Most of the time you will never play anything above the 20th fret. Metalhead players get fooled into the belief that if an electric guitar doesn't have 24 frets on it, it must be worthless. On the 1 string in standard tuning, the highest note possible is a third-octave C#. On the 1 string in standard tuning, an open string played is E, a 12th fret note held is E in one octave higher, and a 24th fret note held is E in two octaves higher.Ī traditional Telecaster only has 21 frets on it. Most "metal" guitars have 24 frets on them, which gives each string 3 octaves. The realization that anything above the 20th fret is a waste Problem 3: Buzz noise from the single-coil. Problem 1: The pickup isn't "hot" enough. Metalheads only have 3 problems with soloing on a Telecaster, all of which can be cured very easily. Having that extra treble on top will sound great. When distortion is applied, you'll hear things out of that front pickup that your "metal" guitar simply can't do. Once you start noodling around on a Telecaster, it's most likely true your favorite sound will be the front pickup, as in the "neck" pickup. You can wail on a Tele all you want, slam the strings hard and the Telecaster can totally handle it with ease. You would have to want to snap a string to do it.Īm I saying a Telecaster can handle string banging better than any "metal" guitar? Yes. It is not easy to snap a string on a Telecaster. Something the Telecaster can withstand that not many other guitars can is that you can bang on the strings really, really hard and the guitar can handle it just fine. Unless you subject the guitar to extreme temperature changes, no truss rod adjustment is necessary since the neck is a single hard piece of maple all the way through. No height adjustment necessary because the string saddles stay put. Use floss on the nut slots just as if you were flossing your teeth for every few string changes.
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How to clean the nut from time to time? Dental floss. If the volume pot, tone pot or pickup selector gets "scratchy", a few quick sprays with plastic-safe contact cleaner fixes that up quick.
Why? No open wood grain, and the maple board is sealed (if it weren't, it would literally turn green from your finger gunk). Nearly maintenance-freeĪfter setup, a Telecaster with a maple fretboard requires almost no maintenance at all.Ĭleaning the guitar is as easy as it gets, because maple fretboards don't hold in dirt like rosewood boards do. Even a 16-year-old will feel the pain because chording on a super-flat/super-thin neck just isn't a natural hand position.
And no, the pain doesn't happen due to age of the player. You can chord on a Tele all day and not feel any fret hand strain at all, whereas on the "metal" guitar you will feel finger and wrist pain after a while. Much rounder, chunkier neck, rounder fretboard, smaller frets. Great for power chords and soloing, but awful for chording. "Metal" guitars typically have ridiculously flat fretboards with ridiculously large frets on ridiculously thin necks. The advantage to that is that chords ring out much better to where you can actually hear all the strings properly, similar to an acoustic but in electric form.
Metalheads are used to "hot"-output muddy sounding humbuckers, and those are awful for songwriting because the only thing those pickups can do well are power chords and soloing. These are the 7 reasons why every metalhead needs a cheap Telecaster. Why the Tele and not the Strat? I'll talk more about that in a moment.
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