewood only affects Acoustics.
Also, I have a particular guitar (that I don’t play often at all) that hasn’t had its string changed since 2016. It still sounds good. I have to get around to changing those strings.
Emo has some of the most unique approaches to the guitar in modern music. Listening to a band like Macseal or American Football is very refreshing if you're open-minded and like (or can look past) whiny vocals.
CC DeVille is a better guitar player than he has been given credit for. I'm not even a Poison fanboy, but if you can create music and riffs that move thousands or millions of people, you have something. The ability to play is important, yes. Even CC knows his skill level and deficits. The ability to communicate is even more important. Food for thought.
I’ll second that! I never liked poison, but always admired the sound and structure of his playing
I just saw Poison on the Stadium Tour a few weeks back, they fucking rocked and I’m a huge Poison fan now.
CC is excellent in both the riff and solo department and deserves more credit than he receives
He could write, he could play, but holy cannoli his tone was the nadir of hair metal.
CC was almost as sloppy a player as I am.
He gets the appropriate amount of credit.
The Edge actually said the pedals/effects thing about himself in a 60 Minutes interview. I think it was Ed Bradley who asked the band why they have all the effects pedals and dude said it was because they weren't very good at their instruments. It's the reason I respect them. Don't have to like the music to respect that level of self awareness. They know what skills are the money makers for them.
there is some really early footage of them playing where he is busting out a solo. Nothing amazing, but he knows his way around a scale. People act like he's rubbish, but some things he does aren't as easy as they look. I can solo all day but precise single note rhythm picking I sometimes mess up.
@@dylanadams1455 Yep. Like accurately playing the intro to "Wire" (your hand playing a triplet with a non existent 1, against a dotted 8th delay at 140 bpm)
The metal zone has uses. I use it to cut through my Hot cake OD pedal. Creates a super powerful sound. Listen to the NZ bands HDU and mountaineater. Tristan gets amazing tones out of a metal zone and hotcake combo
For heavier woods having better tone, I saw some thing on You Tube where some one used MDF (medium density fiberboard) and some other light weight wood to compare tones. It seemed that the pick ups were the more important aspect. I did see Jennifer Batton, who toured with Michael Jackson and Jeff Beck. She did an audience chat before the show. She commented that Jeff's favorite guitar had a basswood body, which if you don't know, is very light weight.
As for strings, if you watch any Danny Gatton videos, his telecaster neck is black. Watch his beer can (he uses a long neck bottle) video from Austin City Limits. He preferred cigarette ashes and beer on his strings for the sound he wanted. Also explains why his guitar neck was black too....
Boss have sold boatloads of Metal Zone pedals, so somebody must like 'em! I worked in guitar stores for 17 years, and the Boss sales guy gave me a Metal Zone when they were released. The store sold tons of them, often to people who asked what I was using at gigs. I still use that pedal, and I have the Waza one too. I love them! I also have a couple of signature guitars. I'm beginning to worry that I'm an unpopular guitarist! Oh well...I'm happy...🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻
I have one too! Haven’t used it in a while, but if you are someone who just wants to jam with a heavy chunky sound and don’t want to spend a lot of money, then why not? If you are a serious musician and you play gigs then you probably are willing to spend the money to get a specific tone, but if you’re just having fun then it gets the job done.
One of the most sold pedals ever
I love my Metal Zone and I don't care who knows it!
@@pastorofmuppets1968 will always be my favorite pedal
Technically, every Les Paul is a signature guitar
Lol Yes they are
🤣
@@Burnt_Gerbil My Les Paul has his signature on it though lol and I guess technically Fander is a signature series too then lol
@@righty-o3585 - If you had Slash’s signature on it, now it’s a signature guitar.
@@Burnt_Gerbil Sure it's a signature model. It's has Les Paul's name on it. Just like the Nick Lucas flat top, or the Roy Smeck model Harmonys.
GAK is an instrument shop, based in Brighton. I use to loved that when i lived there.
2:09 the app opening at the exact perfect time was amazing
When people say "tone is in the fingers" they have tone and technique mixed up. You will never sound like SRV because his technique is different than yours, his fingers are different, however you can have a tone similar to what he had. It's all up to the definition of tone, is it the way a lick sounds, or is it the way your guitar/strings/pedals/amp/cabinet/the room you're in/whatever else comes to mind that affects the waveform?
