The Fender Stratocaster The Fender Stratocaster is one of the most well-known electric guitars around. It is often used in a variety of genres of music from Blues to Rock music. It has become an essential piece of equipment for players all around the world. Since the day of its birth in 1954, it continues to impress everyone who plays one to this day. The versatility has to be one of the most unique factors of the Fender Strat, there is nothing you cannot customize on this guitar to make it your own unique axe of sound. Opening with the build of the guitar, its shape is rather distinctive, consisting of a glossy polyester urethane finish in jet black. The contours on the body make it a player’s delight considering the belly cut on the back …show more content…
Crafted in maple wood with twenty-one medium jumbo frets that look polished and satisfying. The fingerboard is cut in a radius of nine and a half centimeters, which makes it a lot easier to bend the strings, unlike earlier guitars that had a more curved radius at seven and a half centimeters. The scale length from the bridge to the nut is measured at twenty-five and a half inches, giving it a balanced feel from each end of the strings. The front and back of the neck has a glossy, honey-colored look to it. The back of the neck where you put your left hand is C-shaped, meaning it is carved into the shaped of a C to fit your hand comfortably. On the headstock of the Stratocaster, it features its signature 50’s Stratocaster headstock, which is smaller than the notable 70’s headstock that was used by players like Jimi Hendrix and Ritchie Blackmore. The Fender logo shines with its silver outline going around the black letters that has a layer of lacquer over it to protect it from wearing …show more content…
The Fender Stratocaster has always consisted of a three pick-up system to give the guitar a range of sounds that you do not generally get from other guitars. Pick-ups are electro-magnets that have six pole magnets with two plastic pieces fit on each end to hold them together. A thin copper wire is then spun around all six magnets for an average of seven-thousand times. The more spins a pick-up contains, the more output it holds, giving the player more response when the strings are stricken. The pick-ups are white with the magnets staggered and poking through the pick-up cover. Each one is a single coil magnet placed into the pickguard in a certain place or angle. Wherever the pick-up is positioned, will determine the sound it makes. The neck single coil, being closest to the neck of the guitar, has more bass in its sound due to it being closer to the center point of where the string spins and vibrates. The middle single coil being a little further down from the neck, has sound the most reggae players enjoy the most because it has the perfect balance of bass and treble to get the sound they desire. Last but not least, the bridge pick-up is the brightest sounding magnet in the guitar. It being closer to the bridge, gives it more twang and bite compared to the neck and middle single coils. This is all made possible by Leo Fender’s Five-selector switch which allows you to select each pickup on its own or a blend
He owns a 1954 Gibson CF 100E acoustic electric guitar and plays in a bluegrass band. They practice in the back of the wooden floored store.
Epiphone Wildkat has a Mahogany body with a Maple top and a glued-in Maple neck. The fingerboard is certainly made of none other than Rosewood. On the other hand, Epiphone 339 comes with a laminated Maple body with a solid center block and a glued-in Mahogany neck. While solid woods are great for acoustic guitars, laminated woods are usually better for electric models, giving the much-needed ruggedness and durability as well as a neutral platform that allows the electronics to perform.
The Mitchell MD100 is an impressive 12-string acoustic guitar. It has a true dreadnought-sized body. This instrument combines a lot of high-quality features into one wonderful package. It makes great music on stage or even just jamming at home.
In the novel Reservation Blues, Sherman Alexie uses a great deal of symbolism. What may come across as just an object actually has a meaning. From specifically Robert Johnson’s guitar to the vast population shown dealing with alcoholism, Alexie creates a deeper meaning of the novel. The most well represented symbol in the novel is Robert Johnson’s guitar.
He used his guitar as something or some way to speak to his audience and his friends, so you can only imagine why he played so many. He saw a guitar as a pen and the stage as his paper. You could break things, and sometimes we did. But I could never look Jerry in the eye and say, 'I don't have your guitar."his equipment manager Steve Parish said. He used this as an outlet in his life but,that outlet became the thing that made him famous.1963 Sunburst Strat with Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard. Would have been the guitar he used during the Woodstock. He got this guitar a few years before the Woodstock so that means he took his time to learn how to play the wright way for him so he could grow with that instrument.
