The neck of the guitar is really smooth, the 24 frets are really helpful and the 2 volume knobs will help you make the Tom Morello scratching, and this guitar really is useful for metal and rock, im using Ernie Ball 10s on this and it has a great country feel when playing clean and soloing. But there are some downsides, the guitar has a smaller/not so broader scale and frets so if you have different guitars it will be tough to transition from one another, its somewhat tough to move from one string to another fast but that could just be me playing bad, and its heavy in weight.. if you can handle heavy weights and if you can easily change from this guitar to another one and if you are under budget and like metal. This is honestly the perfect guitar for you, and its usful for beginners to intermediate. Cause of the smooth neck you can also slide fast.