Received the e-mail from Bev

[themike]

Maybe it's seven strings, just not all on the same guitar.... hehehe

Actually, I'm eager to see the 7 string demo to get a better sense of how the extra string adds to the mix.

Yeah man, I encourage everyone to play it. I mean I dont know if I conveyed it on this new board, but when I started the initial thread on BAM back in the day I said that I am not even a sevenstring player really - I just knew the market very well and was upset to see people paying LARGE amounts of money to these private luthiers and overseas companies for 7 strings that when you asked them a majority of them would say "oh id prefer a PRS 7, but they don't have one". So that really was what started the whole thing as I love nothing more than people becoming part of the PRS family. The company rules for more reasons than I can explain and everyone knows it

 

[Em7]

Maybe it's seven strings, just not all on the same guitar.... hehehe

Actually, I'm eager to see the 7 string demo to get a better sense of how the extra string adds to the mix.

Steve Vai started toying around with 7-strings in the eighties. The first configuration that he used added a high-A string to a standard-tuned 6-string (EADGBEA), but Steve kept breaking the high-A. He finally settled on a low-B string (BEADGBE). Korn is usually the band that receives credit for popularizing the 7-string. They were one of the bands that pioneered the "how low can I go" movement that is a staple of modern heavy guitar. The advantage of using a 7-string over a drop-tuned 6-string is that it retains all of the standard-tuned guitar chord voicings and scale patterns if one ignores the low-B while expanding the range of the instrument.

 

[Aldwyn]

That's a typo Mike, it should read "SE Custom 24 5-string demonstration". I think 5 strings models are really going to catch on!

Awesome! PRS banjos!

 

[Shawn@PRS]

7 string = Themike Signature Model

 

[themike]

7 string = Themike Signature Model

Does that mean I get artist cost?

 

[]-[@n$0Ma☩!©]

7 string = Themike Signature Model

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[aduayer]

Steve Vai started toying around with 7-strings in the eighties. The first configuration that he used added a high-A string to a standard-tuned 6-string (EADGBEA), but Steve kept breaking the high-A. He finally settled on a low-B string (BEADGBE). Korn is usually the band that receives credit for popularizing the 7-string. They were one of the bands that pioneered the "how low can I go" movement that is a staple of modern heavy guitar. The advantage of using a 7-string over a drop-tuned 6-string is that it retains all of the standard-tuned guitar chord voicings and scale patterns if one ignores the low-B while expanding the range of the instrument.

I tried a few 7 strings guitars but the low B always made me confuse. So I got a Se Mike Mushok baritone and it's more my thing, but it's been more then 10 years since I tried those 7 strings. I will give it another shot

 

[aduayer]

7 string = Themike Signature Model

Mike's Sig model won't be a SE, sure will have a Private Special run

 

[]-[@n$0Ma☩!©]

The advantage of using a 7-string over a drop-tuned 6-string is that it retains all of the standard-tuned guitar chord voicings and scale patterns if one ignores the low-B while expanding the range of the instrument.

Same applies to 5-string bass. It was incredibly difficult for me to make the transition to a 5-string in the early 90's. That is to say, I struggled to get back to a place when I could play my bass without constantly focusing on where I was. To this day, I won't pick up and play a 4-string for fear of regressing.

Ironically, I don't think it will be as hard for me to alternate between 6 and 7 string guitar. But I'm going to find out!

 

[JMintzer]

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[]-[@n$0Ma☩!©]

What's that guy behind him doing?????

 

[markie]

Same applies to 5-string bass. It was incredibly difficult for me to make the transition to a 5-string in the early 90's. That is to say, I struggled to get back to a place when I could play my bass without constantly focusing on where I was. To this day, I won't pick up and play a 4-string for fear of regressing.

The only reason I still have a 5 string Bass............................. Hansomatic!

 

[wilerty]

7 strings? .... I have way too much trouble with 6.

 

[Albrecht Smuten]

That's a typo Mike, it should read "SE Custom 24 5-string demonstration". I think 5 strings models are really going to catch on!

That's kinda retro... Every oldshool punk guitarist is playing the 5-string. Actually the peak of every punkrock show is the moment of turning the 6-string into a 5-string.

 

[Albrecht Smuten]

7 strings? .... I have way too much trouble with 6.

It's like this - take 7-string, tune it to Drop-A, plug it into a bass amplifier (via a killer distortion like Electro Harmonix Metal Muff) and you won't have trouble with ANYTHING EVER =D

 

[themike]

It's like this - take 7-string, tune it to Drop-A, plug it into a bass amplifier (via a killer distortion like Electro Harmonix Metal Muff) and you won't have trouble with ANYTHING EVER =D

Drop A is nothing - I think you need to try Drop E haha

 

[]-[@n$0Ma☩!©]

It's like this - take 7-string, tune it to Drop-A, plug it into a bass amplifier (via a killer distortion like Electro Harmonix Metal Muff) and you won't have trouble with ANYTHING EVER =D

I'm running my baritone through a vintage B-15... 2 and 1/2 steps down.

 

[Albrecht Smuten]

Drop A is nothing - I think you need to try Drop E haha

No... NO! That's CRAZY! haha

Actually, with the help of Morpheus DropTune pedal, I can drop the whole thing pretty much wherever I want... (on top of my feet for example)

I'm running my baritone through a vintage B-15... 2 and 1/2 steps down.

Super awesome! All the strings tuned down?

 

[kselbee]

This is going to be great! Grissom and Termonti on the same night. Woohoo. Maybe this year I'll make it to the amp room. Totally missed out last year.

I don't see Tremonti on the schedule? How did I miss that?

 

[Big Mard]

Tremonti is going to be on That Metal Show Saturday on VH1 classic.