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I've been playing in a group for the last few months. Here's the layout: The singer and songwriter of the group plays
acoustic rhythm, we have a bassist who does some backup vocals and I'm playing a CV tele and do some vocals as well.
We're doing gospel music so it all has it's roots in country music but none of us really come from that background.
The singer is older and he sort of rode in on the first way of rock n roll, the bassist and I are both in our mid-twenties.
We've both been in rock bands so we're as familiar with Guns N Roses as we are George Jones (but we're not rock guys trying to play country, or country guys playing rock, just musicians exposed to alot of different music.) Recently we found another guitarist, also playing a tele, who plays some really good pedal steel as well.
(By the way I just wrote that it was gospel so you will know that it's a song based project, we're not stuck playing I-IV-I-V
all the time but we do have to serve the song and the lyric, ya know?)

Here's where the questions begin. I'm a pretty basic player, I try to be song oriented. I mostly try to add to the sound without with flashing all over the place, I play lead when I have to and rhythm-wise I play alot of simple inversions (not jazz stuff), picking through chords, just whatever is necessary. The other guitarist is more of a straight up country player, it seems, who plays lead as well and does a lot of licks in the gaps.

How do we play around each other without playing all over the other one? I'll play as simple as I need to but I don't want to just hit each chord and let it ring out til the next change. It seems as though both of us need to play less than we normally would.
Would both of us playing a fraction of what we normally would work? Do we stay on two different ends of the neck? haha. I don't know.


What about tone? We should sort of compliment each other tonally and in volume, right? Any ideas? I know it can be done but two telecasters
seem like a whole lotta tele.

There's really a hundred more questions I could ask but I'll let it be for now. I know it's of a complicated set of questions (especially over the internet) and I'm not asking for any one size fits all answer but if you have any wisdom or experience to impart that would be awesome.
-Manny