When A Lifelong Strat Player Tries A Jazzmaster

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In this video, we'll be checking out my new (to me) Fender American Vintage II 1966 Jazzmaster. This is the first guitar I've purchased since 2017, and I'm completely in love with it. Let me know what you think of it in the comments! Thanks for watching :)
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📖 Video Chapters:
0:00 - First look & listen
1:09 - The story (what exactly is it?)
1:57 - More sounds
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3:29 - Let me play you out
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[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Hey folks! I just wanted to share a little bit about the new guitar you may have seen in the last couple videos on the channel -- a used American Vintage II 1966 Fender Jazzmaster, which is the first guitar I've purchased for myself in over 7 years! I'm so in love with it. What do you guys think?

[@eidolon8816]

Man, that 7 years ago comment was uncalled for.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Hahaha, I know right? 2017 feels like it was yesterday 😭

[@tonyfdesign]

There's a special place in heaven for matching headstocks.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I AGREE 🙌

[@mathiasohlson6265]

Happy for you!😊

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thank you so so much ☺🙏

[@shelleymonder]

your videos are so helpful to so many. The universe is giving back with this find. sounds beautiful. Enjoy

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I really appreciate that. Thank you ☺🙏

[@saptarshichakraborty7474]

Congrats Andrew!!!

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thank you so much!!

[@NA-xb4mq]

I’m getting this one soon. Excited!

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

That's super exciting!! You'll love it :)

[@stevenbatten5517]

Even the Guitars happy you brought it ! It was meant to be . Awesome 🥳🚀

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Ahaha, thank you so much 😄

[@wardengrn]

I thought that it was new and might have missed a video of your purchase. I saw thise videos you snuck in playing it! I was glad to see you splurge a bit. I knew you had stuck with a few for a while. Funny how a new guitar inspires more playing. Sounds awesome

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Hahaha, I wasn't planning on making a video on it, but felt like some of you guys might be interested. I'm feeling more inspired than ever, and I'm very excited for all the lessons I'll be making with it :)

[@billtuer2968]

What a Beauty! Sounds really great. I also want one but my wife won't allow another one. All the best and greetings from Malaysia 🇲🇾

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thank you! That's exactly why I had to let one go 😅

[@neocollective5959]

It really sounds incredible even through KZbin and cheap computer speakers, I can only imagine what's like there, great buy !

[@jeffreyburnwood8084]

Wonderful! I wonder what new inspiration this guitar will bring to your life! Also, I loved that first listen progression :D Take care!

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thank you so much! ☺🙏

[@surf247365]

Sounds great, I have some Tom Anderson guitars. Similar to Suhrs. I recently got the squire version like this and just can’t get enough of it. So I ordered the USA version just like the one in your video. They just make you play a certain way. It just feels like home . The Tremelo is just lush and more dreamy than all the others I’ve tried.🤙🏽🤘🏽

[@jhref]

Well isn't that just gorgeous. Lovely signal path too.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thank you so much! 😄

[@tw0pointoh654]

oh man a 1966. You are really vibing with the 7.25" fretboard radius? I like the thinner 60s necks but man those ball shapes fretboards. Getting the radius right on that original bridge is a trick. It sounds beautiful though. Jazzmaster vintage pickups are a vibe all their own.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

The first guitar I owned that I really played seriously had a 7.25" radius, so I've been conditioned to like it. But that's the primary reason it feels so different from the Suhrs with their compound radii. Really enjoying this guitar, and LOVE the tone.

[@tw0pointoh654]

Oh I didn't realize the Suhrs have compound radii. I honestly LOVE that set up. I am constantly trolling for deals on Warmoth 10-16" radii necks just because they play SOOO well. lol My friend is early 40s and an adult learner. She regrets that she never learned music. So I took a Mustang and slapped a 10-16" neck on it. It's a magic combo, that high radius with the short scale. She is progressing like 10 times faster than I did on a Strat. She is also probably practicing more too. But I do feel like there's some logic in those specs that make learning chords and scales shapes and truly developing the muscle memory of the movements much less painful.

[@balasvsubramaniam-fb5fw]

Hi ! Andrew from S'PORE 🇸🇬 nice of you to let us know your knowledge of guitar music, which I wish to somehow want to master it ! Still learning ??? Thank's add list I'm learning from You Andrew ! ✨️ 💙it !

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Hey! I'm still learning new things all the time. I hope you find the videos helpful. Cheers! ☺

[@walterkemp6558]

Very nice. Sounds fab. Wonder what all switches on it are for. Whatever it’s lovely.👍🎸

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thank you so much! It's a rhythm circuit. You can flip the switch and those other dials work as your new tone/volume controls. And you're locked to the neck pickup. Plus it's wired to be darker/warmer. It's fun to play around with, especially since these guitars are naturally very bright and hi-fi.

