Why I Prefer Teles to Strats
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In this video I am going to tell you why I prefer using Telecasters to Strats and why I switched.
Over the years many jazz players have used a Telecaster style guy to play jazz on.
Obviously you can use any guitar for jazz.
But these are my personal reasons and favorite jazz players that use the Tele.
Do you prefer using a Strat or Telecaster for jazz?
Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
0:00 Introduction
1:04 My history
1:21 The classic jazz guitar tone
2:33 The tuned down tone
3:20 Unique voice
4:24 Telecaster players
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Before my grandfather passed away I gave him a thin line tele and he fell in love with the simplicity and wonder why he didn't own one earlier in his life. I still have that guitar after he passed and is named after him
Your grandpa would have been even more surprised by a real hollow tele (?). I m always wondering a double F hole tele with minimal block for the bridge or no block with a floating bridge.
@@ymelfilm don’t even know why, I saw you all over Vietnamese guitar groups on Facebook and every guitar channels on TH-cam lol
@@merisproject haha, it means you are also there everywhere :)) Are you Vietnamese? Or how can you get to Vnese guitar groups?
@@ymelfilm why do you feel the need to one-up this man?
@@RawkCSSable the thinline tele has brought no difference sound-wise among telecasters. It has only 2 differences: less weigh and aesthetical nuance.
Besides sounding awesome, Tele’s are very useful allowing you to play all genres. Plus when you’re on a picnic you can flip them over and cut steak on its backside, and if you’re out in the middle of the lake and the boat stalls you can use the Tele to row back to shore, and if you’re ever at a gig and a fight breaks out you can use the Tele to defend yourself. After all that, when you sit down again to jam, the Tele is still in tune. 😬
Fantastic!
I’ve been a tele gal since 1973. Greatest guitar ever!
Teles are probably the most versatile, robust, parsimonious guitars ever made. From jazz archtop kind of sound to RATM or led zep, or anything funk...I am a tele fan. That design is so perfect on so many levels.
Parsimonious? I never heard of a Tele being a cheapskate...
@@charlesw.4576 hah that’s funny. I believe Jer means Spartan, Elegant or Economical. Frugality defines Leo Fender though.
It really looks like an ugly prototype, a mishmash of minimalist parts and exposed screw heads all on a solid wood plank… but it works like magic. It was radically different from anything that had ever appeared by that time.
i concur
I just learned a new word. Cheers.
They're only versatile in tone. An es 335 or 339 is far more versatile tho. Teles are less versatile in function and tech skill tho. Why? Because no whammy!
Teles sound like a guitar, strats sound like strats. It is very difficult not to start bending a strat compulsively, whereas a tele allows you to let notes flow with their own lives.
I am not good enough to play jazz, but as of late, the telecaster became my nr1 guitar.
For clean, blues, rock, even metal. I love it to bits.
I like both Stratocaster and telecaster as well as a Les Paul & a es 335. They all have different voices that’s the fun in it. But nothing sounds like a Stratocaster but a Stratocaster. Have fun and enjoy all of them.
I like both, but a 335 gives a smoother, more round sound. They both have their place in music. Ya cant go wrong with either..
I mean, yes... but I can only afford one
@@rodriguezelfeliz4623 I completely understand that.
If you try to combine single coils to try and sound like a humbucker, it sounds way too muddy and blurry. Only way for a strat to sound like a les paul is to use a HSS or HH configuration.
A Strat is great at being a Strat. I love Strats'. Strats' are the most comfortable guitar to wear if you are gigging all the time. It's beautifully designed to contour to your body and it also sounds amazing. Tele's on the other hand are a big chunk of wood with a pickup screwed on top.. As basic as the Tele is, all it takes is turning the volume and tone knobs little by little until you get the tone your brain is chasing. The tones you get from a Tele are infinite. Also Tele's are fantastic at holding tune. I have sat my guitar on it's stand, not touching it for a couple of months only to find it's still in tune.
So true!!
