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Originally Posted by Desecrated  You know, you can use the 7th string for more then just low notes  |
Exactly.
I don't get all these people saying "Aw, maybe he's playing *insert song title here* in B!!" No. He's not. And I'm glad he's not. Keys sound very very different. I brought a song I wrote in E into my band where we use 7-strings and I still play it in E because if I changed it to B, it would be an entirely different song and it's an E-song, not a B-song.
I never liked how guitarists always have a tendency to riff off their lowest tuned string open. With a seven, you have more options available. If Dave is playing in E, that doesn't mean Chris can't use his B string at all. I used to play in a band where the other guitarist wrote most of the songs in 6-string D standard. I never said, "Hey, dude, let's switch all your riffs down a string to A, yeahhh!!" I just would play what he did an octave lower, an octave higher, or at the same place, or at the same pitch in a different location - or something completely different that fit what he was playing.
7-string does not just mean "SUPER LOW NOTES." In fact, if Chris wanted to, he could tune his guitars with an extra high string.
Besides, Dave has never been into super low tuned riffage, so, while I do think Dave would be fine with Chris using the low B string in solos and even for different positioning of riffs or extended chords, I'm almost positive he wouldn't be cool with switching riffs down to B or C or D.