Who said that jazz standart is drop A? 
Seven String Tunings
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playstopause
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Who said that jazz standart is drop A?
Yev, drop A is Jazz standard.
That tuning was used by the jazz players, who played that tuning ages before Korn.
TomAwesome
I LIKE JUICE!!!
^ Yup. A E A D G B E was the standard tuning for 7-strings long before B E A D G B E.
interesting things...thanks for info 
tie my rope
Resident Asshat
i keep the 7321 in standard and im getting the loomis set-up for ADADGBE... as soon as it arrives 
Don
Well-Known Member
Concerning Metal, nearly all of the 6-String players are using down-tunings. So I think to stand out from the crowd as a 7-string player you rather have to tune down either (though I do not hehe!)
Sam Random-Name
Bringing the Grind
Last night, i tried to tune to 8 string for 7 string (F#, B, E, A, D, F#, B) But the strings weren't having any of it...plus, it was maybe too low to do anything interesting with, since the high end was that low. So, this morning, I put it into G, C, G, C, G, C, E, which is working great for me!
TomAwesome
I LIKE JUICE!!!
^ 
I thought I was the only one that remembered and references such a random and pointless little thing.
I thought I was the only one that remembered and references such a random and pointless little thing.
Oneiros
Well-Known Member
G D G C F A D (down a whole step dropped in G)
TomAwesome
I LIKE JUICE!!!
^I think Bulb uses drop Ab on his 7 (Same as me! Woot!), F on his 8, and drop C on his 6.
ive fallen into something of a cool tuning, basically drop d + A
so
A D A D G B e
it allows for some cool riffing and funky intervals with chording on the bottom end
so
A D A D G B e
it allows for some cool riffing and funky intervals with chording on the bottom end
That's one of my favourite tunings, although I usually take it down an additional half-step. It's fun being able to play add9 power-chords using the regular power-chord fingering on the bottom three strings.
I've also been getting into plain ol' standard, down a whole step recently...
Now I get the feeling I'm going to be blasted for resurrecting an ancient thread, but I didn't feel like starting a new one... and the material here is pretty relevant to my question.
I've been wavering between AEADGBE and ADGCFAD. Drop A, and A Standard. While I really like how drop A operates (easy 7-stringed major/minor chords, quick power chords) I've been questioning how solos would work. I'm not a master of soloing or the fretboard but I get the feeling that with standard tuning, having the two highest strings being the same note (obv. different octave) as the two lowest strings would have its advantage.
I was looking at some of Nevermore's (plays standard half step down) tabs and these assumptions were proved to a certain extent. The following solos used a lot of open notes on the top two strings: Narcosynthesis, The River Dragon Has Come. Albeit, a lot of Loomis's great solos don't use the 0 too often, but wondering if that little asset of standard tuning is a biggy, and if so, can be compensated for on jazz tuning.
I've been wavering between AEADGBE and ADGCFAD. Drop A, and A Standard. While I really like how drop A operates (easy 7-stringed major/minor chords, quick power chords) I've been questioning how solos would work. I'm not a master of soloing or the fretboard but I get the feeling that with standard tuning, having the two highest strings being the same note (obv. different octave) as the two lowest strings would have its advantage.
I was looking at some of Nevermore's (plays standard half step down) tabs and these assumptions were proved to a certain extent. The following solos used a lot of open notes on the top two strings: Narcosynthesis, The River Dragon Has Come. Albeit, a lot of Loomis's great solos don't use the 0 too often, but wondering if that little asset of standard tuning is a biggy, and if so, can be compensated for on jazz tuning.
rto666
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SAME HERE TOO!
7deadlysins666
kvlt
Half step down! Sometimes I drop the Bb down to Ab, but my band only has 1 song written in that tuning (always the last song in our set)
Fourths tuning on everything here, except 6 string acoustic which is also occasionally standard intervals, dropped D, DADGAD or DADF#AD intervals (it's actually all tuned down to start with), and sometimes the 8 is in Charlie Hunter tuning but with the treble strings in fourths, ie. EADADGCF.
harvested
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it's a standard tuning... just drop all the strings down 3 steps..
and to be on-topic
I use almost all the time the standard tuning but; sometimes is an ordinary E, or standard Eb or D....ofcourse with the added 7th string
