7-String Essentials

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Metal

Excerpt: For this tutorial I wanted to focus on some 7-string goodness! For those of you who may be just getting used to the extra low B string, or for those who've never really examined it for what it is, theoretically, hopefully you can take something from this.  It's important to think about the guitar normally, as you would a 6 (aside from the wider neck) a...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Let's learn our B string by examining how it corelates with the rest of the strings by playing through the 7 modes (in G major). A few notes...   By ignoring the low B string, you'll quickly see how "normal" everything else looks. Whichever notes you'd play on the high B string (in a scale context) corelates to the low B. As in a previous lesson ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Scales Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Because our low B string is tuned a perfect 5th below the adjacent E string, (much like our E to A, A to D and D to G strings are) arpeggios and scales will seem to fall together relatively quickly due to the familiar symmetry.  Bars 1 through 4 demonstrate our 3-adjacent-string basic triad arpeggios (major, minor, diminished and augmented) For the fo...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Chords Style: Any Style

Excerpt: So let's start out this lesson by analyzing how chord shapes work with a low B string. You'll notice that the basic bar-chord shapes remain the same, but we must avoid the G string (and all strings lower) due to the guitar's natural tuning "flaw" causing the G to be a semitone too high. Some of the chords are still written with a bar across all 7 strin...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: Download the backing track and have fun! \m/

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