7 Strings: Innovation or fad?

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by Mr Grimsdale
I know a lot of the Passion and Warfare stuff has a low B chugging away in the background so the switch must have been made very early.

The main riff in track 3 'The Animal' definitely does.

To me it's all novelty bullshit really and doesn't add anything much.

Once you have mastered 6 strings then move on to 7 but noone has ever mastered 6.

It's the same as adding an octave on a piano. There are good reasons that instruments developed the way they did.

[Mr Grimsdale]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
The main riff in track 3 'The Animal' definitely does.

The track I Would Love Too features a load of low B stuff too.

Originally posted by Seshmeister
There are good reasons that instruments developed the way they did.

That sounds a bit rude.

Ooh no missus no!

[Plexi Head]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
The main riff in track 3 'The Animal' definitely does.

To me it's all novelty bullshit really and doesn't add anything much.

Once you have mastered 6 strings then move on to 7 but noone has ever mastered 6.

It's the same as adding an octave on a piano. There are good reasons that instruments developed the way they did.

Originally posted by Seshmeister
The main riff in track 3 'The Animal' definitely does.

To me it's all novelty bullshit really and doesn't add anything much.

Once you have mastered 6 strings then move on to 7 but noone has ever mastered 6.

It's the same as adding an octave on a piano. There are good reasons that instruments developed the way they did.

I always thought he was pitch shifting the riff in 'The Animal', it has that pitch shift toneality. Maybe not?

[Mr Grimsdale]

live, it's played on a 7 string by a rhythm guitarist

[The_KiD]

They are pretty cool but I personally have a hard enough time with a 6 string.. LOL..

KiD

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by Plexi Head
No.

No

& No.

I really just don't like Korn....

it may have a 'groove'....but it's just one finger shite....

it may be your sort of thing, but nu metal isn't my sort of thing....it bores me....