I always thought I would never play a tele. Then one day I found your channel loved your playing, sound an content. So I gave the Tele a Chance. Now 2 years later, the only Eguitar I really love playing is the Tele. Theres somethikg magical about these guitars.
the piano-like sound is what no other guitar can actually do like a telecaster. After 40 years of playing guitar, I bought my first telecaster, I immediately fell in love with the piano-like sound. Thanks to Julian Lage, and of course for you too by your videos... Peace! 👍🏻😎
I love Telecasters and the one you are playing is quite nice! A Fender Telecaster was my first real guitar compared to the Tiescos and Silvertones I started with. Still my favorite guitar of all!
A memory in the context of the Jazz Telecaster . I was at the artisan guitar show in Pennsylvania, Sean McGowan ,Jimmy Bruno and another guitarist (I don't recall his name at the moment,sorry)They where all playing these beautiful jazz boxes with their special "jazz amps". Brent Mason showed up with this road worn Mexican Tele and a deluxe reverb and the sonic beauty of his set up simply out shined the others.(They are all great players with great guitars)But it was the simple setup that was just so startlingly effective and memorable.
My first electric guitar was a Tele over 40 years ago. Still can't shake my love for them. I have always considered them to almost by the un-guitar of guitars They can disappear in your hands as a tool and make it all about the music. Nothing that I have seen, tried, owned or own can do that besides a Tele. And great work as always, Tim. I really appreciate your videos and insights.
The telecaster can do anything . I think of the many brilliant innovations leo fender designed. The tele was one of the first and still one of his best
The Tele was the first production solid body period just beating out Les and Mary. Incidentally, Bruce Clarke had some success using a Les Paul for Jazz gigs in the mid 50’s to early 60’s. It wasn’t as good as a Tele but was quite acceptable.
Hi Tim - It was such a pleasure to experience your art at the Guild of American Luthiers Convention that just finished. When you were playing with Pearl Django (which was fabulous) I was wracking my brain, trying to remember all the CZcams videos of yours that I had previously enjoyed. But then seeing you in action was a revelation. And then a double revelation when you were playing for Jason Lollar at the electric appraisal. Giant catalogue of tunes in your head, atmospheric chord invention, but more, just an overflowing sense of love for the music. And it was wonderful how welcoming, open and friendly you were. (I was the guy asking about the Charlie Christian pickup). I wish I lived closer, instead of distant Colorado, or I would be begging to become one of your students. - Peter
And we love to hear you play your Telecasters. Liquid beauty is the way I would describe watching you play and hearing it from your guitar and amp. Just lovely.
Wow Tim! Your love for Telecaster is really a love film... Congrats Tim 👍🏻 because you are humble and a incredible sofisticated player. I would like to learn your playing. I used to play eléctric guitar, rock, with a pick, but also I play classic guitar with muy fingers and nails. Now I take my guitars again. My wife gifts me a Telecaster made by a Luthier. It has Fender 62' on It. I don't play very nice both guitars. With my Telly, I'm trying to learn with a pick, Dunlop Jazz III. I try It watching to Sandra (Guitarversum). But when I watch your videos, I think on changing my technique and play like you. But it Is hard to learn jazz, chords and comping by myself. Well my dear Tim, congratulations again. I'm a fan. Thank you!👋
Thank you Tim, you play and sound wonderful. I believe there's no other electric guitar that gives so much but being so simple, it really helps to focus on playing and find inspiration easier, no hassle with too many controls and tremolo.
Hi Tim. Thank you so much for your videos! I Stumbled across a custom nocaster soon after watching one of your videos and I haven't wanted it to leave my hands since I've had it. watching your videos has made me fall in love with guitar (and jazz) again. A few jazz standard chord melodies on the belt now, You have pretty well changed the trajectory of my life. Cant thank you enough!
You are an excellent guitar player and fantastic teacher. I love telecasters too, because I'm a simply man like teles. I love simplicity of telecasters. More versatile than people think. I like fat neck and strong assembly for years and years. When I was young, telecaster were the poor brother of stratocasters. I bought a strat and I sold it 15 years before. Strats it's not for me. I'm a telecaster man. Thans mr. Lerch, your videos are wonderful.
