Chords for Fender Gold Foil Telecaster Demo

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_ _ [D] So, I'm going to go ahead and get started.
I'm going to go ahead and get started.
I'm going to go ahead and get started.
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_ _ _ _ [G] Hi, [A] it's David from [D] Guitarist here.
Today we have a [A] Telecaster.
Well, that's what it looks like anyway.
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That's where the resemblance [Gbm] ends in actual fact,
because [E] just about everything on here is [A] different from the [Gbm] Telecaster that you and I grew up [A] with.
This is a made in [D] Mexico [Am] Telecaster, gold foil, [G] sort of name [A] known as the gold foil Telecaster.
Where do [D] we begin?
For a start, I'll start labelling the differences basically, that's probably the best place to start.
You've got a mahogany body, which is [Eb] very, very unusual.
It's unusual for Fender, they very rarely dip their toes into the mahogany pool.
_ Instead of alder or ash, I mean mahogany is obviously pretty heavy, pretty weighty.
And it brings that sort of Les Paul, Junior, Les Paul special type of _ sound to the table I suppose.
But that's not the only difference.
As you can see, we've got the shorter bridge.
And this is also a through body, so you've got ferrules on the back here.
But you've also got the facility to top string it, [G] if that is your choice.
It does actually affect the tone, so it's a thing of personal preference.
We have brass _ bridge saddles, if you like, here, which are not the intonated version.
They're just the sort of barrel [B] ones.
We did question as to why Fender maybe didn't [Eb] use the intonated ones, but there you go, they didn't.
So, we've got to live with it.
But obviously the centre of operations here are the pickups.
Now, gold foil pickups have been with [D] us for years and years and years.
Just about every [Gb] manufacturer has used [Eb] a gold foil pickup at some point in their time.
We've seen them on Gretsches, we've seen them on some of those quirky designs from the 60s like Tiascos and things like that.
These obviously hide a multitude of sins, but on this occasion, these are both mini humbuckers.
Now, when we reviewed the guitar, we had a good [C] look at what was going on, but you can't actually see how the humbuckers have been formed.
Whether they're individual poles around one magnet or whether it's two magnets, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
All the different ways that mini humbuckers have been made in the past.
We can't actually tell, but they are mini humbuckers.
So basically, you've got a telecaster without the accompanying noise when you plug it into an amp.
Which can only be a good thing.
_ Other things on board, we've got a generous sort of 60s C profile here.
It's not a cricket bat, but it's not a lollipop stick either.
So it sits somewhere in between.
We've got these classic white buttons, which gives it a kind of a bit of a vintage mojo onto the split string posts.
The other thing is it's got an ebony fretboard, which again is very, very unusual for Fender.
And it's got an almost completely flat radius.
It's a very Gibson-esque radius on it.
I believe it's 12 inches.
[Eb] So you've got a very flat feeling fingerboard.
Plus you've got these medium jumbo frets as well.
So just about everything has been changed here.
As I said at the beginning, it looks like a telecaster, but that's about as far as it goes.
So, starting with the [G] bridge pickup here.
In the review, [A] _
_ we say that [G] it could do with a little bit of taming from the tone control here.
It's all right.
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_ It's a little bit bright [E] maybe, but you do have the facility to tame that a little [A] bit. _
_ _ [D] _ [G] _ It [A] still sounds very Fender-y.
That's the weird thing.
But again, _ _ _ _ _ _ full up on the tone.
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[A] _ So it's [E] got that kind of familiar telecaster bite down there.
But as I say, you might want to tame it a little bit with the tone [Em] control.
Great facility to have anyway.
So if we go into the middle [G] pickup, I'll put the tone full up [A] again.
_ There again, you've got that Strat type of quack to it.
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It's nice.
That's [D] probably, I would say, my favorite setting on this is the middle selection.
[G] If we move over to the neck, [Gb] everything is very [A] much more subdued.
[E] _ _ _ Sounds like a very [B] powerful Strat neck [A] pickup to me.
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_ _ [A] And again, if we tame it a little bit, [E] it sort of accentuates [Am] that. _
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_ _ _ So, what else can I tell you?
Those are the [E] sounds that we've got on there.
Mini humbuckers work really, really nicely.
We've got a valve amp just behind me and it's as quiet as anything.
There's no buzz that you get from a telecaster, which actually doesn't upset me.
Because as somebody once commented to me, it might be noisy, but it's a rock and roll noise. _
As I say, it's fairly weighty.
It's quite substantial and everything.
But I think if you mess with it and you really get used to the controls
and you really [G] use the tone control [F] on those pickups to add another voice,
you might have some fun [Bb] with it.
So, let's hear a little bit more of it.
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