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Mick Taylor and I compare our loves and hates between Teles and Strats.
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@deadlegs187 4 года назад

You could defend yourself from a gang attack with a Tele and it would still be in tune

@marshsticks992 4 года назад

Keith Richards battering stage invaders comes to mind.

@jierdy 4 года назад

Lol! Perfect

@EstelonAgarwaen 4 года назад

@@marshsticks992 some guy banged his tele against a wall to get rid of the snow on it

@163388416 4 года назад

Meanwhile a les paul will break if you simply look at it the wrong way 😂

@rolux4853 4 года назад

Mike Beltrandi last week I had to ship a Les Paul with DHL through the whole country.. It were a few sleepless nights since it was only wrapped in lots and lots of bubble foil and put in a box. No case since the buyer did not want to pay for it. It survived, but I was very anxious until it arrived. I got a nice Strat out of the trade so in the end it was worth it!

@chaseb8693 4 года назад

The strat is all “floop fleedy loop” and the tele is all “bizhow-KANG”

@yoshithedinosaur2426 3 года назад

@Anonymous "No, no. He's got a point"

@howardswrx1883 3 года назад

Bizhow KANG sounds like a cool stage name for a Korean Bluesman

@mjs2016 3 года назад

@@howardswrx1883 lol

@jonathanallen2560 3 года назад

Accurate

@furbymetal83 2 года назад

@@howardswrx1883I own an original copy of Bizhow KANG Greatest hits Vol 1: Songs from the ( Han River) Delta/ Ricepaddyman's blues

@angellomamaril80 4 года назад

Sheesh That intro was too fire.

@JayLeonardJ 4 года назад

Thanks!

@joshuaparmar3233 4 года назад

@@JayLeonardJ is there a name to your intro? Y'all should get together and make an album.

@pigxstix 4 года назад

I grew up on strats and absolutely hated teles. I hated the way they looked and I hated the way they sounded. Now that I'm older I've become enlightened to how cool and versatile a tele actually is. And without trying, tele has become my favorite. I still love strats, but I find I rarely play mine anymore as the feel and sound of the tele is just a better fit for me. Completely unintended and strange, but there it is.

@michaeleaster1815 2 года назад

Similar here... I bought a Fender MiM Tele and I can't put it down. My current #1 was an Ibanez Jem and I was a low-rent Vai/Satriani wannabe. But the Tele on clean or crunch is so fun that it has transformed me entirely as a player. (Though for a desert-island guitar I don't think I can choose between a Tele and a Strat... a brutal dilemma)

@jl61046 2 года назад

The same thing has just happened to me. Haven’t touched my Strat or Lester since… haha

@gittarpikk Год назад

Plus...as you get older, some o that higher frequency turf dissappears, but that tele quack is easy to hear even with most hearing losses...aI have maybe a dozen strats , a few gibson platforms and just acquired my first tele. Love it!

@1911acolt1 Год назад

My father was a guitar player growing up.He played a tele.I always played a strat..Any time I thought I was improving I’d jam with him and get destroyed..😂 His tele style and tone was just so ripping..Hard to compete with a tele sometimes.

@TheLowest Год назад

Funny, I'm the exact opposite. Started off trying to love teles because jeff buckley played one and i thought strats were boring. But picked up a strat and realised it's exactly what I wanted out of any tele i played

@beng808 4 года назад

Maybe I’m an outlier, but I really like the middle pickup on a strat. It’s not at pokey as the bridge, but it’s clearer than the neck

@dhruvpendharkar488 4 года назад

Its like the worse of both worlds.

@shaunw9270 4 года назад

I like the middle pickup too. If you watch videos of Hendrix , he used the middle pickup often .

@thatguy12 4 года назад

Same here, but i went a little out of the ordinary with my Strat, got a Tele bridge pickup installed (with a custom pickguard ), a clapton-style midboost circuit and some switching magic that allows me to get something quite similar to a Tele middle position as well as all three pickups at once. Had to drop the tone pots though, so i have a master volume, a mid boost volume and a blend for the brigde pickup. The amount of dynamics i get out of that guitar is insane.

@sparkijones 4 года назад

If that’s the case I’m an outlier too, even though i don’t know what one is! I find the middle great for rhythm sitting nicely in the mix but still clear. With gain it can yield the full spectrum if you pick near the neck or near the bridge - totally different sounds!

@graemehodges4367 4 года назад

I like the middle pickup. I hate the in-between positions though - almost as much as I hate chorus and delay, but that's a digression...

