Melanie Faye Demos The Player Series Stratocaster® | Fender 

@j hahaha yeah

Fr fr my pinky can’t even pull off a simple hammer on (no pun intended ig)

@Ishmael Cato she does use a right pinky anchor sometimes, but if you watch other videos of her playing she does some insane hammer ons with the left one

True.

1:29 Haha yeah

Not gonna hate on anyone but that's pretty dumb

People keep talking about how the guitar market is saturated and rock music is losing popularity. But this year I’ve noticed guitars being used more in a lot of hit songs from other genres. So yeah, guitar companies probably should branch out in the artists they work with.

Nathan Mayo There's not much point

Adrian Gonzalez I’m not saying there isn’t. I’m saying it’s no longer mainstream. If you look at the billboard charts you can see that real quick. I’m not hating, I’m just saying none of my friends listen to it and if they do it’s old shit.

@@kantina4765 Other genres besides rock have guitar in them so enlighten me on how that is dumb.

Pe Peroni or copying mac demarco sound

Animal mother nah, shes more of a hendrix, rnb, bluesy guitarist, but really rnb, she has her own style :D

It's neo soul

yep :P

Tim Gann R&B, Neo-soul Gospel etc pretty much use the same chords as with many genres of black music

You're a genius,, thank you

Kinda sounds like just the two of us

That's a d#m7b5

Thanks mate!

@Peter Martins Yep the E9 chord is a weird one but you will get it I struggled with that in the beginning :)

Jordan Azar for real though XD

Well, maybe. At least the long lost desire for my two Squier Stratocaters seems to be creeping back pretty fast. Can't complain. Nothing beats inspiration.

Tia Ismail i have always played an sg but this makes me want to get a strat

Jordan Azar yeah that's cos they made their sound "cool"

Fender: Why do you to like to play Gospel/RnB. Melanie: It sounds angelic. It sounds like heaven shining through. Fender Marketing Team: Ok guys, remove all our questions from the main video. Make it look like shes only talking about the guitar. Basic Marketing 101. I even want to buy one now and I already own a fender.

rictualfury Hendrix > Melanie Faye

Finn Gallagher stop comparing them please, two different musicians

Guitar Hobby reread what I’m replying to.....Duh

🤔 ok, i'm looking at the wording of this comment....

Thats what she said..........

Hardly cheesy. I'm guessing that plenty of people will think the same about whatever it is that you do. It's all just opinions. Some are just more obnoxiously presented than others.

"a person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities." What's your point?

How does stealing Chon riffs qualify someone as a prodigy?

I wouldn't say she's a prodigy, she's extremely satisfying to listen to as a musician and music lover. Her playing style is very emotive.

@Julius Narte Not really.

@@estebanb7166 he's not wrong

Orlando Morales Did you see last year’s American Professional Telecaster demo? Featured the singer/guitarist of Baroness. That’s right...metal on a single coil Tele!

That's true, but without blues she wouldn't be playing this

I agree but I wish they would play more punk or metal riffs

Would be interesting also for their basses if you could have a female bassist playing their pro / player / performer series along the lines of prog or jazzy rather than the "funky bass chicks" vibe if you get what I mean

@@rodneycampbell3825 Sure... but it doesn't mean every demo has to *be* blues

JunkieMonkey321 Depending on how well Chon does, or Polyphia, she'll probably tour with those guys and become famous with them.

I mean she already rips off Chon’s riffs consistently

Terry Crews fuck does this have to do with Chon? This is pretty common R&B/Gospel/Soul type playing, not clean rock, lol.

Terry Crews I wouldn't say rip off just very similar

Terry Crews bro everything has been done before. Listen to Wes Montgomery or joe pass. Chon doesn’t fucking own the harmonic minor scales and maj/min7 chords .

Even more relevant now!

Bruh I clean my strings

Nice! 😌

For real and its the best thing ever

I'll listen to whatever I want to, mom! It’s the rnb flick man, session guitarist David T Walker came up with it

Cal Cradden stfu. They giving her a compliment. Just let it be. You don’t see a lot of people doing it.

I swearrr....I'm a guy and I'm actually happy for not seeing dumb propoganda like the one they did for the American Elites.....Melanie Faye is GENUINELY AMAZING 💙...She is probably THE BEST female guitarist I have EVER come across and she is SO true to herself!

You should Google Female Guitarists. There are lots. And they aren't shit either...or with feminine coloured guitars . Even on RU-vid. My fav youtube guitarist is Laura Cox, a woman. Melanie Faye's still a big breath of fresh air though.