Yep i don't have a bass finger, amid finger, or a treble finger. Tone is a frequency. Technique is a style.
i’m glad you said you can have a tone similar to him. what people forget is that though tone is “in the fingers”, the fingers of the artist you may be trying to emulate weren’t just created out of thin air. many of our favorite guitarists spent countless hours practicing/playing along to their favorites. if you study and enjoy the same influences, you can sound very similar. it’s just easy for people to get discouraged with lack of practice and say “oh well, tone is in the fingers, ill never be like SRV”
I always understood "tone is in the fingers" to mean that it is your fingers' interaction with the guitar that makes tone. More specifically, I didnt think they meant the phrase to be about the physical makeup of the finger, but the application of the finger to the guitar.
Am I the only one?
@@stevescuba1978 i think many people have now rebranded the statement to mean “you dont have _____’s fingers, so you will never sound like them”. I don’t believe this to be true, although there isnt much point in playing exactly like someone unless you are starting a tribute band. some people take things too literally
@@tanneryordan I agree.
Also, different picks change the tone, so different fingertips should too, I guess.
Behind every pivotal moment in music history is a left handed guitar player. Hendrix, McCartney, Albert King, Iommi, Cobain, Bieber. Unpopular and fact.
He's out of line, but he's right!
Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads must have been playing backwards.
😂🤣 love how you threw in Cobain and Bieber
My experience after playing several hundreds of different electric guitars for over 50 years is that apart from fresh or worn srings and how, where and with what you pick the strings, there is really just one thing that affects guitar tone - the pickups. It's very impopular to dismiss body, neck, fretboard and fret materials, solid or hollow bodies, cables etc as almost completely neglible in the sound equation. Choice of pedals amps and speakers matter enourmosly obviously, as do choice of microphone and mic placement when recording, but on the guitar itself it's only the pickups that matter.
I think you really hit upon it.. I mentioned in a comment above, how there's this guy who basically takes a guitar down to basically nothing but strings and a pickup under the strings, and every other part of the guitar is eliminated eliminated so it is literally just the strings and the pick up , and sounds beautiful. Obviously when it's an electric you need a decent amplifier, but the tone in the guitar comes from strings and a pickup. There might be other things that contribute to this, but overall they are not required. Of course obviously without a guitar you cannot play the guitar but but this experiment showed that all it is is strings and this is the strings and decent pickup.
You can't hear microtones because you've damaged your hearing by playing without earplugs, and you're from America, so you think that your opinion is the unnegotiable reality.
@@diegowilson9711 so, you listened to a video that was compressed to be put on TH-cam through phone or computer speakers and can't hear minuscule tonal differences in the recording? That's crazy. It's almost as if sonic frequencies are scientific properties that can be drastically altered by a number of other factors. For the last time, PHYSICS EXISTS WHETHER YOU UNDERSTAND IT OR NOT!
If picks make a difference, fretboards make a difference
I've changed pickups trying to make a guitar better and it did nothing to help the basic tone. Had to sell it...
Also, that means that every guitar with a certain pickup would sound the same....
Schecter is a great brand man. Especially in the sub 1k market. All the big metal brands are really, since metal usually uses emgs you end up getting a nice set of pickups for cheaper than a nice set of pickups in a fender or Gibson
I agree with you, I tried out a Schecter V-type guitar and I loved it. Had a Floyd Rose on it along with some weird-but-cool-looking case hardened pickups. The best thing about that? It’s $350, and it’s not far from where I live.
Unpopular opinion: I think the neck pickup on a strat can make a really good heavy rock/metal sound (both rhythm and soloing) because of the brightness of a single coil but for also not being a mudland or the quackiest of all 3 pickups, I can even consider the middle pickup even better for this, being even brighter. Take for example Tom Morello from RATM, he uses a tele but you can see where I'm going.
Edit: It works better if you use a vintage type of amp, like a Marshall type, I tried it on a mesa boogie mark IV and in my joyo zombie II (it recreates the sound of that amp I think). In more modern type of amps with a harder distortion can be a bit of a mess with a lot of inconsistency.