I like the strat's body shape but I can't stand the controls. I had to use duct tape and a pick so the switch and FUCKING VOLUME KNOB wouldn't move (I only use pos 4, 3 and 1). Meanwhile the tele just keeps everything just far enough to not get bumped around, but also easy to switch on the fly. Same with les pauls imo. It's All preference though and I can really see how a strat would be better, especially if you don't bang on em the way I would.
@@potatoheadhaoy I absolutely agree. I never use the bridge pickup on my Strat. Sounds too thin for my ears and the 4th position is only useful if you're trying to sound like John Mayer. Especially since I own a Tele. I also love Strats' as well. The neck sound of a Strat was what my 14 year old brain was chasing when I first started learning guitar. I really loved Hendrix, SRV and my absolute idol was Clapton. Everyone of them played Strats. The sound of the neck pickup on a Strat is still my favorite tone to this day 30 years later. There is just something magical about it. That being said, I find every position on the Tele useful. It can sound a little Straty if you dig in on the neck but that same pickup can give you that beautiful Jeff Buckley bell chime. There is not a genre that the Tele doesn't do well. Playing a Tele is like driving a stick shift. You have total control of the instrument in your hands. That's what I love most about them. I have been fortunate enough to earn my living through theatre and the arts and any time I play in a pit or band, I always bring two guitars with me. They are both Tele's. My number 1 is a 58' and the backup is a custom shop which is set up more for chicken pickin' BUT I am 46 years old and if I know it's a standing gig, I'm playing the Strat. My lower back will be much more forgiving the next morning.
@@nomaddag4402 oh man, few things come close to the singing tones of a strat neck pup. Especially when you load the preamp with a good boost! At one point i actually put a strat pup on a teles neck (you have to remove the plastic cover though), really cool sound although not the same.
Also I totally agree, I feel like the tele is smoother and the bridge pup has much more oomph. I've always been partial to that middle position on a tele. Sounds like emo heaven haha
Edit: just want to say that your comment was an awesome read.
Lol my Tele stays in tune better than anything I’ve ever seen it’s awesome
Tele's seem to be a full circle guitar. As they used to be a cheaper alternative to the strat and lp, many players started with one. Then you run the gamut of the lp's and strat's and others only to return home to the Tele. I love the pick-em-up and play utilitarian aspect. They are normally not a finicky or fragile guitar and just get the job done.
I love the footage of Keith Richards just smacking someone who runs across stage to attack Mick. Keith’s battle weapon was a black 70s Tele Custom or Deluxe… don’t mess with a Tele player!
Jimmy Page exclusively used the Tele for Led Zep I but actually switched to the Les Paul for Zep II. He used the Tele occasionally on recordings and live since.
Good video, but I personally don't understand "switching" guitars. I have a Tele, Strat and LP, and switch between playing them all, depending on what mood I'm in, or what "vibe" I want. Tele's and Strat's are both great guitars. In fact the Strat started as an upgrade to the Tele, but the "improvements" (contours, vibrato, more pickups) were so much of a departure over the Tele that Fender decided to make the new model.
I agree why not just vibe with all
Agreed, the title just sounds like click bait, because Jamie doesn't really argue in the video itself as to why Teles are flat-out better, only that they have singular benefits. Which is fine, but i feel a bit misled.
Jimmy Bryant- the original Tele-Master! Outstanding video Jamie.
Thank you!
Bill Frisell East West has the most crystalline, ringing Telecaster tone I've ever heard. Incredible.
Many times people focus on the obvious and thats all true enough. For me, the Tele is a very personal guitar. I am fortunate to own many types of guitars, however nothing sits in my lap like a Telecaster, quietly unplugged, Its how I start and end most days....with a Tele in my lap. It's like a horse to a cowboy, or a tractor to a farmer.
I been playing a tele for over 40 yrs. I own a strat and many other guitars but the tele is my go to, and it feels like home to me!!!