Hi Tim, I’ve only recently stumbled upon your channel and I just wanted to pass on my appreciation for your lesson videos especially as I find them so informative and well paced. Just after a few minutes of a couple videos I was picking things up I’ve never understood til now. Many Thanks :)
For years, since I started Jazz guitar, my dream has been a Tele with a CC in the neck. I always thought I was a bit of a whacko for that, so finding your channel has been beyond validating! (Lovely playing by the way!)
Really helpful! Never been a Strat or Tele person but so much has changed in 2021, and I’m loving Teles (thanks for your Tele videos). Looking forward to exploring your other content here!
Like a Napoleon Brandy, Hermitage Grange Claret or Burgundy vintage Burgundy, age just improves well tailored items! Now could someone scratch my back please , I’m stuck on the walking frame I have to use after being so myopic with age I walked in front of a Buick. 🙂
Totally disagree on the comfort. The slab body just digs into my chest and forearm. IMO Leo didn't get it right with the Telecaster body, which is why he came up with the contours, arm bevel and belly cut for just about every other guitar and bass he designed later.
If Leo had gotten everything right with the Tele, then the Strat wouldn’t likely exist. The lack of contours make it uncomfortable for a lot of people. The new Ultra line addresses that issue though and is a great Tele.
@@AndreaAustoni I took a belt sander to my Mexican Tele, and made my own contours. I also have a Squier Jim Root Tele, which has a belly cut as standard, but no forearm contour, and that's fine.
I was also impressed with the even frequency response on a Guild I saw on another of your videos (Blue Moon). But of course much of that is due to your beautiful technique and great ear.
Whats not to like. Leo got it right first touch. The scale length is perfect. They intone and tune perfectly; who said they don’t tune? That’s a set up problem not the tool. The strings pass over the nut dead straight canceling nut jam tuning problems. I bought a 2012 American Standard with the trick tone pot and CShop pups and the modifications are icing on the cake. The first Tele Ive left completely alone and not tinkered with. They are near perfect right off the rack.With flat wound chromes it’s the solo lap pianists dream, and just like you say Tim, it’s them or Arch tops. With the Eastman 175 clone I bought too, I was set to reharness the pup/pot array when I got a peaky timbre off the neck magnets when toggled to it, but then tried adjusting all four pots and that was the answer; it must be wired just like the 50s Gibsons as the tone for the neck pickup is adjusted to perfect with the brigade pickups volume & tone pots. Then she sounded absolutely superb. The tone was superlative regardless of linear taper pots and caps I was wrong about. It just wasn’t modern wired. I so glad I didn’t prematurely go off half cocked and butcher the system. All I changed was bird head pot knobs for there visual and tactile set up advantage pointed out by Barney. Using the four pots it also gets great sound at the middle toggle position getting the bridge pup involved which I seldom use for Jazz timbres I’m after; until this one at least. You can get a really good balance between the basses and the trebles dynamics wise and came a hairs breadth from wrecking it. So must apologise to the Eastman guys. I got it very wrong there. Use all the pots and it’s a peerless Jazz box ( once you put a String Butler and flat wound chrome 12s on it that is, and let it sing through a Fender Valve Amp with Spring Reverb, Polytone or JC120 sound nice too.
Tele for me too. You sound great. I love how simple and straight forward telecasters are. I have a blonde one as well. I've noticed they are rather heavy. There are some made as semihollow bodies with an f hole though and if I ever get another I'd probably go for that. I think tele's have enough of a classic look for a jazz setting but archetops, say one like Charlie Christian's, are really cool to see.
You may be preaching to the choir, Tim. I’m guessing most views will come from Tele players, like myself. Piano-like? Yes. But you can also unleash the monster within at any time.
Hi Tim, I love your playing. Such tasty notes and chords. I am surprised a player of your caliber is concerned with the "look" of your guitar when playing with your group. We should be listening with our ears not eyes. Have you ever done a group gig with your Tele and regretted or gotten a negative response?