You can't chug on a neck pickup.
I use middle and 4th position for goth it just Feels Right to me
I play mostly cleanish rhythm, and I prefer the neck pickup too.
The Lzzy Hale Explorerbird is an example of what I think can be a good thing about signature guitars. Explorer headstocks are definitely a tuning stability nightmare, so the straight pull of the Firebird headstock is something I think is a major improvement.
Looks killer too!! Personally I have never had trouble with my epi 2020 explorer in terms of tuning tho..
When I bought my PRS, there was Santana's, Orianthi's and Mark Tremonti's available for almost the same price of their entry guitar and they are all clearly better too! The body of my Orianthi's is amazing, and 2 different pickups really helps!
She has a very good taste, all of her guitars are killers!!
I played an Explorerbird recently and it was such a killer guitar. *Amazing* tone for rock stuff, and Firebird headstocks > Explorer headstocks. If you're in the market for a super high quality guitar for rock/metal, you like the thinner 60's-style Gibson necks, you don't need a trem, and cost isn't a huge concern, the Explorerbird is damn near unbeatable right now.
I bought one yesterday! It’s sickkkk
YOUR HAIR TRANSPLANT LOOKS AMAZING! please talk openly about it to remove stigma!
I agree with the strings guy ! I only change strings on my one strat when they break. The one cool thing is they’ll bend to the moon and back and have a bit of a different tone to them. I know it’s not great and I don’t do that with all my guitars but it’s just kinda been the way that one’s went
Schecter guitars are really great value, especially if you buy them used around 1K range. Especially if you're looking for 7 strings.
They are literally the first name I think of when I think about a 7 string
Yeah. I just bought one a couple months ago. Normally went for like 1,100 and i got it for 700 in almost mint condition lol.
i have two Schecters a Diamond series C-1 Platinum 6 and a Reaper 7 both have been my favorite guitars ever
@@Ferrox_ I have a Banshee 7 FR-S I bought for about 1100 and a C-7 SLS Elite I bought for about 900. Both great guitars, and great fun. Couldn't recommend either of them enough. The C-7 thin C neck is the best neck I've ever played on a 7 string.
Schecters are the shit
I love this video!
Made me smile a lot thanks dude :)
Oh, and as far as underrated guitarists, I think Ry Cooder is one of the best guitarists of all time, yet hardly any TH-camrs talk about him.
His latest stuff blows my mind; you can tell there's a lifetime's worth of experience behind the playing, and his voice, already nice to start with, has just gotten better with age.
Jim Lill did a series finding out where guitar tone comes from, turns out a lot of ideas are actually myths
The video about scale length definitely opened my eyes
Best guitar video on the internet, hands down.
My 2 cents, tone wood only affects acoustic guitars. Strings, pick ups and speakers are the important part of guitar tone. I'll even maybe go along with bridge construction and maybe tuners because they interact with strings. Everything else is malarkey. Now get off my lawn.
I'll say the three biggest parts of tone are the speakers, the tuning of the strings and the pickups. I don't hear a difference with the string construction themselves so long as they're of some sort of metal so they actually get picked up
The capo opinion drives me nuts. Should people also stop using alternate tunings and instead learn their barre chords? Sometimes, you need a sound that E Standard simply will not provide.
I'm not a fan of relic guitars, but don't hate anyone for using them. A lot of folks try to pitch this 'stolen valor' angle about relics. As if everyone who buys a relic wants people to think they've been playing that instrument for 30 years. Well, maybe the guitar player chose that instrument because it inspires them to play. Isn't that what every guitarist should be striving for when guitar shopping?
I find U2's music to be dreadfully boring, but The Edge is a great musician. He may not be the flashiest guitar player, but he knows how to do what's right for the song through riffs, effects, or a combination of the two.
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4:08 which is exactly why you should always try before you buy. Most QC stucks even at higher prices but if you check it out for yourself it removes inconsistency as a factor.
I have guitars with elixir coated strings i haven't changed in over 10 years. No problem they look feel and sound great.