I started playing on a strat but switched to Teles as I got older. I have a Fender American Standard from 2015 which is just under 7lbs and came from the factory with custom shop pickups (twisted Tele in the neck and broadcaster in the bridge). It has a belly cut too which I love and I've swapped the 6 saddle bridge for a Callaham conversion with three brass compensated saddles.
I saw both of Julian Lage's shows at the London Jazz Festival on Friday. Fantastic (although he plays the Collings 470jl live now rather than Teles).
There’s something special about jazz on a Tele. Love it!
telecaster with a tone bender is the zeppelin sound to me. you could club someone to death with a tele then play a jazz gig from prison after.
I think you should own both. I do. I love them both. The thing about the strat is the unmistakable "bell like tones" you can get out of them. Think the intros of U2's An Cat Duhb or Kingdom Come's What love can be. Teles don't do that. YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH EITHER
I love the shape, sound and especially the simple controls. 1 volume, 1 tone, 3way switch
I played a Tele Thinline (as in my photo) and got a great warm tone but I have very big hands and my fingers kept cramping. I put this down to the neck radius. I swapped over to a big-body single-pickup hollow-body archtop (Tokai) and fell absolutely in love with everything about it. I play it for hours with no discomfort. Yet now I find myself hankering after another Tele! If I can find one with the right neck.... 🙂
I had 28 Telecasters by 1980 before I lost coint. I still have three. I have a Stratocaster but only use it for Dire Straits live playing and when my wrist is tired at the end of the night. A Telecaster makes you play better, no matter what you're style, they don't cover any mistakes in your playing. They also sound great in all three positions.
Jazz tele player here. Started on an Epiphone casino with p90s. Love the sound of a tele on neck pickup with tone rolled back a few hairs
And part of the reason a Strat can suck is there’s so much extra hardware, and Fender cuts their costs by cheapening the quality and substantiveness of the metal a lot of the time. With good vintage-style Callaham hardware you’re closer to what a 1960 Strat should be like…
My favorite Tele is my home brew parts Tele with a solid mahogany body, solid Pau Ferro neck, and three Fralin P90s with a 5-way switch. Gives me all the sounds I could possibly want for both jazz and blues!
Wooowwwww, never saw nor Pass neither Kessel brandishing a Tele. Beautiful to know. Thank you... ❤️
george harrison , jimmy page and joe strummer are big reasons why i got my tele. it was also just a feeling, i tried it and it felt like the guitar for me. went with my gut and wasnt wrong
Yet again I learn about more great players from your video! Great stuff here man thank you!
Thanks, glad I could help!
I have two Teles (one I built from parts with P-90 pickups, and one Fender, - overwound p'up in the neck, and brass bridge saddles), a semi-hollow, and an archtop. Obviously, the archtop gets the most classic jazz sound. The other ones do better with more modern sounds, but they can all cover whatever I need. I'm in the middle of moving house right now, so all I've got with me is the Fender. I wouldn't hesitate to use it on any gig, regardless of the material.
I find that the archtop takes effects less gracefully than the others, but it doesn't really need it.
What a great video! Love telecasters; the beauty of the Stratocaster is the middle pick up and all the options you have. You don’t see too many people using the middle pick up on a Strat. Thank you for posting.
Thanks I agree about the Start middle pickup
Yup also love that middle pickup quack sound. Even have my neck pickup flush to pickguard.
Cool video, I love Telecasters, I use them in a few situations and they sound great. I always find myself going back to my Stratocasters though, a bit more comfortable with the belly and front cuts, but sound-wise cannot beat a Telecaster's unique qualities. My favorite Tele players are James Burton, Danny Gatton, Tab Benoit and Steve Cropper.
Picked up my tele yesterday after a couple months of not playing it as well. A little dusty around the edges, but damn, that thing was still in tune, man. My other guitars have to be tuned every time I pick them up, even after only an hour or two after I last played it. Teles are just built like rocks. It really is just a big chunk of wood, and it is rock solid. Like you said, not the most comfortable guitar to play for a long time, but it will never fail you when it matters. I’m personally a humbucker guy, but teles definitely take it for single coils for sure. My first guitar was a strat, and while they are definitely great when you want that strat tone, I’ve never gigged with one. I always just end up playing SRV licks on a strat lol. A tele is just a great guitar for so many different things. Roy Buchanan also does a great job at showcasing all of the tones that a tele can do.
