Riff Tone
Middle of Nowhere
Kacey Musgraves
Guitarcountry2010s+
Original Gear
GuitarFender Telecaster (exact model unknown, likely American Standard or similar, based on genre and artist's known preferences for country recordings)
AmpFender Deluxe Reverb (exact model/year unknown, but highly probable for modern country studio recordings and consistent with Musgraves' genre/era)
PickupsSingle-coil (Fender Telecaster stock pickups, model unknown)
Amp Settings
gain0
bass5
mid5.5
treble7
reverb3.5
presence5.5
Effects & Signal Chain
No effects used for this tone
Notes
Studio recording, 2026 album release. No direct evidence for exact guitar/amp model for this song, but Telecaster into Fender amp is standard for modern country and matches Musgraves' known style. No evidence of alternate guitars or amps for this riff section.
Tone Character(10)
bright and twangyclean and articulatedynamic and percussiveopen and airywarm low endcrisp highsstudio-polished clarityslight amp breakup on hard strumscountry strumming feeltransparent and natural
Difficulty
The riff section uses open chords and a country strumming pattern at a moderate tempo, requiring clean transitions and dynamic control, but no advanced techniques.
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Original Gear
GuitarFender Telecaster (exact model unknown, likely American Standard or similar, based on genre and artist's known preferences for country recordings)
AmpFender Deluxe Reverb (exact model/year unknown, but highly probable for modern country studio recordings and consistent with Musgraves' genre/era)
PickupsSingle-coil (Fender Telecaster stock pickups, model unknown)
Amp Settings
gain0
bass5
mid5.5
treble7
reverb3.5
presence5.5
Effects & Signal Chain
No effects used for this tone
Notes
Studio recording, 2026 album release. No direct evidence for exact guitar/amp model for this song, but Telecaster into Fender amp is standard for modern country and matches Musgraves' known style. No evidence of alternate guitars or amps for this riff section.
Tone Character(10)
bright and twangyclean and articulatedynamic and percussiveopen and airywarm low endcrisp highsstudio-polished clarityslight amp breakup on hard strumscountry strumming feeltransparent and natural
Difficulty
The riff section uses open chords and a country strumming pattern at a moderate tempo, requiring clean transitions and dynamic control, but no advanced techniques.
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