My God, that opening jam is the definition of TASTY🤤

That opening jam ripped my soul apart in the best way possible...

Next Friday: Chris plays a tennis racquet and makes it absolutely sing.

I'm sitting here listening and watching your numbers rapidly rise. I can't imagine any guitar not sounding great in your hands. You are the beast!

ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING PLAYERS IVE EVER SEEN ABSOLUTE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

That jam on the Melody Maker was killer.

I bought a LP/SG Junior in 1967 - it was brilliant, and made me into a musician. Still am, 58 or so years later.

could listen to chris speak and play all day

Recently converted my Tele to an Esquire. Couldn’t be more pleased with the result. So refreshing to have just one pickup to deal with.

I've been speaking Spanish daily for 30 years now, since I moved to Mexico. I still have an accent. It's not a question of pronunciation or articulation, it's more a question of rhythm. I still use the same rhythm in my sentences as in French, my native language. You can change instruments, but your hands still "pronounce" the phrases in the same way. I think what's important here is how you feel. Does it feel good ? Oh yeah ! Grab it, period.

I said it once I'll say it again: your playing is not on another level, it's from another planet! You can make anything sound good!

I love the gut wrenching simplicity of a single pick up guitar. Stripped down, no BS, the perfect weapon for raw power.

Same goes for a plain traditonal solid state or tube amp. There are many digital amp modelers with tons of good effects nowadays. But i always find myself tweaking with them and not really getting any playing done. Through the years i find that the more gears i have , the less creative i become. Too much options leaves you thinking and trying to get the optimal tone that will never satisfy you. Simplicity has its advantage.

that intro was feckn great bro🤟😎🎸

WOW that was just amazing playing yet again Chris

Chris is the most melodic guitarist out here

Wonderful Friday Fretworks, as expected (as always). You’re not only such a gifted and dynamic player - you are exceptional with your spoken content. Always on point and beautifully lit and filmed/edited. So glad I discovered your channel a few years ago and am excited to see your channel blow up, as it certainly deserves to. Thank you, Chris, for your excellent content. Cheers from Texas, US 🙏

I'm here for this, the Friday video! Chris, without a doubt, you are the finest soulful expression of what playing guitar is all about! Your choice of notes is off the charts, and when you 'dig in' the whole thing lights up! Thank you for Fridays, Chris!

Chris’ outstanding playing makes these videos a treat

Bring that single pickup Revstar with you when you come to Nashville!!! I want to hear that thing live!😊

Chris apart from the education you give with your Friday fretworks the main thing you give is the urge to play my guitar, your style , your sound your passion makes me me want to play and do nothing else you are an inspiration and a down to earth guy that makes me love playing more and more , Thank you Buddy

Great opening Jam. I have a ‘64 SG Jr that I’ve had since ‘66. I went looking for an affordable single pickup guitar and bought an Eastman SB55DC with a Lollar pickup. I’m impressed, it was well worth the investment.

Haven't tuned in for a while, your playing has really reached an impressive level man.

Mate you can make anything sound amazing

Amazing playing Chris!🎸🔥

You never fail to entertain. Cheers from OZ.

Yaaas. Been playing LP juniors exclusively for the last 4 years, and I view it almost like an acoustic guitar. It is what it is, and it is exactly what you make of it. Love it 💛

While the opening jam was fantastic, the jam with the '60 Melody Maker was phenomenal! Your touch is amazing and I couldn't get over the sustain. So happy to hear you've opened up to single pick-up guitars.

Amazing plying, Chris.

And smashes the ball out the park with the Revstar in the closing jam. 👍🇦🇺

Super awesome playing, mad skills

I agree with you 100%. I started with a Strat with 3 single coil pickups. Over time, I modded in many different ways. It now has one Humbucker in the Bridge location, and that has been liberating. I ride both the Volume and Tone Pots. 😎 The Bridge is the most harmonically rich location for a Pickup, as far as overtones go, and that provides with the widest options in tone/timbre. Some Pickup Switches can bleed the sound of one Pickup into another, causing some degree of "Phasing" between the Pickups. This can be easily tested by setting the Pickup Selector to one Pickup, and tapping on the pole pieces of the other Pickup with a metal paperclip. If you hear the tapping from the pickup, it's bleeding sound. Another thing to consider is if you use a Modeler, having multiple Pickups can be detrimental because you typically dial in the perfect Preset on a particular Pickup, and switching to a different can compromise that tone.

Amazing: you have now recorded at least three versions of one of my favorite guitar solos of all time by anybody. Thank you.

That opening jam was absolutely amazing!

I am sure I'm one of many who really like the sounds you are making when your fingers touch the strings! I don't have a valuable vintage guitar but I love my 1979 Yamaha SL500! As for single pick up guitars you proved they can sound awesome!