@Baldspot sounds like a good idea to me! I do think that on an objective level, taking away some of the wood on the body will probably have some sort of tonal change, but I also think that it is almost certainly not going to be any change that a human could hear at all. I'm talking like changes so minute that you'd only be able to observe it in an in-depth scientific study of the frequencies and resonance of the instrument lol. Maybe you should do a "before and after" kind of sound test just to see if there is any change that you can hear after you contour the body. Either way, a tele with a nice contour to cradle my belly sounds like a dream lol
Without watching the full video yet. There's just something about that middle position on the switch that other guitars can't replicate. That tone with the lipstick and bridge together is unmatched
I love how chimey that position is
For jazz tones.... I always turn to my Dimebag Darrell signature Dean guitar. Strong enough for metal, but made for jazz😁
To me the only downside to a Tele is the way Fender put the input on the guitar, have to keep tightening the nut as it loosens.I did see a couple of Telecasters with a flush mount input and that I loved , they should do it to all Telecasters!
Gotta say, my favourite guitar for jazz is my SG! The guitar’s thin body and low output pickups sound incredible for jazz if you ride the volume and tone knobs! It has the amazing thick humbucker sound, but has a bit more bite and high end than a 335 or fully hollow body guitar
SGs are great for jazz. I think the looks maybe put people off a bit but the tone and the playability are definitely there.
@@butlerb6 absolutely! Nothing says jazz more than devil horns 😂
@@adamrae6579 yup i just lose it with those horns lol
SG is pretty weak for jazz I mean you could use almost anything and an SG is literally almost anything, it's literally a more shrill sounding less paul that looks like it's played by the comic book character Spawn in hell.
@@butlerb6 agree! incredibly warm sound
So true..Leo went to a club where Jimmie Bryant was playing and gave him the 2nd and 3Rd tele...
In the early years many bands in SoCal got complementary guitars..especially country players that he liked...
I have both. I always gravitate towards the tele, and not only for jazz.
Me too!
I’m with you Jamie, I have a double bound Tele with a Charlie Christian in the neck it’s my number one.
Very nice! I love CC pickups
My number one is a squier strat with a humbucker in the bridge and no middle pickup. Sunburst, tort guard. Super light and sounds pretty good for a chinese squier
A well set up squire can be a killer guitar
If you tune to E Flat (for instance, if you're playing in a band with horns), moving up to .11 gauge string sets or higher will definitely help since you're tuning down and light strings don't work well for that.
I love my EJ strat with 8s but have to admit when ever I pick one of my buddies tele's I'm always drawn into its greatness
Way back in the late 1990's, I saw Ed Bickert play in a small Jazz club. At the break he was leaning against a wall with a glass of water, so I walked over and asked him about why he plays a tele when most Jazz guitarists play big hollow or semi hollow electrics. He shrugged and said he never really thought about it, he just liked the small size of the tele and said he couldn't imagine lugging around a huge hollow body guitar. At the time, I didn't notice he had swapped out the front pickup on the tele for a Humbucker, but I did read that later, and now when I see pics or clips of him playing, I of course notice. So it must be that he was not entirely happy with the standard Fender front pickup if he installed a Humbucker. A more mellow tone maybe? I'm not knowledable about pickup characteristics.
Cool story! There’s clips of Ed using both on pickups and he sounds exactly the same to me.
Nice video Jamie 👍 which amp were you playing through here? And which decade reissue is the best for a jazz tele, 50s, 60s or 70s? Or is pick up swap best way to go?
Thanks Steph! I used a Fender Blues Junior which I wish I still had. Some say that 50s maple necks sound brighter, but it’s never mattered to me. I think pickups make the most difference.
played a 56 Gretsch country club for 34 years. bought a Nash T52. I love them both, just wished I had the tele way back when alongside the Gretsch.