@indieguy81 4 года назад

I like his enthusiasm. This guy could sell a million Telecasters. Strats have a very distinct, iconic sound, and they definitely have their place, but the versatility of the Tele is what sells it for me. And that bridge pickup is a ROCK machine.

@yoshistover5881 3 года назад

He doesn't even have to do anything. Him just bobbing his head wildly sold me. (No offense to him, he just looked like he's having the best time.in his life.)

@justinpaquette224 4 года назад

I have a strat middle pickup in my tele...wired to its own volume pot that goes to the jack. So when the middle volume is off...its just a normal tele

@JayLeonardJ 4 года назад

I did that for years! Great mod :)

@justinpaquette224 4 года назад

The only down side for me is that damn middle pickup cramping my style when I finger pick...I'm thinking about trying a 6k lipstick in the middle

@Lalairu 4 года назад

I am considering doing the same thing in mine

@tompoynton 4 года назад

I have a MIM Nashville Deluxe Tele with the strat pickup in the middle, no volume pot mod though. I have a filtertron-style pickup at the neck however, so the guitar as a whole has white a lot of dynamic range now.

@Terryomalleyonline 4 года назад

Shame on you both for making this video.... It's like asking a parent to choose a favourite child. Gotta have both 😝😝😝

@JELIFISH19 4 года назад

The answer to it is to buy both. I had a Strat that I've been playing over a decade. I started to feel like I was a Tele-man and resented the Strat. I looked for the perfect Tele for years and when I finally got it, the Strat became so much better. I was no longer wishing it was a Tele because I had a Tele. The Strat could be a Strat. Turns out I'm not a Tele-man. I play both equally now and they both do different things well.

@louierubio 4 года назад

JELIFISH19 I went through a very similar journey. It’s a blessing to have both :)

@mikethebloodthirsty 4 года назад

I have the same issues. I think a good middle ground would be a hard tail strat...

@danielbarry5547 4 года назад

Am I weird for liking my squier bullet tele mire than my American Special strat? Lol

@shaunw9270 4 года назад

@@danielbarry5547 Yeah . Weirdo. 😉

@nekrovulpes 4 года назад

Thank you for validating my decision to buy another instrument I arguably don't need. I bought a Strat a few years ago, and ever since, I've been fighting this low-level buyer's remorse that keeps telling me "You like Teles better, dude. Shoulda got a Tele... The Strat just doesn't vibe." So now I'm buying a Tele too. Hopefully I'll appreciate my Strat more because of it ;)

@mastermachetier5594 4 года назад

I’ve always been a strat guy. I have an American original 60s love that vibe. That being said just bought my first tele last week and it’s been blowing my mind. It has a clarity and cutting bite I can’t get from my strats.

@swissarmyknight4306 4 года назад

I love the sound of a Tele and Les Paul (played a Les Paul for years), but the ergonomics of a Strat are an overwhelming win. I mostly play Strats and hollowbodies these days.

@millmoormichael6630 4 года назад

Swiss Army Knight This is so true. Strat is much nicer to play but Tele has that beautiful highs and that twang. Practice, songwriting, gigs > Strat. Recording: Tele

@davidburke2132 4 года назад

Millmoor Michael As someone so used to playing two pickup guitars there are a number of elements of the layout of the Strat that just annoy me and trip me up. I guess it’s largely down to what you learned on/got used to.

@hunkydorian 2 года назад

What you're looking for is a Telemaster: A Jazzmaster-shaped and -contoured body with Telecaster hardware. There is no guitar on earth comfier than a Jazzmaster.

@0megalul309 2 года назад

@@hunkydorian jazzmasters are too bloated in the back end to be comfortable vs something like the strat

@dwainmcbain5263 3 года назад

Those who assume the middle pickup on a Strat is useless, well, you’re missing something really cool. I love my middle pup I’d even say it’s more versatile than the other positions. Also position 2 and 4 the output drops in half.

@paulstirk4964 2 года назад

Probably totally wrong but I like to use the middle position with volume rolled off to give a more acoustic sound. Saves taking two guitars to an open mic night.

@yarbzag 3 месяца назад

I always swap my 5 way switch for a 3 way switch on Strats. Hate the level drop on positions 2 and 4. Also love middle pup for funk

@thehound2161 4 года назад

Depending on the current atmospheric pressure i prefer the Telecaster over the Stratocaster, unless it is a Thursday... then it is the Stratocaster over the Telecaster. I may be bias in my opinions, but the Cabronita, Jaguar and Jazzmaster are third, fourth, and fifth on my list. It is Fender, then everything else. Other brands are nice, but they leave me wanting.... a Fender.

@MichaelZola 4 года назад

The Hound oh yea!

@j.a.s.1416 4 года назад

Man if Jay would ever release an intermediate to advanced step by step funk course I'd buy it in a heart beat..... 🎸

@Les537 4 года назад

You either got the funk or you aint.

@rorymcilvain4586 4 года назад

Yes. I agree. Come on Jay. We are all home ready to learn😁

@OyvindBjorgo 4 года назад

The strat would have sounded jazzier if Mick had rolled off the tone a hair.

@sleepymarauder4178 4 года назад

True. Also turning down a bit of treble on the amp would help.

@HowardCharlesUK 2 года назад

I much prefer the sound of the telecaster, but the strat is just so comfortable. I can't choose

@fossilmatic 4 года назад

The middle pickup on the Strat is where you find out if you can sound like yourself, not just someone else.

@fchampd4512 4 года назад

fossilmatic the middle pickup alone that is

@oskarileikos 4 года назад

@@fchampd4512 the middle pickup alone is sooo underrated!!

@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer 4 года назад

Facts. I wire my Strats with 3 way switches and the tone pots on the bridge and neck and leave the middle wide open and just love it.

@slimkickens 4 года назад

@@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer I like to keep the bridge tone bypassed and put a blender on the back tone knob for the neck pickup to get some tele tones

@richjohn2497 4 года назад

Pick ups!

@shawnbell6392 2 года назад

OK, in my opinion , the tele is like the polygraph test for guitar players. It reflects what you bring to the table. The strat is where I have mostly ended up and, in my opinion, the key to the strat is to not be gentle or shy about hitting it hard. Single coil pickups allow you a type of depth that you can really explore. One of the beauties of both is the pickups you choose and the in-the-room sound and feel you get.

@sigiligus 10 месяцев назад

What a delightfully stupid comment. The polygraph test is known to be virtually worthless as a meaningful test. Just like a Tele is not some special magical instrument.

@MusicFed 4 года назад

Wouldn’t necessarily have chosen a semi hollow tele for a comparison. It does sound very scooped and not the standard tele by any means

@jjmatashi 4 года назад

Yep. I was thinking exactly that myself...

@thexplode7 3 года назад

Still tele though

@husnainali-gn8bo 2 года назад

Probably because of the brand of pickups

@brianbarrett5987 4 года назад

Two of my favorite RU-vid guitar channel gods together. I love it!!!

@demerit5 3 года назад

These guys rule.

@peclat202 4 года назад

Never send a Strat to a Tele fight lol just kidding, cant decide on that, love both!

@patrickbrown8540 4 года назад

Best way to solve this problem, just own one of each! 🎸

@AnkurWow 4 года назад

These are among my two favorite guitarists these days. J Leonard can do it all, and with passion, and Mick is one of the most tasteful players out there-never wastes a note. So nice to see you jamming together - made me smile the whole time. Would love to see Jimi and Stevie also jam together...

@jamesf2918 4 года назад

You couldn’t have picked a better time to release this. Such a great video. Great tones and great playing.

@ColinStuart 4 года назад

For my 55 years playing, the Telecaster has been my go to guitar! Rhythm is king. Long live rock!

@og-greenmachine8623 2 года назад

As a telecaster player, I take this shit “personal”💡 When I go to sing JAZZ! not to self, -LEAVE STRAT AT HOME💡

@mateovicuna7640 4 года назад

i love to see someone that stands for his guitar, instead of the guy that says: "why to choose, when you can have both" Damn man! I cannot afford that many guitars!

@alfgwahigain5544 4 года назад

Strat middle pickup is so useful and I've used it for years. Great clean for funk and soul, reggae, etc. and with dirt, not as dark as the neck, not overly bright like the bridge and sits well in the mix. More people would use it if people just stopped saying no one uses it, because that's not true.

@KentuckyWindage22 4 года назад

The middle pickup is the number one reason I have always preferred strats.

@kilgorj 4 года назад

@@KentuckyWindage22 I've seen Clapton several times and he use that middle pickup a lot!

@cherkaslord 4 года назад

Best and most useful comparison I found on RU-vid

@pensive_ 2 года назад

Fantastic video. Thanks My entry: After decades of gigging I found (and used it to my benefit) ; That if you play a strat and you have another player equal in tallent to you, compete with a humbucker or good P90 based guitar, the strat tends to be relegated and disappears somewhat. With a Tele not so. A telecaster can hold its own against any humbucker based guitar. Strats really shine if they are used with other strats or teles.

