Ok, that opening solo section is among the best playing I've ever heard. Something possesses you around 45 seconds in and then a few beats later you're reconjuring the the "She's So Heavy" sections of the Beatle's "I Want You"

I’m dreaming of a Chris Buck video with his beautiful playing on all those beautiful guitars one after another, all of his intro mid and outro clips edited together. Chris you’re touching deep into the soul of humanness somehow. Thank You 👍🏻

I love the melody and passion in your guitar playing. That's what I look and listen for in your videos. You're not just shredding - you're playing a love song, singing through your fingers.

😦 That opening jam! Chris: put all your jams on Spotify PLEASE! We need your instrumentals.

I’m sorry dude, but you blow the doors off of Slash. You are a once in a generation guitarist.

That intro is and will always be EPIC!

Glad you mentioned resonance. It's the number one thing I look for in an electric guitar. If it isn't resonant, move on, there's usually nothing you can do to fix it. Lovely playing by the way

I’m not knowledgeable enough about the guitar to definitively say Chris Buck is the best guitar player I’ve seen. I am however perfectly comfortable stating Chris Buck consistently produces the most musically pleasing sounds to my ear

Chris plays the guitar like it is a part of him. Dedication patience practice and passion.

That is the most impressive intro playing I’ve ever seen for so many reasons. Wow!

Yo min where you bin? Good to see you again

What makes the guitar great, is the player. Simple as that. I think you can make a 80's Hondo guitar sound great. Have a nice weekend y'all.

Good lord, that harmonic he hits in the opening of the PRS jam is honey in my ears!

The number of incredible solos you've played on your channel is mind blowing!

Wow! playing section at 5:00. WOW!

That strat Jam was unreal. Thanks for the great stuff, Chris!

That was one killer intro...my jaw dropped...

Dude you play well on anything but every time you pull out that highway 1 I love the way it makes you play it absolutely screams with joy that it’s master has come to spend some time with it. I’m new to your channel by the way but I can’t stop watching all your old vids you are a truly brilliant player and I don’t say that lightly.

Nice Chris, you do Wales proud.

Hey Chris I know you put in alot of work in terms of research and all that. But some of us just came here to hear you play mehn....🔥🔥

Popped in for the instrumentals and it was enjoyable as always! Love it Chris

Damnit how come every little solo you do on your videos sounds like the best solo I've ever heard...

One of the best guitar KZfaq channel around this shit... 🏴‍☠️🤟💀👍🏴‍☠️

What an immense solo!

Great to see and hear Friday Fretworks back after far too long a break. Keep up the good work...ya great big show aff!!!

Interestingly, at 64 years old and having played for 56 of those years and having owned many (many guitars) my main squeeze for the past 8 years has been a old 80's Yamaha SE150 solid body electric with one humbucker and one volume control. This was a budget priced shredder offered back in the day. I paid $75 dollars at a local shop for mine. So far I can't find anything to match it for playing ease and tone. I bought another just like it off E Bay hoping it would be just as good. it's still actually a great guitar but nothing like the first one. Sometimes you get lucky.

Good to have you back. These intros are the guitar highlight of my week.

Don't know what you were playing at the beginning of the video, but I could listen to it all day long. Simply fabulous.

Great video as always.

Shout out to the hollowbody II. I have the same one!

Love your vids, Chris. I always learn some history or enjoy your insights or both. The playing is supernatural. It takes me to a place that is in a realm of its own. I hope you do many more.

Love these pieces. Great contribution Chris

Chris Buck - you are a true treasure of mankind !!! If there is a Nobel Price for Guitarplayers it owes to you.

What makes a great guitar? Hand it to Chris Buck. The Strat playing is sublime.

Thank you Chris, beautiful video as always. Your playing is inspiring.

Chris, you never cease to amaze. Thanks.

That was wonderful thanks Chris 👍

That closing piece is awesome 🤩 And that strat just siiiiiings 🎙

The opening on the Gold Les Paul is just an "the World is burning" beautiful solo as the band plays as the Titanic went down....that is all meant as a positive .... beautiful , soulful solo with a somber emotion...well to me anyway

Your knowledge and words are as articulate as your playing. Fantastic video as always

Chris I love your musical style. That PRS has an incredible sound. Thanks for the video.

Another beautiful intro! There are few ones I am coming back to, time after time.

Loved the "Bistro Fada" number. Unexpected gift on your channel. Thankyou.

CHRIS!!!! You, by far, are the most soulful and melodically creative and interesting player on the planet! there is no contest.