LOVE your opening number. Well played sir 😮😊

Cool playing

Lots of people praising the into I’ll praise the outro. This episode was bookended in 🔥

@chris buck definitely one of your best jams and tones ever this les paul totally suits you

insane opening, once again 🤘🏻

Super melodic playing on the Esquire! Seriously impressed!

damn Chris that intro solo melted my face - fantastic!

Another great video. Thanks. I've put many hours and years on my '57 Gibson es 225. Single p90, plain and simple. Like many have said, it's not the guitar but the hands and fingers making it sing. Your fingers make mine sound like fingernails on the chalkboard.

Room For Relaxation - love that Andertons Backing Track! Some of my favourite playing I've heard from you Chris - although I do miss hearing you play a Strat!

So brilliant tone and play ❤ fantastic

The playing on this vid was just killer!! And yup. Spent 20 years overlooking the Junior / 1 Pickup thing. Figured it was a novelty. But always wanted one in my collection for Nostalgia. Got an amazing Murphy Lab '58 Junior late last year. Holy smokes! The tones are great. Chords just bloom. But its also inspiring in a really different way. Can't really explain it. It's almost like the guitar is filled with undiscovered riffs. It makes my brain wanna do that thing. Regardless, thanks for always kicking out sick videos 🙌🏻

Nice playing on the intro . ❤️

one of my favorite LP Jr. tones were on the recordings of Jethro Tull, Martin Barr used LP Jr almost exclusively in the early albums, Aqualung the solo was such great tone, along with Locomotive breath, Teacher etc.

I have a Gibson Melody Maker from the 1960s and I love the tone and sustain of the little beast. The lone single coil on the axe gives it a nice no-nonsense tone and eliminates the hassle of dialing in multiple pickups.

Damn, Chris; that opening salvo would have done Mick Ronson proud...very impressive.

Thanks for another great episode, your playing is so inspiring. But what I also love is the backing tracks: I wouldn't mind an episode where you explain how you create those, as they are epic in their own right...

Oh, my! The Esquire solo around 10:00!

i have a 62 double cut melodymaker. it sounds great and very different compared to any of my prs, fender, etc. perfect for rock and can actually do many other styles if you ask it nicely. that model was my borrowed first guitar about 50 years ago when i started. my wife bought it for me for my 60th birthday in 2022. she is always doing what's best for me.

Kudos from me for that Black Revstar and the savage playing, of course!

12:34 that note…Lordy.

That sounds sweeeeeet Chris! 😁

Definitely liberating!

Lots of love for the intro solo here, and rightfully so, but that heavy riff on the outro just got me.

What a great sound! Just ask Charlie Starr of BlackBerry Smoke, he'll confirm….

You are the BEST 🙌

you are great, buddy.

That intro, all I can say is allemachtig! (It's a Dutch word we use for a myriad of reasons. Just like "Fuhgeddaboudit" from the film "Donnie Brasco"). We recently went to a vintage guitar expo and I think I saw some of the guitars you featured. I also saw a guitar with a label "Chris Buck pickup". That was cool to see 😁

man that opening jam sounds like a killer version of you know youre right

"Liberating or limiting?", watched you play that junior for 5 seconds and was sold on liberating, thought about me having a go and realised, its not the guitars capabilities but your own. Truly amazing playing. Recently really been thinking about a junior and seeing one that beautiful with it looking worn in really makes me want one more and more

Outstanding..

The master of epic solos of epic solos of epic solos of epic sol..... (sorry, forgot to turn off my delay pedal).

Jesus Chris, that intro was the best tone I've ever heard from you 😮 I'm definitely in the category of people who "just didn't get it", in regards to the single-pickup guitars. That was until I found a Japanese Tokai DC Jr. in TV Yellow, for an awfully good price used. It's scary how good that guitar is, especially with the electrics swapped for better stuff, a Faber bridge and a Lollar Dogear. All in all, i have under 750£ in that guitar 😍

I love single pickup guitars! I've had several variations in the past, and currently own an Eastman SB55DC/v and a Gibson Les Paul Junior. Having a good intonated bridge really adds to the guitars sound and playability. I like the Faber bridge on the Eastman, and added a Music City Bridge to the Junior.

An anecdote I found on the net regarding the meaning of TV yellow. Not the meaning that we all know, but actually that it was to be a response to Fender Telecaster. That being said there is (for me) something similar between a tele and a Les Paul Junior or Special. They are basic electric guitars as opposed to Strats or 335 or Les Paul Standards. That being said I do enjoy your videos. Beside being an incredible player, you show some passion and know what you are talking about.

My single pickup guitar is an Epiphone Studio Dot that somewhere in it's history had the neck pickup removed as well a the tone knob. Love it!

