Fender Stratocaster

reduce the number of frets to twenty two regulars instead of twenty four jumbos, and make the inlays pearloid dots. All of the hardware, including the tuning heads and tremolo bridge, is made of chrome. Electronically, the Ibanez GRX20 has two Powersound humbucker pickups. Also, it has a volume and tone control knob and a three way selector switch. Playabilitiy: For a starter guitar, the Ibanez GRX20 has some great features. The maple neck is nice and thin and is finished extremely smoothly, helping its player move up and down the fretboard with ease. Also, the tremolo system lets you pull of cool sounding metal maneuvers like the dive bomb made famous by Eddie Van Halen. Additionally, the body and neck are made exactly like the Fender Stratocaster. This equates to a nicely curved body, light weight, and smooth feel.…

1. Fender scoops on the Strat, including pickup and bridge configurations. In addition to these design improvements, the new model had several new features that its predecessor, Telecaster, lacked. The Stratocaster came with three pickups (the Telecaster had two) and featured a bridge with a pitch change, a vibrato bar to bend strings, a key point in one of the first printed advertisements. 2. When CBS bought Fender, the Strat changed, and not for the better, in the eyes of certain collectors.…

guitar player the guitar that they have been dreaming about. The Fender Stratocaster, and The Gibson Les Paul are similar in ways but also very different. Both the Les Paul and the Stratocaster were manufactured in the 1950’s and have remained the rulers of the electric guitar world since then. The stratocaster was designed by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares. The Les Paul was…

Huerta’s typographies are very impressing. His mastheads are seen every time you walk by the magazines in a store, and some of his text designs awe me. Some of his typography illustrations and mastheads (starting at the left, going down, ending on the right) Chicago, Time magazine, People weekly, and Type Animals, which seems to have been a little project on the side. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg, but alas, five pages is too short to fit them all in. Gerard Huerta also designed…

Body Contour This refers to where the guitar body is sculpted to make it fit more comfortably with the human body. A good example is the Fender Stratocaster, which is contoured at the back (called the 'tummy contour ') and on the front (called the 'forearm contour '). Balance and Weight A good body shape will be balanced weightwise, so the guitar sits well when worn with a strap without tilting toward the headstock or the body. The larger or thicker bodies, especially those made of…

The electric guitar was developed which in turn created a whole new style of music. Before this time, classical guitar was all that existed, but then came along one of the most iconic guitarists of all time, Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry’s style of guitar playing is still taught today, and the licks he used in his songs are used in songs to this day. The guitar Chuck Berry played was a Gibson ES-350TN, which he started playing almost as soon as it came out with a Fender amp (Chapman 2003). The tone…

Guido D'Arezzo invented music. He also invented solfege , a vocal note scale. He was italian of the medieval era. He was regarded as in the inventor of modern musical notation. He was born in 991 A.D and died in 1033. Here’s a couple of interesting facts about music. Loud music can make someone drink less. The world’s most expensive musical instrument was 15.9 million dollars. Listening to music while working out improves physical performance. Your heartbeat mimics and changes the music…

that he is just 16. He appeared on Ellen DeGeneres in 2001 at 5 and his career has been steady progressing with the likes of Buddy Guy using him to warm-up his audience. Quinn took the stage and about half way through his first number, the crowd was just mesmerized. Just like his mentor Buddy Guy, he also plays a Fender Stratocaster . Boy does he give that thing a work out. To top it off,he is a gifted singer with enough soul to make collard greens plush. He played mostly original tunes off…

played in many various Greenwich Village cafés and clubs. After a few months passed, Jimmy had an image that went with him; the phenomenal guitarist. Jimi was finally getting his foot in the door. In 1966 while Jimi was performing at a gig, Linda Keith spotted him. Linda was a British model and she was also dating the Rolling Stone’s guitarist, Keith Richards. She immediately welcomed Jimmy to join her in an after-gig party. She found that while Hendrix was a nice, loyal and hardworking…

The Electric Guitar was invented in the early 1900’s. It was the new kind of guitar which sound through an amplifier, which is powered by electricity. Many brands soon made electric guitars of their own to sell, brands such as Gibson, Fender, Martin, etc. They had made electric guitars with a distinct style and sound. Some were common and affordable and some were expensive and rare. Many famous acclaimed bands and musicians…