What Makes a Les Paul Sound So Unique???

I believe what many have mentioned here - a thicker mahogany body and maple cap among other things. When I finally bought my first LP only like 3 years ago, I wae amazed at how loud and chunky it sounded when unplugged!! Such low end chug. Chunky sounding through an amp too. I now have 2 more. One is a Custom Shop modern Axcess with easy access sculpted neck and slightly thinner lighter body.
Love em all.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
I believe what many have mentioned here - a thicker mahogany body and maple cap among other things. When I finally bought my first LP only like 3 years ago, I wae amazed at how loud and chunky it sounded when unplugged!! Such low end chug. Chunky sounding through an amp too. I now have 2 more. One is a Custom Shop modern Axcess with easy access sculpted neck and slightly thinner lighter body.
Love em all.
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All that mahogany.....

I been bringing the double neck out more often....

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Robert Herndon said:
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What's that crazy 'G' chord i am always using... ?????
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I’m assuming your thumb is simultaneously muting the A string. If so, it’s a G with no 3rd. It’s essentially a root-5 power chord in its intervallic structure, though it carries it a bit further.

The intervals are I-V-I-V-l. Usually, a root 5 power chord just has I-V-I.
 
smitty_p said:
I’m assuming your thumb is simultaneously muting the A string. If so, it’s a G with no 3rd. It’s essentially a root-5 power chord in its intervallic structure, though it carries it a bit further.

The intervals are I-V-I-V-l. Usually, a root 5 power chord just has I-V-I.
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That's correct!

Listen at at 1:08 and you will hear the C-Clamp 'G' at around 1:09-1:10

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smitty_p said:
Hmmm...

Interesting to see that he has a bandana stuffed underneath the strings between the bridge and the tailpiece.

Also, I don't see an actual pickup, so I'm guessing he's using a bridge with a piezo pickup.
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Correct, this is a piezo in the bridge pickup. I have one of this in a guitar of mine... Sans the concrete block.
 
smitty_p said:
I’m assuming your thumb is simultaneously muting the A string. If so, it’s a G with no 3rd. It’s essentially a root-5 power chord in its intervallic structure, though it carries it a bit further.

The intervals are I-V-I-V-l. Usually, a root 5 power chord just has I-V-I.
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Absolutely! Going to or from D is really simple this way vs. wrapping your finger all the way to the E string over the top.
 
Cadorman said:
Absolutely! Going to or from D is really simple this way vs. wrapping your finger all the way to the E string over the top.
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I can see that, unless you want to establish the chord as a major chord, in which case you’d want the B natural note (the second fret on the fifth string). Like other power chords, the “thumb over” G chord has no third. Hence, it is neither major nor minor.

There‘s no right nor wrong way here; it depends on the voicing you’re trying to establish.
 
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