Both my electrics are currently broken and I don’t have the money or time rn to repair them so I’ve been playing every fucking genre I’m capable of playing on my acoustic for the last six months
Nah. Many just stick to one or two genres. I've yet to meet anyone that plays every genre on any number of guitars. I pride myself on playing damn near everything, and even then I certainly haven't touched certain genres. For example, I've yet to try Thai Kantrum, and probably never will.
@@johncrafton8319 I was talking more about the amazing capabilities of the guitar. But I see what you are saying. Also, That Thai music is pretty catchy. Some interesting scales there :)
Its your playing dude, if you play not very well then the amp is useless .. Tip: see your right hand as the painting brush for a new painting .. Then you will think harder about what to do with your right hand ... Example, Mark Knopler left hand is not difficult at all but the painting hand is hard to get .. If you get that then you even will sound good on a guitar from 50 dollar 🙂
i am 100% that i does not matter, if you can play you can play, but unplugged some instruments just feel different and you will play them differently, if you plug em in and are just going to play what you just played on that other guitar you will, but if you just noodle around you will find something different
I just couldn’t nail the intro to Opeth’s Heir Apparent on my air tele, so I got an air strat-and not one of the cheap Mexican-made ones either. Fortunately, I’ve got air bucks to burn.
I think the whole “different guitars for different genres” thing was a lot more important back in the early days of electric guitar when the tone was basically dependent on the guitar and maybe an adjustment or two on the amp. Now with all these crazy pedals and midi inputs and computers, it’s way easier to get any sound you want out of any guitar you have.
Also sometimes the pedals are so crazy, they can even make your guitar not sound like a guitar anymore XD Like the Hatsune Miku pedal or the fart pedal
Expect metal music still is dependent on the tone of the guitar. It's why the majority of guitar players use ESP, Ibanez, Dean or some lesser know guitars. Do you have any idea how many thing are confused with being metal just because the guitar sounds heavy but they lack the tone? Sure hardcore music is heavy does not make it metal. Sure you can make a country song sound heavy does not make it metal. There really is a tone in metal music set by the guitar.
I'm definitely not a guitar nerd but it's something I realised years ago that it's more about how I pick or strum the guitar, the settings on the amp and what way I held my pick. I never even knew that humbuckers were better for metal until this video! Like the saying goes, it's not about your equipment, it's about about how you use it...
Adrian Smith played a Charvel and they always used hot pickups, Malmsteen swapped to DiMarzio pickups because they picked up less string twang - same with JP and honestly with EVH the only thing about it being a strat was the shape. EVH used different tone woods, pickups, neck radii, all kinds of shit. You can play metal on a strat. Just it's not as common as a lot of these guys now with these ESP/Jackson/Ibanez guitars with dual humbuckers.
hell dude I'm pretty sure the guy from knocked loose or iron reagan plays a strat lmao. i kind of hate guitar culture honestly, all this shit is dumb and 90% of your tone comes from your fingers and your eq
Not to mention that every guitar maker in the world who makes "metal guitar" makes almost all their models as "super strat" style guitars. It's like craft breweries and IPAs.
I love my Esquire made of parts, and I love metal riffs as well. More than 70 years after the first ones were built, the Esquire and Tele are guitars that still have some surprises left in them
Humbuckers are great for metal because you’re cranking that gain so high, the less pickup hum/buzz you have, the cleaner the sound and it becomes easier to mix from a producers perspective. You can always add raspiness in production. It’s near impossible to remove it. But everyone does things differently and that’s the best thing about music.
Yeah I actually thought his playing example for metal really proved the opposite for me. For the lead tones he sounded great but on the rhythm/chugging stuff I really thought the single coil sound detracted from the style. Maybe just me though
@@spiky724 Pretty much what the OP said. Single coils are generally lower output and have hum, humbuckers (its in the name) are hum canceling so when you crank the gain they do not have the hum that one gets with single coils. You can get active single coils and other variants that eliminate or reduce the hum, ive tried a few myself and they seem to do nothing well, id rather have a noisy traditional single coil or just play with humbuckers. If you're just mucking around at home and not recording or gigging its not a major thing, i play metal all the time on my Tele that does have very noisy pickups, but it doesn't bother me and nobody else is there to get bothered so yeah... If you only want to play stuff overdriven and distorted humbuckers are probably the best choice, i love my clean stuff just as much as distortion and that's why i mostly use single coils, also i find i play better on the guitar i play the most as i imagine my muscle memory is dialed to it, switching scales and fret counts can complicate things for less experienced players, which i consider myself as even though ive been playing of and on for a very long time.
I played in a few cover bands for over 20 years. All different styles ( metal , rock , country ect ) & only used 1 guitar most of the time. It just happened to be my ARIA PRO II with T top pickups in it. I can get most sounds that I want or like with this guitar. I do own a few other guitars & love the different sounds I get with them, But you can get what you want from Any guitar if you try. I also write & record my own stuff too.
@@DeltaPi314 I saw them on KDH's walk-thru of the latest Euro guitar expo and remembered fondly an Aria Pro II bass I had 40 years ago. I am really glad they are still around. I would be surprised if they were not well-engineered and set-up-able. Yamaha's Yamaha. "Hey man! Why are yo paying through the nose for a big name brand guitar?" "Err...Yamaha?" "Yeah. Buy an Aria Pro II and get REAL value for your money." 🙂
I cried when he played county on the SG I could hear the shit tone on the bass notes. It's not a bad tone it just really didn't sound as good as a tele to me...
Tele’s for me are nothing special, no offense, but it doesn’t seem to have that kick as an ibanez such as the Jem. For me they don’t have much singularity, like a strat is a strat and tele is a tele, but Ibanez guitars aren’t different and have major differences between another a jem vs the thbb10 are crazy. I think Ibanez captures the versatility I like better than a strat or tele
@GOLDBOND vs BALLS One of the Three Kings of the Blues famously played a Flying V. Albert King played Memphis Blues, though all blues is Country-adjacent (or the other way around). Neil Young did proto-grunge on a White Falcon. John Frusciante plays one on Californication, in the music video and live.
I've been a guitarist for over 25 years and noticed a few variables to this question. Today with all the effect pedals avialable and people even upgrading their guitars such as adjusting their bridges or installing their desired pick ups, it's easier now to replicate. So yes you can play any genre on one guitar alone but takes some tweaks to it. Even the kind of amp you use can make some but not a huge difference to the sound of it. Today I'm in the casual guitar player category. I used to play heavy metal but now I just play flamenco and classical and prefer to play solo and it's a form of relaxation for me.
@@deathsee The same would apply to a crappy valve amp.....There s nothing wrong with solid state amps...a good one is also great....Orange amps are a good example of this ;)
Man I need a PRS in my life I would take one over a Les Paul or a Fender the sound and tone seem unbelievable. Great video Tyler I’m learning from you and I appreciate it.
I truly believe that certain guitars compliment certain genres and styles, but I also believe that you shouldn't restrict yourself to doing such. Using anything and everything encourages creativity I think!
I think that it's mostly the visual, the show. If you go to a blues concert with a warlock it won't seem fitting and you'll look like dumbass even if your playing is great
I’ve been playing guitar since 1974. I am often wondered about this cause I totally agree with you. I play rock on an acoustic guitar and it sounds good. I have two electrics ones a Strat and the other is a Graach a Gretsch. I think the Grinch is pretty cool for playing Fingerstyle, like Chad Atkins did . But you can play almost anything you want on any guitar, so like you say you got the sound right and I know Tatian Rite go for it will work every time. Thanks for the video. I totally agree with you.👍🏼👍🏼❤️❤️☮️🎸🎸😀☮️
I played country and blues in an ibanez rg for years, with original pickups and edge 2 floyd rose style bridge, and it was amazing, it was the only guitar i had in that time! I use to hear things like "this guitar is to play metal, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, etc"...kkkkkk... when they listened country and blues, they coudn't believe it was an ibanez rg with floyd rose bridge...kkkkkkk...
Absolutely agree. I use my PRS standard 24 SE in my high school jazz band and it works wonders, just gotta play around with the tone. Also its my only guitar with functional electronics so you gotta do what you gotta do
2 things I have on this take is 1. As much as I absolutely hate using the term, so many guitars are sound platforms to where if you use the right effects and dial in your amp right you can get away with any style. 2. People get lost in genres instead of making things their own. I actually like playing different styles in a different context because there are aspects about both that I love that can be paired together tastefully.
