Blues can be played on any guitar. It's not the guitar, it's the expression. To me, an Esquire is perfect. To others, a strat neck. The guitar is the medium. The fingers tell the story.
Couldn't agree more, Joe Bonamassa gets great bluesy stuff on anything from a Tele to a flying V, it's all down to how he plays and not what he plays on
How about blues on an Ibanez jem, esp, shecter, kramer, bc rich, you know, those ugly 80s modernish ones with active pickups, floyd rose and locking everything? *shivers*
jo sg Pretty sure T-Bone Walker would pour his heart out just the same on these. I wasn't trying to be mean. Just saying blues comes from the heart. The greats played on whatever they had.
And one of a guy playing first-rate rockabilly on a really spiky guitar too (might also be a BC). BTW the closed captioning on this video turned "Tokai" into "taco"!
As young, I used to play Strat and an ES 335, until i popped into the Fender Telecaster Thinline 72, an early 90s Japanese MIJ. Since then, i hardly use another guitar - simply awesome for blues
A fellow Tokai user. Tokai guitars are awesome yet underrated. Excellent quality and value for money. Fender and Tokai are both awesome brands for blues playing
I almost agree with you. A Strat (HSS) used to be in 3rd place, but it's been dropped for a Tele Deluxe. Second place: ESP Eclipse, but my first place blues guitar is my Gretsch equipped with Broad'trons. This list is obviously controlled by the limits of my collection and my talent...love your stuff. I recommend you take a look at a couple of the Gretsch videos posted by this guy Shane over the last few years. Might convince you to take another look. He's actually the guy that convinced me to buy my Gretsch.
I own copies of all three of these guitars but prefer my Gibson Blueshawk. It has P90 pickups with a dummy coil to cancel hum, a Fender size 25 1/2" scale and string through body. When I first saw it in a local music store I thought it had all the features my favourite guitars had and thought it should sound great. When I got it home and played it, it was as great as I imagined it should be. I understand certain designs become iconic because they were used on many of our most important historic recordings. Unfortunately this can become a barrier to great, more recent designs. I believe the Gibson Blueshawk suffers from these prejudices. I suspect most Blues guitarists would love this guitar if they gave it a fair chance.
I use an ES-335 style guitar and when I play Blues my rhythm sound is the humbucker coil split into single coil and my lead tone is full humbucker which is a nicer lead sound for me going from coil split to full humbucker also gives you a good boost for lead.
This is a guide for new guitarists who might be looking to get a second/new guitar. There's plenty of great guitars that are similar that I don't own or didn't mention like the Epiphone Casino etc. I used the ES335 as an example a particular style of guitar. :-) Cheers. Alternatives would be an SG/Les Paul etc.
I've been mainly a strat guy but I do have a tele on the way. If I was to go for something with double humbuckers (no middle) I'd probably go for an LP, or even an SG or something like a big apple strat (or humbucker equipped tele). For myself I find the ES style of guitars (semi hollow) a bit bigger than I like.
You don't get much more blues sounding than a national tri-cone (granted a very specific type of blues). Loving this new style content to your channel Shane. Great stuff mate.
Really useful additions to a Tele is a 4-way switch and to a Strat is the Dan Armstrong Blender Mod - puts series humbucker tones on each in an intuitive switching system.
Agree, we get ripped off here in Australia on everything! Not only guitars, however, I must say you are using the RRP as per the Fender website, shops sell well below that price. My standard strat MIM while having a $1,499 price online, had a $989 price on most of the online stores in Sydney including a gig bag. Was able to get it even cheaper from my local store due to continuous business.
Not a strat lover but willing to give it a go! Tele rules!!!!(wink,wink--you know what I lean towards??/) That Tokai is H-O-T as! My unmodified Ibanez AS73 comes close to the Tokai but lacks a bit of bite. So through you, I discovered the neck HB on the AS73 and it is awesome. Thanks for your work and opening my eyes to "possibilities" Steph in Kiwiland. My heart goes out to all ozzie flood victims!!!!!!
I agree with intheblues. All the greats used those guitars into Fender amps. Those are also the top three best guitars. A set of 10's also give a nicer blues sound. Unfortunatly for me when I bought a guitar for the blues I didn't notice the obvious and bought an Epiphone L.P. Std and do not have blues tone at all. I also didn't have a job at the time and still don't so I'm really kicking myself because at the time a Tele would've only been 200 bucks more and it would still be my only guitar. However now I know about Classic and Vintage Vibes made in Mexico so I'll be fine one day. I always preferred humbuckers over single coil but for the blues single coils in a Fender really are my choice. Thanks for letting me know about the Tokai though.