@SandeepSingh-zc5sh 4 года назад

This debate is precisely why you buy a Jazzmaster

@jakevoss7885 4 года назад

Yeah but then the JM isnt different enough so you pick up a jag

@SandeepSingh-zc5sh 4 года назад

@@jakevoss7885 It's a vicious cycle isn't it 🤦‍♂️

@VIDS2013 4 года назад

Jag, baby. All the way.

@hernindio99 4 года назад

Or Tele Nashville

@nosferatu7325 4 года назад

JM just has a nice unique sound. Once you tame the bridge you get something that doesn’t sound tired. The neck pup is awesome.

@dillonrichards6140 4 года назад

Never gonna be able to play my tele again without imagine it screaming YEAAAAH

@JayLeonardJ 4 года назад

hahaha!

@samuelrutherford8107 4 года назад

After playing a tele you will wonder why the stratocaster needs you to have its volume knob directly in your hand when your trying to play. Its like get away from me volume knob! Atleast a lil bit

@Les537 4 года назад

This.

@Yesmaxno 4 года назад

Both guys are cool guitarists!

@cirjames2540 4 года назад

Great job Jay, but now I want to buy a tele. Thank you and be safe

@vintagepipesnightmares 4 года назад

No bro it’s not the wood or the F hole. A Tele bridge pickup is almost twice as big. It’s that easy. It is nothing esoteric like the wood or a damn hole man ! That’s why is more powerful.

@kraytkopacki4034 3 года назад

No its because the bridge changes the magnetic flow

@vintagepipesnightmares 3 года назад

Ha ha ! The fact that it’s almost double in size with almost double the copper wires has nothing to do with that. Do you know how a Tele without that metal bridge sounds like ? Sounds like a Tele.

@StephenNaveed 4 года назад

This is exactly why I have both! Haha

@stephanvenner2939 4 года назад

I still can't decide. I love them both, although the Telecaster has more Funk in the middle Position and the Strat is great for Blues but,... Ah,... I don't know, I have two Teles and two Strats and I love both Sounds.

@sergeyv4908 4 года назад

Tele is too picky, too harsh because of that mid scoop. In some songs it's a nice thing but in general good strat is just have overall more complex tone and abilities. But tele has a nice tighty bass. But strat so mellow and clear tone in the same time. But tele is nice looking guitar. But strat has a tremolo. But tele...

@kellykane312 2 года назад

My first Guitar was a Telecaster. I have played and worked on many giutars. I decided to build a guitar and I had no problem choosing a Telecaster for all of the reasons Jay said. I love Telecasters!

@jkf9167 4 года назад

I love em both but prefer Teles. One thing I prefer about Strats, though, is that they have a more singing lead tone without that extra attack. I find that if I use a higher output single coil in the bridge position of a Strat and attach it to a tone pot, it excuses you from having to make stereotypical Strat noises the whole time (although realistically, when you listen to recordings, it still sounds pretty Stratty a lot of the time). But you can play AC/DC songs on a Tele but not a Strat.

@markanstey2654 4 года назад

For me it's all about the sounds of the players I love and most of them are strat guys - Hendrix, Robin Trower, Gilmore, Joe Walsh, Blackmore, Audley Freed (cry of love). Plus the strat is the most comfortable guitar to play by far.

@dhruvpendharkar488 4 года назад

2:27 What the heck

@Stephanjnj Год назад

For better or worse, one of each!

@druwk 4 года назад

Ergonomics of the Strat are definitely nicer. When I play a Tele, I press my forearm down in a way, that will some times make my right hand almost fall asleep! That comfort extends to normal playing and soloing. I have my Strat bridge flush on the body, but there is still a sponginess when doing bends. I have a Bigsby Tele so there’s also a little give, but there’s a slinkiness to the Strat? My Tele has p-90’s so it’s not a “real” Tele. I have had, and would like to have again, a “Real Tele”, but I think it will be a Frankenstein Parts-caster? I like the idea of comfort cuts. I’ve putting my Strat into Open G, and the sound is very unique...in contrast to using a Tele, which sounds like every other Open G player? I’ve also thought about building a Hard Tail Strat, with a base plate under the Bridge P/U?

@itchyvinyl 3 года назад

I had a buddy of mine re-shape an arm contour into my Tele. I had the same numb hand thing. I love it now. It looks really unique too. Looks like Jeff Beck’s Esquire with the unfinished aftermarket arm contour.

@gutenbird 3 года назад

@@itchyvinyl considered this idea. Love the sound of telecasters but I’ve picked up a few and they are not very friendly to hold.

