7 String Tuning question

[that guy]

hey skyclad ,what octaves are the russian tunings in?

 

[skyclad]

I've got 24 frets on my Washburn WG-587V, so I've got 4 full octaves on it. Note a single note more. Just 4 octaves. From lower D to D.

Casual 6-string guitar have the same range - 4 octaves (for 24 fret guitar) I guess. Main issue here - NOT a range, BUT tuning. Spanish guitar have minor key E (AmI right?) tuning on open strings, while Russian 7-string have G- major key tuning for open strings. After all, D-G-B-D-G-B-D tuning for russian 7-string was invented specially for arpeggios, since it have adopted for 7-string guitar harp tuning. Arpeggios means "like harp", by the way. So it is just perfect for arpeggios,and it is very different from 6-string spanish guitar instrument. 200 years old, though. With DIFFERENT chords. I have school with more than 1000 chords for russian 7-string. More than enough for me.


But if you need wider (than Spanish guitar) range, it is different. You may use 3 different guitars - bariton 7-string-one (for example), very-low tuned, standard 6- string guitar + 5 or 6-string bass guitar. All these instrumens in band will cover very wide musical range.


p.s. Or you can use alternative tunings for Russian 7-string guitar. It still would be G-major key tuned instrument, BUT with wider range. You can tune CG (7th & 6Th strings), or EA, or EG.

 

[skyclad]

d that page in www - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_guitar

Can be interesting info about Russian 7-string guitar + Brasilian 7-string plus...

 

[skyclad]

Found some interesting info about 7-string. First school for 7-string guitar published in St.-Petersburg, Russia in 1798. December, 15 to be precise. This school belongs to Ignatz Geld (1766, Chezh Republic - 1816, Russia). It seems impossible to find some published schools for 7-string guitar, published before year 1798.

So I can say that 7-string guitar birthsday - 12.15.1798. Anyway, 7-string guitar appeared during the second half of XVIII century.

 

[skyclad]

Foud another tuning for 7-string. While standard russian tuning - D-G-B-D-G-B-D is major keytuning on open strings (and it has 7 open strings creating a chord, while spanish 6-string guitar has only 4 open strings creating a chord),the other tuning is quite rare and it is minor key- D-G-C-D-G-A#-D, thought it is just a variation of standard Russian 7-string tuning.

 

[Korbain]

By the way, you're all wrong about Mike Mushok

He tunes Ab Db Ab Db Gb Bb. That low string is definitely an Ab. It's possible sometimes he tunes the Bb tuning as well, but every song I ever heard from them it was in that kind of tuning. I'm not a fan, but I did dig a few of their riffs back in the day.

EDIT: Nevermind I think someone eluded to this already, oops

mike used Bb tuning in the tormented album and most of dysfunction, except for a song called! A flat lol. It was break the cycle that was all A flat though. Mushok is a kick ass guitarist, his riffs are sexual!

 

[DDDorian]

I remember seeing one of Mushok's Guitar World columns where he mentioned some song being in Ab Eb Bb Db Gb Bb, from memory the others included drop-B, drop-Bb, drop A/D down half a step, and in the songs written by singery-AIC-wannabe-type-guy being in drop-D, Eb and DADGAD.

Personally, I stick to standard tuning or occasionally a step down. For some reason I can quite easily negotiate drop-D and the like on a six-string but give me a seven-string in drop-A and I'm useless, go figure.

 

[zimbloth]

I think Aaron Lewis and Mike Mushok are talented. I think Aaron has a good voice and Mike is a good player. I just find 95% of their songs pretty ho-hum. They do have some catchy ones now and then, I just think that band as a whole, is a lot of wasted potential.

 

[Release]

anyone tried gdgcfaa?

 

[JPMDan]

Acceptable? Shit dude, it's your guitar. Tune it however the hell you want. Look at Mike Mushok from Staind. He's got the most F'd-up tuning I've ever heard of, and he's in a hugely successful band. Do what you want is what I say.

Speaking of which, I wonder how tuning ADADGBE would work.

I use that tuning and Ab Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb both tunings are fun in my opinion it's just Drop D then with the Low A its just power chords or whatever you want to do with the low A.

 

[Chill 02]

Speaking of which, I wonder how tuning ADADGBE would work.

I use that tuning every now and then and it's quite handy. Hell, I've also used CCGCFAD and G#C#G#C#F#A#D#.

 

[bostjan]

CCGCFAD?

 

[danx]

i like standard tuning 1 step down.
Don't really use drop tuning anymore, as i find i have to jump about quite abit when playing single note heavy stuff, and alot of the chords i like are hard to reach.