Riff Tone
Best Part (feat. Daniel Caesar)
H.E.R.
Guitarother2010s+
Original Gear
GuitarFender Stratocaster (likely American Standard or similar, rosewood fretboard, 2010s era)
AmpFender Twin Reverb (likely, based on genre/era/clean tone; exact model not confirmed in sources)
PickupsFender single-coil pickups (stock or similar, neck or neck+middle position)
Amp Settings
gain0
bass6
mid5.5
treble6
reverb5
presence5
Effects & Signal Chain
No effects used for this tone
Notes
Studio recording, released 2017. No direct evidence of exact guitar/amp model for this specific recording; inference based on genre, era, and audible tone. No evidence of live rig or alternate gear for riff section.
Tone Character(10)
warm and smoothclean and lushairy and slightly compressedrounded highsarticulate and dynamicsoft fingerstyle attacksubtle reverb tailno audible breakupneck pickup claritystudio-polished
Difficulty
The riff requires intermediate-level technique due to its use of extended chords, fingerstyle or hybrid picking, and the need for smooth, even dynamics to match the studio-polished sound.
Sources
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Original Gear
GuitarFender Stratocaster (likely American Standard or similar, rosewood fretboard, 2010s era)
AmpFender Twin Reverb (likely, based on genre/era/clean tone; exact model not confirmed in sources)
PickupsFender single-coil pickups (stock or similar, neck or neck+middle position)
Amp Settings
gain0
bass6
mid5.5
treble6
reverb5
presence5
Effects & Signal Chain
No effects used for this tone
Notes
Studio recording, released 2017. No direct evidence of exact guitar/amp model for this specific recording; inference based on genre, era, and audible tone. No evidence of live rig or alternate gear for riff section.
Tone Character(10)
warm and smoothclean and lushairy and slightly compressedrounded highsarticulate and dynamicsoft fingerstyle attacksubtle reverb tailno audible breakupneck pickup claritystudio-polished
Difficulty
The riff requires intermediate-level technique due to its use of extended chords, fingerstyle or hybrid picking, and the need for smooth, even dynamics to match the studio-polished sound.