How nu-metal and alternative music came about. Also, how you distinguish different bands and players, just by their different nuances and sounds. It’s like, if everyone tried to sing the same song the same way, in the same key, using the same pitches and runs. That would be hella boring!
@@stephenstrader1577 I definitely agree though I would say there’s a fine line between making things your own and being trendy. I mean, I would never condone a repeat of ska music lol, but I hear you. There’s definitely a way to make your own distinct music and do it well by using different aspects of style and tones. That’s what’s so fun about music.
@@akbrooks70 What is wrong with Ska? Nothing. That is what. Nothing at all. Ska is a musical genre with a long history, it's influences are in so many different genres, and yet, people just think Ska is a handful of bad 90s bands trying to emulate Sublime or whatever. Even in that limited genre of 90s white boy Ska, there are still some great bands and great songs.
I played in highschool Jazz band with a BC Warlock and a Line6 Floor Pod Plus. It didn't look the part but damn it sounded good and creamy. All those wrong notes.👌 Also, Keith Urban uses a Les Paul for a lot of his stuff. Albert King used a Flying V for his blues although that's a bit closer to status quo.
@@NeonBeeCatExactly and that's my whole point. You can play anything with anything. It might be tougher to get a nice smooth, clean jazz tone with Seymour Duncan Invaders or Nazguls, but it'll be a unique sound experience and I think that's awesome.
That's only because you likely haven't heard anyone playing country using an SG. They sound just like any other guitar because all guitars sound the same.
Really? The guitar only brings so much tone to the overall sound. The amp/sound/EQ setup makes a big impact on your end result. When I first started, I thought I wanted the "most metal" sound I could screech out of my amps. I thought I wanted an Ibanez Iceman, or something similar. Now I play between a Strat and an RG series Ibanez. I can get a nice twangy funk sound out of my Ibanez run through a Katana, and counter, I can get a nice metal tone via my Strat. Just have to set it up for those sounds.
@@lostinjanuarymusic I don't see the negativity in this. It's actually a bit positive. He's just saying "You don't *have* to buy a thousand guitars." Not "Don't buy a thousand guitars."
@@EnderTea_ actually pedals can play a big part. I have a crate GX 15 and its distortion sounds like shit. But, I hooked up a metal muff distortion pedal and turned the knobs in the right areas and now it sounds like metallica in standard and sounds similar to cannibal corpse drop tuned. Keep in mind I have an epiphone sg special ve which is only 180 dollars.
That would be the guitar you like most, and which brings you the most joy and inspiration while playing it. I own several fairly pricey iconic guitars- a US standard Strat, a firebird; a SWEET Jazzmaster; and even sweeter SG. The guitar I always seem to reach for first, and have the most trouble putting down? A $300 Schecter Solo Special, lol. (It's in SG red- that must be the secret! lol) I can get darn near any sound I want out of it, it's very well set up, and it plays great- what more could you ask? And if that isn't doing it- I can grab my CV Tele.
i've used my flying V for jazz and gospel, my hollowbody for metal, my 8 string for country, SG for classical... etc. the guitar is not the limitation for the genre. many other factor are. technique, amp, EQ, pedals, voicings, and even speakers can help shape it, but how it's played tends to be the biggest factor IMO.
@@JB-mh5xy They already play seven-string lines on baritone and Bass VI guitars. No metal chugging yet, but radio country becomes more and more like hard rock with time... maybe in our lifetimes
Jim Root uses a Tele. he has a signature model! Jimmy Page played Stairway Solo with the Tele and I believe it was used in studio heavily the first 3 albums
Dude I'm right there with you on this discussion. When I first started playing back in the early 90s I had a 91 Yamaha RGX112. Two single coils and a humbucker at the bridge. It was all i could afford, it was the only guitar my dad would buy for me. I made it work. I crossed every single genre with that guitar and i made it sound like it was meant for that genre. You play quite well, i especially liked that last number you performed for us. Thanks for the video, it was fun.
My RGX 421 was quite good for the Jazzier stuff as well. Great guitar until I damaged a pickup and couldn't find the same one as replacement. I did not get on with the floating trem though - break a string and it all went out of whack and having to carry around allen keys to change a string. I got a kick out playing softer stuff on what appears to be a metal guitar.
Id say its equal between the guitar you choose and the amp you choose, I don't think the amp defines the tone more than the guitar, because the amp is just amplifying that tone of choice and possibly changing it slightly
@@HarrisonBowman I agree that the guitar has a huge impact of the sound, but in terms of actual tone and sound from the guitar, it's mainly your fingers, then pickups, and even less defined by the wood choice and amount of wood. I'd say more influence on sound with the instrument itself lies in how the guitar feels than the things that impact sonics. Case in point: High End Guitar & Low End Amp vs. Low End Guitar & High End Amp. Low End Guitar with High End Amp will win everytime.
The open chord played at the end of the palm muting in the metal section is unmistakably single coil, and every bit of that section sounds glorious through single coils.
I think you're half right. I needed a spanky strat sound on a track once and all I had was my Ibanez RG. Dropping the gain and gutting the EQ made it so good that when I finally got hold of a strat I couldn't make it sound any better. However, bringing a strat up to shredder metal sound takes a lot more gain and the right kind of amp. In other words it's easier to dumb down a guitar than to amp it up.
- "Last guitar for metal...?" - "Yeah well.. Gretsch..?" - "...a strat!" *as a guy having his whole arm covered in iron maiden related tattoos* : - "WHAT THE F..?!"
Dude, AC/DC's Malcolm Young used a Gretsch. Sure, they're Hard Rock and not Metal, but you can't tell me he wouldn't be able to get metal tones out of that. Hell, both my hollow-body Gretsch and my solid-body Gretsch can clean house on any six-string metal songs. I haven't drop-tuned them, though, so I'm not sure how well they'll do with those. Oddly enough, the FilterTron pickups are damn good at metal. They cut through the mix quite well.
@@johncrafton8319 I've had similar experience with my Gretsch, a G5220 Jet with chambered body and Broad'Tron pups. I picked it up for blues and classic tones but it does a lot more than merely hold its own when compared to the S-D Full Shred pup in my LTD.
Different fretboard radius help assist in different playing styles - more rounded, like a 7.25” can assist in open chording, while flatter radius like 16” can assist in fast arpeggio sweeps. But these things helping are not required, and if someone learns sweep arpeggios on a 7.25” Tele fretboard, then an Ibanez Wizard neck might not be better or even very comfortable for that player. So it all depends. Certain guitars make certain playing styles and sounds easier to achieve, but there is no one recipe that everyone is required to follow.
Surprised my drummer who likes jazz with some good tones out of the tele just the other day! They really do do everything. It doesn’t sound like a guitar faking a jazz tone it just sounds tasty
I always thought I was crazy playing metal on a Telecaster, but for me it just has some feel, some sparkle.. not sure what it is, but something makes it feel like I can make it do the sounds I want it to do, it has more color or something.. even though I have a more conventional metal guitar as well, it's like my guilty pleasure playing something like Gojira on the Tele.
Telecasters are my go-to (well, for what I am, um, playing). I have yet to see a Flying V or Explorer fit aesthetically anywhere beyond heavy metal, though.
@@J.Shambles he used a Tele on the Stairway to Heaven Solo don’t forget. Only albums II and III don’t have teles on them. Apparently after 4 he preferred recording with teles and stuck Les Pauls live
@@joem9360 ah I did forget about the stairway solo. Either way, page did play les Pauls a lot and that's the reason that so many zeppelin fans own les pauls
@@J.Shambles oh yeh 100%. Like the les Paul is so iconic with Page it’s insane, Tele comes second when u think of him. I think it’s coz early les Paul’s and early teles sounded so similar is why you can’t really tell. Jimmy Page is the Les Paul man
Yngwie plays blistering leads the whole time and very few heavy riffs tho! lol Thats another story, modern Metal wouldn't dare be done that way. Yngwie pretty much created the Neo Classical metal genre so he could sound however he wants lol
I was pretty blown away with the insane tone I got with nothing but an Orange amp and a Squier Cyclone. I played "War Pigs" and the sound was a lot more warmer/fat than anything I have heard produced from a Gibson SG, even in the hands of Tony himself.
They're just different sounding guitars, you play whatever one sounds right for the song you're playing or writing. Hell, I bought a semi-hollow Tele for my first guitar because I liked how warm it sounded. I'm wanting to play stuff like prog rock, so it sounded great for what I'm wanting to do.