82’ LP standard and the 79’ strat have been shelved since I got my tele. It’s like it was made just for my hands and my ear. Such a deep passionate love affair we’ve been having with no looking back.
I owned a Japanese Tele in the late '80s and played it through a Twin Reverb. I couldn't get a tone out of it, largely because I was young and had my head up my ass. :) I went back to using my Strat for gigs and sold the Tele. A couple years ago I came into some money and decided to buy a new guitar. I spent 5 or 6 hours over two days playing everything under the sun: Gibson, Gretch, PRS, Strats, and all kinds of boutique guitars. I settled on a Tele with noiseless pickups. Why? Because of the breadth of available tones! I can play anything on it: blues, country, rock, jazz. It pairs well with all my Fender amps: Super, Deluxe, and Blues Junior. It's an amazing guitar!
I put G&L MFDs in my Tele, love it. My top guitars are an Eastman Romeo, EBMM Albert Lee that I put 2 Lollar Charlie Christians in and an Eastman T484 though. Check out Tim Lerch’s Tele with the Lollar CCs. It’s my favorite single coil by miles.
Hahahaha the idea of limiting myself to just one type of guitar makes me crack up.
I have a Tele I purchased about 10 years ago. I love the neck as well as the sound.
Thank you for your video. For years I wanted a strat until I heard GE Smith playing his Telecaster. Playing rock to Jazz. The Tele sound I heard from GE Smith was so captivating I had to have one. I've been playing one for the past 6 years before this I was playing a guibson Barny Kessel and a Les Paul type called The Paul. I'm 71 today and I've been playing since I was 9 years old and having a blast with my Telecaster.😄
That’s great to hear! Does that mean that I can have you Gibson BK? 😊
i have a strat and I am a bit of a craftsman so i spent a year building jerry garcia's wolf guitar from scratch with 3 dimarzio super 2 humbuckers which I love and do a lot of improvising on any melody that sounds fun. i like the tele but don't own one, are you rolling the tone way down on the neck pickup to get that jazz sound? and if so where do you set the tone at? thanks!
Hi thank you for the comment! I back the tone and volume knob off but only slightly
Awesome video I really enjoyed it
Thank you!
I LOVE Bill Frisell's Tele tone. Its honestly one of the biggest reasons I intent to get one as my next guitar.
Excellent video! Straightforward and with plenty of demonstrations of what you are trying - and succeeding! - to achieve! My favorite guitar is a Fender Squier 51 that I put new single-coil Pete Biltoft Vintage Vibe single coil pickups in. Sounds and plays very Tele like but interchangeable magnets in the pickups help with an excellent variety of shadings for varied sounds.
Thank you! I’ve played some amazing Squiers. So I bet that one with upgrade pickups sounds amazing!
@@jamieholroydguitar It is indeed. And the Telecaster has been my "dream guitar" ever since I started playing!
My first electric was a strat and I'll always love that sound. getting into the hollowbody thing really changed my music and about ten years ago I bought a Nashville strat. To me, it's honestly the perfect guitar - great tele sounds, great strat sounds... and when I'd switch back to playing my strat I knew I was going to have to do something i didn't want to do: lower the pickups. LOL So many of us play strats with the pickups right on the strings trying to get that SRV sound (SRV was awesome). I think the pickups can come down and, all of a sudden, it acted a lot more like my Nashville tele. Still very much "strat" though more appropriate for all different types of music including jazz. That's to say I think a lot of people who already love their strat could invest in a push pull pot and not only get 7 way sounds but in conjunction with lowering the pickups make a strat great to over the top versatile. Thank you for your video.