A debate of the ages have been brewing within the guitarist community for many years. Many people ask the question, Which is superior, the Stratocaster or the Telecaster? I believe that the Telecaster model of guitar is superior to the Stratocaster model of guitar. They share several similarities, but they also feature many differences. The Telecaster is superior to the Stratocaster for the following reasons: more variety of tonewood bodies, superior hardware to the Stratocaster, and a drastically different feel to play.
The piece ‘Ocean’ by John Butler appeals popular to the 21st century audience through his variety of guitar techniques. Butler uses an 12 stringed semi-acoustic guitar with open C tuning and Capo on the 4th fret giving an open chord of E Major. The song is through composed and consists of several sections that demonstrate guitar techniques and musical concepts.
Of all the artists of the psychedelic era, Jimi Hendrix was the most influential. Jimi took inspiration from the soulful guitar of blues players and developed his own style from it. Jimi was left-handed and played his Stratocaster guitar upside down while creating unearthly sounds that humbled other guitarists of the time. Hendrix was unknown until playing at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 where he played an amazing array of songs and then lit his guitar on fire at the end of the show (DeCurtis 133). Although Jimi seemed like a very wild and unpredictable person on stage he was actually a focused musician, that part of Jimi's personality is explained in this quote by Ernie Isley: "The best musicians are very observant. They hold their arms wide, willing to embrace suggestions; they study their craft, and Jimi certainly did all that." (Lanham 102) But as
A few of their songs including but not limited to are Put Your Money On Me, Kiss This, and One Night Only. these are only 3 out of the 27 songs that the Struts have made. The song Put Your Money On Me has over 2 million view on youtube, the song Kiss This has over 3 million views on youtube, and the song One Night Only has over 500 thousands (this isn’t as much as the previous songs mentioned, but 500 thousand is till a lot of views). The amount of views for each of these songs combined with the overwhelming amount of songs that have been released within the past nine years reveals that those who say that Classic Rock is dead because no one is creating music are wrong, Classic Rock is still around and growing through bands like the
2003 early, Fender made some adjustment for its family of products Gretsch and started the production and distribution of new Gretsch guitars.
Fender is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers based out of Scottsdale, Arizona. The privately held company was founded by Clarence Leonidas “Leo” Fender in Clifornia in 1946. The company specializes in solid body electric guitars such as the Stratocaster and Telecaster, and solid body electric bass guitars such as the Precision and Jazz models. Fender instruments are widely considered to be the standard to which most other electric guitars are measured.
We have done extensive research and we have many years of experience in the music industry. I am a professional artist and I have been for many years. I have tried out many guitars throughout the years of being in the music industry. We have also spent hours on various websites, researching the best electric bass guitars. We have viewed many features including the price, the quality and more to ensure consumers that they will find the best electric bass guitar. We have consulted with many people in the music industry to get their opinions on this electric bass guitar and others. Most of the people that we have spoken with have agreed that this Crescent electric bass guitar was the
More than any other instrument, the electric guitar has shaped and redefined music in the last century. Although popular culture did not pay much attention to it when it was first introduced in the 1930s, it has since become equated with the very essence of rock and roll music. On an international level, the electric guitar is by far "the most famous instrument to come out of the United States" (howstuffworks.com).
The Guitar is a stringed musical instrument with six or twelve strings that is played by either plucking or strumming the strings. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. If an individual were asked to identify a guitar most people would answer the question correctly more so than they would if they were asked about another instrument. When people think about famous guitarists, they more than likely think of famous rock and roll guitarists and do not think about the many other famous guitarists in other musical genres such as jazz or country. The guitar is a well-known instrument that influences many musical genres including Country.
guitars and process them so that they sound like a percussion instrument.”.’(Butch Vig, from R. Buskin: