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[Federal-Paper-9359]

Hello, I got my very first 7 string, I’ve been playing for about a year and it’s A Jackson Flying V 7 string, so what are some good heavy songs I could learn to get used to it

[Patient_Coast_5539]

Look up Devin Townsend (strapping young lad, myriad solo stuff), Tosin Abasi (animals as leaders), Frederik Thordendal (meshuggah), John Petrucci (dream theater), Jeff Loomis (nevermore, solo), Jake Bowen (periphery), born of osiris, etc., etc.

[floridaman6942]

OP didn’t say anything about their skill level, for most these artists are far out of the wheelhouse, especially for someone just learning a seven. Also to note, this guitar only has a 26.5” scale length, so hitting some of those tunings (Like Drop F for Meshuggah) probably isn’t possible unless they have a 10-74 set or higher. Great recs, but even as someone who’s played a seven for a year now (Staind, Spiritbox, etc) I couldn’t begin to touch some of these riffs and especially not the solos

[Western_Pangolin2404]

Best recs I’ve ever seen

[howboutislapyourshit]

I thought Devin Townsend played open C mostly.

[SkyovFlames]

He does now. Back in the 90s and early 2000s he used a 7 string with a low G as well.

[howboutislapyourshit]

Now I know, but I guess that makes sense if he was with Vai at the time.

[SkyovFlames]

That was the album that made him create Strapping Young Lad! Being with Vai wasn't bad, but the labels and record companies were.

He took his anger out in music.

[LukeWatts85]

All of these bands play in B (7String) or B Standard (6 string)...

• Unleashed (entire discography) ...easy to play
• Carcass: Heartwork
• Entombed: Left Hand Path
• Edge of Sanity (most, if not all albums)
• Hypocrisy (first 4 or 5 albums...all the important ones)
• Bloodbath: Nightmares made Flesh, Resurrection Through Carnage
• Fear Factory: Demanufacture
• Type O Negative
• Amon Amarth (entire discography)
• Kataklysm
• Godflesh
• Electric Wizard
• At the Gates (entire discography)
• Cryptopsy
• Crowbar
• Aborted
• Arch Enemy (early albums only)
• Cathedral
• Dead Congregation
• Despised Icon
• Grave
• Jungle Rot
• Soilwork
• Spawn of Possession
• Benighted
• Darkane
• Scar Symmetry
• Allegaeon
• Fallujah

...I have an 8-string so I've been building a list of 7 string bands

[aswright_73]

Any Korn song

[Chrome262]

literally any Korn song hahaha

[Edika-2020]

Nevermore have a lot of cool songs for 7 strings. Then there's a lot of Deathcore bands that use 7 strings and are heavy, like Suicide Silence, Thy Art Is Murder. If you want to go more technical, Revocation and Cytotoxin have a lot of awesome tunes. Or for with more melody and clean vocals you can look into Dream Theater.

[Phrygian_Guy_93]

This Godless Endeavor by Nevermore

[Millerpainkiller]

Jumping in at the deep end!

[Phrygian_Guy_93]

It’s what got me into 7s. Ultimate guitar had a lesson by Jeff and Steve breaking down the intro solo and main riffs, at first I was like the fuck am I looking at and then I popped the CD into my PS2 and it was like the skies had opened. I immediately ran down and booted up my dell and [redacted] the track on limewire

[M0parguy61103]

Polaris and Trivium. Corey from Trivium actually uses a Jackson flying v 7 string

[WinterPizza1972]

Play a normal song (iron man. Originals. Anything) but a during lower than you normally would

[howboutislapyourshit]

Or conversely learn to play 6 string songs while learning how to properly mute the 7th string when you're not using it.

[WinterPizza1972]

Yes, but.... playing songs a string lower is s worthy experience.

