Hey musicians i gotta question for ya.?

Question

I play the guitar my styles are jazz blues and blues based rock, so i was lookin to buy a guitar either a standard stratocaster or a standard telecaster, i dont have the kinda money to get a 1500 dollar guitar so i need the next best thing haha both the standered tele and strat are around four hundred i need one that can distort really well but on the same not give a nice jazz sound plz help??(and i relize i will need a pedal but still any info is good info haha thanks)

Answer 1

people that need a 1500 dollar guitar to sound good, don't sound good,. here's how to buy a guitar. figure out how much you want to spend............say 500. have the dealer show you every new and used guitar in that range. forget brands and makers, just pick the one that sounds best and plays best for you. there are many other makers than fender, even though tele's and strats are nice guitars, there are thousands of others out there. good luck.

Answer 2

I lean toward blues and jazz myself and own two strats and a tele. If it were up to me I would go with the tele because I can pick single note jazz oriented lines more easily on a tele than I can on a strat. I go against the grain in that teles work for me better than strats do. If you are going to be playing lots of blues, the strat is a good choice since it has been so prevalent in the hands of blues players from the '50's to the present time. Play both and explore all of the tones that each has to offer before buying one.

Answer 3

Just take your budget and scout around in that area. Don't get hung up on "Most popular model" syndrome, try some off the beaten path brands, a lot of manufacturers out there today that are putting out good product at a reasonable price...in the $350 to $500 range. I am a guitarist as well , and i'm a player , not a "collector" or "Instruments as artwork" kinda guy - a $1500 guitar made with "the most rarest of exotic woods and color..and that pristine applied and meticulous finish" does NOTHING for me. I want a workhorse guitar that can do what it's asked of me and sounds incredible, my only criteria being the shape of it and the electronics / hardware , and if it's magic...who cares what color. Oh btw- ...there was no "Gus" in G&L , That stood for George and Leo - George Fullerton and Leo Fender, but yes G&L's are a nice players guitar.

Answer 4

well i have played for years strat screams in its own right, i love the flying v's also frm gibson, i had a original 67 and sold it and gave the special edition flying v to my son so he now has a les paul and a s.e. flying v it has ceramic pickups and litterlly screams to be let loose totally.
my choice on a budget would be epiphone not bad i bought an american made epiphone years old and still new, it screams as well as any les or s.g. and it is totally collector stuff even. strats feel good in the hand on easier on the fingers playing but youi never really get rid of the twang te single coils make a mexican remake isnt bad but if you pay attention to how they act you will only be dpressed with them, get a guitar that plays well and was something better tha a six month warranty if you buy new, so epiphone a better quality epi is a decent guitar and plays and sounds well, you can add some better pickups and pots later, and play your heart out they go well for blues for the big fat deep sound in the les models to the bright screaming sounds of a few otehr models, but the les models are nt bad and play well besides a few top groups swear on epiphine especially playing gigs they dont get a special item torn up on stage or in transit to gigs and the sounds is still very good and can only improve with better electronics later on, im not saying get a 200.00 epi, get a better model with a good hard shell case and play your ears till deaf but also worth good headphines to protect them :) las paul custom by epiphone is a good buy and you can look through juscianfriend and music 123 and get better prices between the two as both will usually match competetors prices also :)
and get warranty and gurantee from seller with lifetime warranty frm manufactory also so smile and play the field. for strats well i am not a strat fan except for pre cbs models and they cost more than what you can imagine actually, but there are some aftermarket models i did like i had one throwing around the house i bought at a pawn shop for 85.00 it played really well and had been repainted it was made by some jap firm in large quantities about twenty years ago it was really suprising actually and it screamed for 250ohm pots and pickups,another idea to to scrounge some yard sales and moving sales many people have old instruments throwing around the basements the get rid of when moving and can pickup old guitars for a little bit and add new pickups and personal paint and have at it :)

Answer 5

If you want to play jazzy, but like Fenders, you should be looking at a Jazzmaster or one of the related designs - I think they did them in the budget Squier brand as well as the expensive Fender. They will play better jazz tones than Strats and Teles, which were designed for country pickers, but, since Nirvana, are now known as fine hard rock guitars, to. Otherwise go for the Strat; Teles do a weak sound for laid back accompaniment or a hard sound for upfront lead, and that's all.

Answer 6

I play guitar too, and I would go with the Strat. It's more versatile than the Tele in my opinion. Think about Kurt Cobain, he used a Strat, and listen to his distorted sound! But then listen to someone like Stevie Ray Vaughan or Buddy Guy. They can get a real good blues sound out the Strat. Part of it depends on if you put high-output pickups in it or low-output pickups in it. For blues or jazz, low will be better. Hope this helps!

Answer 7

like others have said, go get the one that feels right to you and try out all the guitars in your price rance.

Truth be known, I play classical music on a telecaster.

As Les Paul himself once said, it's not the guitar that makes the great sound, it's the person touching the strings.

Answer 8

I love playing the blues and have played many guitars over the years. At the present time I am playing a washburn that I got in a pawn shop for 200 dollars. It works pretty good. A good amp will also make the sound that you are looking for. I have a marshall amp myself and like it very much. Peavy does pretty good as well.

Answer 9

Like one poster said, find the guitar you like. I've played $3000 Taylors that IMO sounded like crap. I don't Takemine or however you spell it. They ALL sound "thin" too me.
One of my favorite blues players (Albert Collins) played a Tele. Of course SRV played a Strat. I've heard some very goor blues from Les Pauls and Flying V. If you can play, it'll be good on a piece of crap.

Answer 10

I'd go with the strat over the tele. Tele has a wonderful classic look, but for versitility, the strat is a better work horse.