Chords for Lee Ranaldo talks about his Fender® Jazzmaster® guitar | Fender
Tempo:
62.45 bpm
Chords used:
C
F
G
Gm
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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You know when we first started back in the early 80s
We were playing sort of any guitars we could get our hands on I had one
we had one really good guitar in the band which was a
Fender Tele Deluxe [Gm] that I had and I always loved that guitar especially for [F] the pickups that were in it and as we
You know move through the 80s we acquired more and more [C] guitars
We started getting more different Fender guitars, and we had a couple [F] Jaguars
I remember that we really liked we really liked something about them
And then sometime sort of probably 87 or 88 someone
sold us a [C] Jazzmaster and
[F] You know we liked it immediately because it was it was similar to the Jaguar
And then when we discovered that that longer scale that it has
Somehow we both just immediately
Gravitated towards that Thurston and I it just it just seemed
There's just something about [D] it the way the body [E] shape is the way it sits when when you the way it straps on or whatever
Or when you're sitting down that it just it just seemed like [C] about the perfect guitar shape for us
I still feel like it's the it's really the perfect guitar shape
I find it a lot more comfortable than almost [F] any other guitar shape imaginable both for [C] playing and just for I mean
I think it looks totally cool
And so I think sometime around the late 80s
We had a couple and then a few years later.
We started doing a bunch of shows with with dinosaur and
Jay maskas [F] was playing jazz masters at that time as well and
Sir seeing what he was doing with them kind of helped cement
The idea that this was a really really cool guitar to us
I mean we didn't really know anybody that was playing jazz masters at the time and and then we saw that you know
We had a couple and then we saw that Jay was playing him as well
And it just I know there was there was just some kind of bond there about about the guitar.
That was really cool
we didn't see many people playing him at the time and
Slowly over the years you see you see people playing and they're not [C] as popular as as
[G] strats or tellies certainly but
You know a lot of different people [C] ended up playing
I think that we we noticed a few years later that that my bloody Valentine was [F] Kevin Shields was playing
Jazz masters, and I have a feeling he got that from if not Sonic you certainly from dinosaur
Because I think he was he was really into what Jay was doing as well
So, you know, I remember we were going to England and also you start seeing bands
Playing like jazz masters like the second or third time we came around
They were kind of like checking out what we were doing that buying those same [C] guitars.
[G] I don't know what it is
I mean, there's just something really perfect about it.
We love the tremolo You know
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of like a lockdown kind of tremolo which neither Thurston or I have ever responded to [C] ever
And this one works great.
I mean, it's an [G] amazing tremolo.
It doesn't throw the guitar out of tune
You know, I put the I combined to the
Sort of combined the best of both worlds by taking the pickups out of my telly deluxe
Which I love the sound of and putting them in here Thurston goes more for the brighter
Jazz [F] master pickup sound I'm really into the thickness of these of these
Telly deluxe humbuckers, so I've been putting those in all my guitars and calling jazz blasters since
Probably since the mid 90s one of our tech guys created the first one
He said like you know, you like those [C] pickups you like this guitar
Let's let's see what we can do, you know
And and [F] we've streamlined a lot of the electronics on the guitars to our to suit our own needs
We really don't have any use for tone controls or all the [G] different knobs and switches that were on
Jazz masters or Jaguars
so we've kind of stripped it down to just the jack point a volume knob and a toggle switch to switch between the pickups and
It's really become about the ultimate guitar for us [C#] I think
Listen, I [Gm] must have each
[C] somewhere between six and ten that we use almost on a nightly basis six and ten different ones in different strung up in different
Tunings that we use almost on a nightly basis
[G] You know, I don't know if it's the long scale or what but something about the way we [D] work with the alternate tuning seems to
Seems to work really well on the [F] size of these guitars.
I don't know if it's the longer neck scale
or what but like the fact that we play in a lot [C] of sort of heavy gauge or at least I play in a lot
of heavy gauge strings and in really sort of deep tunings with low C's and and [F] paired strings in
You know all the low strings below
normal standard E
Really heavy, you know 58 60 tunes on the low end 17s on the high end
Something about the scale seems to adapt to it really well
It just it seems like structurally the guitar is really easy to deal with it
I mean some of the guitars we have are almost in like baritone range in terms of the way there.