You are such an amazing artistic player. Just the right amount of ingredients to reach beyond the standard chords and riffs.

9:00 yeah - gypsy Jazz finger style on a Les Paul. Well done! I absolutely love that piece.

There is one more, mysterious but very real factor in what makes a guitar right for us. There must be a special connection that is a sort of symbiosis, a kind of telepathy that we feel instantly and every time we play it. We play better on a guitar with this factor than on any other. I don't know any better way to explain it, but I've come across a few like this and those are the keepers. The others, I've sold.

I've missed you dude. Friday Fretworks for the win.

Nice run, that first one. Real nice. Sounds fantastic.

I strongly suspect that a cigar box guitar would sound just as good in your hands. You should get one of those kits and try it!

Hands down one of the best solos , you need to do a video teaching us how to play it , sanks

He's on fire!

Wait a minute...that was the most beautiful e look electric lead guiar solo I've ever heard.

There needs to be an instrumental album.

Excellent episode! Thank you 😊

Hello from Brasil 😁 Glad you are back!

Superbly worthwhile video Chris. Thanks bonny lad

Every track was phenomenal and that ending track was so David Gilmour esque. Simply beautiful.

Nice to see your PRS making an appearance buddy. Sounds so good👌

Sick skills as always.

You sir are a PLAYAH! Loooove your intro jams, so beautiful.

Good stuff. That Strat outro is awesome.

Great video, interestingly the guitar I play most is a tele with the worst playability of all the guitars I own, but for some reason it’s the one I always pick up!!

Beautiful explanation by Paul on resonance.

THANK you for not another PRS ad. Got a bit sick of the long list of obvious sponsored content...

Amazing!!! Hello from Greece..

Damn son! You went done gimme an Eargasm! 🥴🤙

Just a stunning guitarist …

Incredibly tasteful playing. Mindblowing!

Great Paul Reed Smith rap. And a big thank you for taking time out to make a video for us.

Chris has more creativity in a one minute solo than I have shown in 30 years of playing guitar…damn! As for perfect guitars- so many variables - for me neck shape is first, then acoustic response.

I'd love a collect of your best jams. The first one on this episode is definitely one of them.

Great insight about what makes the perfect guitar. Amazing playing as always, but i liked so much those melodic lines. Thanks Chris.

Damn dude that first was a great solo on the gold top!!!!! the pulling down on the D string is awesome!

Another stunning intro Chris. 👍❤️

Best friday fretworks solo yet in my opinion kept getting better, killed using the chord progression and all the pickups! So Good

I completely forgot why I was watching the video when you started to play man xD you are a GREAT guitarist !!!

High-octane AND beautiful leads, as always! Agree with your 3 attributes to look for. I personally like bigger, stainless steel frets on a flatter fingerboard with action just high enough that you can bend the string a whole step and then pick it forcefully without fretting out. Would like to comment that nut width is an important but often overlooked spec. 1 and 11/16ths works for me but I'm dabbling with 1 and 3/4 nut widths on 2 guitars and liking the cleaner chords I can get. I was surprised what a difference 1/16" makes; takes a little getting used to!

woah, that intro solo was absolutely magic. So intense and so on the point. It kept propelling higher and higher. And every time you think there can't be any more it kept giving more. Just masterful! .... no gear matters if you play like that :-)

Merci for these videos.

Watching you play reminds me of Brian May, Eric Clapton and Eric Johnson. In the sense of when you play it looks effortless. It feels like a privilege to watch a master at work.

Always informative, Bucky boy.

Floored by Chris's playing yet again!

i love your playing style

Yet another amazing opening jam

Buck is back!!!!

Hurrah, Friday Fretworks is back 😀 I have PRS SE Hollowbody, and it's the most comfortable guitar to play for me.