Hi Tim, you should check out the new Fender Player series HH tele... they're really sweet. The neck pickup is very nice and you could easily do a jazz gig with it, cheers from Australia.
Great teacher and musician - I recently bought a Blond USA Tele and installed a CC Lolar - Problem is my other very expensive guitars now pale in comparison - debating now if I should sell these and get a second cheaper Butterscotch with same pick-up????
I know that most solid body guitars with fixed bridges have longer sustain than hollow body guitars. some jazz guys are saying that jazzmaster-trem installed solid-body guitars sound and feel similar to hollow-body archtop guitars. have you ever compared jazzmaster/archtop before?
What kind of tele is that? I remember a past video talking about how you use a Mexican 50s Road Worn, but that neck looks completely different. Can you give a rundown of the guitar?
My only issue with them is the hard edge, since I have nerve damage in my right arm I really need arm relief on a guitar. I should carve a rounded bit to stick on my tele so I can actually play it again! Thanks for the idea! Lol.
Tim - wouldn't you say that most of the good things you mentioned about Telecasters also apply to a Strat? The well rounded tones, easy access to the upper neck, etc? Is there any aspect of a Tele that offers you something that a Strat DOESN'T? Other Tele and Strat players are welcome to comment too...
@@TimLerchGuitar I hear you man! I bought my Streamline in 2014 and it has really opened up. Every time I play it the thought always creeps in that “maybe I need another Andersen” 😂
"Mostly the look..." Yup, I hear you Tim! Isn't it amazing that people forget that Telecasters come with a tone knob just like other guitars? From playing a Tele for years is how my 7-string guitar came about. It's the perfect marriage of Gibson and Fender and sustains more that even a Tele.
@jazzrocks It's not only Telecasters but all guitars really that a rather large number of people choose to leave the tone control (and volume as well) just turned to ten and then forget about it except maybe to use it as an off switch. The volume and tone controls on the guitar itself are essential tools that are right at hand while you are playing and offer different shades and subtleties than the controls on your amp because you are changing the sound before it even hits the amp. I know a good number of players live by the "turn it up and forget it" rule but they are missing out on quite a lot if you haven't figured out your guitar's volume and tone controls and what they can do for you. About as far from jazz as one can get but I have a fuzz pedal that I really love with the guitar's tone backed down and if I didn't use my guitar's tone control I would probably have determined the pedal was useless and sold it long ago.
So True Tim,the Telecaster is amazing, but it's all in the set-up! I have an Ash US Standard, but I just "knew " it was a good one before even playing it! The only thing I need to upgrade are the individual saddles. Any ideas? Thanks, S.
Individual saddles ARE the upgrade. If you want something better sounding, get a set of Armadillo Guitar "Keef style saddles". You can find them here: www.armadilloguitar.com/product/keef-style-saddles/
Hi Tim. Not sure if you will see this or not. I would like to use my Tele for something like the fingerstyle you played in the video. What size strings would you suggest for that? Thank You.
I don’t think so as the note would cut out suddenly at the end of the cycle, but I might be wrong. Sounds like a Princeton Blackface Reverb helping with the sustain, perhaps a light touch of phase or delay I thought. It’s Chimey whatever he's cooking’ hey.
Hi Tim. I know this is an older video but it just popped up in my feed, so I'm hoping you see this. You've talked a good bit about different Tele pickups, but I was just wondering about the type of neck you tend to like on a Tele. Do you go for the old 7.25 radius or a modern 9.5? What about chunky necks? Are you a baseball bat kind of guy, or something a little slimmer? Thanks!
I hate the notion that teles are bright guitars. They are heavy and fat sounding especially the bridge pup. It’s like a notch below the fatness of a LP and much thicker sounding than a strat. Btw, I love what you’re playing under your chatter lol sounds amazing YOU play so amazing
Tim or someone else, can you recommend a not-too-crazy expensive Tele for jazz and blues? I would like to avoid making lots of modifications and the budget is under 1000 bucks. I am an amateur who mainly plays by himself. Thanks.
