Chickenwings
Alnico 6/8
Re: Strat or LP for Blues AND Jazz?
You can play any style of music on any guitar.
In the end it comes down to your choice of notes and how you play them.
Neither strats nor Les Pauls were built to play one particular style or another. They were just built to play music the best way the designers knew how. The iconic humbucker style style jazz tones you are talking about were not even been played or recorded when both guitars first hit the market. Les Pauls did not even have humbuckers until a few years later. Some of the greatest jazz tones have been recorded using single coil pickups and non gibson guitars.
What I'm saying is, both guitars can do all the styles you want easily unless you are really after making a carbon copy of one or other particular famous player's sound.
Having said all that, I reckon you should also throw a regular vintage style tele into the mix if you are shopping around for a new axe. Take your time tho, and save up for one really good guitar that sings rather than a few guitars that dont. You have a workable axe right now. Stick with it and save your beans and in the meantime try as many axes as you can.
You can play any style of music on any guitar.
In the end it comes down to your choice of notes and how you play them.
Neither strats nor Les Pauls were built to play one particular style or another. They were just built to play music the best way the designers knew how. The iconic humbucker style style jazz tones you are talking about were not even been played or recorded when both guitars first hit the market. Les Pauls did not even have humbuckers until a few years later. Some of the greatest jazz tones have been recorded using single coil pickups and non gibson guitars.
What I'm saying is, both guitars can do all the styles you want easily unless you are really after making a carbon copy of one or other particular famous player's sound.
Having said all that, I reckon you should also throw a regular vintage style tele into the mix if you are shopping around for a new axe. Take your time tho, and save up for one really good guitar that sings rather than a few guitars that dont. You have a workable axe right now. Stick with it and save your beans and in the meantime try as many axes as you can.
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