Unpopular opinion: Bigsby tuning stability issues are a user problem, not a design problem. Lubricate the nut and saddles, tie your strings off with a Luthier's Knot, and you'll be fine.
i believe this to be true for almost all tremolo systems. most if not all of them aren’t made for dummies. they take proper setup and maintenance to be useful, on any budget.
Tone wood is practically impossible to hear a difference when you're running it electric, especially if you're running it through extra stuff. Almost everything else makes a significantly bigger tone difference
This is an absolute fact which this guy for some reason refuses to accept
Yeah there's literally no reason to not go for lighter woods and overall spec in to playability over "tone". Construction and hardware might have slight tonal differences (but do make a difference in sustain) so go for what you need and what feels good. Pickups are the thing you should be worrying about when it comes to tone, and even then you can get away with EQ'ing to have two different pickups to sound almost the same.
You've damaged your hearing by playing without earplugs and YOU can't hear the difference as a result. Science is not optional or opinion based. The laws of physics are true whether you agree with it or not.
@@Blackdiamondprod. That is such a ridiculous bs statement
@@Blackdiamondprod. Lol, you just made one of the most absurd assumptions I've ever heard. I always have earplugs in. But, let me ask you two things. First of all, did I say it makes "no tonal difference"? Secondly, tell me what electric guitars you have that have the exact same everything, with the only difference being wood. Plus, let's just point out that if you have earplugs in, you probably won't be able to hear small differences in tone (depends on your earplugs), especially at loud volumes. And, if I were to play a guitar, through an amp and cab (keep in that a majority of guitarists use at least some distortion), and even better if we add pedals, you could not tell me what the wood on that guitar is. You could only have a lucky guess based on the ones generally used. So relax with the hostile attitude smart guy
This was a fun video, your humor is spot on.
This is an unpopular opinion I used to have the opposite view on: The guitar effects the sound of the pickups way more than the pickups effect the sound of the guitar. I've built dozens of pickups over the years and you can put a pickup in one guitar that will sound completely different in another guitar. I recently built a guitar from a Warmoth body where I took all the electronics out of an old poplar Tele, put them in the alder Warmoth body which is shaped like a Jaguar but routed for all Telecaster hardware, and it literally sounds like they're a completely different set of pickups. The only variable that changed was the shape of the body and the type of wood. That's it. Every other bit of hardware and electronics is exactly the same. I mostly experimented with Strats with different woods, but this Warmoth/Tele project had by far the most significant difference of all the guitars I've tried.
"affects"
Placebo.
go watch "Jim Lill" on youtube he has an excellent video on what exactly decides guitar tone. spoiler, its 3 things. Strings, Pickups, Pickup placement. nothing to do with wood at all
@@someidot3699 I agree and Jim did a great job, but actually, the microphonic effect (if pickups aren't potted) might affect the sound a bit.
@@sashabagdasarow497 he has done a ton of videos reguarding every aspect that can be controlled after that one aswell.
Satchel is one of the most underrated guitarists around. He's awesome and no one ever talks about him. I guess because they play like a stereotypical 80s band. Their lyrics might be funny but the music is legit. Steel Panther rocks!
100% agreed poontang boomerang gets my mornings going
True. Playing hair metal riffs (and solos) ain't easy.
He was in Rob Halford's band Fight and absolutely ripped.
Agreed on bass players!
The Explorer is hands down the best style of guitar for metal. Everything about it is sexually appealing and awesome. Plus if you get one like my custom TW Smith (had to brag a little I love my guitar) they play better than pretty much any other sub $2500 guitar center guitar.
Are you trying to fuck your guitar my guy?
@@TheOnlyHollywood1 Maybe.
Definitely maybe for sure no doubt. Especially w/ a beautiful hot naked monogram of a woman or 2 on front 🔥 🔥 🔥 Long as that beautiful comfortable sexy piece of soulful art stays in tune.
I learned using heavier tunings because when I started in 2012 I was playing the original rocksmith and then rocksmith 2014 because some of my favorite songs go from e standard down to drop a, also I got my schecter from guitar center for 600 and I love it, I also have a Jackson Rhoads V I got from my local pawn shop and that thing is awesome
Just on the Edge thing, I think he's great and brilliant and writes amazing parts, and I may be wrong, but a lot of the use of effects came from working with Brian Eno(and Daniel Lanois) than necessarily his own invention.
