Chords for Fender American Standard Stratocaster Electric Guitar Demo - Sweetwater Sound

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_ _ [B] Hi folks, how are you doing today?
My name is Alan, I am the product specialist for Fender Musical Instruments.
I'm here at Sweetwater talking to you today about the American Standard Stratocaster.
What I've got in my hands here is one of the new colors we've just added to the American
Standard line, Mystic Red, and it's got a rosewood board.
One of the great things about the American Standard series is you get about eight different
colors to choose from and you get your choice of rosewood or maple board on any of those colors.
There's also an option for an ash body, this happens to be alder.
If you get one of the trans colors like Sienna Sunburst, that is an ash body.
So what makes the American Standard Strat so special?
This is probably what I consider to be our flagship Stratocaster, it's like the contemporary
version of _ today's Stratocaster.
And there's a lot of stuff going on under the hood.
From ten paces, it looks like a classic Strat.
_ A couple things we've done to this model is we've upgraded the pickups, so there's Custom
Shop Fat 50s pickups in here.
These are made to specifications like they would have been in the 50s with cloth wire
and Alnico magnets, and they sound really warm and fat.
I'll show you some overdrive sounds in a second.
We've also upgraded the bridge on this guitar.
It's a two-point fulcrum.
Instead of having six screws mounted to the body, we actually have the bridge plate resting
like a fulcrum on two posts on a knife edge, so it makes the tremolo action [G] very smooth. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [B] Stays in tune a little better that way, I think, too.
In addition to the two-point system, we've got bent steel vintage saddles.
We used to have block saddles on the American Standard, and we tested a lot of saddles and
actually like these steel bent saddles better.
We also upgraded the tremolo block.
Believe it or not, _ the tremolo block, where the strings are anchored inside the body there,
makes a tremendous amount of difference on the tone.
And that's 100% copper-infused steel block, so it gives you a little bit of extra ring and sustain.
The neck is a very comfortable modern C shape.
At the factory, we sand the edges, we roll the neck edges, so it's really comfortable
to get your hand around the neck when you're playing.
_ Also, we have staggered tuners.
We've got our standard cast-sealed tuners here, but the pole heights are staggered so
that the low A and E are a little taller than the other four strings.
What that does is give you a little bit better break angle over the nut for the higher strings,
which lends to sustain and it rings a little bit better.
_ Also, we have a micro-tilt here.
On the back of the neck plate, you'll notice there's a screw hole in the middle of the neck plate.
You can actually insert an Allen wrench in there, and that allows you to, once you loosen
the neck plate a little bit, it allows you to change the angle of the neck in relation
to the guitar this way, which kind of helps you to set up your _ action better.
Sometimes the neck needs a little bit of adjustment this way against the body, and if you didn't
have micro-tilt, you'd have to take the neck completely off to do that, which is a big
pain in the butt, so that's very handy.
In addition, we have an upgraded truss rod in the neck.
It's a biflex truss rod, so if your neck is bowed this way or this way, you can adjust for it.
Not all necks can do that.
These do come with a case, _ and I'm going to go ahead and play some sounds for you now.
Let's try the bridge pickup with some overdrive and a little bit of delay.
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_ _ Very bright, very biting.
I'm going to go to the neck pickup now and play some clean sounds to show you how warm it is. _
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Let's go to the middle pickup now.
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_ _ _ _ _ [A] So again, you can hear how the Fat 50s really give you that prototypical Strat sound with
lots of sparkle.
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_ [E] Really cuts through in the mix really well, too.
So that's pretty much it for the standard Strat.
If you have any other questions about this model, please contact your Sweetwater sales engineer.
Thank you.
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