Yamahas ERG series has all the quality associated with this leading guitar manufacturer. The ERG121UC2G is a special edition black and gold model. The guitar is well suited to rock, blues and metal music with its fast action and powerful pickups. The assorted pickup array includes a humbucker in the bridge position designed specifically for lead guitar licks, a single coil in the middle position which sounds very smooth and blusey running up and down pentatonic scales and arpeggios and a finally a humbucker in the neck position. With a little distortion through a valve amp and the guitar neck pickup selected this guitar could be mistaken for Slashs Les Paul. It sounds far superior to many of the models in its class and is another example of how Yamaha are dominating the beginners guitar market.