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    Ok guys, I have just realized the magnitude of my ignorance with regard to my question because I have just stumbled upon the name of Ed Bickert.
    Thank you for being patient with me, you're a great bunch

    I bought some Daddario's and also a set of Thomastik swing flatwounds 012-050 on an impulse. I'm searching the forum for advice on "getting the Ed Bickert tone". I'm leaning towards getting a VOX pathfinder 10, since I will be playing mostly indoors for the foreseable future anyway...

    Problem is, I'm still kind of itching to get an archtop and that Joe Pass I checked out yesterday was such a sexy piece. I don't want to get my tele jealous. The grass is always greener.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grigoris
    Ok guys, I have just realized the magnitude of my ignorance with regard to my question because I have just stumbled upon the name of Ed Bickert.
    Thank you for being patient with me, you're a great bunch

    I bought some Daddario's and also a set of Thomastik swing flatwounds 012-050 on an impulse. I'm searching the forum for advice on "getting the Ed Bickert tone". I'm leaning towards getting a VOX pathfinder 10, since I will be playing mostly indoors for the foreseable future anyway...

    Problem is, I'm still kind of itching to get an archtop and that Joe Pass I checked out yesterday was such a sexy piece. I don't want to get my tele jealous. The grass is always greener.
    If the TI 12s feel too stiff, 10s or 11s can work great to alleviate some stiffness. I found 10s to be more useable for me on a Tele even though I use 12s on several other guitars.

  4. #28

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    Can you play jazz? That's really the question. If so, almost any guitar will do. If not, even Wes Montgomery's guitar won't help.

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    the great ted greene wound up using 11-48 nickel plated steel roundwounds..and he tuned down!

    bickert used lighter rounds as well...supposedly 10-46's at some point in his career

    no reason to go too heavy on the flats either with tele

    cheers

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    I find lowering the neck pup so the bass side is almost flush to the pickguard helps.

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    Hi,

    I've played jazz on a tele for years, albeit with an EMG tele neck pickup.

    Mostly I play with my thumb, which gives a darker mellow tone.

    One nice thing about heavier strings (esp with a wound 3rd) is that it keeps you from bending that much. But I use 10s and it sounds just fine.

    Something to keep in mind is that the lower pitched strings on a tele have longer sustain than on a hollow body archtop. Sometimes I even lightly mute with the heel of my right hand, to make the string die out a little quicker.

    In the end it really comes down to the feel in your playing.

    btw, I looked up the ESP Ron Wood and it looks like a great guitar.

    My 0.02€ of course

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    If Lenny Breau can play a Hagstrom 12 string with 6 strings I imagine anything with tone will do! I rather doubt Ron Wood cares much about jazz guitar. This my birthday so I am gonna repeat an old joke. A rock guitarist is a guy who knows very few chords playing for thousands of people. A jazz guitarist is a guy who knows thousands of chords playing for very few people. Pick your poison.

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    Getting the Ed Bickert tone (to the extent that's possible if you're not Ed):


    1. Get a Telecaster. Use the neck pickup. Roll the Tele's volume off slightly which rounds off the highs, tone control to taste. Pick with a light touch, pick between thumb and index finger and use the ring and middle fingers to "pluck" rather than strum the chord.


    2. Get an amp that has a fairly flat tonal response (so probably not a Fender). Ed used a Standel, later an orange Roland Cube 60 for a long time, later in life had an Evans amp that was loaned to him.

    3. Learn Ed Bickert "grips."

    4. And the fun part: listen to all the Ed you can find.