I find that it’s not easy to get real great blues sound out of a Les Paul. But in the hands of great players like Peter Green, Mike Bloomfield, Snowy White and Gary Moore, it’s hard to beat those Les Paul blues sound.
Great video Shane!! My other favorites are an Epiphone Casino and an SG. The hollowbody and the P-90's on the Casino are great for blues. Gary Clark Jr!! Derek Trucks plays some great blues on an SG and they are great for slide. Gary Clark Jr has also been playing an SG too the last year with some great blues tones
It's all highly subjective as are all issues of tone but I especially love Tele's. I find strats layout too crowded I'm always hitting the volume and pickup switch and the middle pickup tears up my fingers so I end up removing the volume knob and wiring the tone to the bridge because I love the sound and body shape of strats. Peace
Just my 2 cents, but that voicing that you're talking about can also be found on old Harmonys and other budget guitars that had DeArmond gold foil pickups. I've got a Harmony Rebel with gold foil "moustache" pickups and the tone is just perfect for Blues.
In my opinion the Gibson ES 345 and the Gibson 56 Goldtop are essential. Freddie King didn't play a 335 anytime I saw him. He first played a Gibson Goldtop with P-90's. Freddie played Gibson Es 345's every time I saw him which was well over 15 times over the years. I really think that honorable mention should be the Gibson 58 Korina Flying V that Albert King played on his classic sides.
Flying v, 59 replica being beefier , than 67 , but 67's ceramic pickups are super cutty too. 59 v model has string descending through body too like telephone, and three way hambucker selector. I like the buzz saw like tones of a v in blues.
Great video Shane. I started off on a Strat and although I still love it to bits for certain things, I moved on to a Les Paul `56 Gold Top with P90 pickups as my main blues guitar. You can get some lovely sweet Peter Green tones out of a Les Paul but you can also get some bark if you need it. I also bought a Tele but I use that for country or tune it to open G for those Keith Richards moments. I've never really got on with 335's as I find them a bit big and unwieldy. I know many blues players love them but, as you say, it's all down to personal preference.
I love the 339 Custom shop. There are some for sale in my area but I need to part with a few guitars to make that happen. I tried a couple of epi 339s that were used, both had humps at the 17th fret area that made them fret out. I was ready to disagree with the tele till I heard it played in this video. I don't like how the tele plays, for silly reasons. I wish they had a belly cut and a strat neck.
Steph Blankenaar trying to save up for either an Epi 339 or an Epi ES Les Paul. I've got one of their Les Paul standards (with coil-splitting pickups) and it plays great, especially for the money
the stella/silvertone/airline parlor guitars are true blues guitars. because you're broke, that's all you can afford, and that's why you've got the blues
I will always tell ppl to use a Strat or 335 if they ask me what type of guitar to buy for blues tones. Teles can do it, but, they will never get the neck tone of a Strat. Yes, there are many types of guitars that will, "do it", and it is all in your fingers, BUT, the Strat is THE guitar for the blues tones that most ppl have heard. Les Pauls are great if you are looking for a British Blues or Heavier Blues-Rock tone, but the 335 will always have that, "airy tone" that Les Pauls will never be able to emulate. IMO, the amp is just as important, if not more important.
I like the tapped PAF style pickup with the lower output hot rail(Duncan vintage rail) for some wonderful blues and country tones from my super strat(positions 2 and 4 on the 5 way switch). My semi hollow is a blues/jazz/rock machine regardless of how o fiddle with the knobs and switches though.
sure blues can be played on any guitar,but i agree with the choices as if im doing blues i gravitate towards my strats,teles and squier starfire 335 type,if i pick up a prs or a ibanez,sure you can play blues on them but they dont feel like blues guitars or sound as bluesy as strat/tele/335,well to me anyway.interesting that when my younger brother was in chicago a few years back checkin blues clubs he said he saw a couple of fender strats/teles but the majority were playing cheap squiers and other pawn shop guitars,not a custom shop fender in sight
Shane does your strat have an mods to the tone dial for the bridge position? I usually use the middle and the bridge because bridge alone sounds somewhat harsh.
