Guitar magazine reviews a 7 string: Expectation VS reality

[animaegray]

It gets even worse when they start playing some flaccid hard rock riffs with an angry bee swarm tone and think that it sounds metal.

[JEKAFISHER]

yeah, it's like every guitar magazine review is a bunch of blues and some box chords or triads. They go like "Today we have this metal machine with EMG pickups, a pure black finish with actual virgin blood used to paint some of the decals, it comes with 12-62 strings from the factory, it's shaped like a weapon and sounds like pure evil" *proceeds to play blues licks in E standard on a Fender 65 clean channel*

[jeffukarosta]

Expectation: *something awesome*

Reality: YOU

[johnnyespinoza]

I'm tuning the B to an A and start 30 minutes of random slipknot songs

[TAL]

Reviews a 7 string proceeds to play soft rock and some blues licks.

[Kynos]

Basically every single guitar review that I look up on YT. Even if it's a single pickup metal Axe with an EMG81 in the bridge, they always play the same old boring blues licks and chords.

[landonreading]

DAMN THAT WAS A SICK RIFF!!!

The one at the start was prettty good, too.

[ghoulofsorg]

dawg i was always a 6 string player, sold my SG cuz i needed money then about 7 months after got a ibanez 7 string, instantly tuned it to drop f# and been loving it ever since

[bmeijer]

*cough* guitarworld *cough* this is so true, it’s a bloody 7 string, play the low b…if you wanna play blues get a 6 string strat…🤣🤣

[FallenOfSolaCida]

The problem I have with 7 and 8 string bands is there's sooo much real estate to work with but people just drone the open string.

[LOSERMINDED]

Met this guy around 2017 since then i still love his videos Jamie truly slays

[firdeye]

thought it was gonna end with you hammering the low b for fun haha. You do nail this format though

[Guilhermetmfranco]

As an owner of a 7 strings guitar, i have to say: this is absolutely true! uhauuahuha

[owleyes]

i didnt buy a 7 string until i had a list of like 30 songs i wanted to learn that were on 7, just so i knew id actually use it😂😂

[deadinsidemcgee]

Personally I like seven string humbuckers for their power. It really makes the low E have that sound I am looking for but can’t get on 6 string pups.

[Mister.Beef.Wellington.The.rd]

Lol so true. The first song I learned on my 7 string was "Bent Backwards & Broken" by CC.
But since back than I still relied on tabs, I learned it about 1/4 faster than the original. lol
And I actually could play it at altered speed.

I love the challenge of shredding on a 7 string, only to go back on a regular 6 string & get overwhelmed how it feels much easier since the bridge is smaller.

Check out Bucketheads Woods of Suicide, Final Wars, Worms for the Garden. Thats a worthy challenge for a 7 string.

[mikeschultz]

If someone removed the 5 highest strings on my 7-string I’d be like “that’s fine”

[claudevieaul]

It's best to just keep your mind open to a 7, when you first get one...
When I found mine, I first figured out to regard it as a 'baritone' tuned to B, but with an additional high E. So: the G string is actually tuned a half step lower to F#.
And further in I started using drop-A and drop-D on the lowest strings.

But I'm not really fixed on any one tuning anyway, I use multiple tunings on various guitars - like Robert Fripp's New Standard Tuning, or Nick Drake's... It just depends on what I'm aiming for sonically.

[shredhead]

So over the 7 and 8 string etc fad. I play in an alternate Drop B on my 6 string PRS and achieve what I need on the higher strings with solos and leads and just use a pedal if for whatever reason I do one more on the high end. Not like I’ll ever be a Steve Vai anyway haha 😆🤘💀🤘🎸

[AndiKravljaca]

Honestly one of the truest videos I've seen you do. I own 27th string guitars and I play the 7th string about 3% of the time.