@itchyvinyl 3 года назад

@@gutenbird After doing the mod, it is my favorite guitar!

@adrianobarco 4 года назад

That was a beautiful thinline!!! Well, strats and teles have their own thing. It all depends on the mood and personality of the player

@jeefder 4 года назад

you got that right :)

@lrmhawk 4 года назад

Didn't realize I needed a tele until I got one! Been playing Strats since the late 70's and always found them to be the most versatile for gigging. Alternated between a Les Paul and Strat for years, but found a sweet seafoam green tele last year and can't believe how much I love it. Really love the simplicity and feel that the pickup selector is superior in that I often hit the strat pickup selector when I get too crazy playing rhythm. The neck and bridge pickups on the tele are superior to the strat pickup sounds, but nothing beats the in between positions on a strat!

@mattstarf4294 4 года назад

Nice Philip Sayce nod!

@BluesLicks101 4 года назад

That intro was SPANKY! Gibsons just can't touch that sound.

@gutenbird 3 года назад

Where Gibsons shine is their acoustics.

@tomsnow2872 3 года назад

Les Paul's and sgs are just completely different monsters on their own, it's amazing how different an sg and a les paul can sound vs each other.

@bradconklin2878 4 года назад

Funny... I believe David Gilmore did the "Another Brick in the Wall" solo on a 1953 Les Paul.

@xiscogg 4 года назад

And you're right

@shorerocks 4 года назад

I am a higain hard rocker all my +35 years of playing - but Jay, you rhythm power + groove is mindblowing. What an entry jam of both of you!

@JayLeonardJ 4 года назад

Thanks so much!

@josephdimalante7023 4 года назад

I like the middle pickup I think it give's you the pure Fender clean tone...

@NothingNowhereNoOne Год назад

Cool video. You should have traded guitars at the end of video and played it and tried making it sound great: A Devil’s advocate guitar switcharoo, if you will .

@JayLeonardJ Год назад

Ah! Missed opportunity there!!

@jwright1972 4 года назад

Years ago, I used to go to a shop where one of the guys that worked there jokingly referred to teles as Fender’s male model and strats as Fender’s female model.

@metricdeep8856 3 года назад

I think you could find counter examples for each category for each guitar type. I've had flat sounding strats and coluorful teles. You need a good version of both guitars...and a 335.

@superflea72 4 года назад

Strats are wonderful at what they do, but I have recently gravitated more towards Teles myself - there's just something special about them that I prefer. seeing my two favourite YT players Jay and Mick together talking about Fenders was a real treat too, more vids please guys!

@KelsterVonShredster 4 года назад

Loved this video. And this is why I will NEVER be a one guitar guy. EVER. And why have to choose? It's like being forced to playing one amp your life, why would you if you don't have to? I have a Strat, Tele, 335, shredder, etc. Amps: Tweed Deluxe hand wired, Friedman, Twin, etc. #choicerocks

@JayLeonardJ 4 года назад

Nothing wrong with what you said there! #choicerocks

@alexanderroesch2287 4 года назад

Very infectious. Nicely done. The enthusiasm and playing ability made me paradoxically want to both acquire another guitar AND burn all my gear, respectively.

@absea7918 4 года назад

I love both, but should point out the Strat was initially supposed to be the new version of the Tele. The Tele we all love is actually a newer version of the Esquire (which had no rhythm pickup or truss rod). Leo Fender was always tinkering. He had the Tele in the hands of some local players, and was getting a lot of feedback about what they wanted to see in the next version. Leo added the tremolo (to compete with Bigsby), he contoured it, added another pickup, added deeper cutouts for higher fret access and realized he had a whole new model. The Stratocaster was a big hit, and it was the flagship Fender instrument. But, as I said, I like both since they are both amazing guitars.

@ChrisCollinsGuitar 4 года назад

Great strat sounds weak when quiet because of the lack of mids coupled with the fletcher munson curve. 👨‍🔬🤘 Turn it up!

@dennissollars9062 3 года назад

What is the secret to getting that QUACKY TONE from ones TELE? I'd appreciate any tips. Thanks.

@mycatis4257 3 года назад

Just the bridge pickup and the midrange

@thekongprincess 4 года назад

10:27 I must disagree because *4 T H P O S I T I O N*

@andy_watt 4 года назад

If you really want to get into it, I recommend a ‘steve’ with a headband.