The Bluet ain't about the guitar... Look at Hound Dog Taylor...he played that CRAZY guitar that had about a million switches and knobs... definitely not one of Leo's, and Gibson would have never claimed it!!! It's ALL in the hands man...all in the hands. 🎩🎶🎩
So much more difficult finding guitars when you're a lefty - go in to a shop with two hundred guitars and you'll find maybe three that you can try out and twink with. it's ridicilous really. There must be more left handed players than that scenario would indicate.
Jazzmaster is very blues sounds. And how about some P90 guitars. Or Gretsch. But played a Jazzmaster the other day and that would more bluesy than a Strat
hi there, do you think you can make a tutorial on your playing hand on how to hold the pick while playing with your fingers and then changing to play with the pick?
Hi I tried a Ibanez TALMAN TM303M. It is a strange discontinued guitar but it seems to be un jack of all trade guitar if you have to use just one. I would like to know what you think about it if you can find one.
Clicked on this because my new guitar is a D'angelico Premier DC, which is a ES-335 style guitar, which I play through the Bugera V5 Infinium. I've also got me a Tumnus. So anyways, I'm just wondering if you've got the power attenuator set at 1W or 5W. I'm just getting back into playing electrics and messing with amp settings.
With gain overdrive on the neck pickup the Telecaster gives a fairly thick lead blues tone, less common than Stratocaster tones and sounds. Steely Dan Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias gets blues and jazz tones from basic Telecaster plus it has a simple charm to it how it feels. Plus the bridge pickup adds bite for second tone, chicken cluck (I turn down tone a tad to reduce harshness). Then middle tone is pearly sweet can get variations, less common than Stratocaster 1-2 middle tone. I play a Squire Telecaster and it feels and sounds fine, I've had Fender Telecaster too, and Stratocaster.
Just my opinion, but I would swap the Tele for a LP, not the 335. P-90's or PAFs, take your pick. Clapton and Peter Green can't be wrong (and they didn't play Tele's).
what other gear have you got? I've recently moved from the guitar buying (used to have 6 or 7) to considering other gear purchases. I've not just got one nice acoustic and one main electric, with a cheap "practice" guitar that I keep at work for lunch times.
Hello Shane. I play on a telecaster mim, I would like to fit it out with a Bigsby. Any info on the best Bigsby for a MIM tele. I play blues, so I don't want it going out of tune when I go out of controle in a solo.You know what I mean ;) thanks! By the way, I have never known a man or woman guitar player with one guitar :)
What gauge strings do you use on your Strat and Tele? I find the 9s are too thin and 11s create too much tension on the neck. I know SRV tuned his Strat down a half step with his heavier gauge strings. Anyway, I'd like to know what you think.
Hey Shane. What do you think about teles and strats with other/different pickup combinations? I mean like a tele with humbuckers or a strat with a hss configuration? I personally don't like them at all. They seem to loose that characteristic that makes them special in the first place and all kinda start to sound the same. That's what I think anyway. I'm just wondering what your opinion is.
Telecaster with one or more humbucker can retain the feel of original and some tones (but also lose some original Telecaster tones. Or, might be different guitars with tone of their own, like Keith Richard's plays humbucker Telecaster quite a bit. I heard that was good for blues.
Hi Martin, While the amp is still in the background it was actually sold to a friend. I will be using the Blues Deluxe more on videos coming up rather than the V5. :-)
Blues can be played on any guitar. It's not the guitar, it's the expression. To me, an Esquire is perfect. To others, a strat neck. The guitar is the medium. The fingers tell the story.
Couldn't agree more, Joe Bonamassa gets great bluesy stuff on anything from a Tele to a flying V, it's all down to how he plays and not what he plays on
How about blues on an Ibanez jem, esp, shecter, kramer, bc rich, you know, those ugly 80s modernish ones with active pickups, floyd rose and locking everything? *shivers*
jo sg Pretty sure T-Bone Walker would pour his heart out just the same on these. I wasn't trying to be mean. Just saying blues comes from the heart. The greats played on whatever they had.
There's a youtube video of a guy playing country on a BCRich to prove to his subscribers it's the fingers.
And one of a guy playing first-rate rockabilly on a really spiky guitar too (might also be a BC). BTW the closed captioning on this video turned "Tokai" into "taco"!
As young, I used to play Strat and an ES 335, until i popped into the Fender Telecaster Thinline 72, an early 90s Japanese MIJ. Since then, i hardly use another guitar - simply awesome for blues
I get it Yousician Guy, the beginning is so hard and frustrating... stick with it though, maybe someday I will watch your entire commercial.