I concur. I was a metalhead and played the Iceman. I went to a _certain_ music college and I had to play jazz. Everyone gave me the stink eye at first, but when I played the Iceman, I out-jazzed everyone in tone. Was a good feeling because I was the only one with an Iceman in the whole year among all the Strats, Teles, semi-hollow and what have you.
when i was picking out my first electric guitar last year i knew nothing about different guitars… i got the ps60 ibanez because it looked cool.. not even ashamed to admit it 😂 now all i play is john mayer, hozier, paul simon, taylor swift, and the lunineers and am having a guitar crisis. i kind of want to sell it and get a new one
I went to a certain music camp where the guitarist was sent to go put his strat away and come back with a hollow body in a jazz band rehearsal. Who buys a strat or a tele as a jazz guitar? Must be that school that people go to for 1 year and mostly are into 80’s metal and dream theater.
@@anthonyl7114 idk but i agree, most important thing is the playability, and how you attack the strings and play it, i can barely tell the difference between my hofner semi hollow and strat through a good amp, i’m sure there’s little differences but you’d be able to make it sound like anything by dialing the eq, fuckin with the tone and volume, and maybe even using pedals but i don’t use any
Keith isn't famous for smashing his guitar on stage, you're probably thinking of Pete Townsend of the Who. I've seen the Stones live five times over about twenty years. The funny thing about his quote is that he changes guitars for almost every single song!
If you're going to play the technical semantics game, there's no such thing as a tremolo arm. Tremolo is the quick trill of attack or rapid variance of amplitude. A tremolo arm does neither, they're all vibratos. Straight from Bigsby themselves; "The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces."
Active pickups are often good for metal. And pickups with ceramic magnets are too. And the level of output from a pickup can indicate what type of music they’re best for. But the pickups contribute to the sound just as much as the guitar itself. So when it comes to getting the type of music you want, it’s usually better to find the right type of pickups for that type of music sound. And the magnets in the pickups are part of what controls what type of music sounds come from them also.
"The tone doesn't matters for each genre" Me: *plays funk and country with a Peavey 5150 with a boss metal zone, 6 noise gates and a B.C. Rich Warlock* Pure country buddy
Yes a different guitar can sound differently for other genres but I think it’s all about how the player uses the tones of the guitar and what style they use to bring out the tone more
While I agree that type of guitar doesn't equal genre, I think it's important to recognize that this particular scenario isn't even remotely close to the situation of an average guitar player and even further away from the situation of an average beginner guitar player. When a beginner is looking to buy a guitar and asks for advice of what to get when they are a fan of rock and metal there will always be responses mentioning that iron maiden plays strats, some metal players will play teles, and with those guitars you get versatility with other genres as well, but a beginner isn't going to have the best equipment to get the best possible sound out of their guitar that they can. Often times people start with no pedals or effects and they have a simple distortion channel. These professional players can shape their tone with boosts, eqs, gates, and many other tools while a beginner won't be able to even boost their sound into the front of their amp. If a beginner gets a strat because people told them that the versatility was worth it and that iron maiden plays strats and they try to get a djent tone out of their limited rig, it's not going to sound even close to what their favorite record sounds like, where if they had gotten a guitar that was more suited to the genre with a high output bridge humbucker that might be the little extra push for the tone to at least make it feel like the sound you're getting comes close to what they want to hear. I think it's important to recognize that most guitars can get a good sound with the right equipment, but saying a strat with a single coil at the bridge is the 'best guitar' for metal is a little misleading to someone who doesn't understand how much shaping to the tone you had to do to get it to sit right in the mix. Ultimately, the video is good, but I recommend aspiring guitar players pay attention to the signal chain of their favorite artists more, and get what their favorite band plays or lean towards the stereotype for the genre, because most of the time that's what is going to get you closest to the sound you want with the least amount of hardship. Liked the video but just had some thoughts on it that I wanted to put out there.
@@micahbarker935 i would agree, but he never mentioned newbies. He was referring to the communities that limit themselves and set themselves on one guitar because that is the status quo. I think as a beginner I would have appreciated knowing the difference , but having played different styles and not knowing there WAS a difference made me more open minded . Really cool stuff.
@Luke Monsensey I play grindcore and jazz on a 335. It takes finesse to get the tone(s) right, and depends on the amp adjustments too, but that all takes experience and practice but mostly just playing. I busk 3 night/week and play free in the park every o th er day. Newbies won't get some of these ideas, but seasoned guitarists will. It's not the guitar, it's the hands holding the tool that create the magic. Right Fry?
Nah. A single guitar, a simple amp, and a small selection of those $50 pedals or a DI with some decent amp/pedal sims. My first professional guitar tutor showed me he could play (and sound like) the guitar on pretty much any popular song with just a "fat Strat" and a cheap amp.
@@danielsanguino7856 Baloney. Good pedals can go for $40-$60 each (and you only need a couple), and a pedal-board can be literally hand-built with a few small pieces of scrap wood and some screws, plus a $50 power brick. The amp doesn't have to cost much at all. A used Peavey Bandit 112 is about $150.. You can easily set up a really good gigging rig for $300 in amps and pedals.
The same thing happens on the bass side. "You need a p-bass for rock, you literally have to use a J-bass for Jazz, gotta have a washtub bass for country, you can't slap or play funk on a Thunderbird..." I can make all kinds of noises with my used Thunderbird, some of which might even resemble music from identifiable genres! 😎
this is the video that influenced me to use my strat for my metal band, cosmic yeti. thanks bro. the tone actually works very well for sludge, it lets you cut more above the heavy bass and get more differentiation in the sound
You really nailed it on the head when it comes to single coils. People spend so much energy just trying to get their humbuckers to be boosted to point its out of Control but a single coils can be overdriven with very little effort. The meanest snarls I've ever heard was on my telecaster.
Each guitar has its own character and vibe, I don’t think it’s so much about the sound, but the way the guitar becomes an extension of yourself and how you express yourself with it.
this was the advice i took from Mary Spender for my first guitar. "Buy a guitar you love looking at, and don't worry about what it's "meant" to play". That day i found an alpine white/gold Epi Les Paul and fell in love
Thanks for setting me straight; I suspected this but am an old poor man novice with an eclectic taste in music and a small budget and a beautiful Strat. Keep up the good word.
There are definitely guitars that are engineered and designed with a prototypic style or player in mind. A manufacturer's choice of bridge, pickups, body type, neck profile, tuners, etc. is never arbitrary. But this video does a great job of showing that there may be more merit to experimenting against the grain, than to adhere to these predefined ideologies.
ukuleles are actually perfect for doom metal
Really?? I’ve always used mandolins
I subbed to your website last week. Its pretty nice!
Nah loots are way better
Switch roles with the bases and guitars is my thing
Damn I'm so early
I only play blues on blue guitars.
I only play metal with steel picks
I only play jazz in Azz guitars
@@Kuroiwa1988 I only play country on an acoustic with a great big ole hole in it
I only play wonderwall on an 8 string ibanez
I only play with myself 😬
A person who owns one guitar, plays every genre on it.
Here, here BD! Sometimes it's all about the "shekels".
Who called me? 👀
Both my electrics are currently broken and I don’t have the money or time rn to repair them so I’ve been playing every fucking genre I’m capable of playing on my acoustic for the last six months
Nah. Many just stick to one or two genres. I've yet to meet anyone that plays every genre on any number of guitars.
I pride myself on playing damn near everything, and even then I certainly haven't touched certain genres. For example, I've yet to try Thai Kantrum, and probably never will.
@@johncrafton8319 I was talking more about the amazing capabilities of the guitar. But I see what you are saying. Also, That Thai music is pretty catchy. Some interesting scales there :)
amps & player = genre
the guitar doesn’t matter
Nobody seems to understand that this is the key
the pickups definitely matter
Its your playing dude, if you play not very well then the amp is useless .. Tip: see your right hand as the painting brush for a new painting .. Then you will think harder about what to do with your right hand ... Example, Mark Knopler left hand is not difficult at all but the painting hand is hard to get .. If you get that then you even will sound good on a guitar from 50 dollar 🙂
@@TheCSteve Totally right, the amp and the guitar are just for showing up when you already know how to play well
i am 100% that i does not matter, if you can play you can play, but unplugged some instruments just feel different and you will play them differently, if you plug em in and are just going to play what you just played on that other guitar you will, but if you just noodle around you will find something different
I have mastered every genre with my air Guitar.
Best comment yet! A guitar legend in his own mind.
I just couldn’t nail the intro to Opeth’s Heir Apparent on my air tele, so I got an air strat-and not one of the cheap Mexican-made ones either. Fortunately, I’ve got air bucks to burn.
@@timothywideman6837 underrated
I wonder if they still have battle of the air bands?
You are the best type of guitarist. Sadly and happily I now own a guitar. Now I try to play everything but end up making things too complicated
I think the whole “different guitars for different genres” thing was a lot more important back in the early days of electric guitar when the tone was basically dependent on the guitar and maybe an adjustment or two on the amp. Now with all these crazy pedals and midi inputs and computers, it’s way easier to get any sound you want out of any guitar you have.
And when all of your tones suck anyway because you don't know how to operate an amp, it doesn't matter anyway!
@@man4437 Exactly!
Also sometimes the pedals are so crazy, they can even make your guitar not sound like a guitar anymore XD Like the Hatsune Miku pedal or the fart pedal
Totally agree
Expect metal music still is dependent on the tone of the guitar. It's why the majority of guitar players use ESP, Ibanez, Dean or some lesser know guitars.
Do you have any idea how many thing are confused with being metal just because the guitar sounds heavy but they lack the tone?
Sure hardcore music is heavy does not make it metal. Sure you can make a country song sound heavy does not make it metal.
There really is a tone in metal music set by the guitar.
“What is the last guitar anyone would recommend for country?”
BC Rich Warlock
I'm gonna play country on a BC Rich Warlock
This was 100% what I expected tbh
That was my first thought too lmao
A nice good ole fashioned jackson randy rhodes v
OH MY GOSH. I SAID THE EXACT SAME THING OUT LOUD WHEN HE POPPED THE QUESTION. HAHAHAHA
I'm definitely not a guitar nerd but it's something I realised years ago that it's more about how I pick or strum the guitar, the settings on the amp and what way I held my pick. I never even knew that humbuckers were better for metal until this video! Like the saying goes, it's not about your equipment, it's about about how you use it...
People make the mistake when playing metal of playing wood guitars. Obviously you need a metal guitar.
@@danielatherton1631 aaron rash is making an all-metal (aluminium) guitar
@@-jank-willson Aluminium guitars have been around for a while. Pretty and sound great but so spenny
@@danielatherton1631 yeah hes trying to make his version cheaper, i think around 500$
The only guitar that played every single genre perfectly, that everyone owned, the Broom.
Air guitar works for every tone too!
Very underrated comment.
@@billwalsh388 except in space
so i'm not the only one lol
My axe of choice as a kid was a vintage wooden tennis racket. I preferred the shorter scale length.
Maybe I'm "old school"....
I remember strats being metal.
Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, EVH, Malmsteen... Just to name a few.
Adrian Smith played a Charvel and they always used hot pickups, Malmsteen swapped to DiMarzio pickups because they picked up less string twang - same with JP and honestly with EVH the only thing about it being a strat was the shape. EVH used different tone woods, pickups, neck radii, all kinds of shit.
You can play metal on a strat. Just it's not as common as a lot of these guys now with these ESP/Jackson/Ibanez guitars with dual humbuckers.
hell dude I'm pretty sure the guy from knocked loose or iron reagan plays a strat lmao. i kind of hate guitar culture honestly, all this shit is dumb and 90% of your tone comes from your fingers and your eq
didn't iommi play a strat sometimes?
Not to mention that every guitar maker in the world who makes "metal guitar" makes almost all their models as "super strat" style guitars. It's like craft breweries and IPAs.
Malmsteens tone was GODLY!
IDK what an ESP does that damn strat was and is the $#@×
A metal band i used to be in laughed at me when I brought a single coil telecaster to my audition until I started shredding
Kool
That’s weird cause telecasters are really popular for metal
I love my Esquire made of parts, and I love metal riffs as well. More than 70 years after the first ones were built, the Esquire and Tele are guitars that still have some surprises left in them
Telecasters are pretty much the Swiss Army knives of guitars. I modified mine and now it really does do it all.
@@chassy50
No they’re not.
Thank you for saying this! As an artist, this is exactly like “what brush should I use?” The answer is always “whichever”
It really isn't. Whichever brush is just lying around? No. That is not accurate.
I learnt the entire Metallica discography on an acoustic.
I learnt it on my old classical nylon string.
everybody gangsta til livestrong plays metallica solos on his Takamine
@@jameslangridge1674 lol
same here 😭
You're metal as a fuck
I just played Ace of Spades on my old banjo. It sounded killer.
You're my hero
Justin Johnson played Ace of Spades on a shovel.
justin johnson has entered the chat
😎😎😎
Humbuckers are great for metal because you’re cranking that gain so high, the less pickup hum/buzz you have, the cleaner the sound and it becomes easier to mix from a producers perspective. You can always add raspiness in production. It’s near impossible to remove it. But everyone does things differently and that’s the best thing about music.
Yeah I actually thought his playing example for metal really proved the opposite for me. For the lead tones he sounded great but on the rhythm/chugging stuff I really thought the single coil sound detracted from the style. Maybe just me though
Most of the metal I’ve played has been on a strat modified with hum buckers.
@@jmaguire2232 or blend switch
What's the difference between humbuckers and single coils for metal
@@spiky724 Pretty much what the OP said. Single coils are generally lower output and have hum, humbuckers (its in the name) are hum canceling so when you crank the gain they do not have the hum that one gets with single coils. You can get active single coils and other variants that eliminate or reduce the hum, ive tried a few myself and they seem to do nothing well, id rather have a noisy traditional single coil or just play with humbuckers. If you're just mucking around at home and not recording or gigging its not a major thing, i play metal all the time on my Tele that does have very noisy pickups, but it doesn't bother me and nobody else is there to get bothered so yeah... If you only want to play stuff overdriven and distorted humbuckers are probably the best choice, i love my clean stuff just as much as distortion and that's why i mostly use single coils, also i find i play better on the guitar i play the most as i imagine my muscle memory is dialed to it, switching scales and fret counts can complicate things for less experienced players, which i consider myself as even though ive been playing of and on for a very long time.
I played in a few cover bands for over 20 years. All different styles ( metal , rock , country ect ) & only used 1 guitar most of the time. It just happened to be my ARIA PRO II with T top pickups in it. I can get most sounds that I want or like with this guitar. I do own a few other guitars & love the different sounds I get with them, But you can get what you want from Any guitar if you try. I also write & record my own stuff too.
I have the aria pro 2 aswell
Aria PROs are surprisingly good guitars.
@@DeltaPi314 I saw them on KDH's walk-thru of the latest Euro guitar expo and remembered fondly an Aria Pro II bass I had 40 years ago. I am really glad they are still around. I would be surprised if they were not well-engineered and set-up-able. Yamaha's Yamaha.
"Hey man! Why are yo paying through the nose for a big name brand guitar?"
"Err...Yamaha?"
"Yeah. Buy an Aria Pro II and get REAL value for your money." 🙂
Country: Tele
Blues: Tele
Jazz: Tele
Metal: Tele
Me: 13 guitars, 1 Tele
I just got my first tele.. i wish i would of gotten one years ago. I love it!
Same! I love the tele.
I cried when he played county on the SG I could hear the shit tone on the bass notes. It's not a bad tone it just really didn't sound as good as a tele to me...
Tele’s for me are nothing special, no offense, but it doesn’t seem to have that kick as an ibanez such as the Jem. For me they don’t have much singularity, like a strat is a strat and tele is a tele, but Ibanez guitars aren’t different and have major differences between another a jem vs the thbb10 are crazy. I think Ibanez captures the versatility I like better than a strat or tele
Jim Root from Slipknot uses a Telecaster. He wrote the riff Sulfur. Perhaps the most head bang inducing riff they have.
Imagine you're in a Country show and the guitarist comes out with a Flying V Guitar lmao
I saw a guy playing jazz on a firebird once !... it sounded so good..
@GOLDBOND vs BALLS One of the Three Kings of the Blues famously played a Flying V. Albert King played Memphis Blues, though all blues is Country-adjacent (or the other way around).
Neil Young did proto-grunge on a White Falcon. John Frusciante plays one on Californication, in the music video and live.
It’s a bit like the drummer with the metal drum set (huge toms an double bass) playing ZZ TOP with his band 😅
It would probably not suck..
There used to be a local country band, where the guy played a V.
“What is the last guitar anyone would recommend for country?”
