7 Strings anyone?

[aen]

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Ta-da.

Excuse the mess, I can ne'er do anything right in one take. Note the different tunings of the 7th string.

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daaamn, that tuning with all the c's and g's sounds great, what string gauges are you using for that?

It's a set of Ernie Ball Beefy Slinkys (11-54), playing with the 4th string open most of the time, which I learned from watching Aen. Turns out that Aen Standard can be pure magic at times!

Oh, dude, thats my triiiick! Thumb over the board, middle finger on the high strings and some DROOOOOOOONES

[ekwatts]

Only seven-string I'd ever been arsed about was the Danelectro Mod 7, partly because I've never seen one in person, nor online, or even secondhand on eBay. I think it was the very last design they released, and it's kind of fitting in a way that it was a 7-string that finally finished the original reissue period off.

[Dannymec]

That Dano!
Sooo cooooool

[Dingus]

I've got a Squier Stagemaster 7-String that I bought for $70 off some guys pissed off exgirlfriend on craigslist. I've only used it to play crap like KoRn, Limp Bizkit, Orgeee (yeah I'm at work). and occasionally a shoegazey mess tuning almost all of the strings to the same note.

It looks like this one:

[Boab]

Only experience I've ever had was a pal's pink Ibanez back at school.

It was upside down for me, but I could imagine them being a lot of fun, as the vids in this topic show.

[SpaceFace]

I've got a Squier Stagemaster 7-String that I bought for $70 off some guys pissed off exgirlfriend on craigslist. I've only used it to play crap like KoRn, Limp Bizkit, Orgeee (yeah I'm at work). and occasionally a shoegazey mess tuning almost all of the strings to the same note.

It looks like this one:

Damn 70 dollars? I wish I could come across a steal like that on craigslist or ebay. I kinda wish I had a 7 string but cant justify paying a high price for one. 100 dollars or lower yeah but right now anything over that I just cant do. But that stagemaster looks sweet as hell.

[ekwatts]

I just don't really get 7-strings at all. If you really need that low B, just tune down, right? What major advantage do you really get by having one more string than 99.99% of guitarists are used to? I don't really consider myself a traditionalist by any means. Things like the Chapman Stick are really impressive, but that's a completely different instrument to a guitar or a bass. Even basses with five or six strings I find a little baffling. I can understand old six-string Bass VI styles, that actually makes a fair bit of sense, but those crap massive wang-festooned sucked-lemon piles of woody bullshit you see every guitar company and their dog turning out nowadays just look gash and unnecessary.

The reason I like the Dano version I posted above is that pretty much nobody that would ever really consider a 7-string under the usual circumstances would touch it with a shitty stick. It's like 7-strings are a unique instrument that belongs to a particular genre of music which is simple chuggy-chuggy Linkin' Park pre-teen dogshit. And even then, many metal guitarists have simply wised up and started using six-string 27" scale guitars instead. I think this sort of question came up recently in relation to gear snobs, actually, and many people got pounced on for stating that a guitarist turning up with a seven-string for an audition for their band would be immediately fighting an uphill battle, and I really do understand it. It's like when I see your average indie band, I pretty much always want to jump on the stage, take the rounded Warwick copy bass from round the neck of the bassist, smash it on the ground, force a nice Precision (even an Encore copy or something; gear snob my far arse) into his hands with a strap that reaches at least below his nipples and make him play it with a plectrum before I pull his jack out of his Trace-Elliot and stab it in his stupid fucking eyes.

Also see: Fretless guitars. Seriously. What the absolute fuck.

[Gabriel]

I'd love something like this:



Would be cool to play really big sounding chords.

[SpaceFace]

I'd love something like this:



Would be cool to play really big sounding chords.

yeah that thing is nice. there is one on ebay like that right now for over 12 grand. but I found this website, it has a bunch of jazzier 7 strings. raines guitars

also I think the problem with 7 strings is most people lump them into the metal category because lets face it every time you go on youtube and watch a vid its some guy chugging away on the same meshuggah riffs. but where the 7th string comes in handy the most is with jazz especially if its just a solo guitarist playing because they can also play the bass line (if they are good enough). otherwise its probably not much of a necessity really. but I agree if I want to get heavy tones I would just tune the guitar lower. and as far as fretless goes, you can get alot of interesting sounds out of it like slide sounds and microtones (then again you can just do that with a slide). hell I wouldnt mind having either but I have a hard enough time playing a normal guitar.

[JJLipton]

"also I think the problem with 7 strings is most people lump them into the metal category because lets face it every time you go on youtube and watch a vid its some guy chugging away on the same meshuggah riffs. "
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I'd hate to swallow my american pride but this brit is fuckin awesome. Think about the Fat chords, and extra long runs that a 7th string would allow! Detuning the 6th string on a guitar really only leaves you with 5 strings for lead playing, unless you have freakishly long fingers. a 7th string tuned to B really opens up a lot of doors.

[dub]

Pretty sure Meshuggah use 8 string guitars now. hah!

[aen]

I only use four strangs on my baritone. Im about to receive a Gretsch baritoine though, whihc in theory you can tune E-e, so Ill have to experiment. Last night I played my 25.5" scale baritone through the bass amp, it was a really cool sound, so I might just A-a the new gretsch..

[Mo Law-ka]

I only use four strangs on my baritone. Im about to receive a Gretsch baritoine though, whihc in theory you can tune E-e, so Ill have to experiment. Last night I played my 25.5" scale baritone through the bass amp, it was a really cool sound, so I might just A-a the new gretsch..

are you implying that you're going to HIT THE A with your gretsch?
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[aen]

are you implying that you're going to HIT THE A with your gretsch?
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YOU KNOW I LOVE TO HIT THE A.