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Those are three great choices for electric guitars for playing the blues.
A fellow Tokai user. Tokai guitars are awesome yet underrated. Excellent quality and value for money. Fender and Tokai are both awesome brands for blues playing
I almost agree with you. A Strat (HSS) used to be in 3rd place, but it's been dropped for a Tele Deluxe. Second place: ESP Eclipse, but my first place blues guitar is my Gretsch equipped with Broad'trons. This list is obviously controlled by the limits of my collection and my talent...love your stuff. I recommend you take a look at a couple of the Gretsch videos posted by this guy Shane over the last few years. Might convince you to take another look. He's actually the guy that convinced me to buy my Gretsch.
I own copies of all three of these guitars but prefer my Gibson Blueshawk. It has P90 pickups with a dummy coil to cancel hum, a Fender size 25 1/2" scale and string through body. When I first saw it in a local music store I thought it had all the features my favourite guitars had and thought it should sound great. When I got it home and played it, it was as great as I imagined it should be. I understand certain designs become iconic because they were used on many of our most important historic recordings. Unfortunately this can become a barrier to great, more recent designs. I believe the Gibson Blueshawk suffers from these prejudices. I suspect most Blues guitarists would love this guitar if they gave it a fair chance.
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You sound amazing on all 3 but that Tele brings something out in you that is so magical.
I use an ES-335 style guitar and when I play Blues my rhythm sound is the humbucker coil split into single coil and my lead tone is full humbucker which is a nicer lead sound for me going from coil split to full humbucker also gives you a good boost for lead.
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I decided to watch this video out of curiosity. It was a pleasant surprise to find out that these are the three guitars that I own.
Lucky devil.
This is a guide for new guitarists who might be looking to get a second/new guitar. There's plenty of great guitars that are similar that I don't own or didn't mention like the Epiphone Casino etc. I used the ES335 as an example a particular style of guitar. :-) Cheers. Alternatives would be an SG/Les Paul etc.
I've been mainly a strat guy but I do have a tele on the way. If I was to go for something with double humbuckers (no middle) I'd probably go for an LP, or even an SG or something like a big apple strat (or humbucker equipped tele). For myself I find the ES style of guitars (semi hollow) a bit bigger than I like.
You don't get much more blues sounding than a national tri-cone (granted a very specific type of blues).
Loving this new style content to your channel Shane. Great stuff mate.
Really useful additions to a Tele is a 4-way switch and to a Strat is the Dan Armstrong Blender Mod - puts series humbucker tones on each in an intuitive switching system.
Suprisingly enough i have all three of those guitars in my collection. Seems i chose wisely haha! Great vid mate keep them coming.
if I were a pure bluesman, i definitely choose 335 type guitar... but if I also play a bit of rock, i choose telecaster
You can rock out on a 335 too, look at Dave Grohl
Agree, we get ripped off here in Australia on everything! Not only guitars, however, I must say you are using the RRP as per the Fender website, shops sell well below that price. My standard strat MIM while having a $1,499 price online, had a $989 price on most of the online stores in Sydney including a gig bag. Was able to get it even cheaper from my local store due to continuous business.
*&^&*&^ Rockshop holds the @$#@ monopoly over here in NZ!
Crikey
Not a strat lover but willing to give it a go! Tele rules!!!!(wink,wink--you know what I lean towards??/) That Tokai is H-O-T as! My unmodified Ibanez AS73 comes close to the Tokai but lacks a bit of bite. So through you, I discovered the neck HB on the AS73 and it is awesome. Thanks for your work and opening my eyes to "possibilities" Steph in Kiwiland. My heart goes out to all ozzie flood victims!!!!!!
Go with a 4 way switch and add the series wiring. Gets the Tele closer to a Les Paul.
Great video. I have one of each.
Shane, we gotta say this, you play really, really well. You make it look so very easy, you're very 'fluid.' Cheers 🍻
I agree with intheblues. All the greats used those guitars into Fender amps. Those are also the top three best guitars. A set of 10's also give a nicer blues sound. Unfortunatly for me when I bought a guitar for the blues I didn't notice the obvious and bought an Epiphone L.P. Std and do not have blues tone at all. I also didn't have a job at the time and still don't so I'm really kicking myself because at the time a Tele would've only been 200 bucks more and it would still be my only guitar. However now I know about Classic and Vintage Vibes made in Mexico so I'll be fine one day. I always preferred humbuckers over single coil but for the blues single coils in a Fender really are my choice. Thanks for letting me know about the Tokai though.