@jierdy 4 года назад

Nectar of all tones! Unique

@thomasd9237 Год назад

I'll stick to my T-style. For one I don't like trems. And if you Absolutely must have the position 2&4 sounds of a strat, just get a 3pickup tele. You get the best of both worlds. My go to single coil guitar is a 3pup T-STYLE always. Great playing & cool video 👍👍

@JayLeonardJ Год назад

Ah, I should put a Nashville Tele on my Christmas list. I've wanted one for years!

@thomasd9237 Год назад

@@JayLeonardJ get one get one ☺️ lol Don't laugh at me but... The new one I'm building is Tstyle ash body, contoured gut & elbow like a strat. Middle pup I'm going with a 'Tron 4wire so I can split it & a 5way switch. Should be fun if it works. Not sure if the Tron will work out, I chose a neck position one. We shall see 😀 . keep up the great vids, they help to encourage my old hands to keep trying 👍👍

@justinguitarcia 4 года назад

The most general way to put it would be saying a tele is all about the bridge and the strat is all about the neck. Though a 50s, fat maple strat bridge will get tele-ish, even more so if it's hard tail. For me it's the feel of a strat and the, personal thought, that they fair better with a mid boosted pedal whereas a tele into a tweed amp and you're good to go. So for me it's a tele but I'm still searching for a strat I can jibe with

@byronofcalgary6985 4 года назад

to be fair there is greater diffs in wiring and pickups between the 2 - Strats are 85% 3 pickups + 3 knob with Bridge wired direct with no tone - inc HSS - maybe 15% get the buttons or special switching or HH 3 ways - compare that to all the Tele pickup layouts, combos + switches inc Nashville

@tombradley4844 4 года назад

Sorry Mick E flat comes from Jimi, everyone else you mentioned just followed him.

@misterknightowlandco 4 года назад

And who fucking cares? He probably got it from somewhere else too. You thinking tunings outside of standard pitch for instruments didnt exist on this earthly plane before God bestowed us with Hendrix? C'mon. Don't be an idiot.

@tombradley4844 4 года назад

@@misterknightowlandco what a pair of clowns !, Jimi is the Master, nobody even comes close to what he did for the instrument, it was him who made the half step a thing & you know it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,blah blah woof woof.

@misterknightowlandco 4 года назад

@@tombradley4844 um he wasn't the first to do that. Made it popular? Sure. But alternative tunings have been used since instruments have been invented 😆.

@yeesenchai 4 года назад

Every time someone picks up a fender strat or tele, they turned into a chicken

@kjneese 4 года назад

Seriously, amazing comparison of the different attributes/strengths of these instruments. Thx for this breakdown, which is unlike most I've seen online! And yes, you both SHREDDED that opening!

@Jaysteenn 4 года назад

Cool video idea! Thanks for saying Hey in the chat!

@JayLeonardJ 4 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@TomMilleyMusic 4 года назад

Why do people keep saying no one uses the middle pickup? SRV? Hendrix? Clapton? Knopfler? Bonamassa? Sayce? Hello?! Lots of people use the middle pickup, and y'all are missing out if you aren't ;) I think the problem is for some reason not many people know what the middle pickup even sounds like, so when it's on a record they often just think it's a biting neck pickup, or a fat bridge pickup. And that's kinda the beauty of that pickup. There's a whole other set of usable rhythm or lead tones, and most people are just like "nah" lol

@justinpalmer6098 4 года назад

Please. People. Use the middle pickup on your Strat. There's another tone there. It's less Stratty. I've never owned a Tele, so I can't weigh in on the debate here. But use the middle pickup when you need a different sound

@slimkickens 4 года назад

99% of the time I'm in the middle position. It gets an almost P-90 type tone

@aluminati9918 4 года назад

Great video. I own both, great guitars. only thing I can tell you for sure is Teles require WAY less maintenance. Also more trouble-free in a live setting. Never became friends w Strat volume knob position.

@Elimnio 4 года назад

I usually would agree about a tele getting more of a Jazz sound, but then Nir Felder sounds amazing on his (mexican) strat playing Jazz

@davist55 4 года назад

No handle on a tele to lift it up at the end of the show. Yeah like the NECK ITSELF

@David.. 4 года назад

Squigs315 D win for the Ibanez Gem

@vruz 4 года назад

Quoting David Gilmour: "I'd always kind of wanted a Gibson Les Paul. We used to be sent various circulars of guitars that were on sale throughout the world. "There was one guitar trader in New Jersey who had the 1955 Les Paul on his list. It was all gold - the back and the sides and the back of the neck, and it looked great. "I bought it and had it sent to LA where we were working on [1979's] 'The Wall' album. Not long after it arrived I used it for the solo on 'Another Brick in the Wall, (Part 2).' "We injected it straight through the desk and onto tape, not through any amplifier at all. I've always loved that guitar." So, no. That's possibly the only audible piece in all of Pink Floyd history where he used a Gibson Les Paul. Not exactly the most suitable bit of guitar work to demo a strat.