They're strong and
tuned
This [C] guitar seems to be able to hold it really well
[G]
We were playing sort of any guitars we could get our hands on I had one
we had one really good guitar in the band which was a
Fender Tele Deluxe [Gm] that I had and I always loved that guitar especially for [F] the pickups that were in it and as we
You know move through the 80s we acquired more and more [C] guitars
We started getting more different Fender guitars, and we had a couple [F] Jaguars
I remember that we really liked we really liked something about them
And then sometime sort of probably 87 or 88 someone
sold us a [C] Jazzmaster and
[F] You know we liked it immediately because it was it was similar to the Jaguar
And then when we discovered that that longer scale that it has
Somehow we both just immediately
Gravitated towards that Thurston and I it just it just seemed
There's just something about [D] it the way the body [E] shape is the way it sits when when you the way it straps on or whatever
Or when you're sitting down that it just it just seemed like [C] about the perfect guitar shape for us
I still feel like it's the it's really the perfect guitar shape
I find it a lot more comfortable than almost [F] any other guitar shape imaginable both for [C] playing and just for I mean
I think it looks totally cool
And so I think sometime around the late 80s
We had a couple and then a few years later.
We started doing a bunch of shows with with dinosaur and
Jay maskas [F] was playing jazz masters at that time as well and
Sir seeing what he was doing with them kind of helped cement
The idea that this was a really really cool guitar to us
I mean we didn't really know anybody that was playing jazz masters at the time and and then we saw that you know
We had a couple and then we saw that Jay was playing him as well
And it just I know there was there was just some kind of bond there about about the guitar.
That was really cool
we didn't see many people playing him at the time and
Slowly over the years you see you see people playing and they're not [C] as popular as as
[G] strats or tellies certainly but
You know a lot of different people [C] ended up playing
I think that we we noticed a few years later that that my bloody Valentine was [F] Kevin Shields was playing
Jazz masters, and I have a feeling he got that from if not Sonic you certainly from dinosaur
Because I think he was he was really into what Jay was doing as well
So, you know, I remember we were going to England and also you start seeing bands
Playing like jazz masters like the second or third time we came around
They were kind of like checking out what we were doing that buying those same [C] guitars.
[G] I don't know what it is
I mean, there's just something really perfect about it.
We love the tremolo You know
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of like a lockdown kind of tremolo which neither Thurston or I have ever responded to [C] ever
And this one works great.
I mean, it's an [G] amazing tremolo.
It doesn't throw the guitar out of tune
You know, I put the I combined to the
Sort of combined the best of both worlds by taking the pickups out of my telly deluxe
Which I love the sound of and putting them in here Thurston goes more for the brighter
Jazz [F] master pickup sound I'm really into the thickness of these of these
Telly deluxe humbuckers, so I've been putting those in all my guitars and calling jazz blasters since
Probably since the mid 90s one of our tech guys created the first one
He said like you know, you like those [C] pickups you like this guitar
Let's let's see what we can do, you know
And and [F] we've streamlined a lot of the electronics on the guitars to our to suit our own needs
We really don't have any use for tone controls or all the [G] different knobs and switches that were on
Jazz masters or Jaguars
so we've kind of stripped it down to just the jack point a volume knob and a toggle switch to switch between the pickups and
It's really become about the ultimate guitar for us [C#] I think
Listen, I [Gm] must have each
[C] somewhere between six and ten that we use almost on a nightly basis six and ten different ones in different strung up in different
Tunings that we use almost on a nightly basis
[G] You know, I don't know if it's the long scale or what but something about the way we [D] work with the alternate tuning seems to
Seems to work really well on the [F] size of these guitars.
I don't know if it's the longer neck scale
or what but like the fact that we play in a lot [C] of sort of heavy gauge or at least I play in a lot
of heavy gauge strings and in really sort of deep tunings with low C's and and [F] paired strings in
You know all the low strings below
normal standard E
Really heavy, you know 58 60 tunes on the low end 17s on the high end
Something about the scale seems to adapt to it really well
It just it seems like structurally the guitar is really easy to deal with it
I mean some of the guitars we have are almost in like baritone range in terms of the way there.
