Chords for Taylor T5z Acoustic-electric Guitar Demo

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_ [E] _ _ Hello everybody, I'm Rich Cachado.
I'm with Taylor Guitars out of El Cajon, California here at Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, Indiana
And I'm here to talk to you today about our Taylor T5 and T5Z
We're going to talk about some of the settings the electronics and how best to use the guitar
So we're going to just jump right in I'm going to start to tell you a little bit about the the controls
You have three controls here.
All of our electronics are active.
They're not [N] passive
What that means to you is that rather than using a passive tone circuit where all you do is remove high end
We actually have a bass and a treble control here along with a volume
And so what can end up happening is that you can actually add bass take bass out add treble take treble out All right
So what that really enables you to do is totally tone shape the instrument one of the things I have to make sure that you
Understand about this guitar is this guitar is not a modeling instrument
This guitar is intelligently placed pickups with intelligent electronics that enable you to
Let's use the word mimic
_ Some of your favorite guitars that you might already have in your collection
But also gives you the capability to make your own sounds make it a unique instrument
You can virtually take this guitar
One guitar to any gig and play whether it's an acoustic only gig an electric only gig or anything in between
Classic rock 50s 60s gospel, whatever it is that you're doing
It's a great guitar for a band leader as well as like a worship leader
So there's a lot of different things you can do.
So let's go ahead and just kind of jump right in
There is a five position switch up here
And that's what the reason to call it the guitar is called a t5 t4 thin line 5 for a 5 position switch
[G] We're going to start with this with the switch all the way towards the neck and this is going to be your most acoustic
sounding of all of the
Sounds that are in the guitar the way that the guitar works is there's three pickups on this guitar
You can only see one one of them is hidden underneath the neck
The other one is right here at the bridge.
By the way, these are humbucking pickups.
They are not a single coil
It might look like an old lipstick pickup
But it's a humbucker and the other thing is is that [Ab] when we're in our acoustic setting there is a sound sensor
There's a body sensor right back here that helps pick up that
overall best acoustic [E] vibe
_ So here and we're playing this straight into a Fishman acoustic amp
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_ _ _ _ just [D] a nice acoustic strum you can do a finger style if you like _ _
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_ _ All right, so that's our acoustic sound what we're going to do the next the next setting
We're just going to move it here to the second setting and what ended up happening
There is all we did was we took away the acoustic sensor now
All we [Em] have is the like the neck pickup
So anything you would play on a solid body electric a hollow body electric that you wanted a neck _
Neck sound of you can do here and what I'm going to do is now is I'm going to switch amplifiers
I'm going to take it out of the acoustic amp [F] and with an a B switch
I'm just going to run it into a fender [E] deluxe reverb and what we have here is
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_ [Am] _ _ But now if I start to do some tone shaping here
I can turn this pickup into something more like an old-time jazz box or great big-bodied
Guitar where we may want to just have a _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
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_ [Eb] Our next pickup and we're going to and I'm going to take us always back to zero when we change and I'm going to go
To our third position the third position here is going to be our bridge pickup only think of this as anything
That you would do whether it's solid body hollow body
Single coil or dual coil and the reason that we can say that is because again the tone shaping
I know you're probably tired of hearing that word, but that's what ends up happening
So if we just have a [A] standard _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] In a nice clean, but I can also add some overdrive just a mild overdrive and get a [D] real
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[D] Really nice sound there
but by using this I can warm that up to sound more like a little bit of a hollow body if I leave the
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[C] _ [D] _ _ _ [Eb] It has that bite that's back in but if I leave it in I can really get a more [Am] warm
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Very versatile even in that that pickup all by itself
Now going to the fourth position and bringing everything back here to square
It's interesting that the fourth position in the fifth position are going to use the exact same pickups
We're still going to be we're going to be using these two pickups
But they're wired differently in position number four is going to be wired in parallel, which means that both _ _ _
Pickups are going to go to the output jack at the same time in position five
It's going to go series from this pickup into this pickup and then out to the input jack
What that does is it creates a little bit more of a mid-range bump?
Maybe a little bit more low-end.
So if I just take this from the third [A] position here _ _ _
to the fourth position
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_ _ _ _ Depending on how good your speakers are at home or what you're listening to you should have heard a little bit of a mid-range
Bump there so you can take this from anything from like I said a bridge pickup guitar
_ Into a almost like a old 50s style _ _ _ _
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Same sort of a hollow body, but kind of a little bit warmer _ _
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_ [D] _ [A] _ _ _ _ hope [Gb] that helped you understand a little bit about how [Eb] the
Electronics work and what our ideas were for [Em] designing the electronics in this [Am] fashion
But if you have any other questions
Please call your Sweetwater sales engineer and they can walk you through all the different models
We have with the different tone [A] woods and [Em] make sure that they pick the right one for you.
Thanks so much for watching _ _ _ _
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