Hi Tim, I just saw a video where they claimed Ted Greene had his Tele chambered. Is this something you can verify? Just curious. Apparently Keith Richards owns it now.
Ted did what I would call "hogging out" a lot of material under the pickgaurd like a swimming pool route only more barbaric: ) he didn't always do this but Banana Cream (his main gigging guitar) was hogged out .
@@TimLerchGuitar Thanks for fast reply. I am playing Tele because you can still get fat jazz tone, but also get clarity, when i am using in my solo two tones ot chords, it sounds muddy on humbuckers. Tele with lollar is just perfect
The sustain is key for me. non-tele players don't get it. They find it too ridiculous to even contemplate that a spanky old telecaster should have superior sustain, but that's because they don't know what sustain is. They think sustain is the feedback produced by humbuckers run through a tube screamer.
I also don't know why everybody says Telecasters are bright. Stratocasters are much brighter. Teles are twangy and nasal because they have mids, while Strats are scooped, especially their neck pickup.
I play guitar. This guy plays guitar. But somehow we are not doing the same thing by any stretch of the imagination. Respect.
Something tells me I wouldn’t sound as good as Tim if I used his guitar.
Tim's chording is sublime.
I always thought I would never play a tele. Then one day I found your channel loved your playing, sound an content. So I gave the Tele a Chance. Now 2 years later, the only Eguitar I really love playing is the Tele. Theres somethikg magical about these guitars.
the piano-like sound is what no other guitar can actually do like a telecaster. After 40 years of playing guitar, I bought my first telecaster, I immediately fell in love with the piano-like sound. Thanks to Julian Lage, and of course for you too by your videos... Peace! 👍🏻😎
And thanks to Ted Greene!
The piano-like quality would explain Ed Bickert's preference and playing style as well.
I love Telecasters and the one you are playing is quite nice! A Fender Telecaster was my first real guitar compared to the Tiescos and Silvertones I started with. Still my favorite guitar of all!
A memory in the context of the Jazz Telecaster . I was at the artisan guitar show in Pennsylvania, Sean McGowan ,Jimmy Bruno and another guitarist (I don't recall his name at the moment,sorry)They where all playing these beautiful jazz boxes with their special "jazz amps". Brent Mason showed up with this road worn Mexican Tele and a deluxe reverb and the sonic beauty of his set up simply out shined the others.(They are all great players with great guitars)But it was the simple setup that was just so startlingly effective and memorable.
That tone is glorious man.
Sounds great and on a side note, yet another video that makes me regret my lack of practice over the last 38 years!
My first electric guitar was a Tele over 40 years ago. Still can't shake my love for them. I have always considered them to almost by the un-guitar of guitars They can disappear in your hands as a tool and make it all about the music. Nothing that I have seen, tried, owned or own can do that besides a Tele. And great work as always, Tim. I really appreciate your videos and insights.
The telecaster can do anything . I think of the many brilliant innovations leo fender designed. The tele was one of the first and still one of his best
The Tele was the first production solid body period just beating out Les and Mary.
Incidentally, Bruce Clarke had some success using a Les Paul for Jazz gigs in the mid 50’s to early 60’s. It wasn’t as good as a Tele but was quite acceptable.
The tone ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow. That tone is absolutely celestial. Really nice chops.
Hi Tim - It was such a pleasure to experience your art at the Guild of American Luthiers Convention that just finished. When you were playing with Pearl Django (which was fabulous) I was wracking my brain, trying to remember all the CZcams videos of yours that I had previously enjoyed. But then seeing you in action was a revelation. And then a double revelation when you were playing for Jason Lollar at the electric appraisal. Giant catalogue of tunes in your head, atmospheric chord invention, but more, just an overflowing sense of love for the music. And it was wonderful how welcoming, open and friendly you were. (I was the guy asking about the Charlie Christian pickup). I wish I lived closer, instead of distant Colorado, or I would be begging to become one of your students. - Peter
Sounds amazing
Ed Bickert was an amazing Tele, jazz player. His style was always so piano like. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
And we love to hear you play your Telecasters. Liquid beauty is the way I would describe watching you play and hearing it from your guitar and amp. Just lovely.
