Chords for Michael Thompson Xotic California Classic® XSC-1 Demo
Tempo:
52.5 bpm
Chords used:
G
Gm
Eb
D
Dm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Gm] [Eb]
[Cm] [Eb] [Gm] [G]
[Dm] [Eb] Hi, [G]
[Gm] [Eb] [Gm]
[Cm] [Dm] [Gm]
[Eb] [Gm]
[D] [Eb] [Bb]
[F] I'm Michael Thompson and I'm here for my friends at Xotic because I love this guitar,
the California Classic.
It's been love at first play, first touch.
I am pretty much a strat guy, I play all kinds of guitars, but when I feel this guitar just
before I played a note on it, just the feel of it, I knew it was going to be great.
And of course, everything else about it has just blown me away.
The pickups, the way it's set up, the width of the neck, the feel of the neck.
I actually didn't have to do anything to it right out of the box.
It played like a vintage instrument [G] and that's the coolest thing about this guitar.
[D] I don't own vintage instruments because the first thing I would do to one is put 6100
frets on it and locking tuners, which would totally devalue the instrument and that's
one of the reasons I don't do that.
But I love the feel of a vintage axe because it has that broken in, warm feeling.
And also, one of the things that's really hard to do is have a new guitar with pickups
that sound like they've got just the right amount of aging, which these seem to have
the whole thing here.
Plus, it's got the little beat up thing, but it's not too [G] overdone that just psychologically
makes it feel like an old instrument.
But the way these necks are the, what's it called, burnt?
Roasted maple.
Roasted maple is so cool.
I guess they take a maple neck and roast it, but it feels just played in and broken in
and just that warm thing that makes you just die when you play a vintage [C] instrument.
[Gm] [Bb]
[G] A good Strat, you can work it and you see some of the better players constantly changing
pickup positions and tone positions because there's so many sounds you can get out of
it when the instrument's right.
Another thing I discovered about this guitar that I just love is the tone controls are
set up in a way, I don't know if they're different values than the ones I'm used to.
Usually I have everything on 10 and just leave it like that.
But I discovered that by rolling [Dm] this down, [G]
[D] you can get a jazzy sound that isn't too muffled.
Usually when I turn the, this is almost all the way [G] down.
[D]
[Bb] [D] It's funny how you can make a Strat sound more like a jazz box than a jazz box if you
have the right kind of sort of tone roll off and that's all it is.
You know, it's just.
[Dm] [G] So it has a real usable tone control.
And then in a second I'll show with the rock sound how useful just being able to tame some
of the highs on the back pickup.
See already there on five, it's got a nice round sound that doesn't tear your head off.
[Cm] [Em]
[G]
[Em] [E]
[G]
[E]
[Cm] [Eb] [Gm] [G]
[Dm] [Eb] Hi, [G]
[Gm] [Eb] [Gm]
[Cm] [Dm] [Gm]
[Eb] [Gm]
[D] [Eb] [Bb]
[F] I'm Michael Thompson and I'm here for my friends at Xotic because I love this guitar,
the California Classic.
It's been love at first play, first touch.
I am pretty much a strat guy, I play all kinds of guitars, but when I feel this guitar just
before I played a note on it, just the feel of it, I knew it was going to be great.
And of course, everything else about it has just blown me away.
The pickups, the way it's set up, the width of the neck, the feel of the neck.
I actually didn't have to do anything to it right out of the box.
It played like a vintage instrument [G] and that's the coolest thing about this guitar.
[D] I don't own vintage instruments because the first thing I would do to one is put 6100
frets on it and locking tuners, which would totally devalue the instrument and that's
one of the reasons I don't do that.
But I love the feel of a vintage axe because it has that broken in, warm feeling.
And also, one of the things that's really hard to do is have a new guitar with pickups
that sound like they've got just the right amount of aging, which these seem to have
the whole thing here.
Plus, it's got the little beat up thing, but it's not too [G] overdone that just psychologically
makes it feel like an old instrument.
But the way these necks are the, what's it called, burnt?
Roasted maple.
Roasted maple is so cool.
I guess they take a maple neck and roast it, but it feels just played in and broken in
and just that warm thing that makes you just die when you play a vintage [C] instrument.
[Gm] [Bb]
[G] A good Strat, you can work it and you see some of the better players constantly changing
pickup positions and tone positions because there's so many sounds you can get out of
it when the instrument's right.
Another thing I discovered about this guitar that I just love is the tone controls are
set up in a way, I don't know if they're different values than the ones I'm used to.
Usually I have everything on 10 and just leave it like that.
But I discovered that by rolling [Dm] this down, [G]
[D] you can get a jazzy sound that isn't too muffled.
Usually when I turn the, this is almost all the way [G] down.
[D]
[Bb] [D] It's funny how you can make a Strat sound more like a jazz box than a jazz box if you
have the right kind of sort of tone roll off and that's all it is.