They're strong and
tuned
This [C] guitar seems to be able to hold it really well
[G]
Key:
C
F
G
Gm
D
C
F
G
You know when we first started back in the early 80s
We were playing sort of any guitars we could get our hands on I had one
we had one really good guitar in the band which was a
Fender Tele Deluxe [Gm] that I had and I always loved that guitar especially for [F] the pickups that were in it and as we
You know move through the 80s we acquired more and more [C] guitars
We started getting more different Fender guitars, and we had a couple [F] Jaguars
I remember that we really liked we really liked something about them
And then sometime sort of probably 87 or 88 someone
sold us a [C] Jazzmaster and
[F] You know we liked it immediately because it was it was similar to the Jaguar
And then when we discovered that that longer scale that it has
Somehow we both just immediately
Gravitated towards that Thurston and I it just it just seemed
There's just something about [D] it the way the body [E] shape is the way it sits when when you the way it straps on or whatever
Or when you're sitting down that it just it just seemed like [C] about the perfect guitar shape for us
I still feel like it's the it's really the perfect guitar shape
I find it a lot more comfortable than almost [F] any other guitar shape imaginable both for [C] playing and just for I mean
I think it looks totally cool
And so I think sometime around the late 80s
We had a couple and then a few years later.
We started doing a bunch of shows with with dinosaur and
Jay maskas [F] was playing jazz masters at that time as well and
Sir seeing what he was doing with them kind of helped cement
The idea that this was a really really cool guitar to us
I mean we didn't really know anybody that was playing jazz masters at the time and and then we saw that you know
We had a couple and then we saw that Jay was playing him as well
And it just I know there was there was just some kind of bond there about about the guitar.
That was really cool
we didn't see many people playing him at the time and
Slowly over the years you see you see people playing and they're not [C] as popular as as
[G] strats or tellies certainly but
You know a lot of different people [C] ended up playing
I think that we we noticed a few years later that that my bloody Valentine was [F] Kevin Shields was playing
Jazz masters, and I have a feeling he got that from if not Sonic you certainly from dinosaur
Because I think he was he was really into what Jay was doing as well
So, you know, I remember we were going to England and also you start seeing bands
Playing like jazz masters like the second or third time we came around
They were kind of like checking out what we were doing that buying those same [C] guitars.
[G] I don't know what it is
I mean, there's just something really perfect about it.
We love the tremolo You know
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of like a lockdown kind of tremolo which neither Thurston or I have ever responded to [C] ever
And this one works great.
I mean, it's an [G] amazing tremolo.
It doesn't throw the guitar out of tune
You know, I put the I combined to the
Sort of combined the best of both worlds by taking the pickups out of my telly deluxe
Which I love the sound of and putting them in here Thurston goes more for the brighter
Jazz [F] master pickup sound I'm really into the thickness of these of these
Telly deluxe humbuckers, so I've been putting those in all my guitars and calling jazz blasters since
Probably since the mid 90s one of our tech guys created the first one
He said like you know, you like those [C] pickups you like this guitar
Let's let's see what we can do, you know
And and [F] we've streamlined a lot of the electronics on the guitars to our to suit our own needs
We really don't have any use for tone controls or all the [G] different knobs and switches that were on
Jazz masters or Jaguars
so we've kind of stripped it down to just the jack point a volume knob and a toggle switch to switch between the pickups and
It's really become about the ultimate guitar for us [C#] I think
Listen, I [Gm] must have each
[C] somewhere between six and ten that we use almost on a nightly basis six and ten different ones in different strung up in different
Tunings that we use almost on a nightly basis
[G] You know, I don't know if it's the long scale or what but something about the way we [D] work with the alternate tuning seems to
Seems to work really well on the [F] size of these guitars.
I don't know if it's the longer neck scale
or what but like the fact that we play in a lot [C] of sort of heavy gauge or at least I play in a lot
of heavy gauge strings and in really sort of deep tunings with low C's and and [F] paired strings in
You know all the low strings below
normal standard E
Really heavy, you know 58 60 tunes on the low end 17s on the high end
Something about the scale seems to adapt to it really well
It just it seems like structurally the guitar is really easy to deal with it
I mean some of the guitars we have are almost in like baritone range in terms of the way there.
