7 String Guitar for Beginners - 7 Tips to Help You Get Started

Welcome to my 7 String Guitar for Beginners video! This is the place to start if you're new to playing 7 string metal!

I'm taking you through 7 extremely helpful tips that will help you overcome any discouragement and challenges you have playing your 7 string.

Here's my 7 string lesson playlist (and I will continue creating more 7 string tutorials for you and putting them in this playlist):

Here are the timelines for each tip:

00:55 Tip 1- power chords on a 7 string
02:09 Tip 2 - alternating progressions (with backing track)
05:55 Tip 3 - riffing on a 7 string
07:29 Tip 4 - alternating riffs (with backing track)
09:01 Tip 5 - alternate picking rhythms on a 7 string
11:33 Tip 6 - alternating alternate picking (with backing track)
12:18 Tip 7 - what not to do on a 7 string
13:27 My story and final thoughts with more tips for you

I really hope you enjoyed this 7 string for beginners guitar tutorial! Let me know in the comments if you have any questions!

Keep it Metal,
Jason

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[CoozieCovers]

Who knew someone who looks so intimidating could be one of the most wholesome YouTube guitar instructors. Thank you for this. Just got a Schecter Demon-7 and this video is going to help me tremendously with adjusting!

[harshtruth]

I love channels where u feel the passion just looking at his face

[TheBerzerkGazelle]

Just got my first seven string for my 30th birthday. I've wanted one since I started playing eight years ago. I am beyond excited.

[TNTales]

I'm shopping for a 7 string and this exactly the sort of mental/physical exercise to get accustomed to the extra string that I needed. Shifting those chords unlocked something in my brain.

[anthonydisanto]

Dude you are the best teacher on youtube. You dont talk to us like we are mini steve vais and i appreciate that. Ive been learning alot on your chanel THANKS BRO

[VoidboiV]

my ordered guitar arrived as a 7 string instead of 6. Pretty much a beginner, but I guess is destined! These tips really pumped me up to feel it less daunting!

[neckcheese]

I got mine because I wanted access to lower notes, but didn't want to sacrifice the higher notes by down tuning. Plus, I really like the way clean stuff sounds in standard tuning. Another reason is that I like to jam along with some of my favorite songs (80's Thrash), and many of those are in standard tuning.

[TheGreatDiabeto]

i just got a 7 string yesterday for christmas and ive already learned so damn much from this video. im 100% going to use your videos to keep on keeping on this journey. thank you so much big brother

[wc]

Dude dropping some seriously helpful knowledge for a lot of people that need a little help with the transition to a 7.

[Warmonger]

Thank you Jason. I too have played 6 for 50years. i just got a 7 and love it!!

[DudeWithAPuter]

thanks, im getting my 7 back tonite..like you said i gave it up but now i understand

[David-sxon]

Got my first real 7 string
Bought it on an eBay site
Played it till my fingers bled
This was bout a week ago 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Looking on the internet
I knew that I needed something
And I will never regret
That I came to this brutal video 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

This gonna be the best week of my life 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[michaelwhite]

5 string bass player here, playing for 27 years now. Just started playing guitar a few months ago and went right to 7 string for the tuning familiarity of the first 5 strings. Its been a godsend bringing the learning curve down a bit.

[mikesmith]

I just got the Ibanez Axiom 7 string Multi scale!! Can’t wait to soak up all this 7 string stringy awesomeness

[nickchavez]

Stumbled on your channel searching 7 string vids…..thought to myself: Megadeth tshirt, puppets flag, EVH 5150…… this is my guy right here 🤟🏻🤟🏻

[tranqbee]

Jason you r the dude…..I’m a weight lifter and guitar player
After watching your video I bought a Ibanez 7 string multi scale with Fluence moderns.
I have been playing just the 6 strings and has helped enormously to acclimate to the guitar..thanks metaldude!

[GoForBrokeKustoms]

just bought my first 7 string guitar yesterday a jackson dinky archtop js22-7 and it took me awhile to make the decision cause i hit a rust and wasnt progressing with my 6 strings anymore and this video made so so happy to have purchased it thank you for posting such helpful videos cant wait to check out the rest of them

[lostinalbion]

My Schecter KM7 MK3 just got here last week. This video is great for us first-time seven stringers.

[Mik_mk]

I just got a 7-string for Xmas, I am in love with the guitar, hope one day i can play it better :)

[RockStarOscarStern]

You can also use 7 String Guitars for Church Gigs because with the Low B String, transposing is way easier to match the ranges of singers.