You know, it's just.
[Dm] [G] So it has a real usable tone control.
And then in a second I'll show with the rock sound how useful just being able to tame some
of the highs on the back pickup.
See already there on five, it's got a nice round sound that doesn't tear your head off.
[Cm] [Em]
[G]
[Em] [E]
[G]
[E]
Key:
G
Gm
Eb
D
Dm
G
Gm
Eb
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Cm] _ [Eb] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Dm] _ [Eb] Hi, _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] I'm Michael Thompson and I'm here for my friends at Xotic because I love this guitar,
the California Classic.
It's been love at first play, first touch.
_ I am pretty much a strat guy, I play all kinds of guitars, but when I feel this guitar just
before I played a note on it, just the feel of it, I knew it was going to be great.
And of course, everything else about it has just blown me away.
The pickups, the way it's set up, the width of the neck, the feel of the neck.
I actually didn't have to do anything to it right out of the box.
It played like a vintage instrument [G] and that's the coolest thing about this guitar.
_ [D] I don't own vintage instruments because the first thing I would do to one is put 6100
frets on it and locking tuners, which would totally devalue the instrument and that's
one of the reasons I don't do that.
But I love the feel of a vintage axe because it has that broken in, warm feeling.
And also, one of the things that's really hard to do is have a new guitar with pickups
that sound like they've got just the right amount of aging, which these seem to have
the whole thing here.
Plus, it's got the little beat up thing, but it's not too [G] overdone that just psychologically
makes it feel like an old instrument.
But the way these necks are the, what's it called, burnt?
Roasted maple.
Roasted maple is so cool.
I guess they take a maple neck and roast it, but it feels just played in and broken in
and just that warm thing that makes you just die when you play a vintage [C] instrument.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[G] A good Strat, you can work it and you see some of the better players constantly changing
pickup positions and tone positions because there's so many sounds you can get out of
it when the instrument's right.
Another thing I discovered about this guitar that I just love is the tone controls are
set up in a way, I don't know if they're different values than the ones I'm used to.
Usually I have everything on 10 and just leave it like that.
But I discovered that by rolling [Dm] this down, _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ you can get a jazzy sound that isn't too muffled.
Usually when I turn the, this is almost all the way [G] down.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Bb] _ [D] It's funny how you can make a Strat sound more like a jazz box than a jazz box if you
have the right kind of sort of tone roll off and that's all it is.
You know, it's just. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] [G] So it has a real usable tone control.
And then in a second I'll show with the rock sound how useful just being able to tame some
of the highs on the back pickup.
See _ already there on five, it's got a nice round sound that doesn't tear your head off. _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Cm] _ [Eb] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Dm] _ [Eb] Hi, _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] I'm Michael Thompson and I'm here for my friends at Xotic because I love this guitar,
the California Classic.
It's been love at first play, first touch.
_ I am pretty much a strat guy, I play all kinds of guitars, but when I feel this guitar just
before I played a note on it, just the feel of it, I knew it was going to be great.
And of course, everything else about it has just blown me away.
The pickups, the way it's set up, the width of the neck, the feel of the neck.
I actually didn't have to do anything to it right out of the box.
It played like a vintage instrument [G] and that's the coolest thing about this guitar.
_ [D] I don't own vintage instruments because the first thing I would do to one is put 6100
frets on it and locking tuners, which would totally devalue the instrument and that's
one of the reasons I don't do that.
But I love the feel of a vintage axe because it has that broken in, warm feeling.
And also, one of the things that's really hard to do is have a new guitar with pickups
that sound like they've got just the right amount of aging, which these seem to have
the whole thing here.
Plus, it's got the little beat up thing, but it's not too [G] overdone that just psychologically
makes it feel like an old instrument.
But the way these necks are the, what's it called, burnt?
Roasted maple.
Roasted maple is so cool.
I guess they take a maple neck and roast it, but it feels just played in and broken in
and just that warm thing that makes you just die when you play a vintage [C] instrument.
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
[G] A good Strat, you can work it and you see some of the better players constantly changing
pickup positions and tone positions because there's so many sounds you can get out of
it when the instrument's right.
Another thing I discovered about this guitar that I just love is the tone controls are
set up in a way, I don't know if they're different values than the ones I'm used to.
Usually I have everything on 10 and just leave it like that.
But I discovered that by rolling [Dm] this down, _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ you can get a jazzy sound that isn't too muffled.
Usually when I turn the, this is almost all the way [G] down.
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Bb] _ [D] It's funny how you can make a Strat sound more like a jazz box than a jazz box if you
have the right kind of sort of tone roll off and that's all it is.
You know, it's just. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] [G] So it has a real usable tone control.
And then in a second I'll show with the rock sound how useful just being able to tame some
of the highs on the back pickup.
See _ already there on five, it's got a nice round sound that doesn't tear your head off. _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _