the fender VG stratocaster is more versitle for the needs of a guitarist today, changing tunings at the turn of a knob from standard to baritone, open g, dadgad, and drop d. also pick-up voicing from tele, strat and humbucking sounds, sound really cool!, i hope fender allow us to change the tunings to suit the individual player, there are other tunings that i would prefer on it but might hesitate to buy if you were stuck only with the ones with the guitar, or then again, you could tune the guitar normally with the tuning you want that isn't available on the knob and then use the electronics to make it back to standard tuning