Smooth equalized sound. Warm and bright! Extremely customizable. Jazz, country blues and rock. It's ready for all.
I just got my first tele and I absolutely love it, it’s a joy to play and I love how delicate it can feel 😊
Wow Tim! Your love for Telecaster is really a love film... Congrats Tim 👍🏻 because you are humble and a incredible sofisticated player. I would like to learn your playing. I used to play eléctric guitar, rock, with a pick, but also I play classic guitar with muy fingers and nails. Now I take my guitars again. My wife gifts me a Telecaster made by a Luthier. It has Fender 62' on It. I don't play very nice both guitars. With my Telly, I'm trying to learn with a pick, Dunlop Jazz III. I try It watching to Sandra (Guitarversum). But when I watch your videos, I think on changing my technique and play like you. But it Is hard to learn jazz, chords and comping by myself. Well my dear Tim, congratulations again. I'm a fan. Thank you!👋
Thank you Tim, you play and sound wonderful. I believe there's no other electric guitar that gives so much but being so simple, it really helps to focus on playing and find inspiration easier, no hassle with too many controls and tremolo.
I love a telecaster and love watching Tim Lerch play and those tones
Yeh, he’s got “the Alchemist’s” body vibrato down Pat hey with the same attention to good voice leading; the Sweet Lorraine arrangement is a delight.
I'm gonna have to assemble my very own Tim Lerch Signature Partscaster......
I love the sound of a Telecaster in your hands, Tim!
Hi Tim. Thank you so much for your videos!
I Stumbled across a custom nocaster soon after watching one of your videos and I haven't wanted it to leave my hands since I've had it. watching your videos has made me fall in love with guitar (and jazz) again. A few jazz standard chord melodies on the belt now, You have pretty well changed the trajectory of my life. Cant thank you enough!
You are an excellent guitar player and fantastic teacher. I love telecasters too, because I'm a simply man like teles. I love simplicity of telecasters. More versatile than people think. I like fat neck and strong assembly for years and years. When I was young, telecaster were the poor brother of stratocasters. I bought a strat and I sold it 15 years before. Strats it's not for me. I'm a telecaster man.
Thans mr. Lerch, your videos are wonderful.
Hi Tim, I’ve only recently stumbled upon your channel and I just wanted to pass on my appreciation for your lesson videos especially as I find them so informative and well paced. Just after a few minutes of a couple videos I was picking things up I’ve never understood til now. Many Thanks :)
These videos are superb...none better
For years, since I started Jazz guitar, my dream has been a Tele with a CC in the neck. I always thought I was a bit of a whacko for that, so finding your channel has been beyond validating! (Lovely playing by the way!)
Beautiful sound 😍
Really helpful! Never been a Strat or Tele person but so much has changed in 2021, and I’m loving Teles (thanks for your Tele videos). Looking forward to exploring your other content here!
I was waiting for the b2 maj9 to 1 Tim, you didn’t disappoint!
I play an original 69 Thinline that my parents bought me when I was a teenager. Showing my age.
That's great! You should do a video showing it off.
Like a Napoleon Brandy, Hermitage Grange Claret or Burgundy vintage Burgundy, age just improves well tailored items!
Now could someone scratch my back please , I’m stuck on the walking frame I have to use after being so myopic with age I walked in front of a Buick. 🙂
they are so comfortable to play along with strats , Leo got it right
Yep
I love Teles for all the same reasons! I love strats too, and arch tops. Somehow I sound most like me on a tele.. if that makes sense:)
Totally disagree on the comfort. The slab body just digs into my chest and forearm. IMO Leo didn't get it right with the Telecaster body, which is why he came up with the contours, arm bevel and belly cut for just about every other guitar and bass he designed later.
If Leo had gotten everything right with the Tele, then the Strat wouldn’t likely exist. The lack of contours make it uncomfortable for a lot of people. The new Ultra line addresses that issue though and is a great Tele.