The middle pickup on my nashville really gets in my way :(
@@fredriksvard2603 I understand. I started on strats so they typically aren't a big deal plus I prefer the 2 and 4 sounds - though I get it - I've had a couple HHH situations that sounded and played amazing though the middle pickup was too high. I think typically pickups just need to be lowered: all of them though especially the middle. Even on strats: I lowered my old strat copy with the three Texas Specials. Up until that point it was the "SRV" machine though I didn't reach for it for jazz much. Lowering it recently as a crossroads - I knew I'd miss the "pummeling" effect of the high single coils, though a few weeks later I picked up the strat and it was perfect. Still very much rich strat, though better sustain and more musical. It helped me - might be able to help people who want access to the additional sounds though need a solution for their picking situation.
@@jinjxmusic yeah, strats dont seem to bother me.. idk im just used to the space between two humbuckers, and i dig in (and down)
Great video! You’ve inspired me to play my Tele more.
What gauge strings do you use on your Tele?
Thanks Steve. Dig your playing man! I use 10s on one and 11s on on the other.
Oddly enough I found myself in the same predicament as the author of this video. I have a magnificent Strat that I exhausted all the classic Strat sounds I could conjure up over a span of years. I still love that Strat as much as ever. However, I never gave a Tele too much of a shot. Until starting 3 years ago. I bought a nice Tele and began to explore. It’s a totally different creature. It can play every style and genre, it makes you work hard to get different tones and textures but damn is it worth it. I love it - it has inspired me to no end and it is as honest as you want a guitar to be. I agree it is well suited for jazz rock and blues. See: Robben Ford for a sample of how great a Tele covers blues and jazz. It is the shit - and I’m glad I’ve made the switch. As for now, I’m having a blast with the Tele.
I use them both...Put carvinPickups in strat
Pretty sure the solo on Stairway to Heaven from Zep IV was done on his Tele from the early days. Yes, I prefer the simplicity of a typical Tele- especially live. Had a super clean Warmouth Tele years ago. It was so light- just pearlescent white with black hardware and a thick ebony fretboard on a thin neck. I could get any sounds I wanted with the EMG pickups it had. The only guitar I ever regretted parting with.
I imagine Page always used one or another Fender in the studio… It certainly sounds like a Tele on the solo for “Since I’ve been loving you.” In some ways that song feels like a precursor to the latter portion of “ Stairway.” Same breathless magic, different time signature.
In fact, Jimmy wanted his Les Paul to sound like a Tele, yet in a solid touring guitar with no hum and stunning looks. In the studio it was easy to use the real deal.
Oh, and we cannot help compare Led Zeppelin influenced acts like the band Rush… Alex Lifeson has always had his one particular Telecaster playing in one speaker on every Rush album. That’s his main writing guitar for so many hits!
The only two things I don't like about Teles, are the classic bridge and classic neck radius. My preferred tele would have classic pickups, modern fully compensated bridge, and flatter radius (and a belly cut, just to feel spoiled).
Wait... I have a guitar like that. Damn, that feels good! ;-)
I love both Strats and Teles but a Tele would be my desert island guitar. Also, I think any mention of Telecaster greats has to include Danny Gatton. Though he crossed a number of genres he was a jazz player at heart.
What good is an electric guitar on a desert island?
Danny Gatton for sure, but also Roy Buchanan. They are the big 2 in my opinion
@@sinatra222 it’s good for playing on a desert island.
@@neroinc5998 where would you plug in the amp?
@@sinatra222 I wouldn’t need an amp, I love playing an electric unplugged. Plus I could use a hollowed out log if I wanted to turn it up
Your comment about the Strat is spot on ; a Strat sounds like a Strat, also a LP sounds like a LP. However a Tele can create a very wide variety of tones. The Tele is actually a very good option for Rock guitar 🎸
I think so. I love Peter Towsends rock tone with a Tele!
Thats true for every electric guitar. People typically just claim their favorite guitar is most versatile just because they play them the most or just enjoy the artists who use them the most.
A strat sounds like a guitar, an LP sounds like a guitar, and a tele sounds like a guitar
I have both. I like them both for various reasons.
Im not a jazz guy and currently im using a different guitar for practical reasons but I love teles and like playing them out.
