Who inspired you to play seven?

[HaGGuS]

korn and fear factory..
when i 1st heard that .. i was floored..
it just sounded so fuggen good ..

 

[mnemonic]

jeff loomis of nevermore probably.

when i started listening to nevermore, i really started liking those lower notes, before i never really liked going lower than D on my 6 (but i also had a shitty amp at the time that couldn't really handle anything lower than D without sounding loose and undefined)

bulb's stuff also definitely made me want a seven more, haha

 

[7 Strings of Hate]

I don't remember exactly, but back when I started playing (before I got introduced to most of the bands I'm into now) I was heavily influenced by Fear Factory and stuff like that. I think it had more to do with the fact that most bands I was into at the time tuned to B or lower though, weather they used 7s or not. I pretty much started tuning down the day I picked up a guitar, I just never liked standard tuning.

 

[shredder777]

Tony Macalpine and Meshuggah

 

[AngelVivaldi]

boredom worked wonders...

 

[Lucky Seven]

Probably my main one is Dave Weiner, seeing him live was amazing, The others would be Uli Jon Roth (I want a sky guitar so bad!), and John Petrucci.

 

[Childofshred19k]

Rusty Cooley

 

[distressed_romeo]

boredom worked wonders...

I'll bet the reasons for most major advances in music boil down to that!

 

[AngelVivaldi]

I'll bet the reasons for most major advances in music boil down to that!

Oh yea.. the boredom worked musical wonders for me lol

 

[Stephen]

Well at first i used to tune my 6 strings down to B standard but when i did that i was unhappy due to the range which i lost so that was one of the reasons. But guitarists at the time were John Petrucci, Rusty Cooley and Jeff Loomis

 

[asmegin_slayer]

Trey Azagthoth and Jack Owens. Those two had a major influence in getting a 7-string. Mainly the UV7BK

 

[EverDream]

The Silent Force album by Within Temptation. (Also the inspiration for tuning down to A)

 

[guitarplayerone]

ive wanted one ever since I first started playing, since I listened to a lot of Limp Bizkit, Korn and Orgy around then ( I was 10).
I was told to learn how to play a six-string first by my parents. (they probably hated the low b)
But when I recently got one, it was Petrucci, Vai, Cooley, and maybe a small amount of Dino that really got me into it.

 

[Rorschach]

For me, I blame Meshuggah first and foremost. Nevermore, Fear Factory secondly.

 

[Matt08642]

Steve Vai and Jeff Loomis.

 

[Randy]

Probably my guitar player, Matt.

 

[JJ Rodriguez]

Satan *sips wine*



Actually no one really influenced me to go 7. I heard that Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel used them, but I got my first 7 after playing for about 6 months. My reasoning was "So, I can learn Carcass and other down tuned songs, and then try to learn other songs made for a 6 string in standard tuning? Sign me up!". It just made logical sense

 

[Leon]

no one.

when i bought my first guitar, an Ibanez RG570, i gave my dad's guitar to my brother, which was an LP copy. now, with a trem, i couldn't drop D to play Tool anymore, so i was in the market for a fixed bridge guitar.

being a Jemsiter at the time, i scoped and scoped, and found some guy selling a fixed bridge RG, but it had 7 strings. i thought, "hmm, for $250 i can't go wrong!" a couple weeks later i had my RG7621, and instantly fell in love

 

[ohio_eric]

Sadly it wasn't until I found this place that the bug bit.

I blame you all.

 

[heffergm]

Vai... The Riddle. Droooolll.......