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I like both. One of my favourite Telecaster neck pickups is the Bill Lawrence Micro-coil. Still a true single coil but almost noise free, capable of big warm sounds but also lots of chime with...
yea there is always good advice.... but all the language and ideas in the world will not help.... if you don't get your chops... technique together. Typically jazz blues are at up tempos... just...
Kind of both. I think that the Wilde (Bill and Becky Lawrence) L280TN stacked humbucker sounds excellent and is my current neck pickup on my semi-hollow Telecaster. My solid body Telecaster has a...
I had a tele with a '51 nocaster pickup in the neck. Great sound and I see why people like them. For me, I need my sound to be really fat, especially for single lines, so a full size humbucker for a...
Well kind of... your advice is getting better, just as your playing is getting better, really. Your kind of still in that Vanilla mode... maybe start listening to players like Johnny Griffin,...
I prefer a single coil, and the Fender Custom Shop Nocaster is very tough to beat. I think other options can work well, but I only have a Tele for it to be a traditional Tele. Sent from my...
Speech and music both seem to be deeply embedded in human neuromuscular systems (and speech perhaps in those of other species). All neurologically normal humans can and will acquire language when...
I have owned three Telecasters (all long gone at this point). One had a stock single coil neck pickup, one had a Mini-humbucker neck pickup and one had a full size humbucker neckpickup. All three had...
Amiri Baraka's other opinions notwithstanding, this is the best piece of music writing in the history of music journalism: From the liner notes to Live at Birdland. Speaking of that other...
Better yet, Miles Davis on Don Cherry: "But I didn't like what they (Ornette and Don Cherry) were playing, especially Don Cherry on that little horn he had. It just looked to me like he was playing...
A Charlie Christian style pickup does it for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI2ea1VAFeU
Telecaster: Single coil or Humbucker?
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