How Versatile is a Single Pickup Guitar? My Tone Secrets!

How versatile is a single pickup guitar, how many tones can you get out of something like a Les Paul Jr, and will it be a guitar that could work for you? In this video we explore all of these questions!

0:00 - Intro
0:19 - What Guitar Are We Using Today?
0:43 - Intro Performance
1:32 - The History of the Single Pickup Solid Body Guitar & Some Famous Users
3:33 - What P90 Pickups are So Great At!
4:21- Playing Example: Tone Variation
5:18 - My Experience Playing This Live!
8:10 - Tone Testing
8:41 - Playing Example: Clean Tone using the Volume Control
10:29 - Playing Example: Overdrive Tone using Volume Control
11:35 - This Guitar Forces You To Explore Your Own Playing
14:15 - Outro & Where To Find Karl!

A huge thank you to Karl from Karl Longbottom Guitars for loaning me the '037' - his take on the iconic Les Paul Jr, single pickup guitar. Learn more about the guitar and it's specs on the website:

https://karllongbottomguitars.com/our...

Here's the Keith Urban song that really made me fall in love with the sound of the Les Paul Jr:    • KEITH URBAN - STUPID BOY (LIVE) (720P...  

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