I find that it’s not easy to get real great blues sound out of a Les Paul. But in the hands of great players like Peter Green, Mike Bloomfield, Snowy White and Gary Moore, it’s hard to beat those Les Paul blues sound.
Great video Shane!!
My other favorites are an Epiphone Casino and an SG.
The hollowbody and the P-90's on the Casino are great for blues. Gary Clark Jr!!
Derek Trucks plays some great blues on an SG and they are great for slide. Gary Clark Jr has also been playing an SG too the last year with some great blues tones
Mike Adams I bought a Casino after I saw Gary Clark live. I have a Japanese lawsuit SG with a whammy bar on it. I'm trying to learn slide on it.
Mike Adams i wish Epiphone will make that yellow SG as new Gary Clark jr signature. that would be sweet
ooooooh p90's make me weak!!!
Hey that’s my little Bugera back there 👍
to me they all sound good but that just means I like your playing Shane :)
personal taste has a lot to do with it, I actually prefer a Les Paul
It's all highly subjective as are all issues of tone but I especially love Tele's. I find strats layout too crowded I'm always hitting the volume and pickup switch and the middle pickup tears up my fingers so I end up removing the volume knob and wiring the tone to the bridge because I love the sound and body shape of strats. Peace
I think the schecter hellraiser with a floyd rose and EMG active pick ups is the perfect blues guitar. Dont you think?
Snooze00 great guitar! But not a blues guitar
Les Loranzan You really know how to spoil a joke, don't you?
Déus Herbert-Noel LOL
Snooze00 You forgot to add in a metal zone for that great bluesy crunch
+The channel for everything Hahaha! How did I forget?!
Just my 2 cents, but that voicing that you're talking about can also be found on old Harmonys and other budget guitars that had DeArmond gold foil pickups. I've got a Harmony Rebel with gold foil "moustache" pickups and the tone is just perfect for Blues.
Saving up for a FSR Deluxe Telecaster in Butterscotch Blonde
In my opinion the Gibson ES 345 and the Gibson 56 Goldtop are essential. Freddie King didn't play a 335 anytime I saw him. He first played a Gibson Goldtop with P-90's. Freddie played Gibson Es 345's every time I saw him which was well over 15 times over the years. I really think that honorable mention should be the Gibson 58 Korina Flying V that Albert King played on his classic sides.
I like my Les Paul Jr. P90 with alnico slugs instead of skrews. 2015 LPJ. I just love that pickup.
Have all 3 and I love the Tele. The 66 Strat is sweet but I love the Tele bridge pickup.
Good Video. Like the direction things are going. Keep them coming.
Flying v, 59 replica being beefier , than 67 , but 67's ceramic pickups are super cutty too. 59 v model has string descending through body too like telephone, and three way hambucker selector. I like the buzz saw like tones of a v in blues.
Great video Shane. I started off on a Strat and although I still love it to bits for certain things, I moved on to a Les Paul `56 Gold Top with P90 pickups as my main blues guitar. You can get some lovely sweet Peter Green tones out of a Les Paul but you can also get some bark if you need it. I also bought a Tele but I use that for country or tune it to open G for those Keith Richards moments. I've never really got on with 335's as I find them a bit big and unwieldy. I know many blues players love them but, as you say, it's all down to personal preference.
I love the 339 Custom shop. There are some for sale in my area but I need to part with a few guitars to make that happen. I tried a couple of epi 339s that were used, both had humps at the 17th fret area that made them fret out. I was ready to disagree with the tele till I heard it played in this video. I don't like how the tele plays, for silly reasons. I wish they had a belly cut and a strat neck.
Steph Blankenaar trying to save up for either an Epi 339 or an Epi ES Les Paul. I've got one of their Les Paul standards (with coil-splitting pickups) and it plays great, especially for the money
The Telecaster is great for dang near anything. I use mine in the place of a SG on a lot of AC/DC tunes.
Always interesting and informative information Shane Thank you!
I dig the new formats. Classic rock guitars next?