[@walterkemp6558]

@@andrewclarkeguitar wow that’s cool. Sounds great and looks good too. 👍

[@romanukas]

I have 2 Suhr Jazzmasters I bought without touching them. The S90 sounds like much hotter, I love single coily tone of yours, but not thin at all. I love look of Suhr JMs, just more elegant to me.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I really love the look of the Suhr JMs as well. But I wanted something more traditional, and specifically wanted the classic JM pickup sound. I'm sure the Suhrs play better and feel better. But these vintage-spec'd guitars have a certain charm about them as well.

[@mr5039]

Beautiful guitar! Were you muting with your thumb or were you playing the barre chord with your thumb? If you were playing that way is there a benefit to it? Thanks!

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thank you! I do both. A lot of muting with my thumb, but also I typically play bar chords with my thumb. Allows me to keep my hand in a more comfortable position when switching back and forth between chords and notes. :)

[@mabblers]

Nice opening and all the tunes. How do I get to playing like that? Scales aren't getting that movement you're doing up and down the neck.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thank you! It's mostly just diatonic 7 and 9 chords with a few flavor chords in between. And then the fills are literally just improvised with pentatonic and major/minor. I've expanded my homebase to cover the whole fretboard in every key, so I can play those scales and create riffs in any key in any position. It takes some time to get to that point 😅

[@DavidOakesMusic]

1:03 omg i need to work out that chord 👀

[@DavidOakesMusic]

OK so it's i, biii, vi and vii . minor third. Major 6th and major 7 👀 Some kind of Eb Minor Major 6th I dunno how you'd write it with a minor third and a major 7 on top. EDIT _ or a D7b9 ? 🤔

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

It's an Ebm(maj13)

[@DavidOakesMusic]

@@andrewclarkeguitar Yessss. the 7 on top was throwing me.

[@junker154]

It looks huge

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

The body is considerably bigger than a Strat or a Tele. And I'm also a pretty skinny guy 😅

[@junker154]

@@andrewclarkeguitar I held once in a guitar center when purchasing my first electric, it seemed absurdly huge. I'm also super skinny. Anyhow, keep up the great content!

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

@@junker154 yeah, there’s a reason I don’t have a 335 either. I just feel ridiculous playing one 😂

[@DavidOakesMusic]

I haven't bought a (new) guitar since 2011.

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Oh man, that's a long time ago. Might be due for a new one soon! 😅

[@patrickganess8557]

Howl long it took you to get to this level of playing

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I've been playing for over 20 years. But I think a really dedicated person could get to this point a lot faster.

[@patrickganess8557]

How many hours a day practice

[@patrickganess8557]

Thanks for your response

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

@@patrickganess8557 It varies a lot! There were times when I was younger that I'd practice for 7 or 8 hours in a day. Then there were times when I'd practice less than an hour a week. These days, I play/practice around 2 hours every day.

[@patrickganess8557]

@@andrewclarkeguitar it's a lot of practice not necessarily talent. I always thought it was only talented musicians can play guitar

[@mooseymoose]

How much does it weigh?

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I don't have a proper scale to weight it. But I'd say around 7.5-8 lbs

[@mooseymoose]

@@andrewclarkeguitar I wish they made a chambered JM with pine body and mahogany neck. Get it down to 6ish. Might have to make it myself.

[@mohoudi9537]

What a sound ! Can u just sell me one of ur oldest ?

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

Thanks! Unfortunately, I have no guitars I'm looking to sell at the moment 😅

[@adelinrapcore]

The matching headstock should be a illegal

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

I hope you say illegal because it's so damn beautiful. I love matching headstocks so much 😍

[@tw0pointoh654]

LOVE matching headstocks. I either build or mod all my guitars because I am a psycho. I just put a matched painted headstock on a 2012 American Standard Strat that now has a Warmoth Gibson Conversion Scale neck. And I put my cat's name on the headstock decal. Yup...I wrecked the value of a $1200 guitar 😂😂

[@stupidhandles]

How do the top switches work on a jazzmaster? Verticals for rhythm/lead. But what do the horizontal switches work? Is it series/parallel pick ups or a phase thing, i only have a cheap jazzmaster copy, but never worked out what they actually do, i find a sound i like, but dont know what its actually doing

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

It's actually pretty simple! When the switch is down, it's in lead mode and all the pickups and tone/volume knobs work as they would on any other guitar. The horizontal dials are disengaged as well. When you flip the switch up, it disengages the pickup selector and regular volume/tone knobs. You're locked to the neck pickup, and the horizontal dials become your new volume and tone controls. This wiring also uses different values, so the tone is naturally darker and warmer than the neck pickup would be in lead mode. It's suprisingly useful!

[@sagittated]

​@@andrewclarkeguitarAlso can make a handy kill switch by rolling the volume all the way down. ✌️

[@andrewclarkeguitar]

@@sagittated totally!!