7 String Guitar Method
Most guitarists who pick up a 7-string treat the low B string as a novelty — something to chug on in drop tuning and otherwise ignore. Which is understandable, because nobody shows them how to actually integrate it. The result is a 6-string player with an extra string they never use, wondering why they bothered.
7 String Guitar Method is built around a different premise: the 7-string is its own instrument with its own system, and the fastest way to get the most out of it is to treat it that way from the start.
That doesn’t mean throwing away everything you already know. The book is specifically designed to transfer your existing 6-string knowledge onto the 7-string fretboard — scales, arpeggios and chords you already have under your fingers, adapted to work across all seven strings — while simultaneously showing you what the 7-string can do that a 6-string simply can’t.
What’s in the book
- Major and minor scales across the full 7-string fretboard, with corresponding chords and arpeggios
- Major and minor pentatonic scales and the blues scale — all adapted for 7 strings
- A streamlined system based on just three scale patterns — reduced from the usual five or seven — that transfers directly to arpeggios and any other scale or mode you want to add later
- How to use the low B string musically rather than just for rhythm chugging
- The unique voicings, intervals and harmonic possibilities that only exist on a 7-string
Who it’s for
Guitarists making the transition from 6 to 7 strings who want a proper method rather than just transposing their existing knowledge and hoping for the best. Also ideal for anyone whose 7-string has been gathering dust because they never found a clear system for getting to grips with it.
Also in this series
Playing 8 strings? 8 String Guitar Scales and Arpeggios applies the same systematic approach to the 8-string fretboard.
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