Nice analysis.
the stella/silvertone/airline parlor guitars are true blues guitars. because you're broke, that's all you can afford, and that's why you've got the blues
Hi Shane, I like your videos, left handed too! Good stuff
I will always tell ppl to use a Strat or 335 if they ask me what type of guitar to buy for blues tones. Teles can do it, but, they will never get the neck tone of a Strat. Yes, there are many types of guitars that will, "do it", and it is all in your fingers, BUT, the Strat is THE guitar for the blues tones that most ppl have heard. Les Pauls are great if you are looking for a British Blues or Heavier Blues-Rock tone, but the 335 will always have that, "airy tone" that Les Pauls will never be able to emulate. IMO, the amp is just as important, if not more important.
I like the tapped PAF style pickup with the lower output hot rail(Duncan vintage rail) for some wonderful blues and country tones from my super strat(positions 2 and 4 on the 5 way switch). My semi hollow is a blues/jazz/rock machine regardless of how o fiddle with the knobs and switches though.
That Tumnus sounds great with all 3 of the guitars.
sure blues can be played on any guitar,but i agree with the choices as if im doing blues i gravitate towards my strats,teles and squier starfire 335 type,if i pick up a prs or a ibanez,sure you can play blues on them but they dont feel like blues guitars or sound as bluesy as strat/tele/335,well to me anyway.interesting that when my younger brother was in chicago a few years back checkin blues clubs he said he saw a couple of fender strats/teles but the majority were playing cheap squiers and other pawn shop guitars,not a custom shop fender in sight
great vid, do your top 3 blues amps next!
I think an SG would be an excellent Blues guitar. So is the Les Paul.
Concise descriptions. Thanks!
Shane does your strat have an mods to the tone dial for the bridge position? I usually use the middle and the bridge because bridge alone sounds somewhat harsh.
Three very good choices my friend !
good video man, agree by and large with selection.
Love that Tokai. Thinking of getting an Ibanez AM73or AS73.
The Bluet ain't about the guitar...
Look at Hound Dog Taylor...he played that CRAZY guitar that had about a million switches and knobs... definitely not one of Leo's, and Gibson would have never claimed it!!!
It's ALL in the hands man...all in the hands.
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And the Telecaster does it right! I liked it the best.
If anyone thats into just straight up old school blues gets the chance, try a 60s kay value leader that's been set up well.... youll hear why ... Lol
So much more difficult finding guitars when you're a lefty - go in to a shop with two hundred guitars and you'll find maybe three that you can try out and twink with. it's ridicilous really. There must be more left handed players than that scenario would indicate.
Yeah I’m lefty and I’m at the point I’m gonna just Lear to ply right handed. It will just take work, as I do everything else right except write.
@@josephtesler3797 Well, you're the only one who knows if that is going to work out for you. Good luck ..for me it would never work.
Play upside down like Albert king and Jimi
Every single lefty I know plays right handed. You don't find left handed pianos or saxophones or flutes or violins.
@@RoachDoggJr2112 Now we all wonder why you don't find them don't we.
Hey Shane, love the channel. How about p90 equipped Les Pauls?
I picked up an epi flamekat ltd edition with mini humbuckers. Well classy
Jazzmaster is very blues sounds. And how about some P90 guitars. Or Gretsch. But played a Jazzmaster the other day and that would more bluesy than a Strat
No resonator acoustic?
I prefer your new format Shane.cheers and thanks!
hi there, do you think you can make a tutorial on your playing hand on how to hold the pick while playing with your fingers and then changing to play with the pick?
I like me some middle position tele
Hi I tried a Ibanez TALMAN TM303M. It is a strange discontinued guitar but it seems to be un jack of all trade guitar if you have to use just one. I would like to know what you think about it if you can find one.
Does your Tele have humbucking pickups? Great playing, thanks!
I would trade the Tele for the Les Paul.
Can you make a review of Harley Benton HB-35+ please?
I think you should have been more specific and chosen a nashville or modern player plus tele for their middle strat pickup.
Hey Shane, heading to Melbourne in the next few days - any good guitar shops you can recommend?
the tele sound here is the sh1t. Love the open string licks.
Clicked on this because my new guitar is a D'angelico Premier DC, which is a ES-335 style guitar, which I play through the Bugera V5 Infinium. I've also got me a Tumnus. So anyways, I'm just wondering if you've got the power attenuator set at 1W or 5W. I'm just getting back into playing electrics and messing with amp settings.
I want that wolf and muddy poster lol
Bb King used something like the first one often
How about an Epiphone Casino?
In this case I would prefer the Century 1966 inspired -
That's a full hollow body. Might give you feedback issues at higher volumes.
And sound like Gary Clark Jr.?