Me: Abasi 8 string?
bruh
Exactly what I thought
Nice
That Mountain Dew meme guitar Jared Dines had built.
Was totally thinking a Rhoads V and have to say still thinking that..
I've been a guitarist for over 25 years and noticed a few variables to this question. Today with all the effect pedals avialable and people even upgrading their guitars such as adjusting their bridges or installing their desired pick ups, it's easier now to replicate. So yes you can play any genre on one guitar alone but takes some tweaks to it. Even the kind of amp you use can make some but not a huge difference to the sound of it. Today I'm in the casual guitar player category. I used to play heavy metal but now I just play flamenco and classical and prefer to play solo and it's a form of relaxation for me.
Country: Tele
Blues: Strat
Hollowbody: Jazz
Gibson SG: AC/DC
What? SG for AC/DC? Dave Chandler from St Vitus laughs in your face
SG for acdc and St Vitus?
Tony Iommi *laughs in d#*
Blues?? Les Paul of course. Strat for driving fence posts.
sg is also good for black sabbath
You forgot about Tony Iommi he used an SG
I thought humbuckers were good for metal because they're less prone to noise which is really good when you're on a good amount of gain.
Absolutely correct.
Also clarity with high gain
I think he did a great job showing what you would sound like playing metal with a crappy solid state amp, and a speaker cab with no bottom end :P
@@deathsee You haven't learnt
@@Haha-Jim you missed a note bro here you go d👌
@@deathsee The same would apply to a crappy valve amp.....There s nothing wrong with solid state amps...a good one is also great....Orange amps are a good example of this ;)
Tyler’s real list: prs,prs,prs,prs,prs,prs
Plus Tele.
Solid line up
So true
Q: What does Tyler's cat respond to?
A: Prsprsprsprsprsprs.
@@johncrafton8319 and SG
Man I need a PRS in my life I would take one over a Les Paul or a Fender the sound and tone seem unbelievable. Great video Tyler I’m learning from you and I appreciate it.
"what is the last guitar anyone would recommend for country?"
Me: An Ibanez 8 strings with active pickups.
"Gibson SG"
O well
Active pickups might be better than passive humbuckers. You can get more high end snap. At least with say an EMG 81.
Me: Any Jackson
Was literally expecting him to bring out Ibanez for that..🤣
Was it bad I was secretly hoping a Dean razorback country jam?
I was thinking somthing made by BC rich with emgs 😆 but no, an SG! On music radar its 3rd on the list for country electrics!
I truly believe that certain guitars compliment certain genres and styles, but I also believe that you shouldn't restrict yourself to doing such. Using anything and everything encourages creativity I think!
Isn’t that what Tyler just said?
@@peytonpatrick8656 Well I was exactly agreeing with his points.
Exactly. Like you said "compliment" but not demand or promise certain genres or styles 👌
I think that it's mostly the visual, the show. If you go to a blues concert with a warlock it won't seem fitting and you'll look like dumbass even if your playing is great
Kieth Richards said it best when said "les paul, strat, tele, doesnt matter in 15 mins i can make them all sound the same"
same, I'll make em all sound like trash but it'll only take a few seconds
😂
yeah if you only play 1st position blues licks thats not hard
Wait till you hear me. I can make them all sounds like a garbage disposal
He pushes a syringe into the pickups shoots it up and is ready to rock. Please allow me to introduce myself I’m a man with massive veins.
I’ve been playing guitar since 1974. I am often wondered about this cause I totally agree with you. I play rock on an acoustic guitar and it sounds good. I have two electrics ones a Strat and the other is a Graach a Gretsch. I think the Grinch is pretty cool for playing Fingerstyle, like Chad Atkins did . But you can play almost anything you want on any guitar, so like you say you got the sound right and I know Tatian Rite go for it will work every time. Thanks for the video. I totally agree with you.👍🏼👍🏼❤️❤️☮️🎸🎸😀☮️
Worst guitar for metal?
"Strat"
*Iron Maiden has entered the chat*
He probably forget about them
Yngwie Malmsteen (Strat in hand): "Hold my beer"...
Yeah but dave murray uses a strat with mini humbuckers
Richie Blackmore: Hold my wizzard hat.
The only thing metal about iron maiden is the iron.
“What is the last guitar anyone would recommend for country?”
any 7 string with EMGs
I was gonna say something schecter with actives.
I played country and blues in an ibanez rg for years, with original pickups and edge 2 floyd rose style bridge, and it was amazing, it was the only guitar i had in that time! I use to hear things like "this guitar is to play metal, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, etc"...kkkkkk... when they listened country and blues, they coudn't believe it was an ibanez rg with floyd rose bridge...kkkkkkk...
Jackson warrior with bare knuckle nail bombs.
Electric guitar with Nylon strings
I was gonna say a 7 string flying v
"The last guitar anyone would recommend for a country"
I thought you would use a Flying V LOL
Yeah or a warlock
Yeah I was thinking a jackson rhoads v lmao
Yes a BC Rich Warlock
An explorer too maybe 😂
So did I.....
Thanks for this; been playing country on my SG for ages.
"What is the last guitar anyone would use for Country?"
That's easy, the *Ibanez HHUEB922PFJN-MNMND3663*
I thought it's BC Rich.
I thought Dean guitars
I actually googled that one. LOL
The THBB10 for sure lol
Dude te RG58392kddkfke9sncne9sxi is a great series so sad its discontinued
“Any hollow-body guitar you won’t have a whammy bar”
I think the entire Gretsch company would disagree there.
my gretsch hollowbody has a whammy lolol
@@mitegai3027 yeah the Gretsch 5034TFT is literally an acoustic guitar with a bigsby. It’s pretty cool
@@mitegai3027 same
Some Starcasters have a whammy
RIP tuning stability though.
The one guitar that I've never seen jazz played on is the jazzmaster...
Did it this morning at a guitar center, and I can confirm it’s got some mad jazz tone. Never understood why no one ever uses jazz masters for jazz....
Check out Ray Barbee. He’s a pro skateboarder but plays some great jazz. I get where you’re coming from, though.
Nels Cline is the one lad I’ve ever heard that used a Jazzmaster in the context of jazz.
@@jansenwonders8614 It was when jazzers were still religiously into archtops, so the Jazzmaster would’ve been a dramatic departure.
That would be conforming to "the man", Daddy-o
Absolutely agree. I use my PRS standard 24 SE in my high school jazz band and it works wonders, just gotta play around with the tone. Also its my only guitar with functional electronics so you gotta do what you gotta do
Tyler: “musical genres aren’t based on guitar tone”
Djent: and I took that personally
Take a banjo and tune it to drop z
@@cIappo896 I took my prs with 10-46 and put it in drop a
Djent is not a genre. That is all
Djent is a genre, although it is also a meme.
Shoegaze also
2 things I have on this take is
1. As much as I absolutely hate using the term, so many guitars are sound platforms to where if you use the right effects and dial in your amp right you can get away with any style.
2. People get lost in genres instead of making things their own. I actually like playing different styles in a different context because there are aspects about both that I love that can be paired together tastefully.
How nu-metal and alternative music came about. Also, how you distinguish different bands and players, just by their different nuances and sounds. It’s like, if everyone tried to sing the same song the same way, in the same key, using the same pitches and runs. That would be hella boring!
@@stephenstrader1577 I definitely agree though I would say there’s a fine line between making things your own and being trendy. I mean, I would never condone a repeat of ska music lol, but I hear you. There’s definitely a way to make your own distinct music and do it well by using different aspects of style and tones. That’s what’s so fun about music.
@@akbrooks70 What is wrong with Ska? Nothing. That is what. Nothing at all. Ska is a musical genre with a long history, it's influences are in so many different genres, and yet, people just think Ska is a handful of bad 90s bands trying to emulate Sublime or whatever. Even in that limited genre of 90s white boy Ska, there are still some great bands and great songs.
Any Guitar is great, Superstrat, LesPaul, Strat, FlyingV, Telecasters, etc....as long as there's a Whammy WahWah pedal, Everything will sound good! 🤘
Hi Kirk 😎😎
wah is true and true is wah-wah
Word
You mean esp????
