Telecaster Neck Pickups and Practice Tips - ASK ZAC EP 5

Hey guys welcome to another Ask Zack and
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today we're gonna answer some questions
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that have been sent in so the first one
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is a difficult one to do but I'm gonna
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I'm gonna try to do this I was asked to
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demonstrate the difference between the
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adder the APC adder neck pickup and then
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the Ron Ellis julienne large neck
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pickups now the reason why this is
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difficult is that the guitars are
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completely different constructional eyes
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so where the daño caster is an ash body
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the crook is an alder body where the
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daño caster has brass saddles this has
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steel saddles where the Dino caster has
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a one-piece maple neck the crook has a
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maple cap neck and then of course
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they're two different you know it's even
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if you had two guitars supposed to be
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identical they're still gonna sound
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different so with that set aside I'm
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just gonna you know play a little bit on
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this one play a little bit on on the
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Dino caster and then I'm even gonna
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bring out the other 67 tele which has
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the stock you know the original pick up
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on it and the pickup is original except
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it has been wack spotted because
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originally those were not wack spotted
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and they were just dipped in lacquer and
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that doesn't work long term so to keep
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the pickup working and alive it had to
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be wack spotted so so you're gonna hear
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all three neck pickups so I'm going to
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start with the APC adder pickup and I'm
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just using a just a smidge of
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compression and otherwise you're just
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hearing the amp and the Reaver
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on that so again here's the APC adder
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pickup there's the adder you know
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scientifically and very sophisticated
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pick up the the dyno caster here's it
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with the julienne large neck pickup the
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outputs a little different so I'm gonna
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goose that up a little bit
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[Music]
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I get to do that again
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[Music]
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okay and now the 67 so what's the
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difference
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obviously the adder is the highest
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output and I had to Goose up the dyno
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caster and the original 67 to match the
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adder is like I said the hottest it's
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probably the most strata sounding to me
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the the dyno cast the the Julian Lodge
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Ron Ellis pickup has a really neat chirp
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to the top end and it has this kind of
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openness to it and surprisingly enough
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this 67 has the most mid range to it
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[Music]
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castoreum and the crook with the adder
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APC again you know I've got a back off
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the level
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[Music]
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[Music]
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so there you have again not a completely
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scientific test I didn't say that the
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course the the 67 telly has similar
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construction to this of course it's but
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much older maple cap neck ash it's got
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an ash body so that he heard ash body
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with steel saddles and a maple cap neck
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on the 67 and this is alder body steel
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saddles maple cap neck all those things
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make a big you know they make a
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difference in the sound and it's all
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ingredients into the recipe of tone so
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it was a question I got in the second
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one was at asking about practicing so
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and also about what you wish you would
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have practiced when you were younger so
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if I were to say first what I wish that
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I would have practiced when I was
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younger was I wish that I would have
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some more and I wish that I would have
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sung parts more before I played them
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because when you can sing apart it's
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gonna be much more musical than if you
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just come up with with something on the
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guitar there's nothing wrong with that
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but if you can sing it or hum it first
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before you play it on the guitar it's
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not going to be some mathematical thing
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that came under your fingers so also
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it's just singing is just a great thing
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to do it it doubles your work
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opportunities you know especially early
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on you know everybody wants to have
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someone that can help out singing wise
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so let's play let's say you're in a club
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band well if you can sing one or two
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songs a set and give the main you know
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lead vocalist or break they'll love you
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if you can sing a harmony part again you
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don't have to be you know a retha or
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Emmylou you know if you can just sing a
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you know a decent you know harmony and
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then hold apart you are that much more
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employable
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so one I'd say singing to practice with
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a metronome start slow like it's
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60 and then you know speed up but your
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time is so important everyone thinks
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their time is good oh I don't need time
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but then and then when people play with
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a click track go like oh I hate playing
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with a click track and click track so
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horrible well that's because your times
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not very good so you just you need to
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practice with a metronome you know again
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you can get all these apps that are on
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your phone and you can just sit there
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and practice for five to ten minutes
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with the metronome practice playing
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lines practice playing kind of on the
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beat practice playing a little bit
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behind the beat to kind of give it a
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different feel and you don't really want
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to rush too much but and yeah so those
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are big things know that being able to
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play rhythm and fills and things like
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that is much more important than being
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able to solo a lot crazy as much as we
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all like to sell oh if you want to
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practice on your selling well get some
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you know get some backing tracks or our
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looper and play along with those and
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come up with new ideas the last thing
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I'm going to say and no one asked about
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this but I'm going to do it anyway it is
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stop changing your gear before you go to
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rehearsal so what happens when you show
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up to rehearsal with a new piece of gear
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is you end up you're trying to get
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comfortable so you can be musical and
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you keep futzing with it you keep
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twiddling knobs on the amp you keep
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twiddling knobs on the pedal and instead
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of being in the moment instead of not
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being musical and doing what you need to
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do you're fussing with it because you
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want to get comfortable you want to hear
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the sound that you want to hear stop
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changing your stuff up if there's a
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problem of course something needs to get
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fixed get it fixed or if you have to
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change sounds do it
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but you know try to do it before
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rehearsal and you know because otherwise
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you end up missing out on a couple of
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songs you're like two or three songs
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into rehearsal before you're finally
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comfortable and then you're wishing that
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you would have been more in the moment
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on those earlier songs you know like hey
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can we go back and do those songs again
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well
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just stop messing with your stuff know
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your stuff know your guitar know your
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amp know your pedals so that when you
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show up you're not messing with that so
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you can just be musical and do your
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thing so there you have it well I want
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to thank you for watching another ask
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Zach please send in questions please
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much and I hope you have a great week
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thanks and bye bye