@@AndreaAustoni I took a belt sander to my Mexican Tele, and made my own contours. I also have a Squier Jim Root Tele, which has a belly cut as standard, but no forearm contour, and that's fine.
I was also impressed with the even frequency response on a Guild I saw on another of your videos (Blue Moon). But of course much of that is due to your beautiful technique and great ear.
We listen with our ears, not our eyes.... one of the smartest guitar players I know said that; absolutely true. ;-)). Shal
Telecaster or any other guitar not "too bright" if I use the tone knob) Don't even have to change the pickups))
Thank 💜 You LOVE
Hello Tim .
I like it to watch your vid,s and your easy and chill explanations
And ofcourse the way you play.
Greetings drom The Netherlands.
The Telecaster is truly the do-it-all electric guitar. It was pretty much right straight off the bat.
Whats not to like.
Leo got it right first touch. The scale length is perfect. They intone and tune perfectly; who said they don’t tune? That’s a set up problem not the tool.
The strings pass over the nut dead straight canceling nut jam tuning problems.
I bought a 2012 American Standard with the trick tone pot and CShop pups and the modifications are icing on the cake. The first Tele Ive left completely alone and not tinkered with. They are near perfect right off the rack.With flat wound chromes it’s the solo lap pianists dream, and just like you say Tim, it’s them or Arch tops.
With the Eastman 175 clone I bought too, I was set to reharness the pup/pot array when I got a peaky timbre off the neck magnets when toggled to it, but then tried adjusting all four pots and that was the answer; it must be wired just like the 50s Gibsons as the tone for the neck pickup is adjusted to perfect with the brigade pickups volume & tone pots.
Then she sounded absolutely superb. The tone was superlative regardless of linear taper pots and caps I was wrong about. It just wasn’t modern wired. I so glad I didn’t prematurely go off half cocked and butcher the system. All I changed was bird head pot knobs for there visual and tactile set up advantage pointed out by Barney.
Using the four pots it also gets great sound at the middle toggle position getting the bridge pup involved which I seldom use for Jazz timbres I’m after; until this one at least. You can get a really good balance between the basses and the trebles dynamics wise and came a hairs breadth from wrecking it.
So must apologise to the Eastman guys. I got it very wrong there. Use all the pots and it’s a peerless Jazz box ( once you put a String Butler and flat wound chrome 12s on it that is, and let it sing through a Fender Valve Amp with Spring Reverb, Polytone or JC120 sound nice too.
Bought your book, will hv to grow into it. Lil advanced for playing a year.
They have a great feel to them love the way mine plays feels good in my hands.
I've been thinking about getting one, thanks for posting this Tim :)
Wonderfull ❤
There’s nothing to not like about a Tele Tim
Hey ! Hey! Salute to Groove Tubes...
Tele for me too. You sound great. I love how simple and straight forward telecasters are. I have a blonde one as well. I've noticed they are rather heavy. There are some made as semihollow bodies with an f hole though and if I ever get another I'd probably go for that. I think tele's have enough of a classic look for a jazz setting but archetops, say one like Charlie Christian's, are really cool to see.
The reissues and 60s and beyond got heavier...the original 50s models are surprisingly lighter and thus more resonant
yeah teles are amazing. yours looks and sounds great.
You may be preaching to the choir, Tim. I’m guessing most views will come from Tele players, like myself. Piano-like? Yes. But you can also unleash the monster within at any time.
My lespaul studio sounds great...the weight is the issue...
What a great man
Hi Tim, I love your playing. Such tasty notes and chords. I am surprised a player of your caliber is concerned with the "look" of your guitar when playing with your group. We should be listening with our ears not eyes. Have you ever done a group gig with your Tele and regretted or gotten a negative response?
Totally agree about the piano-like sound a tele can do. The stereotype that teles are bright and thin sounding isn't true.
Yep! That’s what the knobs are for 🙂
Hi Tim, you should check out the new Fender Player series HH tele... they're really sweet. The neck pickup is very nice and you could easily do a jazz gig with it, cheers from Australia.
THANKS!
Great teacher and musician - I recently bought a Blond USA Tele and installed a CC Lolar - Problem is my other very expensive guitars now pale in comparison - debating now if I should sell these and get a second cheaper Butterscotch with same pick-up????
It's a beautiful sound Tim!
I know that most solid body guitars with fixed bridges have longer sustain than hollow body guitars. some jazz guys are saying that jazzmaster-trem installed solid-body guitars sound and feel similar to hollow-body archtop guitars. have you ever compared jazzmaster/archtop before?
timothy, u should try a jazzmaster, would be interesting to see u try those.
So have you checked out those 12" Princeton's. If so, do you like them?
Yup. I have one. Awesome amps. Thinking about putting an Alessandro GA-SC64 in mine.
you didn't mention the neck vibrato :)
the best explenation I ever heard on CZcams.....and guitar seems to have perfect setu up?..is it a custom shop?
What kind of tele is that? I remember a past video talking about how you use a Mexican 50s Road Worn, but that neck looks completely different. Can you give a rundown of the guitar?
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@@TimLerchGuitar thanks so much, Tim!
My only issue with them is the hard edge, since I have nerve damage in my right arm I really need arm relief on a guitar. I should carve a rounded bit to stick on my tele so I can actually play it again! Thanks for the idea! Lol.
I notice the maple neck. What body wood is that? Is that Ash or Alder?
I like the string spacing on a tele. bit easier for my fat fingers
Tim - wouldn't you say that most of the good things you mentioned about Telecasters also apply to a Strat? The well rounded tones, easy access to the upper neck, etc? Is there any aspect of a Tele that offers you something that a Strat DOESN'T? Other Tele and Strat players are welcome to comment too...
Anyone know what bridge pickup he uses? Just stock?
I find my Andersen doesn’t have that low end bark you talk about. But most archtops do, you’re totally right 😊
I have two Andersen archtops and I love them.
@@TimLerchGuitar they are such fantastic guitars!
I actually have my eye on another one. I shouldn’t, but it’s hard to resist. I have a feeling that they aren’t going to get any cheaper anytime soon.
@@TimLerchGuitar I hear you man! I bought my Streamline in 2014 and it has really opened up. Every time I play it the thought always creeps in that “maybe I need another Andersen” 😂
"Mostly the look..." Yup, I hear you Tim! Isn't it amazing that people forget that Telecasters come with a tone knob just like other guitars? From playing a Tele for years is how my 7-string guitar came about. It's the perfect marriage of Gibson and Fender and sustains more that even a Tele.
@jazzrocks It's not only Telecasters but all guitars really that a rather large number of people choose to leave the tone control (and volume as well) just turned to ten and then forget about it except maybe to use it as an off switch. The volume and tone controls on the guitar itself are essential tools that are right at hand while you are playing and offer different shades and subtleties than the controls on your amp because you are changing the sound before it even hits the amp. I know a good number of players live by the "turn it up and forget it" rule but they are missing out on quite a lot if you haven't figured out your guitar's volume and tone controls and what they can do for you. About as far from jazz as one can get but I have a fuzz pedal that I really love with the guitar's tone backed down and if I didn't use my guitar's tone control I would probably have determined the pedal was useless and sold it long ago.
@@7171jay I couldn’t agree more with everything you said. And yes, that goes for clean AND dirty tones!
So True Tim,the Telecaster is amazing, but it's all in the set-up! I have an Ash US Standard, but I just "knew " it was a good one before even playing it! The only thing I need to upgrade are the individual saddles. Any ideas? Thanks, S.
Glendale
Individual saddles ARE the upgrade. If you want something better sounding, get a set of Armadillo Guitar "Keef style saddles". You can find them here: www.armadilloguitar.com/product/keef-style-saddles/
Hi Tim. Not sure if you will see this or not. I would like to use my Tele for something like the fingerstyle you played in the video. What size strings would you suggest for that? Thank You.
Are use either 11 to 50 with a plain G or I used 12 to 54 with the plain G
Hi, Tim! Do you use compression or any other effects when you play solo Telecaster without a pick? Or do you just plug straight into your Fender amp?
Nope just straight in .
I don’t think so as the note would cut out suddenly at the end of the cycle, but I might be wrong.
Sounds like a Princeton Blackface Reverb helping with the sustain, perhaps a light touch of phase or delay I thought. It’s Chimey whatever he's cooking’ hey.
I already have a telecaster but you just sold me another 😂
Hi Tim. I know this is an older video but it just popped up in my feed, so I'm hoping you see this. You've talked a good bit about different Tele pickups, but I was just wondering about the type of neck you tend to like on a Tele. Do you go for the old 7.25 radius or a modern 9.5? What about chunky necks? Are you a baseball bat kind of guy, or something a little slimmer? Thanks!
thanks if you watch my video on "Tim's not so signature guitar" I describe many of the aspects that I like
@@TimLerchGuitar Wow. Thank you! That's just what I was looking for! I've been contemplating a Tele build/buy and this is most helpful, thanks.
Fender Telecaster or G&L for instance? In other words it is the Fender Tele that is special or the Tele design?
Who played a few G & Ls and they are good, but I prefer fender telecasters.
I hate the notion that teles are bright guitars. They are heavy and fat sounding especially the bridge pup. It’s like a notch below the fatness of a LP and much thicker sounding than a strat. Btw, I love what you’re playing under your chatter lol sounds amazing YOU play so amazing
Tim or someone else, can you recommend a not-too-crazy expensive Tele for jazz and blues? I would like to avoid making lots of modifications and the budget is under 1000 bucks. I am an amateur who mainly plays by himself. Thanks.
Hi Tim
I have a question why you choose a maple fretboard.
Thx
Maple on a tele feels better to me, but I have plenty of rosewood boards as well.
Hi Tim, I just saw a video where they claimed Ted Greene had his Tele chambered. Is this something you can verify? Just curious. Apparently Keith Richards owns it now.
Ted did what I would call "hogging out" a lot of material under the pickgaurd like a swimming pool route only more barbaric: ) he didn't always do this but Banana Cream (his main gigging guitar) was hogged out .
You ever use Thinlines? I mean with the singles.
Great video! I'm curious, though, what are your thoughts on a rosewood neck telecaster for jazz?
I don’t think the neck wood makes that much difference to the sound and I guess it just all depends on what you like.
Brilliant video as always Tim. What is the action height on your tele?
Hi Tim. What gage strings do you use on your tele?
11-50 or 12-54 depending on the guitar.
That tele sings holy shit
Tim, when you said heavy strings, what gauge strings do you like?
12 - 54. Plain 20 G roundwound
Why not Les Paul's?
Hey Tim, what is your preferred fretboard radius and why?
7.25 I just like the way it feels.
@@TimLerchGuitar thanks Tim. Appreciate what you do
Great channel. Btw, what is your lollar pick up height?
I have the neck pickup set quite low. The top of the cover is level with the pick guard with the treble side just a bit higher. .
@@TimLerchGuitar Thanks for fast reply. I am playing Tele because you can still get fat jazz tone, but also get clarity, when i am using in my solo two tones ot chords, it sounds muddy on humbuckers. Tele with lollar is just perfect
Curious about your string choices on Teles in standard tuning.
12-54 round wound plain G
What is that Mic in the background?
Sterling audio ribbon mic.
Hi Tim, wich radius on fingerboard?
7.25
What size strings do you use on this guitar?
12-54 round wound plain .20 G
Which model of Princeton?
I use a slightly modded Princeton reverb reissue.
BF or SF reissue? I am looking for a new amp mainly for jazz and i also play 52s tele ;)
The sustain is key for me. non-tele players don't get it. They find it too ridiculous to even contemplate that a spanky old telecaster should have superior sustain, but that's because they don't know what sustain is. They think sustain is the feedback produced by humbuckers run through a tube screamer.
I also don't know why everybody says Telecasters are bright. Stratocasters are much brighter. Teles are twangy and nasal because they have mids, while Strats are scooped, especially their neck pickup.
Bright =/= brightest
Your telecaster looks like shit. It's so beautiful 🥺