Thanks Kirk, very cool
I played in highschool Jazz band with a BC Warlock and a Line6 Floor Pod Plus. It didn't look the part but damn it sounded good and creamy. All those wrong notes.👌
Also, Keith Urban uses a Les Paul for a lot of his stuff. Albert King used a Flying V for his blues although that's a bit closer to status quo.
who cares if it even looks the part, i think its more authentic
@@NeonBeeCatExactly and that's my whole point. You can play anything with anything. It might be tougher to get a nice smooth, clean jazz tone with Seymour Duncan Invaders or Nazguls, but it'll be a unique sound experience and I think that's awesome.
@@LBibeauB24 i can get a decent jazz tone with an ibanez gio generic metal looking guitar xd
Alternative title: "Flexing My Guitar Muscles across Different Genres"
The true flex is jazz on a B.C. Rich...Affinity Series
@@alexandereggleston8893 that's nasty
My life has completely changed when he started playing country on a SG. I have never heard a SG sound like that.
Pretty sure I’ve seen people in Lucinda Williams band playing SGs - and Danelectros
I played country on a Gibson Les Paul for years. Gold top with P90 pickups plugged into a Fender Twin Reverb
That's only because you likely haven't heard anyone playing country using an SG. They sound just like any other guitar because all guitars sound the same.
Really? The guitar only brings so much tone to the overall sound. The amp/sound/EQ setup makes a big impact on your end result. When I first started, I thought I wanted the "most metal" sound I could screech out of my amps. I thought I wanted an Ibanez Iceman, or something similar. Now I play between a Strat and an RG series Ibanez. I can get a nice twangy funk sound out of my Ibanez run through a Katana, and counter, I can get a nice metal tone via my Strat. Just have to set it up for those sounds.
@@JohnnyRebKy that’s such an awesome and underrated country tone in my opinion.
What he's trying to say is: "You don't have to buy a thousand guitars like me."
Yeahh Lmfaoo haha pretty much
When most of them are PRS, he's not wrong.
Nobody need that kind of negativity 😜 Go ahead and get as many guitars as you “need”
@@lostinjanuarymusic I don't see the negativity in this. It's actually a bit positive. He's just saying "You don't *have* to buy a thousand guitars."
Not
"Don't buy a thousand guitars."
@@freezingjazzy 🤫 don’t tell my wife
Gifted my 14 year old grandson my 1998 fiesta red players strat, it’s older than him by 11 years. It’s exquisite!
"The last guitar anyone would recommend for country"
Me: "B.C. Rich warlock has entered the chat"
Or B.C. Rich Draco.
I was CERTAIN it was going to be a warlock. Alas.
That's too cheap for him, man. He won't buy a guitar with a base price below $1000 lmao jk
My thought too. But he’s only using guitars he has. So I knew it wouldn’t be anything like a BC Rich.
With emgs and a floyd
"What's the best guitar for (genre)"
Yours.
any guitar. it's the pedal that makes the genre.
@@commentfreely5443 you can play metal without a distortion pedal, and you can play country with one
@@commentfreely5443 you confused pedal and amp
@@EnderTea_ actually pedals can play a big part. I have a crate GX 15 and its distortion sounds like shit. But, I hooked up a metal muff distortion pedal and turned the knobs in the right areas and now it sounds like metallica in standard and sounds similar to cannibal corpse drop tuned. Keep in mind I have an epiphone sg special ve which is only 180 dollars.
That would be the guitar you like most, and which brings you the most joy and inspiration while playing it. I own several fairly pricey iconic guitars- a US standard Strat, a firebird; a SWEET Jazzmaster; and even sweeter SG. The guitar I always seem to reach for first, and have the most trouble putting down? A $300 Schecter Solo Special, lol. (It's in SG red- that must be the secret! lol) I can get darn near any sound I want out of it, it's very well set up, and it plays great- what more could you ask? And if that isn't doing it- I can grab my CV Tele.
i've used my flying V for jazz and gospel, my hollowbody for metal, my 8 string for country, SG for classical... etc. the guitar is not the limitation for the genre. many other factor are. technique, amp, EQ, pedals, voicings, and even speakers can help shape it, but how it's played tends to be the biggest factor IMO.
i saw flying V for jazz and i died 😭
in a good way
8 string would very suited to country, with all the baritone riffs and "tick-tack" bass doubling that already goes on
@@andrewpearson1903 If someone ripped out an 8-string during a country show, I'd start listening to country again on principle alone.
@@JB-mh5xy They already play seven-string lines on baritone and Bass VI guitars. No metal chugging yet, but radio country becomes more and more like hard rock with time... maybe in our lifetimes
Best guitar video I've ever seen in my life , and trust me when I say I saw a WHOLE BUNCH OF GUITAR VIDEOS
Jimmy Page played a Tele on the first LZ album and Les Paul was a jazz guitarist.
Radiohead playing alter rock on tele. Tele is huge.
Jim Root uses a Tele. he has a signature model! Jimmy Page played Stairway Solo with the Tele and I believe it was used in studio heavily the first 3 albums
@@aenima1Jim Roots tele is a completely different breed though, it has active EMG humbuckers. It’s basically a tele body and that’s it
David Gilmour sometimes used a telecaster (I know that Dogs exclusively used a Tele).
Jimmy page is an overrated
Dude I'm right there with you on this discussion. When I first started playing back in the early 90s I had a 91 Yamaha RGX112. Two single coils and a humbucker at the bridge. It was all i could afford, it was the only guitar my dad would buy for me. I made it work. I crossed every single genre with that guitar and i made it sound like it was meant for that genre.
You play quite well, i especially liked that last number you performed for us. Thanks for the video, it was fun.
My RGX 421 was quite good for the Jazzier stuff as well. Great guitar until I damaged a pickup and couldn't find the same one as replacement. I did not get on with the floating trem though - break a string and it all went out of whack and having to carry around allen keys to change a string. I got a kick out playing softer stuff on what appears to be a metal guitar.
Try to convince me otherwise: your amp is the most defining part of your tone, apart from your own fingers.
Id say its equal between the guitar you choose and the amp you choose, I don't think the amp defines the tone more than the guitar, because the amp is just amplifying that tone of choice and possibly changing it slightly
@@HarrisonBowman I agree that the guitar has a huge impact of the sound, but in terms of actual tone and sound from the guitar, it's mainly your fingers, then pickups, and even less defined by the wood choice and amount of wood. I'd say more influence on sound with the instrument itself lies in how the guitar feels than the things that impact sonics. Case in point: High End Guitar & Low End Amp vs. Low End Guitar & High End Amp. Low End Guitar with High End Amp will win everytime.
@@Aaron-zh4kj Yeah you do have a point there
Strings.
@@almostliterally593 You know what, I'll even agree to let that tie with pickups. I do agree, good strings are incredibly underatedly important
The open chord played at the end of the palm muting in the metal section is unmistakably single coil, and every bit of that section sounds glorious through single coils.
What is the song?
-Random people: You need a strat for a great blues tone, ibanez for metal, blablabla
-Me who use my $140 guitar for every song: 🙃
and then theres me who plays metal on an acoustic
and then theres me, playing deathcore on a ukulele
@@limpbizkit6245 wht guitar is best for deathcore
Accoustic with fuzz pedal is the best 😂😂
my first guitar, an epiphone SG plays everything really nicely
It’s so satisfying seeing all the PRS’ all on one rack.
tyler says the same about the money he gets from doing that
Good to see someone that knows how to use a plural apostrophe. 👍😁
Am i the only one who hates the look of prs’s?
Tyler: no genre is made to use an specific guitar
Me: *dies in GibsonLesPaulGoldtop Core*
Man!!😂😂😂😂😂👏🏽
I think you're half right. I needed a spanky strat sound on a track once and all I had was my Ibanez RG. Dropping the gain and gutting the EQ made it so good that when I finally got hold of a strat I couldn't make it sound any better. However, bringing a strat up to shredder metal sound takes a lot more gain and the right kind of amp. In other words it's easier to dumb down a guitar than to amp it up.
Agreed to a point. A good base is necessary. Then Amp and pedals can make all the difference.
- "Last guitar for metal...?"
- "Yeah well.. Gretsch..?"
- "...a strat!"
*as a guy having his whole arm covered in iron maiden related tattoos* :
- "WHAT THE F..?!"
Dude, AC/DC's Malcolm Young used a Gretsch. Sure, they're Hard Rock and not Metal, but you can't tell me he wouldn't be able to get metal tones out of that. Hell, both my hollow-body Gretsch and my solid-body Gretsch can clean house on any six-string metal songs. I haven't drop-tuned them, though, so I'm not sure how well they'll do with those. Oddly enough, the FilterTron pickups are damn good at metal. They cut through the mix quite well.
