[Jim Antonio]

The latest photos on Chris Broderick's myspace shows him playing his Ibanez 7-string with Megadeth on their finland show last Feb 4! Now I just wonder:

1. Would there be Megadeth songs were he (secretly) employs that low B? That would surely bring out some new twists to the 'deth sound. Would Dave allow that?

2. Would he introduce 7 string riffage to Megadeth in the next album?

3. Would Chris eventually get his signature Dean 7 string? (assuming he stays longer than Glen Drover!)

I am quite excited about the possibilities!

[InTheRavensName]

Never
Never (quote Dave, "if you can't do it on 6, hang it up man"
Sincerely doubt it.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Dave Mustain

"if your names Dave Mustain hang yourself man"

fixed

You know, you can use the 7th string for more then just low notes

[Naren]

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.

[Jim Antonio]

I don't think Meshuggah and Steve Vai used the 7 (or 8) strings because they wouldn't use the lower notes; Otherwise, they could've just stucked to 6. Whether you make single-note licks/riffs or include the low B for chordal ideas, it's inevitable that you'll get a lower register in your music. I've been playing 7 strings while most of you were on diapers, so the sarcasm and lame analogies are uncalled for.

[Naren]

Originally Posted by Jim Antonio

I don't think Meshuggah and Steve Vai used the 7 (or 8) strings because they wouldn't use the lower notes; Otherwise, they could've just stucked to 6. Whether you make single-note licks/riffs or include the low B for chordal ideas, it's inevitable that you'll get a lower register in your music. I've been playing 7 strings while most of you were on diapers, so the sarcasm and lame analogies are uncalled for.

Then to put it simply: There is no way Dave is going to switch to sevens and since he is the "only" songwriter in the band, there is no way there is going to be "sevenstring" riffage. It's more like Dave is just "letting" Chris use his sevenstrings instead of forcing him to use sixes.

And I seriously doubt you were playing sevenstrings when most of us were in our diapers since production sevenstrings didn't even exist back then.

(Meshuggah is not a good example because they pretty much only use the lower notes)

[Jim Antonio]

Kiddo, George Van Eps has been playing 7 strings since the 1930's. I played my 1st 7 string 15 years ago, an Ibanez Universe, which came out in 1990. An uncle bought that for me from a music store in Japan, so it was in production.

I don't blame you though if you first heard of 7 strings from KoRn.

Anyway, let's keep the discussion to Chris' 7 string skills and the possibility of affecting Megadeth's music.

[Oogadee Boogadee]

dave's quote is pretty funny.

the real deal is, if you can't do it on seven, remove a string.

or 3 (max cavalera anybody?)

[Edroz]

Originally Posted by Jim Antonio

Kiddo, George Van Eps has been playing 7 strings since the 1930's. I played my 1st 7 string 15 years ago, an Ibanez Universe, which came out in 1990. An uncle bought that for me from a music store in Japan, so it was in production.

I don't blame you though if you first heard of 7 strings from KoRn.

Anyway, let's keep the discussion to Chris' 7 string skills and the possibility of affecting Megadeth's music.

dude, lose the attitude. plenty of guys here were playing sevens as long as you.