My dad has bought 5 guitars at Rustys . Love that place ❤️❤️❤️
They still make the robotuner. It's made by a company in Germany. I used one on a headless build.
I think being able to play chords really well is more valuable than being able to solo. Maybe I’m biased cuz I’m primarily a bass player, but I really find value in being able to hang back and support the band really well.
Schecter has some awesome stuff for sure. Very overlooked.
I actually love schecters lol.
Mine is great!
My 7 string schecter is so good I probably will never change it lol
@@lebarak69 I got my first schecter a diamond series omen 6 in 2004 and still have it. I put a Duncan invader in it in like 06 and it's still my favorite lol
Schecters are beautiful. I really want one, but I don't have the money :(
As someone who has changed bass strings and also boiled them, boiling them works if you’re in a pinch and it also only takes like 15 minutes.
well... i main drums but also play bass, im not a GOOD bass player by any means, but i can actually be pretty decent at it. Main issue with most of the projects has been that i was taken to play bass, which i did good enough (both playing and composing) for something simple, but then struggled to find a new bassist after the project went better with me at the drums. after struggling to find a "good" (meaning "at least as bad as me") bass player for several bands i cant agree what you said about bassists being more disposable than guitarists.
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@@Vivi_9 Yep I know thanks!
8:20.
Personally, I subscribe to the philosophy that the amount of guitars you need is the amount of guitars you already own, plus one.
Schecter guitars could have made that statement a few years ago but budget guitars have made leaps and bounds over where they were just 2-5 years ago. They're being competitive with it now which is highly beneficial for the player and there are so many options.
multiple amps/pedals are more important than multiple guitars. you have such more tonal variety in what you can create. alot of people are afraid of that I think..
What you said about strings applies to why I have more than one guitar. I value my time and I use lots of tunings. Worth it to have a dedicated guitar for every tuning I use rather than doing a Floyd set up every time I want to tune up or down.
I dont think that anyone Switches tunings often on a FR. That is just pure Torture :DD
@@ACowIsHuge yeah. I ain't trying to do all that. I'll just buy another guitar, thanks.
regarding having multiple guitars - I have 2 electric and 2 acoustic guitars - the only reason I have 2 is one is in E standard and one is in D standard. Having these 2 setups allows me to play a wider range of songs without having to re-tune them as often.
I have one acoustic and 2 electrics, one of which I built and mainly play slide on. I’d love to have multiple guitars in different tunings but don’t know how much I’d actually use them
re: Signature Guitars. I love my EBMM Luke III and EBMM Valentine. Absolutely fantastic guitars. Charvel Guthrie is an astoundingly good guitar as well.
Hey, Tyler, what's your opinion of Billy Corgan? I haven't seen much about him in your content. Also, what are your thoughts on Nuno B and the Washburn N4 or the new 4N ?
About the bass strings:
I get it, but 20$ is ok, but this only works at the US for example, where the minimal wage is 1k more or less. In other countries, like Brazil, the minimal wage is about 1.200, but a nice package of bass strings costs about 400, almost half of it.
And, there is a certain magic in boiling strings idk lol
5:33 I agree with this one, my strumming arc always knocks the pickup switch when I’m on the neck pickup also the top knob kinda gets in the way when palm muting the higher strings when I started learning to sweep (not so much a problem for people who aren’t interested in learning metal shred) everything else about the stat is beautiful though. Probably the most comfortable guitar to hold out there
Like he said, that's bad technique.
I LOVE the strat layout. As I'm playing, my pinky has access to the volume knob, for level changes for verses and leads and such. I wish all my guitars had that layout. To each, their own, eh ?
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@@RockChalk263 He demonstrated a weird picking hand position in the video. If you're strumming, your hand is moving, and depending on the angle at which the guitar is hanging on you, it's easy to knock the selector switch off the neck pickup setting, especially if you've got large hands.
Yeah, compared to LPs, Strats are more weird to play. They also have really weird overtones on the low strings using distortion until they the newness is really bashed out of them