I was thinking the same thing. At the 5:20 mark, it absolutely rocks. Ever since Buddy Holly strats rule.
To be fair, Iron Maiden uses humbuckers on their strats for the most part.
@@johncrafton8319 I've had similar experience with my Gretsch, a G5220 Jet with chambered body and Broad'Tron pups. I picked it up for blues and classic tones but it does a lot more than merely hold its own when compared to the S-D Full Shred pup in my LTD.
Not even kidding I play thrash metal on an epiphone wildkat semihollow... ...don’t judge. It works better than you’d think
The best guitar for a genre ? The one that fits in your hands.
nah... the one that feels right
@@malte1984 same thing
Different fretboard radius help assist in different playing styles - more rounded, like a 7.25” can assist in open chording, while flatter radius like 16” can assist in fast arpeggio sweeps. But these things helping are not required, and if someone learns sweep arpeggios on a 7.25” Tele fretboard, then an Ibanez Wizard neck might not be better or even very comfortable for that player. So it all depends. Certain guitars make certain playing styles and sounds easier to achieve, but there is no one recipe that everyone is required to follow.
"guitars are not for the genre" so I'll go play nu metal with my $ 20 Stratocaster and my 10-whatts Laney xd
With enough effects anything is possible :)
Thats just crap gear mate :)
Well his point still stands, if you are gonna spend only 20$ on a guitar it doesn't matter which type you use xd
The amp is probably much more important than the guitar tbh
a noise gate and proper distortion and you're set
Lets just get this out of the way, PRS just makes EXTREMELY versatile guitars.
100% It’s crazy the sounds you can get out of PRS.
They better cause most of them cost as much as a cheap car.
A Tele is the only guitar that stares at you from across the room, saying, "You should've picked me for the gig, silly."
Agreed I’m a tele guy it’s the perfect guitar for anything
Poor Tele not noticed by Senpai
Surprised my drummer who likes jazz with some good tones out of the tele just the other day! They really do do everything. It doesn’t sound like a guitar faking a jazz tone it just sounds tasty
Strats are my go to but I do like the tone of the pickups though.
I'm a Les Paul guy, but I do have a guilty pleasure for a good Tele lol
THANK YOU, Tyler! What a much needed declaration!
I always thought I was crazy playing metal on a Telecaster, but for me it just has some feel, some sparkle.. not sure what it is, but something makes it feel like I can make it do the sounds I want it to do, it has more color or something.. even though I have a more conventional metal guitar as well, it's like my guilty pleasure playing something like Gojira on the Tele.
Tele's are awesome! I've never found a Strat that made me want it buy it, but my next will be a Telecaster.
points at Jim Root (Slipknot)
Telecasters are my go-to (well, for what I am, um, playing).
I have yet to see a Flying V or Explorer fit aesthetically anywhere beyond heavy metal, though.
John 5 approves
@@cryptoskywalker6000 slipknot is a nu metal band and their guitarist uses a telecaster
‘Jimmy Page’s Telecaster sold the most Les Pauls’ I think is a pretty good statement for this
True, but the guitar Kris Derrig built in the 1980's, that ended up in Slash's hands recording AFD, may have sold more Gibsons.
Considering jimmy page only used a tele on one album, I'd say that jimmy page's les Pauls sold the most les pauls
@@J.Shambles he used a Tele on the Stairway to Heaven Solo don’t forget. Only albums II and III don’t have teles on them. Apparently after 4 he preferred recording with teles and stuck Les Pauls live
@@joem9360 ah I did forget about the stairway solo. Either way, page did play les Pauls a lot and that's the reason that so many zeppelin fans own les pauls
@@J.Shambles oh yeh 100%. Like the les Paul is so iconic with Page it’s insane, Tele comes second when u think of him. I think it’s coz early les Paul’s and early teles sounded so similar is why you can’t really tell. Jimmy Page is the Les Paul man
"Strats aren't for Metal"
Yngwie Malmsteen and Ritchie Blackmore have left the chat
Iron maiden?
If I remember correctly... I heard that Paul Gilbert used a Squire Strat on the first Racer X album. I could be wrong. 🤔
Yngwie plays blistering leads the whole time and very few heavy riffs tho! lol Thats another story, modern Metal wouldn't dare be done that way. Yngwie pretty much created the Neo Classical metal genre so he could sound however he wants lol
as have Iron Maiden. 3 guitarists, 3 strats.
I was pretty blown away with the insane tone I got with nothing but an Orange amp and a Squier Cyclone. I played "War Pigs" and the sound was a lot more warmer/fat than anything I have heard produced from a Gibson SG, even in the hands of Tony himself.
They're just different sounding guitars, you play whatever one sounds right for the song you're playing or writing.
Hell, I bought a semi-hollow Tele for my first guitar because I liked how warm it sounded. I'm wanting to play stuff like prog rock, so it sounded great for what I'm wanting to do.
“the last guitar anyone one would recommend for country”
Me: SOLAR GUITARS
My guess was ESP, Schecter and Ibanez
Flying V
Warlock
7 string Ibanez xD
@@andrewpappas9311 that was my initial thought lmaooo
I honestly don't care I just want the guitar to look cool
that is explicitly what Lemmy said ... if it's good enough for him, who am i to judge?
Felt that in my soul
I concur. I was a metalhead and played the Iceman. I went to a _certain_ music college and I had to play jazz. Everyone gave me the stink eye at first, but when I played the Iceman, I out-jazzed everyone in tone. Was a good feeling because I was the only one with an Iceman in the whole year among all the Strats, Teles, semi-hollow and what have you.
when i was picking out my first electric guitar last year i knew nothing about different guitars… i got the ps60 ibanez because it looked cool.. not even ashamed to admit it 😂 now all i play is john mayer, hozier, paul simon, taylor swift, and the lunineers and am having a guitar crisis. i kind of want to sell it and get a new one
I went to a certain music camp where the guitarist was sent to go put his strat away and come back with a hollow body in a jazz band rehearsal. Who buys a strat or a tele as a jazz guitar? Must be that school that people go to for 1 year and mostly are into 80’s metal and dream theater.
I have an 8 string guitar Ibanez RG8 and I play everything: ambient, progressive, base, rock , and pop
Tyler it’s insane how well rounded of a player you are. Your such an inspiration.
In the words of Keith Richards "Give me five minutes, I'll make them all sound the same."
Did he really said that?
@@anthonyl7114 idk but i agree, most important thing is the playability, and how you attack the strings and play it, i can barely tell the difference between my hofner semi hollow and strat through a good amp, i’m sure there’s little differences but you’d be able to make it sound like anything by dialing the eq, fuckin with the tone and volume, and maybe even using pedals but i don’t use any
@@anthonyl7114 I have heard him say that, and not as a joke. Keith sounds like Keith no matter what equipment
Keith isn't famous for smashing his guitar on stage, you're probably thinking of Pete Townsend of the Who.
I've seen the Stones live five times over about twenty years. The funny thing about his quote is that he changes guitars for almost every single song!
@@johncihon1 ty for the correction!
"Any hollowbody guitar, you're not going to have a whammy bar"
Gretsch with bigsby: *confused noises*
Am I a joke to you? XD
Bigsby is not a whammy bar.
Its vibrato system, not tremolo.
If you're going to play the technical semantics game, there's no such thing as a tremolo arm. Tremolo is the quick trill of attack or rapid variance of amplitude. A tremolo arm does neither, they're all vibratos.
Straight from Bigsby themselves; "The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces."
@@MrLeeJimi "A tremolo arm does neither"
Jack Blades would like to have a word with you!
*laughing in Cyan Guitars*
Active pickups are often good for metal. And pickups with ceramic magnets are too. And the level of output from a pickup can indicate what type of music they’re best for. But the pickups contribute to the sound just as much as the guitar itself. So when it comes to getting the type of music you want, it’s usually better to find the right type of pickups for that type of music sound. And the magnets in the pickups are part of what controls what type of music sounds come from them also.
This guy speaks so clearly and enunciates so well that the auto generated captions are completely spot on.
