[GUITAR MUSIC]
I'm Graham Coxon and I'm playing an Acoustasonic
Telecaster.
I find it interesting that you can
play what you would normally play on an acoustic guitar.
If I'd have had this, I guess, when
I was starting to play the guitar,
I borrowed my sister's acoustic guitar when I was 13.
And I had to be very determined, because it was the most
horrible thing to play.
You know, it was bloody fingers and everything.
It's the sort of comfort of it and being
able to have sounds right there that you would
get very quick at just dialing in at any point during what
you're doing.
If you needed a thinner sound, or some more strummy,
or like me, I go between the two.
I go between electric strumming and finger-style in a gig.
So it's very handy to be able to just sort of find
the right setting there.
And it's also interesting to blend between the two,
between the acoustic and the electric.
But I like the slight overdrive you get when you just
click it over there.
And that's a good place for it to be,
because actually you could just hit the guitar
and whack it into electric mode in one motion.
You're playing, and then suddenly you
have to go into an overdriven section.
And you can do it.
Just in one go, you just hit all the strings, whack that back,
and step on a pedal.
I mean, that's going to be my move with it.
[GUITAR MUSIC]
Yeah.
I'm going into a Bassbreaker 15 amplifier via the Pelt Fuzz
pedal.
There's a Marine Layer Reverb unit here, too.
It is going for a totally sort of--
in a totally postmodern direction,
really, aesthetically, with the indented sort
of laser-etched Fender in there.
But then when you actually pick it up and feel how light it is,
it's quite an amazing--
I mean, shocking in a good way.
I mean, you can have equal amounts
of negative shock and positive shock, I think,
because it's a confusing situation when you pick this
up.
But is extremely comfortable, and it's really beautiful.
And everything that might be dangerous to guitar players,
because they're kind of, could be
quite a clumsy, foolish bunch, has been taken care of.
So it's all rounded off.
And it's very comfortable at the top of the neck here.
And what I like about things like this will give you
different options is that you can sit there
and then you can find your favorite position for this
and that and the other.
And you can just instantly go OK.
That's this, and that's that.
And it's very quick to just go between sounds.
The sort of thing that they thought you'd
be playing in 2001, you know.
[GUITAR MUSIC]
I love Telecasters purely because of their simplicity.
And this kind of does the same in the world,
in the acoustic world.
Each sound is good.
And each sound is useful.
Thanks for watching.
I hope this in some way inspired you.
Have fun playing.