I started playing 1 year ago and got a Strat because it was my favorite guitar and I thought Tele's where old and for Country music. Oh how wrong I was, I got a Tele this summer and fell in love with the tone. I now play an Esquire almost exclusively. There is magic in just 1 pickup.
The neck pickup on a Tele is unbeatable and really good to sing to. It needs a humbucker on the bridge though.
Very interesting. I sometimes use my tele for jazz and it sounds okay. Jimmy Page actually used his telecaster to play the solo on Stairway to Heaven.
not only that but also used for various recordings.
Hi jamie. Have you used a Tele thinline with humbuckers for jazz? Just curious how u found it for jazz
Never used one, sorry!
Good stuff! Thanks for posting
Thank you!
I love the tone of the Telecaster
I have a Peavey Patriot that is shaped like a Strat but has two single coil blade pickups that sound quite a bit like a Telecaster. I love it.
yes you need both!!! strats are the immediate dire straits hendrix clapton mayer vibe..teles no spring much more "forward " to my ears FANTASTIC FOR JAZZ !!!
Exactly!
Great video! I'm also a Tele guy myself, for some of the same reasons. I like Strats too, but I find their sound to be too specific, while a telecaster seems to be more versatile.
Thank you!
Great video! I am a big fan of Fender guitars. Especially the Telecaster. Even though I have a variety of makes and models of guitars, if I could only own one guitar, it would be a Fender Telecaster. Due to its versatility and simple, rugged design.
my favorite personal guitar is a les paul style for it's versatility and overall round and warm sound, but telecaster is definitely good second. definitely a classic sounding instrument.
For me its the body shape of the strat that is the biggest draw. Its just way more comfortable to hold against my body than a tele or les paul.
Telecasters are quite possibly the most versatile guitar there is. It can be made to sound like anything from a hollowbody to Country to all out hard Rock.
Great stuff!! Thanks!! Thumbs up and subscribed, Strat for everything including jazz.
Thanks!
Great video! What is that first black tele you play, the one with the binding? Great tone from that thing.
Thank you! It’s a 62 CIJ RI telecaster with Bulldog pickups.
JUST DISCOVERED U! fantastic stuff! greetings from nyc...subbed!
Thanks! I love nyc
My primary reason for choosing a tele over a strat is one I dont see many people commenting on: the way it hangs on a strap. Without the extended upper horn, it tends to hang a little differently... a little more shifted towards the neck side. This just feels more comfortable to me.
Also, the tele's different pickups sound way different from each other, whereas the strat's pickups are a bit more similar. A standard tele setup has a warmer neck pickup, a super bright and peaky bridge pickup, and the scooped sound of both. They're very disparate and striking sounds whereas the strat's pickups all sound like they're all in a more similar neighborhood with each other. Obviously this is super objective and doesnt take into account pickup swaps.
I like to blur the lines between them too. I have a Nashville tele with a strat middle pickup and had a luthier carve comfort cuts into the body. This brings the comfy ergonomics of the strat to the tele, and gives some strat like options to tone that you dont normally get with just the two pickups. The strat middle pickup interacts with the tele neck and bridge pickups a little differently than with strat neck and bridge pickups, which brings a slightly different flavor to those well known 2 and 4 position strat tones.
I still love strats, but most of the time I'd rather have the Nashville tele over a strat.
I always wanted to put a tele bridge, with a tele neck and bridge pickup into a strat but I just havent gotten around to it yet. Sonny Landreth used to have a strat setup like that and I thought it looked pretty damn cool.
Very true on how it hangs. When I got a Tele I became aware of the extra reach reqiured towards the nut. A strat almost felt like a short scale guitar after using my tele. Sold the strat.
Great video! I put a P90 in the neck position of my Tele and love the tone.
Thanks I bet the p90 sounds great
I feel like telecasters don’t get enough love, they are great little guitars
I don't know what I like better: the simplicity of the tele appeals to me, but great strat players have made amazing music that I quite like. I have one of each, and it's apples and oranges.
I think I prefer the tele bridge pickup to the strat's, and being able to roll off the tone on the bridge helps.