I also think he's got the most generic American accent I've ever heard
@@briggshardy6899 me: cries in Boston
me: cries in african
me : cries in Indian
@@briggshardy6899 thats the Midwestern accent, the most boring accent in america. And most well known
"Nobody would play metal on a strat"
Sad Iron Maiden noises
**sad yngwie malmsteen noises**
Strats single coil bridge pick ups, one of the judas priest guitar players said he used to play a regular strat for recording
Van Halen
All of the 1980's was really all about the Strat. Les Pauls were uncool in that decade until a certain guy with a top hat and shades came along
Imagine if he would´ve picked up strat
"The tone doesn't matters for each genre"
Me: *plays funk and country with a Peavey 5150 with a boss metal zone, 6 noise gates and a B.C. Rich Warlock*
Pure country buddy
Dude. You might be onto something brb
yes.
6 noise gates😂
Yes, I would die of awe if George Strait walked on stage with a Warlock.
You gotta swap out all those noise gates for more Metal Zones then you’re on a good start.
Wow, I thought I'd never hear you play country dude. Still sounded great. Very informative video man
"Any hollow body guitar you are not going to have a whammy bar..."
*Me: Looking puzzled and amused at my Gretsch fitted with a Bigsby*
Ikr?
Guild Starfire, too.
Gretsch and Rickenbacher have entered the chat.
Yes a different guitar can sound differently for other genres but I think it’s all about how the player uses the tones of the guitar and what style they use to bring out the tone more
i think it is mostly about post production, but yeah, i can't make my SG sound exactly like Strat or Tele, but I can get close just by eq
The right guitar is the one that feels right. As proven here, it’s the musicality of the player, not the equipment. Great video!
yes, the instrument that excites you and inspires you!
Damn dude, every video you make is very entertaining and your playing is incredible bro! Love from CO!
While I agree that type of guitar doesn't equal genre, I think it's important to recognize that this particular scenario isn't even remotely close to the situation of an average guitar player and even further away from the situation of an average beginner guitar player. When a beginner is looking to buy a guitar and asks for advice of what to get when they are a fan of rock and metal there will always be responses mentioning that iron maiden plays strats, some metal players will play teles, and with those guitars you get versatility with other genres as well, but a beginner isn't going to have the best equipment to get the best possible sound out of their guitar that they can. Often times people start with no pedals or effects and they have a simple distortion channel. These professional players can shape their tone with boosts, eqs, gates, and many other tools while a beginner won't be able to even boost their sound into the front of their amp.
If a beginner gets a strat because people told them that the versatility was worth it and that iron maiden plays strats and they try to get a djent tone out of their limited rig, it's not going to sound even close to what their favorite record sounds like, where if they had gotten a guitar that was more suited to the genre with a high output bridge humbucker that might be the little extra push for the tone to at least make it feel like the sound you're getting comes close to what they want to hear.
I think it's important to recognize that most guitars can get a good sound with the right equipment, but saying a strat with a single coil at the bridge is the 'best guitar' for metal is a little misleading to someone who doesn't understand how much shaping to the tone you had to do to get it to sit right in the mix. Ultimately, the video is good, but I recommend aspiring guitar players pay attention to the signal chain of their favorite artists more, and get what their favorite band plays or lean towards the stereotype for the genre, because most of the time that's what is going to get you closest to the sound you want with the least amount of hardship.
Liked the video but just had some thoughts on it that I wanted to put out there.
@@micahbarker935 i would agree, but he never mentioned newbies. He was referring to the communities that limit themselves and set themselves on one guitar because that is the status quo. I think as a beginner I would have appreciated knowing the difference , but having played different styles and not knowing there WAS a difference made me more open minded . Really cool stuff.
@Luke Monsensey im gonna go with gibson or Martin...
@Luke Monsensey Kirk Hammett used a strat in the earlier days
@Luke Monsensey I play grindcore and jazz on a 335. It takes finesse to get the tone(s) right, and depends on the amp adjustments too, but that all takes experience and practice but mostly just playing.
I busk 3 night/week and play free in the park every o th er day. Newbies won't get some of these ideas, but seasoned guitarists will. It's not the guitar, it's the hands holding the tool that create the magic. Right Fry?
Very nice comment 👍
The answer is: any guitar works for any tone... if you're willing to spend another $500 on pedals and amps
Nah. A single guitar, a simple amp, and a small selection of those $50 pedals or a DI with some decent amp/pedal sims.
My first professional guitar tutor showed me he could play (and sound like) the guitar on pretty much any popular song with just a "fat Strat" and a cheap amp.
@@johncrafton8319 I'm with you/
only the Boss Harmonizer costs $200, a good pedalboard with 6 pedals, easily goes around $800 and don't forget the amp!
@@danielsanguino7856 Baloney. Good pedals can go for $40-$60 each (and you only need a couple), and a pedal-board can be literally hand-built with a few small pieces of scrap wood and some screws, plus a $50 power brick. The amp doesn't have to cost much at all. A used Peavey Bandit 112 is about $150.. You can easily set up a really good gigging rig for $300 in amps and pedals.
@Stoodio808 what gauge do you use?
The same thing happens on the bass side. "You need a p-bass for rock, you literally have to use a J-bass for Jazz, gotta have a washtub bass for country, you can't slap or play funk on a Thunderbird..."
I can make all kinds of noises with my used Thunderbird, some of which might even resemble music from identifiable genres!
😎
"SG's aren't for country"
*Derek Trucks has entered the chat*
Hardly call him a country artist.
Hardly call him a country artist.
Hardly call him a country artist
They work but the Tone just isn't as good though.
@@zaca911 Wrong
I am reminded of the photography question: "What's the best camera for a certain shot?" .. "The one you have in your hand."
"What's the best bicycle for the riding I do?" "The one you are currently riding."
Chase Jarvis was the photographer that popularised the saying the best camera is the one you have with you
feeling very valid for owning a telecaster but never playing country
Works for John 5
@@norm6645 Tbh everything works for him, the guyy can play anything
I got the John 5 Tele, and I Def don't play country. Great guitar though
@@ossisuomalainen But _mostly_ what he plays is Tele's, and he's a Fender brand representative for the Telecaster.
this is the video that influenced me to use my strat for my metal band, cosmic yeti. thanks bro.
the tone actually works very well for sludge, it lets you cut more above the heavy bass and get more differentiation in the sound
There's nothing you can't do with a Telecaster
Play some rly brutal djent
2 words jim root
@@Robinyoheart actually, the whole djent sound is basically telecaster with distortion, woala you dont need all that gear anymore
STRATOCASTERS and TELECASTERS are brothers
a good feeling while playing with that paddle, i sold every tele ive tried out xD
You really nailed it on the head when it comes to single coils. People spend so much energy just trying to get their humbuckers to be boosted to point its out of Control but a single coils can be overdriven with very little effort. The meanest snarls I've ever heard was on my telecaster.
Most people dislike the hum tho.
@@karterdowd606 get noise supressor, then the hum is not a problem at all, all overdrives makes noise, even, vst amps sims.
I never wanted a tele, to old. Too “country.” Then I got a tele, and I don’t want to play anything else. 🤷🏿♂️
Woooosssssshhh
I wanna hear metal on jazz instruments. Brushed drumsticks, hollow body guitar, stand up bass. Possible?
Ola Englund just did a Will It Chug with a Gretsch and it sounded badass.
Feedback will make it a living hell when you slap on distortion.
Ted Nugent with his Byrdland is pretty close.
@@thomaskretzschmar5 negative. Watch the video.
Sounds like the band Imperial Triumphant
Each guitar has its own character and vibe,
I don’t think it’s so much about the sound, but the way the guitar becomes an extension of yourself and how you express yourself with it.
this was the advice i took from Mary Spender for my first guitar. "Buy a guitar you love looking at, and don't worry about what it's "meant" to play". That day i found an alpine white/gold Epi Les Paul and fell in love
Eian Johnson I read this comment in her voice and with her very specific speech cadence
@@devinftf choosday
Me playing master of puppets on my stratocaster: "interesting"
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The reality is you can play any genre with any guitar if u are good at guitar
Yes
Thanks for setting me straight; I suspected this but am an old poor man novice with an eclectic taste in music and a small budget and a beautiful Strat. Keep up the good word.
There are definitely guitars that are engineered and designed with a prototypic style or player in mind. A manufacturer's choice of bridge, pickups, body type, neck profile, tuners, etc. is never arbitrary. But this video does a great job of showing that there may be more merit to experimenting against the grain, than to adhere to these predefined ideologies.
me: doesnt even have an electric
best guitar for metal=nylon string
ahhh ... the days of learning Slayer on an acoustic
If you learn metal on that, when you move to electric you'll be a beast!
Battery by Metallica 😉
Malmsteen
I loved how Animals as leaders used a classical guitar in the brain dance