What’s a good guitar for Blues and Metal type music?
I know they are total opposites, but I would like some opinion on which guitar would be good for both. What should I look for in a guitar? Wood? Pick up?
Your best answer is to go to a guitar store and try out a bunch of guitars. Make a day of it. Seriously, that’s the only way you’ll get an accurate answer.
The reason is simply that any guitar can play any style of music, and whether or not you like using it for a particular type of music depends on your OWN personal taste for how you think the blues "should" sound, and how you think "metal" should sound… and how you think the guitars should feel while making that sound.
Just for the sake of giving you one perspective (and it’s just that! only my opinion and my personal taste) … There are 3 guitars I play most often: a Strat, a Les Paul, and a semi-hollow Hagstrom Viking deluxe.
I play blues on all three, depending what sound and style of blues I’m going for.
However, i only play metal on the LP (never the other two).
So if I were in your shoes, i’d probably buy a les paul. Or more generally, a heavy mahogany guitar with two humbuckers.
Though i’m strongly considering getting a parker fly or nitefly. I think i’d get joy in most musical styles on that guitar. I.e. A les paul isn’t the only guitar in the world i’d play both blues and metal on… far from it probably.
So in the end, it’s all about your own tastes.
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:55 am
i don’t play blues or metal, but i play funk and alternative stuff. and i can definitely recommend the fender fat strat with humbucker for the bridge pickup. since the funk is rooted in the blues, it would translate easily. i’m running it through a jcm 2000 tsl 60 in the clean channel. your amp should be able to complement your guitar, so i’d get a good amp also.
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April 30th, 2010 at 9:27 am
A Les Paul would be great for that, it’s made of mahogany which gives it the beefy tone for metal and low end for blues.
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April 30th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Your best answer is to go to a guitar store and try out a bunch of guitars. Make a day of it. Seriously, that’s the only way you’ll get an accurate answer.
The reason is simply that any guitar can play any style of music, and whether or not you like using it for a particular type of music depends on your OWN personal taste for how you think the blues "should" sound, and how you think "metal" should sound… and how you think the guitars should feel while making that sound.
Just for the sake of giving you one perspective (and it’s just that! only my opinion and my personal taste) … There are 3 guitars I play most often: a Strat, a Les Paul, and a semi-hollow Hagstrom Viking deluxe.
I play blues on all three, depending what sound and style of blues I’m going for.
However, i only play metal on the LP (never the other two).
So if I were in your shoes, i’d probably buy a les paul. Or more generally, a heavy mahogany guitar with two humbuckers.
Though i’m strongly considering getting a parker fly or nitefly. I think i’d get joy in most musical styles on that guitar. I.e. A les paul isn’t the only guitar in the world i’d play both blues and metal on… far from it probably.
So in the end, it’s all about your own tastes.
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April 30th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Honestly that is a very good question, shows a versatile musician.
I would suggest the Ibanez ART series. They have a Les Paul feel. (thicker neck, heavier body) but are a Ibanez which in 2009 they are leaning more towards the metal style, and in the catalog they state that the ART series was made for sustain and clean tones. So I would go with that. They also wont kill your bank account, also a good investment would be a blues dist pedal, or even the BOSS ML-2
good luck
Hails&Horns
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April 30th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
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