Absolutely, check out "Beatles - Yer Blues live."
WOW THANKS FOR VIDEO I ALWAYS THOUGHT TELE MORE OF A COUNTRY "BAKERSFIELD SOUND" I GUESS I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT!!!
With gain overdrive on the neck pickup the Telecaster gives a fairly thick lead blues tone, less common than Stratocaster tones and sounds. Steely Dan Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias gets blues and jazz tones from basic Telecaster plus it has a simple charm to it how it feels. Plus the bridge pickup adds bite for second tone, chicken cluck (I turn down tone a tad to reduce harshness). Then middle tone is pearly sweet can get variations, less common than Stratocaster 1-2 middle tone. I play a Squire Telecaster and it feels and sounds fine, I've had Fender Telecaster too, and Stratocaster.
Cool video!
Just my opinion, but I would swap the Tele for a LP, not the 335. P-90's or PAFs, take your pick. Clapton and Peter Green can't be wrong (and they didn't play Tele's).
cpmortimer SRV and Keith Richards did. And I'd actually swap out the Strat for the LP.
Clapton played a Tele in the Yardbirds. The best blues tone ever was the Master of the Telecaster Mr Albert Collins!!!
i currently have a strat but thinking of getting another guitar, 335 or les paul?
wat do you guys think?
what other gear have you got? I've recently moved from the guitar buying (used to have 6 or 7) to considering other gear purchases. I've not just got one nice acoustic and one main electric, with a cheap "practice" guitar that I keep at work for lunch times.
I might even sub an SG Standard for the Les Paul :)
What do you think of a Firebird with mini humbuckers rock and blues I think it's pretty good
Es335 style is the way
Hello Shane. I play on a telecaster mim, I would like to fit it out with a Bigsby. Any info on the best Bigsby for a MIM tele.
I play blues, so I don't want it going out of tune when I go out of controle in a solo.You know what I mean ;) thanks!
By the way, I have never known a man or woman guitar player with one guitar :)
ive got a tanglewood chicago.. swapped it for an epiphone sg delux.. ucking wipes the floor with anything.
What gauge strings do you use on your Strat and Tele? I find the 9s are too thin and 11s create too much tension on the neck. I know SRV tuned his Strat down a half step with his heavier gauge strings. Anyway, I'd like to know what you think.
11-49's on all my guitars.
While I try never to trust a lefty, I support your choice of guitars and football team.
I didn't notice he was a lefty lol and I'm not a lefty btw
that Tokai is shit hot man, greatings from Mallorca
How do you jump the train with that gear
Gotta watch that gain😳
Shaan DE try some flat wounds for a different sound on that 335 it mite surprise you.
His choice is not wrong, there are just more guitars available that can do the job.
I would have thought it would have been Les Paul, Strat, Tele. Seems alot more blues ala B. B. King has been on a Les Paul than a 335.
How different would the first guitar sound than a les Paul?
What about a Gibson 335 with P-90s?
Hey Shane. What do you think about teles and strats with other/different pickup combinations? I mean like a tele with humbuckers or a strat with a hss configuration? I personally don't like them at all. They seem to loose that characteristic that makes them special in the first place and all kinda start to sound the same. That's what I think anyway. I'm just wondering what your opinion is.
dan abnormal a tele with a humbucker neck and single coil bridge is a good combo in my opinion
Telecaster with one or more humbucker can retain the feel of original and some tones (but also lose some original Telecaster tones. Or, might be different guitars with tone of their own, like Keith Richard's plays humbucker Telecaster quite a bit. I heard that was good for blues.
intheblues: I like your videos but how do you talk about a 335 type and NOT mention BB King?
Good demo but I would have preferred with your super reverb
Hi Martin,
While the amp is still in the background it was actually sold to a friend. I will be using the Blues Deluxe more on videos coming up rather than the V5. :-)
The Blues deluxe with the swamp thang speaker! I like it! lol
Yeah, but it's not really 'a tele' - what gives with the pickups?
I think they are Joe bardon pick ups not sure?
Where's the Gibson les Paul???? Clapton,Green,King,Page,Beck,Kossoff!!!!
Mark Wright you might not have listened to the full video before commenting 😎👍
Shane mentioned the tele sounds somewhat like an older Sg or a Lp, and you can substitute a 335 for a Lp. Personally I prefer the sounds of a tele!
The bugera sounds great...
I have that same Bugera amp. Love it.