That sounds great! Nice and full; a really rich sound. I like it.
Exactly. I am not one to endlessly debate between brands. When I decided to get a 4K, 55 inch TV last year, I didn’t spend hours going over the specs of the Sony and the Samsung and the Vizio etc. Got the Vizio, a little less money than the Sony. When I needed to replace my totaled Nissan Altima, I found an Altima in my price range. If I had found an Accord before that, I would have gone with it.
At my current level of playing, the question is moot. I don’t even know yet the exact sound I want to get.
Plus (trust me on this), there’s no way a person can have too many instruments. Especially guitars.
I have a couple of friends like that. My brother has a Tele, and a Strat, and a Jazzmaster, and a Les Paul, and a top of the line Martin acoustic, the guitar, 20 years or so ago, on which I first learned a few chords. When I was in the music shop last month getting new strings, I picked up an acoustic 12 string. Didn’t seem any harder to play than a 6 string, although I hear that for picking, it may be harder. Maybe that will someday be my 3rd guitar.
An instrument should feel good in your hands, and be fun to play. Otherwise, you won’t play.
Agree. First commandment. Whatever keeps you playing, do that.
Whether it is guitar, or a song. Trying to learn a new song, or chord or chord progression and it’s not working so well? Don’t put the guitar down in disguist for years telling yourself that you will never be able to nail that full F chord and thus will never be a real guitar player. Play the stuff you can play for a while, come back to the hard stuff later.
Do it right. Get Gilmour’s Black Strat.
My very first electric guitar was a Squire black and white strat that I did up to look like Gilmour’s. Never sounded like his though.
In the video I like the look of the Amber. On the website I prefer the red or black cherry.
This is the only photo I have of mine, a 1990s era MIJ tele.
My first color choice would be the black cherry followed by amber. I think this looks like a great guitar.
I don’t think it is currently for sale. Clapton has one that is available right now and what I would recommend:
To answer the OP’s question, I like the amber guitar.
Teles are great. I’ve owned a few over the years. I’ve always loved the sound of a Tele with humbucker pickups, much lighter and cheaper than a Gibson’s going to run you and only a guitar nerd is going to hear the difference.
The Tele that I currently own might be worth looking into, I have the “Player Series Baja Telecaster”, which is basically a stock MIM Tele with a couple of subtle differences. First, the pickup switch has a fourth position, just beyond the neck position, that has the two pickups wired in series which results in a fat, humbucker-y sound. Second, there’s a button on the volume knob that switches phase when you press it, which quickly gives you funky Strat-like tones without having to change your guitar.
I don’t think they make the Baja Tele anymore as I couldn’t find any references to it on the Fender site, but it’s a sweet guitar and if you can find one I highly recommend it. I found this article from a few years back from an online catalog site that reviewed it, if you’re interested: https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/guitar-of-the-day-fender-classic-player-baja-telecaster/
At any rate, I wish you the best in your journey to picking your first electric and no matter what kind of Tele you end up with, you won’t go wrong. Have you decided on an amp yet?
The best $100 amp I can find. Will be playing in a small aparrtment. Maybe can find a used one
This is $40 above your price range (new), so there’s a good chance you can get it in your price range used, but this is the amp I use for practicing at home. Fender amp, solid state, one knob is for modeling classic amps, another knob models classic effects, and a third knob models classic reverb/delay. Onboard tuner and the ability to save presets.
My ‘actual’ amp is a 40 or 50 watt Fender Hot Rod Deluxe which sounds amazing, but is way too loud for my house and stays in my band’s rehearsal space since it’s too heavy to lug back and forth.
$40 bucks never killed anybody either
If you look closely, he has p-90s in that black Les Paul.
I have a Mustang IV or V I think. They’re a pretty cool little amp. The ability to use headphones with a solid state amp makes them much more useful for home practice.
The Mustang is great. I traditionally have played tube amps, but the modeling has gotten so good now that there’s no reason to have that size, weight and volume in my home practice space. Plus this thing can get loud enough where if something goes south on my primary Hot Rod Deluxe, I can mic this amp up and still get a passable sound on a stage without sounding tinny like a lot of other smaller amps would.
It’s also nice with the various FX combos you can dial up, saves lots of $$ having to duplicate that with actual effects boxes, or an effects processor, especially if you’re just starting off and aren’t quite ready to invest in a proper pedalboard yet.
Sold. Was looking up amps around $100, Fender Champion came up, Mustang seems a little better
I’m just going to put this here, maybe I’ll start a thread about chord progressions etc. I was just fooling around last night practicing changing from one chord to another. In this case Am to Em. About the easiest change there is. And eventually I played Am, can’t use tableture here, but slow strokes down up down up up, repeat/Em down down up and that sounded OK. What next? Well checking my handy dandy chord progression chart, add Dm , but I didn’t know what to do with it. Didn’t want to just have the same strums. Tonight I went with down, down up up , down up down up up, then Am down down up .
Pretty simple but the whole thing sounds all right to me. But I don’t have any lyrics to go wiht it, and it would get boring to play that after a couple of times thru. But would I transpose I guess is the word into another key. Since the first and last chord I played was Am, do I go to a Bm? And how would I add a bridge, what chords would that have?