They're strong and
tuned
This [C] guitar seems to be able to hold it really well
[G] _ _ _
We were playing sort of any guitars we could get our hands on I had one
we had one really good guitar in the band which was a
Fender Tele Deluxe [Gm] that I had and I always loved that guitar especially for [F] the pickups that were in it and as we
You know move through the 80s we acquired more and more [C] guitars
We started getting more different Fender guitars, and we had a couple [F] Jaguars
I remember that we really liked we really liked something about them
And then sometime sort of probably 87 or 88 someone
sold us a [C] Jazzmaster and
[F] You know we liked it immediately because it was it was similar to the Jaguar
And then when we discovered that that longer scale that it has
Somehow we both just immediately
Gravitated towards that Thurston and I it just it just seemed
There's just something about [D] it the way the body [E] shape is the way it sits when when you the way it straps on or whatever
Or when you're sitting down that it just it just seemed like [C] about the perfect guitar shape for us
I still feel like it's the it's really the perfect guitar shape
I find it a lot more comfortable than almost [F] any other guitar shape imaginable both for [C] playing and just for I mean
I think it looks totally cool
And so I think sometime around the late 80s
We had a couple and then a few years later.
We started doing a bunch of shows with with dinosaur and
Jay maskas [F] was playing jazz masters at that time as well and
Sir seeing what he was doing with them kind of helped cement
The idea that this was a really really cool guitar to us
I mean we didn't really know anybody that was playing jazz masters at the time and and then we saw that you know
We had a couple and then we saw that Jay was playing him as well
And it just I know there was there was just some kind of bond there about about the guitar.
That was really cool
we didn't see many people playing him at the time and
Slowly over the years you see you see people playing and they're not [C] as popular as as
[G] strats or tellies certainly but
You know a lot of different people [C] ended up playing
I think that we we noticed a few years later that that my bloody Valentine was [F] Kevin Shields was playing
Jazz masters, and I have a feeling he got that from if not Sonic you certainly from dinosaur
Because I think he was he was really into what Jay was doing as well
So, you know, I remember we were going to England and also you start seeing bands
Playing like jazz masters like the second or third time we came around
They were kind of like checking out what we were doing that buying those same [C] guitars.
[G] I don't know what it is
I mean, there's just something really perfect about it.
We love the tremolo You know
It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of like a lockdown kind of tremolo which neither Thurston or I have ever responded to [C] ever
And this one works great.
I mean, it's an [G] amazing tremolo.
It doesn't throw the guitar out of tune
You know, I put the I combined to the
Sort of combined the best of both worlds by taking the pickups out of my telly deluxe
Which I love the sound of and putting them in here Thurston goes more for the brighter
Jazz [F] master pickup sound I'm really into the thickness of these of these
Telly deluxe humbuckers, so I've been putting those in all my guitars and calling jazz blasters since
Probably since the mid 90s one of our tech guys created the first one
He said like you know, you like those [C] pickups you like this guitar
Let's let's see what we can do, you know
And and [F] we've streamlined a lot of the electronics on the guitars to our to suit our own needs
We really don't have any use for tone controls or all the [G] different knobs and switches that were on
Jazz masters or Jaguars
so we've kind of stripped it down to just the jack point a volume knob and a toggle switch to switch between the pickups and
It's really become about the ultimate guitar for us [C#] I think
Listen, I [Gm] must have each
[C] somewhere between six and ten that we use almost on a nightly basis six and ten different ones in different strung up in different
Tunings that we use almost on a nightly basis
[G] You know, I don't know if it's the long scale or what but something about the way we [D] work with the alternate tuning seems to
Seems to work really well on the [F] size of these guitars.
I don't know if it's the longer neck scale
or what but like the fact that we play in a lot [C] of sort of heavy gauge or at least I play in a lot
of heavy gauge strings and in really sort of deep tunings with low C's and and [F] paired strings in
You know all the low strings below
normal standard E
Really heavy, you know 58 60 tunes on the low end 17s on the high end
Something about the scale seems to adapt to it really well
It just it seems like structurally the guitar is really easy to deal with it
I mean some of the guitars we have are almost in like baritone range in terms of the way there.
They're strong and
tuned
This [C] guitar seems to be able to hold it really well
[G] _ _ _