@szczerzo 4 года назад

Two guys in a studio, not seating 6 feet apart cos this is recorded pre-quarantine.

@Monomonmamon 4 года назад

good ol' vine days

@ahall3823 4 года назад

No doubt it was recorded before restrictions kicked in.

@sashabraun9194 4 года назад

@@ahall3823 This looks like it was recorded at the Thomann event months ago.

@demerit5 3 года назад

BC...Before COVID

@geopaq1 2 года назад

get a G&L instead much better instrument

@benjamingilmore825 4 года назад

Jay amazing funk groove! The best. We’re you playing that thin line telecaster into a Vox AC 10? Thanks

@tremolo73 2 года назад

12:36 (assuming that was an attempt to play Another Brick In The Wall) was actually a Les Paul, not a Strat

@charlesgrey8651 22 дня назад

That olive green with tortoise, ... 😳🥺💖 And it'sah, it'sah, it'sah tele t-line 🤤 Each has it's own weight ... but, ... tele lover here🤗 Love Jay's funckin' but i just recently came to the understanding that a tele is also useable for symphonic/fairytail metal aswel as math/prog metal, how cool is that, ... Ed Bickert showed us jazz, Gozzila, well someting wilder but Irene Ketikidi shows us high end melodie lines. Ya Can't Go Wrong Wearing A Tele On Your Belly😉✌

@AngelMartinez-qs3cf 4 года назад

Yo, for me the Tele all the way! I like the Stratocaster, and I like the guys who play the Stratocaster, but for me the Stratocaster sounds too thin. I like the bright chimey. Jangly , sound Telecaster. 90% of the time I am always on the bridge pickup, which I think that Telecasters are famous for. The Stratocaster is famous the neck pickup I think. What model Telecaster is that what year was it made ? I love it. And what model Strat is that? Thank you posting this.

@l3ertuz362 4 года назад

well to tell you frankly I like both tele and strat

@johnsmith-sm6mh 4 года назад

You need both and i love both for different reasons, the strat is so cool for all the reasons a strat is Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray , and all the other blues guys but if I’m honest the Tele can Chicken Pick and at the same time “with the Tele bridge pickup” can totally rock and match any PAF “ in my mind “ having said that I’m a Strat bloke through and through. So like i say you need both . 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 just my opinion 😋

@SomeKindOfMadman 2 года назад

I own 3 Tele’s and 2 Strats. And I have my heart set on another Tele, even though I love each of my guitars, the Tele’s get more attention

@Indianabones007 Год назад

I have had my strat for 12 years and absolutely love it but always wanted a Tele as well, I recently have been looking for one but everyone I’ve tried has not felt right, none have been set up right for me, intonation problems etc and I’m beginning to wonder if it just not the guitar for me o if I’m just looking for right one.

@InGratitudeIam 4 года назад

And then there's the Nashville Tele... game over.

@KenTeel Год назад

Put a cheap ceramic pickup, in the neck position on the Telecaster, and you'll get even a more muted jazz tone. Alnico magnets, just by their nature are more scooped sounding, with apparently brighter highs. Use a ceramic mag pickup and you won't have as much of the high end. Also his right hand (the guy playing the Tele) has been trained to play funkier, more aggressively. Because of this his display of a "muted jazz sound" isn't exactly as good a jazz tone as his guitar is capable of. If he were used to playing in a jazz style, he'd be using a lighter touch and the guitar would produce a sound that is jazzier. Also, if he were using a fatter pick, he'd get more jazz tone.

@spacejazz6272 2 месяца назад

10:56 Grant Green never played a Tele, he played an ES-330 at the start of his career and then a custom made archtop for the rest of his career. Jazz guitarists who do/did use teles would include Julian Lage, Ed Bickert, Bill Frisell, Tim Lerch and Ted Greene who i assume is the guitarist that Mick meant to say

@linoalcaraz5407 4 года назад

I'm just gonna say it but @JayLeonardJ is one of the best guitarist of the generation. One of my favorite all time players.

@JayLeonardJ 4 года назад

That is a comment I will gladly take any time. Thanks so much for bringing some extra sunshine into my day 👍

@andrewjackson9654 4 года назад

JayLeonardJ some of us have known this for many years.

@brendanmoore5456 4 года назад

Love the strat except for that dang volume knob and pickup switch location

@JohnMichaelBurns 3 года назад

Ironically both these guitarists view those positions as one of the advantages of a strat. I agree with you though, I don't fiddle with those controls mid song and when I'm playing they just get in the way.

@guitarhackr Месяц назад

Put a P90 Phat Cat in the bridge on a Strat and it does such a cool single coil in your face thing but fat. I can't get over how good it sounds. That said, I just got an AmPro II Telecaster and it now 100% my #1! I feel dumb for not getting one sooner.

@mailvilla 4 года назад

06/27/2020: What do you think of Fender Noiseless Generation-4 pick up for Spank, Quack, and CountryTwang sounds without using a delay, reverb, compression pedal?

@waitin4winter 4 года назад

I forget which famous strat player (John mayer?) said the strat is the guitat that let's you sound most like yourself. Mick: Strat is the guitar that makes you sound like everyone else

@JohnMichaelBurns 3 года назад

I think it's more true to say that a strat always sounds like a strat whereas a Tele has a less idiosyncratic tone which allows the player to come through more. In other words, strats always seem to sound stratty but teles tend to sound like some dude playing a guitar.

@CostasRodrigues 8 месяцев назад

05:59 anyone noticed demons, starting slow dancing in the room? P.S.Strat into low-end(frequency wise) Fender tweed, and Tele into mid-high Vox balances these two guitars just right.

@jpcates6681 2 года назад

Team tele all the way bro. Both of them are versatile guitars, but I will forever love the tele. A simple, proven, and humble design. Lots of famous guitarists gave it a good look much like the strat, and it proves that you don’t have to complicate things, simple can be just as effective.

@rashidrani2333 4 года назад

A strat is like a keyboard, a tele is like a piano. I currently own a tele, I sold my strat. I guess i have upgraded.

@SurfingSerpent 4 года назад

Rashid Rani Wow, I did NOT expect this analogy to be so accurate. There definitely is a 3D kind of quality to the tele tone that makes it pop out in a way the strat doesn’t. In the video, they had mentioned that the tele has a certain resonance to it, which is basically caused by the large metal bridge plate and its big contact with the body. I find that when you hit the strings harder, the instrument does naturally compress the sound and make it more nasal, while hitting softer sounds less compressed and more open. Very musical. The strat doesn’t have that resonant contrast when you play at different dynamics. It gets louder and softer, sure, but the strat doesn’t really change the way the harmonics squeeze with harder playing the way the tele does. And all of this is natural to the instrument, because I notice it acoustically.

@JELIFISH19 4 года назад

@@SurfingSerpent Strats definitely do. But like Mick said at the end, you need volume.

@twoys440 4 года назад

jokes on you. I'd rather have a keyboard to play synthwave and ambient pad. But not a piano with one sound only

@CharlesWillisBonsai 4 года назад

LOL I love teles, but they can't get that 2 and 4 spots on the strat. Put a tele bridge pickup in a strat and mod it to get bridge/neck together and it's an almost perfect synthesis.

@nohero178 11 месяцев назад

The Telecaster is much like the LP: such an ergonomic nightmare that I'd rather just pass. I own one and a really, REALLY nice LP, and yet most of my playing time goes to my MIM Strat.

@e.paradigm7415 3 года назад

So the way I look at this dilemma is that the strat is very well rounded, you can play almost every type of music with it but with the Tele its pretty well rounded but its more suited for blues, jazz, country etc. I mean I can add some distortion but it wont be as heavy and will have a bright " sharp attack ". So for me it just means whatever genre I feel like playing is what I'll pick up although if i feel in the mood to play as many styles then go strat yet the tone on the Tele is just phenomenal.

@JayLeonardJ 3 года назад

Don't forget that cats like Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), Jim Root (Slipknot) and John 5 (Marilyn Manson) get huge distortion tones out of Teles. In fact, Jimmy Page used a tele all they way up to Zepplin IV: even the "Stairway to Heaven" Solo was a Telecaster ;)

@57ebartley 4 года назад

Middle pup on a some strats can be really good for Slide

@jasperhusmann6888 Год назад

its a bit funny to me, bc the funnybone/fannybone(?) is called "Musikantenknochen" in german, which translates to musician´s bone.. never thought about the weird naming before, but you might have found the reason

@petarkosovic6455 2 года назад

Telecasters are much more versatile guitars. Better for recording, cuts better, better for chords, thicker, can play jazz with, blues, punk, rock, even metal etc... However, strat has that sweet spot that no guitar in the world could ever touch, not even tele. That one thing that's bigger than life.