Hey Chris, I got a melody maker & took it to a dep gig as a string breaker. Never been more embarrassed as it managed to pick up every local taxi firm & broadcast it through the PA. Fitted a Kinman noiseless P90 instead of the half humbucker (radio aerial ) and now its a beast!!!

A Tele with only the bridge pup is quite a tone machine when you trick out the wiring. I've seen them with 1meg ohm pots for Volume, no-load pots on the Tone and Varitone cap switch on the three way. It's amazing what you can squeeze out of that thing into a tube amp but I really had to ride the tone and volume controls. Wanted one every since I played that guitar.

You are great even at volume "0". I simply love watching your hands playing

Thoroughly enjoy FFWs; looking forward to you Andertons vid

I've been thinking about that LP Jr you were playing a couple episodes ago. Incredible instrument. Been all over reverb looking at spendy vintage single pup axes. I have a 2021 LP Jr that's been my favorite go too for quite a while now. Can make it sound however I like. Awesome chops 🎸🙏

I put together a Steampunk themed Cabronita style 1 pick-up guitar as an experiment. It is great fun on stage but I love teaching wirh it and showing students how the tone control and hand position can make dramatic changes.

I do own a epiphone 57 RI which is my recommandation for buying a Junior on a budget. I also have an Esquire and only using the bridge humbucker of my strat. The tone and Volume Controls offer so much possibilities.

⚓️ Thanks Chris 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Chris how can I learn to play the guitar like you? You are such a good player.

Great sounds and playing as ever Chris. Going to leave this thought with you.... Steve Howe used one for the bulk of Tales of Topographic Oceans. Whatever your individual feelings about that leviathan of prog rock you can't deny versatility is required if you're playing guitar on that.

it's funny to me how every 'debate' about jr's revolves around versatility. What I know is that since I bought my Gibson Jr, I haven't played anything else since. The whole point is to just play more, speak through your guitar, don't worry so much :)

I literally just googled “Les Paul jr players” out of curiosity. 10 mins later I check my subscriptions and see this vid. Crazy

Yeah , what he said..😮 love your style

Saw Leslie West and he was a huge guy and he rocked one those and got a massive tone…it looked like a uke in his hands.

I find a one pickup p-90 guitar to be very versatile. Beyond the tonal tweaks with volume and tone it forces me to be a better player. To use dynamics more to clean then strike hard to roar. It really helps you learn how much tone comes from your hands.

I have a Gibson Joan Jett melody maker. Changed my life.

You really love using a lot of triads in your phrasing and lead work huh?! That awesome.

what a freakin good sound holy smoke!!!! is this the helix?

The lpj at the beginning is a monster, you should buy it Chris now you’ve hit the big time

A interesting mod for those who like to color the tone with the volume control is a reverse treble bleed with a low value cap wired to the opposite lugs as a treble bleed. You get some really interesting tones that way by slightly backing off the volume. Personally I hate treble bleed circuits as they do the opposite of what I want to hear backing the guitar down. Adding a cap that way is similar to the capacitance of a long cable.

Someone also worth mentioning who is a Les Paul Junior playerChris is Mark Abrahams of Wishbone Ash. Check out what he can do with one pick up on the live version of Phoenix. Outstanding!

Very good episode, gotta love a bare bones rock axe.

I must admit I hadn't taken much notice of LP Juniors until I saw Mark Abrahams play his DC '59 Junior, with Wishbone Ash, last year. Fantastic sounding instruments. His is stock apart from a better intonating bridge.

Esquire custom is one of my favorite guitars to play. It can do anything.

THAT PLAYING 10/10

Dude, if you keep playing like this, I'm going to have to make a big bonfire and throw all of my guitars into it! Once I stop replaying your jam clips, I think I get your perspective on this. I have also avoided single pickup guitars, but I may build one to weigh this out.

I'll have to get my Samick Linda (single pup, sort of inspired by the LPJ) off the wall afer hearing this. Thing is, it has no tone control, so to avoid spoiling its minimalist aesthetic, I've put one on the access plate at the back. Maybe I'll have to rethink this… great video as always, an essential friday night visit!

A 2010 Gibson single cut Jr is easily my favorite guitar that I own and one of the best I've ever played.

Coincidence is a funny thing, I myself bought an SG Jr about 4 months or so ago and it's become my main guitar, I've noticed a huge improvement in my playing. It definitely pushed me to experiment with right hand positioning and actually utilising my tone and volume knobs. I love the single pickup vibe so much I converted my Mexi Tele into an Esquire. If I could do it to my Strat I would too (but I've got your Radioshop set in there and I love them too much...).

Love my Mike Smith Esquire 👍🏻