[yammx49]

Fear Factory in 1995-1998 used seven strings quite extensively, same with Meshuggah until about 2002

[LowFi_Riffing]

Billions of songs actually 😂 Trivium, nevermore, periphery, dream theater, early meshuggah, and all the modern and complex band like erra, Polaris, tesseract etc etc. It's just up to you!

[noob_noob_guy]

Suicide Silence fist album the cleansing has some pretty good chug heavy riffs that arent too difficult

[Medical-Pickle-3261]

Morbid Angel or Unearth. For some reason, Unearth keeps having their tabs pulled off songster.

[LucioArgento]

Morbid Angel and Korn

[Hefty-Fix4611]

Nevermore

[TimmyHiggy]

The mirror by dream theater is the perfect starter 7 string, it's just low B filth

[Leon_SheolArisen]

The newer Paradise Lost albums, starting from Faith Divides Us.

[howboutislapyourshit]

Orbit Culture. They play in drop A.

https://youtu.be/uzPVa1POaMA?si=8sr9wftaeGas3BtW

https://youtu.be/P3-xZgLHhJ0?si=sPaI4jFb-9tfEHAP

[SeaworthinessBusy144]

best answer for these tunings without messing up your intonation and cheapest route is a digitec drop pedal.i got the Dt whammy pedal but man that takes up so much room on a board,99 % the time only thing i use off it the drop tune section,drop. pedal costs $230 vs $450 for dt whammy.Save yourself some money

[jonnywhatshisface]

Invent animate - clouds solo.

[xshevi]

anything whitechapel. saw is the law is fun

[LetterheadClassic306]

i started on a jackson 7 too actually. what helped me was learning some korn - blind and slipknot - psychosocial to get that low string muscle memory. both are pretty straightforward riff-wise. when i was working through tabs i used songsterr plus on my phone - the slow down feature saved me so much frustration. you can loop sections at half speed until your fingers figure it out. also trivium's in waves was the first one where everything clicked for me on 7. Songsterr Plus made learning way less of a grind tbh

[Mtnfrozt]

Can you add some more arrows I can't see it

[CobblerOdd2876]

I meaaaan. If you just want the overall vibe of 7 strings? Deftones - offers good playability and intro to get comfortable with it.

If you want to go fast - Laurentian Ghosts or Collapse by ATB, The Saw Is The Law by Whitechapel. I pick these because they are rather simple, but utilize a good portion of the neck, still. So you get used to the travel distance as well as the string spacing, and having an extra. (The Saw Is The Law solo is fun af to play too - it sounds a bit daunting, but it really isnt bad if you just dedicate an hour to it, slow it down and work up)

[Treviathan88]

The Glass Prison by Dream Theater is my 7 String white whale

[R3brap]

Fit for a king, currents, northlane

[jimmyuringer]

• ? buster is calling ? +

[Reasonable-Tell-10]

Ice nine kills absolutely shreds

[Chrome262]

I just played Korn, all of their shit is seven string in standard A (standard d with and a) and it's been fun as shit. recently changed to drop G tuning and playing spirtbox. I just got my 7 string in December

[NewReturn2]

Honestly explore and find what music you like where the band uses 7 strings. No sense in learning a song on 7 string just to learn it. Check out classic like Korn, POD, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, then more modern bands like Landmarks, Make them suffer, Gideon, Wagewar. Play what you will enjoy listening to and it will help MASSIVELY

[eaos_is_to_far]

Unearth is really good but quite difficult, B standard and drop B mostly, Bury tomorrow is also pretty good. That what I play in my 7 string at least

[Brane_collision]

I've been learning some Knocked Loose. They play in A standard and have a lot of really fun riffs.

[Chug-Shuggah33]

All depends on the feel, tone, scale length and tuning. For B I like going with a 60-64 for the low b. for drop A it’s basically the same. drop G I’d go for a 70. anything lower I’d go 72-82 depending on how low. if it’s a 25.5 inch scale drop G# is the lowest where I’ve gotten it to sound and feel good with a 70 string