Chris, this was another one of your incredibly interesting, profound and stimulating videos punctuated with gorgeous guitar playing - thank you so much for taking the trouble to create such excellent material which must take considerable thought and time on your part. It deserves some serious thought... (BTW KZfaq isn't great at providing interactive comment(s) - no tagging, no images, no video and basic text captions - I'm at a loss to understand why a new provider hasn't entered this field. But here is my contribution to your video - I too took some time to think about this.) I appreciated your comments about how you started and the fact you were still there because of the playability of your first guitar. I had the opposite experience and I didn't understand why I wasn't enjoying myself. Probably this is the single most important factor and I have no idea whether this features in instructional material today and although I grew up in a musical household nobody ever spoke about intonation, action, tone etc Frankly, my first guitar was 'unplayable' and yet I didn't know it. What a difference this would have made to me.... Anyway, I took 5 guitars I own and I ranked them all by considering simply 'which are my 'favourites' '. The ones I pick up the most and so forth. I then rated these guitars by giving them values out of 10 for 'Playability', 'Electrics' and 'Resonance'. I would say all the guitars I keep are already fulfilling these criteria fairly well. So, most resonate well at least on a scale of 7-10/10 influenced by the model - semi-hollow vs solid body etc. Electrics are a function of age/style/model but again scored 8-10/10 and playability were all excellent. My favourites were generally correlated to their objective qualities as you outlined but the outstanding guitars for me were not an objective assessment but also influenced by more emotional characteristics such as the way they look, their build quality and the sound I expected them to make. So, my newest guitar, which perhaps explains why I play it the least, ranked 4th of my favourite guitars but ranked 1st by objective criteria (I am moving up in the world!). My favourite guitar I ranked 3rd by objective rules but it is the build quality (aesthetics, weight (it is light), acoustic sound) and above all playability which makes it my favourite; and the others generally conformed to their rankings. This was a really interesting exercise for me - so thank you again. I am going to review it in 6 months time.

You’re right Chris; a decent guitar, with good pickups, good set up and a bone nut does it for me! I prefer higher off the Fretboard action

That Strat simply howls with your touch. Damn.

Very informative as usual thank you Chris. Your playing is so inspirational that although I'm no longer married I will be getting a wedding band back on my left hand as well as a wrist watch on the off chance it may get a little closer to your sound. Superb!

This into solo felt really special Chris

The legend with another banger

Wow amazing 😵‍💫👍

What an opening solo…! Love it… 👍

I'm not going to name names: But some play with incredible skill and sacrifice soul. Others have soul but can't get beyond what they consistently play. Chris Buck has the skills AND the soul. I can't believe how interesting-much like an excellent CLASSICAL piece of music.

I've been enthralled in your content the last 18 months and not shared how greatful I am. So thank you! Thank you for sharing such great playing, passion and well thought out, researched and articulated content. This intro solo was killer (again) but I must say your intro solo on your "Reverb on everything" video is your best. Must have watched that more than 300 times and has finally motivated me to not be lazy and try to transcribe something. I've heard it's a key activity to further develop skills so it wil be interesting how it goes. 🤘

Absolutely delicious playing! Also confirmed my personal preference for P90 tone, again. I really appreciated Paul Reed Smith's overview on resonance though, which resonates well with my own view on making guitars sound better. It's not too different from the discussion about what makes a turntable sound great--the ideal reproduction of sound by a stylus is achieved by a completely fixed cartridge and platter, ideally operating in a theoretical vacuum where sound cannot feed back onto that vibrational translation. Every single additional vibration will feed back through the record itself (belt, motor, platform noise) or the cartridge (jointed tonearms, pivot points, etc.) and distort the vibrations at the stylus on the record. Thus the fancy isolation feet, platters, single piece tonearms, absortive platters. Guitars are not that different. Imperfect neck joints, loose saddles, wobbly bridges and posts, loose tuners, all rob energy from a vibrating string, or add unwanted resonances. Conversely, on both acoustic and electric guitars (more on acoustic and semi-hollow guitars) well chosen tonewoods (and bridge materials) provide harmonic resonances that enhance vibration. Anyone who tells you that all you hear are the pickups is not listening very carefully. That long ring of a well isolated string happens as he notes, when you stop everything else from subtracting from the vibrating string. You can even improve guitar tone by putting better springs in the pickup cavity to stop them from moving as well. I've never heard it put that way before (subtraction from tone) so that was incredibly enlightening!

That 1955 GoldTop with gold rear is a real beauty and in great condition. Mine is a 1955 too, with natural clear finish rear and neck but rather more used condition. Rings like a bell and sounds spectacular of course. I've had it since 1970.... kept it for my pension so now it's sadly time to find someone who'll love her as I have.👍🇬🇧

I was all worked up to jump on this until you actually did the Resonance section It's very difficult to understand until you have two guitars that look the same, but one just rings, and the other is a bit dull. And you may not even realise that the dull guitar is dull, until you find one that rings I have a couple of Squier Strats. One is an Affinity, that has cheap and nasty hardware, cheap pickups, a difficult action. but it absolutely breathes and lives The other is a much nicer guitar (physically) to play, stays in tune better, has a better neck. But hold them up between thumb and finger at the nut, and knock them? One goes thud The other makes a musical sound