As a musician who has been playing guitar for over 20 years, I have come to learn a few things about electric guitars. In large measure the price and quality go hand in hand, and the guitar
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The best brands concept is totally subjective and based on your style of play. Each brand fits a certain type of player or genre of music, so breaking the mark for each gender. However, you can also apply to this style of guitar. Please note that you are free to deviate from this as much as you want.
This is only a rough guide, not based on a subjective list of personal choice of guitars.

First let’s start with my favorite genre now known as Classic Rock. Through the late 1960s and early to mid-1970, driving rock and roll was the staple of FM radio. Guitar tones were thick and heavy because humbucking pickup. Most guitarists like Eric Clapton (until his time with Derek and the Dominos), Neil Young, Jimmy Page Ace Frehley, Pete Townsend, Angus Young, Peter Green, and Robert Fripp uses the guitar with Humbuckers prominent, namely the Gibson Les Paul. With its mahogany body with maple top and dual humbucking pickups, this guitar and keep the tone of mass delivery (especially when driven through a tube amplifier for high power). These players were able to perform single riff and runs on the rosewood neck (or neck of ebony custom), designed as a baseball bat. These players are not shredders, these players are more visceral in their actions, but can double the use of notes and the tone of his songs than anyone else in the company. Therefore, to summarize here, from classic rock, I would choose between a Gibson Les Paul Standard (neck has changed), Les Paul Traditional (used for the Les Paul Standard 50’s with the neck), The Les Paul Classic , Les Paul Studio (the same as the Les Paul Classic with a 60, but with necks of different pills and non-binding). Gibson Les Pauls also weigh up to 10 pounds so remember to wear a padded strap and resistant to reproduce the shoulder to avoid injury. A Gibson SG (also originally part of the family of Les Paul guitars) also offers the same kind of tone, but with less sustain because there is no cap maple resonator, making it lighter.

Then let’s talk about the Blues. As my game continues to evolve, as it must to all players, one finds that there are nuances between classic rock and blues real (Chicago or Delta). You can play the blues on a Les Paul in the classic rock mode, but I think that in the search for the tone of blues that should be more spartan than that.

Should be less "balls to the wall, clean and less tone. Bluesy players like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Cray and relied on the Fender Stratocaster, with its single coil pads do not make the meat of a humbucker equipped guitar (though you can get Stratocasters fitted with a humbucker), and built in a bar tremolo, maple neck gives it a twangy tone rosewood, the neck gives a slightly warmer tone. With the slim neck and gives a different feeling to play unlike a Les Paul, which really feels the power of the guitar due to its weight. Defenses do not carry the same weight, and it shows in the tone. At the other end of the spectrum that has the blues BB King. With its single note is the presence and blues, he prefers to use a Gibson ES335 guitar is a jazz box (hollow guitar)
Due to its design, this gives a lighter tone and no alternate sustain.

This leads me to Rockabilly. Rockabilly country music along with the needs of early 50’s the tone that can only be achieved with a box Jazz Bigsby equipped guitar (Gretsch, or similar) through a tube amp with lots of reverb. A Bigsby tremolo is a system that is directly connected to the body of the guitar, and acts as an anchor point to create the tremolo effect. Les Paul was not in importance, nor Stratocasters. So, to achieve the tone of the day, one would have to have a guitar that was available. A Jazz Fund fits the bill. Gretsch or Gibson does a very good jazz boxes, like the Yamaha lower cost.

Want to pinch? You need a guitar neck with a thin neck that allows fireworks. Jackson (owned by Fender), Dean, ESP, and Ibanez guitars for every player they want to play notes on a gazillion miles per hour. Tone would not be a problem here. Neck radius, and a thin neck makes it easier for players to make lightning fast runs up and down the Fretboard. Tone can always be achieved through side effects. It is important that the neck pinch on the player. Fender Stratocaster neck can also be used here, but players who are named for the mill using Fender Stratocasters have been modified by their necks scalloping the neck to be thinner, so it would be more useful to find a guitar that is made to play style.

Country music in recent years many crosses genres. However, for the sake of versatility, I would stay away from a grinding machine. Besides, almost anything goes. Music for a jazz hollow body guitar is still their best bet with the warmth of the semi-acoustic tone.

Now, mind you, are not definitives. For the style of music you play, are benchmarks or loose guidelines. You are free to use what the guitar for that style of music you play. Make it your own, have fun with it and keep playing. The best guitar for you is the guitar you choose to play.

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