(Sry, if this already is on sevenstring.org anywhere.)
As I have been playing and professionally learning classical acoustic guitar for some years now for me an eight string electric guitar would be interesting because I could transfer and expand my skills and knowledge from this field (counterpoint playing, classical guitar technique) to the new instrument - next to the facts that I could use it for "normal" but extended electric guitar playing.
On Monday I found a beautiful and impressive webpage that - for me - offers a good introduction in playing eight string guitar like Charlie Hunter:
http://home.planet.nl/~boons105/ - Eight String Common Pool
Here you can download many files about single method trainings and a fantastic PDF file named "Eight String Lessons":
http://home.planet.nl/~boons105/EightStringLessons.pdf that includes many explanations with note and tab examples.
From my point of view you didn't need to play a Novax Charlie Hunter (jazz) guitar but can transfer his style of playing to your "standard" Ibanez RG2228 (overlooking the scale length and the fact that you don't have seperate pickups for the bass strings). You only have to tune down your deep E, B and F# string two semi-tones so that you can use the Charlie Hunter tuning EADADgbe (the three deepest strings tuned like a four string bass; standard eight string tuning would be F#BEADgbe).
Then the step from six string classical guitar playing isn't that great to the first steps of learning to play like Charlie Hunter.
The author of the above-mentioned page writes to this theme:
When you see the eight string guitar tuned EADADghe as a six string guitar with doubled AD-strings you could easily new-interpret some of your old pieces from your Classical guitar repertoire by playing the accompaniment bass notes on the one ocatve lower EAD strings.
From my point of view the tuning of the "guitar strings" (ADghe) is very great because you can start with an A like on a piano [There's a ten string guitar in my head tuned A1-D2-G2-B2-E3-A3-D4-G4-B4-E5 (last 7 strings tuned like a seven string guitar
, maybe someday) ].
Have fun.
As I have been playing and professionally learning classical acoustic guitar for some years now for me an eight string electric guitar would be interesting because I could transfer and expand my skills and knowledge from this field (counterpoint playing, classical guitar technique) to the new instrument - next to the facts that I could use it for "normal" but extended electric guitar playing.
On Monday I found a beautiful and impressive webpage that - for me - offers a good introduction in playing eight string guitar like Charlie Hunter:
http://home.planet.nl/~boons105/ - Eight String Common Pool
Here you can download many files about single method trainings and a fantastic PDF file named "Eight String Lessons":
http://home.planet.nl/~boons105/EightStringLessons.pdf that includes many explanations with note and tab examples.
From my point of view you didn't need to play a Novax Charlie Hunter (jazz) guitar but can transfer his style of playing to your "standard" Ibanez RG2228 (overlooking the scale length and the fact that you don't have seperate pickups for the bass strings). You only have to tune down your deep E, B and F# string two semi-tones so that you can use the Charlie Hunter tuning EADADgbe (the three deepest strings tuned like a four string bass; standard eight string tuning would be F#BEADgbe).
Then the step from six string classical guitar playing isn't that great to the first steps of learning to play like Charlie Hunter.
The author of the above-mentioned page writes to this theme:
When you see the eight string guitar tuned EADADghe as a six string guitar with doubled AD-strings you could easily new-interpret some of your old pieces from your Classical guitar repertoire by playing the accompaniment bass notes on the one ocatve lower EAD strings.
From my point of view the tuning of the "guitar strings" (ADghe) is very great because you can start with an A like on a piano [There's a ten string guitar in my head tuned A1-D2-G2-B2-E3-A3-D4-G4-B4-E5 (last 7 strings tuned like a seven string guitar
, maybe someday) ].Have fun.