Yvette Young shred srsly on a pink gllitered guitar lol

"which is not fluo pink with a ton of glitter, stars and sh*t .." :-D

It really is a big deal. When I was at Berklee, the assumption with women was they either played piano and/or were singers. When a woman plays a male dominated instrument she brings a whole other vocabulary to the music, a different accent and intonation. It’s not ‘girly,’ it’s just not more of the same old thing most guys bring to that instrument.

The neck felt super cheap

Ömür Sarıaslan i thought you would say you'd definitely take her out

"when it Hits" you said it, my guy!

Fender does have great sound though lol

Damn, same here !!!

Same here again!

Sykies pretty sure it's silver

Sage Green Metallic.

huronlad yeah I searched it, sorry 😂

Hahaha yeah it's pretty light, but any green is green enough for me :p

Affordable? Wait how much is it and whats a "expensive guitar"

kynoceph I actually liked the newer lines of Gibson’s and don’t see why people made such a big deal out of it. The beautiful colours and designs on a few of them was better than the standard stuff they’ve been selling. Fender isn’t doing much of anything new to me, and are expensive which is also pushing players to foreign made guitars. Why spend a lot of money on a new Strat that doesn’t offer much else than the Strat you already own? I look at the Strat she’s playing and don’t really want one. I only came to see her play. It’s not all that different from the two I already own. That’s why I’m more interested in buying a Gibson than another Strat. Gibson’s have the Les Paul ES-335 or an ES-355. Both of which I’ll be buying. I’m not a fan of Tele’s, so, the only guitar that I like from Fender is the Strat. I’m also thinking of switching to PRS.

Have you played this new Fender series? Holy cow, they are amazing!!! I just bought a MIM guitar last week then these came out, after trying them, I feel like kicking myself. Both guitars are good but the Player is great. I can't return the MIM it was a Reverb purchase.

EXACTLY I adore Gibson’s models but honestly I feel a high end Epiphone is good enough for most guitarists and more affordable

Why can't Gibson make some affordable Les Paul Jrs??? Wasn't simplicity and affordability the point in the first place?

Seth They should rebrand those as Gibsons. Now people feel like they're not getting the real deal.

@dj46 yeah, if you incorporate all these grace notes with pull offs & hammer ons and chord embellishments she does you can get your pinkie acting.once you have that build speed.

Alex Cruz can you play guitar

@Ishmael Cato you're seeing something I am not.

hello,how his the the pickups on this one, thanks?

lapk78 yea , mexicans strats are lit

Dial_Sebastián Indeed they are!

What about the trem arm, pop in or screw in?

Serdyuk Andrew standard mexican strats have screw, I don't know if this ones have pop

It's a screw in trem arm.

yeah, like it's harmonizing with her

M. Pettibone put the pick up to position 2

Actually thats math Rock or post Rock,,,not jazz,but ok

I said kind of “but ok”

@@natszwejb oh,sorry i don't see the "kinda"

Hi wozzlepop, she has a wonderful smooth kind of playing. It's a good combination together with a strat. And nice to see, there will be no new shredqueen ☺☺

Pau ferro feels and sounds great. And no guilt about endangering rosewood over a guitar. But maybe maple is still an option.

There is also maple as an option you know

Agree to you Salvador, my Strat de Lux and 57 Reissue has a maple fretboard, sounds powerful in the combination with overdrive and compression. My standard Strat and Tele with rosewood fretboard sounds warm and a little bit darker using for clean sounds

Can't go wrong with maple. Less maintenance, classic look.

Learn to play right handed then

Can they ship?

Just pop off the nut and turn it around.. boom lefty

But fender released lefty models for the player tele, strat, p bass and jazz. This is the first time they've released a standard priced precision in what seems like forever.

Barry P. Man, I'd be happy if they would reissue the KC Mustang.

Looks like she’s playing through a fender hot rod...all eq’s at noon, with just a little bit of reverb. 😉

@@deathbymugen Thanks!

Random lick I think. But her viral video has one just like that.

The song is called Beautiful Love. I believe she has a full version on RU-vid.

Working it out slowly, will let you know when i have tab 👍

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b2I35ZvAPKo.html

Hahaha I love it. Even though I'm a metal guy too, my favourite kind of music is instrumental ot alternative.

Age? ;)

Perreto 20

Tanner Myers I agree although let’s not be ignorant... there are amazing rappers out there... ie.. Kendrick Lamar who just won a Pulitzer Prize... which is a pretty high honor considering he is a rapper

XXHAZ3 Ugh

She doesn't play rock or blues at all. Didn't you listen to her? All she plays is gospel and R&B. What you heard her doing with the bar chord embellishments here. That is literally all she does on guitar. Watch other video's with her. You won't see anything different.