Great clip Jamie. I just took possession of a custom Tele (not Fender) a few days ago and it sounds great
Thanks Robert! I used to have a custom Tele which was an excellent guitar.
Great video. Both strat and tele are extremely versatile but my preference for years is the 335.
I love 335s!
I have both and I love them both. They are great for different reasons.
I agree! My go to jazz tele is a 52 reissue with a lollar Charlie Christian in the neck. Do you prefer tube or solid state amps when playing jazz?
Nice tele setup! I’m going to make a video about that question
@@jamieholroydguitar Great! I'm looking forward to it!
I have a Tele. And now feel more good to have one. Thanks...
Always find myself back on the strat, Squier purchased in 1983, although I have a really nice Vintage thinline and cheapo Squier bullet tele, both of which I love.
A lot of guitarists shy away from Tele's because they think the bridge PUP is too bright, the opposite is true. I'd play a Tele over a Strat any day. ( I think this prejudges comes from the fact that Tele's were widely used for 'chicken picken' in country music )
Yep, Leo got it right, & no one has been able to better his original design. It does every thing well & can get all the tones. I love mine!
I bought a Nashville Telecaster to fix this problem. But I also have a jazzmaster so the jazz sound that I need is covered by that.
Jimmy Page used a Tele on Led Zeppelin I, and on the solo for Stairway To Heaven. He began using Les Pauls on Led Zeppelin II.
Same, I prefer Tele’s over my Strats; I even had my Strats’ bridge flush with the body, with a Brass trem block installed, which gives them bit more brassy sound to resemble a Tele. But Tele’s all the way, the feel is way different
I have a Telemaster or Jazzcaster. Jazzmaster body and Telecaster pickups. Very comfortable
In my somewhat limited experience, the oft-neglected middle pickup on the Strat can get you some of that Tele versatility without sounding too obviously Strat-like. Love Teles, though, and yours are beautiful!
Thank you! I love the middle pickup on a Strat too. Definitely an underrated sound!
Hello Jamie, need your help please :)
I just got 5th Ave with a p90 pickup and when connecting it to amp it produces some static noise (hum). Trying different positions in the room I reduced it a bit, but the problem is still there and it's driving me crazy.
I see you play single coins and p90, how do you get such a clean tone my friend? Thank you :)
Thanks. Do you still get the same problem with other guitars? Could be the room lights or anything electrical. So, you might have to go through a process of elimination. My teles are the nosiest guitars; the 5th Avenue isn’t too bad!
@@jamieholroydguitar you were right. I tried to use different outlet, place it in a "good" place and now it's fine. Have some good volume reserve without hum. I guess outlet that I used first is bad...
There is still some hum when I take off my hands from guitar. And when I touch metal parts of my guitar (strings, bridge), there's a bit noisy single 'click'. Idk if it's normal, but while playing it's completely fine.
Thanks!
Thank you on the video Jamie. I would like to comment that i don't really like jazz tones with single coil guitars, i have a Strat (Modern alnico single coil pickups on it) and i don't like the sound for jazz, still sounds to me like a funk tone, i have to say though that i use the bass on the amp almost all the way down since it has a certain rattling sound which i don't know where does it come from... But the thing is, to avoid it rattling i turn down the lows heavily. Single coils with that setup sound rather thin, it is the reason i bought the Les Paul since it has more comfortable scale lenght for playing long stretches and has a way warmer and fatter sound even with the bass down. I am really liking the way the solid body humbucker guitar sounds and behaves in jazz, i have heard that archtops can have too much ringing in the bass and are rather unbalanced, and with a solid top that has never happened to me. Plus, Les Pauls look very classy and can be good guitars for hard rock as well, just saying...
Greetings Mr. Holroyd
watch Larry Carlton live from 1997 (great jazz tone), I also love Jeff Beck "Angel" and Mark Knopfler "Prairie Wedding"...Strats are cool, Jeff Beck "The Pump" and Larry Carlton "Honey Samba" are 2 favorites