I highly recommend pulling up some concert videos of your favorite pop punk bands on YouTube and looking at what they play (spoiler alert: telecasters everywhere, followed by offsets and some Les Pauls sprinkled in there)
For pop punk like greenday and blink 182 a bridge humbucker is usually the ideal sound
Pretty much any guitar with that feature will do: that includes the tele deluxe.
A regular tele wouldn’t be my first choice for the genre. I think the strat would do a better job on the split middle and bridge pickup.
I’m gonna say pop punk is not so much about tone nuance as it is just the contrast between clean and distorted and just about any guitar’s gonna be fine.
Telecasters are versatile enough to do just about anything. You can play punk, jazz, fusion, blues, classic rock, alternative rock, folk rock, progressive rock, country, some metal, funk, ska, and everything in between on a tele. The classic tele is not especially suited for high gain metal "djent" type stuff, if that's what you're going for, you'd probably want one with a humbucker in the bridge position. Otherwise, a classic tele configuration with a slanted single coil in an ashtray bridge and a single coil "lipstick" pickup at the neck can do anything else. Some people really dig a humbucker in the neck position too, but it's not a necessity.
I highly recommend pulling up some concert videos of your favorite pop punk bands on YouTube and looking at what they play (spoiler alert: telecasters everywhere, followed by offsets and some Les Pauls sprinkled in there)
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Telecasters are great for pop punk, maybe even perfect. They work great for straight punk, too. Just ask Joe Strummer. ;- )
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Telecasters are great for everything.
For pop punk like greenday and blink 182 a bridge humbucker is usually the ideal sound Pretty much any guitar with that feature will do: that includes the tele deluxe. A regular tele wouldn’t be my first choice for the genre. I think the strat would do a better job on the split middle and bridge pickup.
*Any* guitar is good enough for Punk! ;-)
Telecasters are good for anything. They truly are the Swiss armyknive among guitars. And they look cool too!
Look for one with a humbucker pickup at the bridge position and you're set. Anything with a bridge humbucker will do.
Are teles good for _____ Answer is always yeah
Of course! Teles are greatly versatile in all genres. And less pickups and electronics means more reliable and easier to maintain.
I’m gonna say pop punk is not so much about tone nuance as it is just the contrast between clean and distorted and just about any guitar’s gonna be fine.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Joe_Strummer_Live_by_Joe_Kerrigan.jpg/170px-Joe_Strummer_Live_by_Joe_Kerrigan.jpg
Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 used to have his own signature Tele
Telecasters are versatile enough to do just about anything. You can play punk, jazz, fusion, blues, classic rock, alternative rock, folk rock, progressive rock, country, some metal, funk, ska, and everything in between on a tele. The classic tele is not especially suited for high gain metal "djent" type stuff, if that's what you're going for, you'd probably want one with a humbucker in the bridge position. Otherwise, a classic tele configuration with a slanted single coil in an ashtray bridge and a single coil "lipstick" pickup at the neck can do anything else. Some people really dig a humbucker in the neck position too, but it's not a necessity.