Leo Fender was a West Coast-based genius who didn’t even know how to tune a guitar, but he captured the imagination of cowpokes, blues players and emerging rockers when he released his Telecaster solidbody electric in 1950. Gibson had its own non-guitar-playing mastermind in Ted McCarty. ...
You can preset the basic intonation of your guitar by taking a tape measure and measuring from the inside of the nut to the center of the 12th fret (the fret wire itself; not the fingerboard). Double that measurement to find the scale length of your guitar. Adjust the first-string bridge...
Add moveable barre chords, slides, vibrato and slash chords to the mix. Top Songs: “A Girl Like You” - The Smithereens “Breaking the Law” - Judas Priest “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” - Pat Benatar06 Level Level 7 Highlights Take the lead with double stops, string bends, arpeggio...
No stranger to the guitar (particularly the telecaster),Brad Paisley’s “Last Time for Everything” brings an ‘80s-inspired guitar riff fueled by the Cadd9 chord into the country scene without a hiccup. Kenny Chesney’s “How Forever Feels” feels like a classic country track complete with...
How to Remove a Fender Inlayed Guitar Nut Most Fender Stratocaster and Telecasters have inlayed nuts. These nuts are glued into a notch or channel that is routed into the fretboard. The Slide Method As will all guitar repairs, there are multiple ways to remove this style of nut, but the...
Fender Telecasters are considered the ultimate workhorse guitar, and a Telecaster will sound great for just about anything you're trying to play. Can I teach myself electric guitar? Thanks to online resources like instructional videos, it is possible to learn how to play electric guitar on yo...
Esquires are reputed to be more resonant, lively and sustaining than Telecasters thanks to the reduced magnetic string-pull of a single pickup. I have never fully bought into that theory and still don’t, but this Esquire conversion offers something so different to a regular Telecaster, I cou...
Fender Stratocaster/ Telecaster Gibson Les Paul/ Tune-o-matic Floyd Rose PRS style wrap-around Adjusting the intonation on a Fender style bridge Fender has made many different styles of bridges throughout the years, although the basic design of the bridges has stayed the same. Each string is ...
feature Alnico Magnets – thinkStratocasterorTelecaster. P90-style pickups really benefit from the entire pickup being raised to the optimized height, and then fine-tuning the string balance with pole pieces.Split Bladesare a different beast: check the video below to see Lindy adjust some Split ...
Fender Stratocaster connected directly to an oscilloscope. Each 'wave' on the oscilloscope is caused by one string vibration. The highest voltage (peak of wave) is created by the fastest string speed when it's moving directly over the pickup. The zero voltage point (center of graph) is ...