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What string gauge do you use on this thing or find works best for a drop tuning? I just ordered my first seven string from Sweetwater and can’t wait to play it!
@@indigoround9935 totally hear that and all for supporting local brick and mortar music stores. I always take my daughter in with me hoping she’ll get into playing lol. Also sucks buying something without feeling or hearing it first
Bass should play in the bass range and guitar should play in the guitar range. Drop B used to be my hard limit with Drop C being the soft, but these days I find that going up a half a step. Why not tune a 7-string in C standard, but the 6-string version with an added F on top and the third being moved up?
@@killahasbigrpk8711 Most people don't have systems that can appreciate the excessively low tunings, chords that should sound good start to sound dissonant and muddy the lower you tune, and guitar scale lengths in general just don't sound good with really low tunings and fat strings. Running a true baritone guitar with a 28-30 inch scale length in G, A, or B sounds much better than tuning a standard 25.5" scale length guitar even to drop B. If I were making very low-tuned music, the only way I'd do it is with a Baritone as the low guitar and a separate higher-tuned guitar that was tuned a major third to a perfect fifth higher with the same range/spread and number of strings (6, IMO) as the baritone. *TL:DR:* Low-tuned standard guitars are muddy, low tuning, in general, creates dissonance on normally good-sounding chords, and 99% or more of people don't have sound systems or headphones that can accurately recreate anything below a C1 with any sort of power, anyway, and even that's being generous. Oh, and most singers don't sing in the bass register, so anything below a C2 on guitar will be more than a perfect fifth below most singers' tessitura, aka the start of their natural range, and as such will be dissonant and out of tune with the vocalist.
@@Drunken_Hamster so all you’re saying is it takes more effort to create good tone on lower tuning? That muddiness can easily be counteracted by slight off tuning, good tone usage and some experience. If I could make drop b sound relatively good on a sanchez guitar (25.5 inch scale length) and amp, I’m pretty sure you can do very well to counteract the mudiness on a well crafted 7 string and a decent amp. So if you mean the system the guitarist uses on average won’t be good enough, I’d have to disagree. if you mean the system of the listener won’t be good enough to handle, how do you explain the poularity of bands such as slipknot and deftones? using two seperately tuned guitars isn’t practical at all, how would you do this live for example? it also complicates the music theory a bit, but that should be able to be worked around. the note about most singers not being able to sing in lower registers is a good point tbh, however the sort of music that lends itself to lower tunings is usually paired with screaming or instrumentals. And if that’s not your thing, get a good singer, jinjer was able to pull it off very well. so as much as you do bring up good concerns and it is valid points, it seems more that you just orefer higher tunings, which is perfectly fine but that doesn’t mean that it’s a metric that should apply to all guitarists. Some black/blackened death guitarists might even enjoy that extra muddy, dissonant sound.
Key (to me) is scale length and to some extent neck width and strings spacing, an item nobody seems to take serioua until arpeggioa tend to sound muted on 7,8 strings and beyond for it having less space between strings, this is a big issue id you have fat fingers like me, believe it. Also, a good 6 strings baritone guitar will roar much better than a regular 25,5" scale 7 strings in the same tuning, even more in tunings you talk here like drop G# and lower. Also, beginner players tend to go lower with 7 or 8 strings cause they always think in standard tuning, but there are plenty othwr tunings to try on a 6 string that makes it a wider range instrument like open C, open B, robert fripp's new standard, drop B (late slayer) custom A# (pentagram) apart from the more popular drop tunings like drop D or drop C of course.
Funny you say that, I was just thinking about how similar the chorus on Life To Lifeless sounds like Becoming. I personally think the two greatest riffs are Revolution Is My Name (also Pantera) and Scream (A7X)
The beautiful thing about learning "tricks" like this that make you sound "better than you are" is that in the process of learning this you just actually become a guitar player that sounds better. Its technique! No trickery. A lot of metal is fun in that rhythmic technique like this is the predominant form rather than complex chord changes, and that makes it a lot more accessible to beginning players I think.
