[halsinden]

ok, everyone else can play other people's music. i want to be accepted in life and am sick of having stones thrown at me from ice cream trucks and having my ears pulled by people's pets for being such a freak.

so... just... just leave me the fuck alone and tell me some decent metal songs that would fit being played with a 7 string that's down to A on the heaviest and then as a D standard above it.

seriously, i'm telling mum. you're going to be in so much trouble. you'll see.

H

[Nick]

all necrophagist tracks are in D standard i think.

I cant think of any bands that play in A standard apart from the obvious korn lol

[Mr. S]

the berzerker are the first band that pop into my head, ill try and think of more though

[distressed_romeo]

'These Walls' by Dream Theater is a six string baritone in A, so that would work well in that tuning.

The whole of Death, Symphony X, and Paradise Lost's back catalogues are in D standard (although I'm not sure whether Greg still tunes down a tone on his sevens).

I think most Motley Crue songs (at least the early ones) are in D standard.

Actually, it's suprisingly hard for me to think of bands who aren't Korn who tune to A on sevens. It's much easier to think of bands who tune to Bb...

[GuitarG2]

You could check out Capharnaum. It's A on the bottom and Drop D for the top 6 strings, so it's slightly different, but it's pretty cool because there's ADAD at the bottom i.e. play a riff or some notes on the bottom 2 strings, and then play the same frets on the next string pair for an octave up. Plus Capharnaum just fucking shred!

[metalfiend666]

You can of course transpose songs. As long as it sounds like the song people know, they won't realise you're dropping it down a step. Unless you're trying to play to the original track.

Nevermore tune (usually) to Bb, so it's not that far a jump. They used drop D on their 6 string albums I believe. Also, try messing around with songs so they fit on a 7. I've got a nice way of playing AIC's Them Bones on a standard tuned 7, even though it was recorded in drop Db.

[MrJack]

Originally Posted by GuitarG2

You could check out Capharnaum. It's A on the bottom and Drop D for the top 6 strings, so it's slightly different, but it's pretty cool because there's ADAD at the bottom i.e. play a riff or some notes on the bottom 2 strings, and then play the same frets on the next string pair for an octave up. Plus Capharnaum just fucking shred!

I just have to add a band with the same tuning, Stam1na. They have awesome songs in my opinion and are fun to play. The rhythms they use sometimes may prove to be a bit tricky to get down but once you get them, they're like second nature.

Here are some samples. Might be NSFW because of the violence in the last one.

The singer has serious talent since he's able to play everything while singing while I have trouble just trying to play the first song properly. They have even more difficult songs where he sings at the same time.





Oh, it's in Finnish if you missed it.

[zimbloth]

Originally Posted by halsinden

ok, everyone else can play other people's music. i want to be accepted in life and am sick of having stones thrown at me from ice cream trucks and having my ears pulled by people's pets for being such a freak.

so... just... just leave me the fuck alone and tell me some decent metal songs that would fit being played with a 7 string that's down to A on the heaviest and then as a D standard above it.

seriously, i'm telling mum. you're going to be in so much trouble. you'll see.

H

All of my guitars are tuned ADGCFAD as that's what we use in my band, so I too jam along to other bands that tune to D standard or A sometimes. Some that come to mind in D are Gojira, Dimmu Borgir, old Children of Bodom, Cradle of Filth, etc.

Bands that tune like we do? Not many, which is cool I think. There are many bands that tune to B, Bb, or drop A but not many A standard. Fear Factory (most of 'Obsolete' was in ADGCFAD) comes to mind, as well as Hypocrisy, a few Arch Enemy songs, etc.

[halsinden]

guys, this is all brilliant advice, thank you. reps to all.

standouts are:

capharnaum - what a find. such amazing music, but i'm really not a fan of the vocals at all. this is definitely music for me to work at being able to tackle. what's a good tune to start on and who might know it best? are they on 7s? i love the vocals on the last tune on the myspace page

stam1na - oh. my. fuck. why had nobody told me about these lads? i am BLOWN AWAY. who are they? why they fuck aren't they huge over here? need more on them. anyone know them?

realising i may need tabs here, but oh well - working the stuff out myself can only improve me.

H

[GuitarG2]

Originally Posted by halsinden

capharnaum - what a find. such amazing music, but i'm really not a fan of the vocals at all. this is definitely music for me to work at being able to tackle. what's a good tune to start on and who might know it best? are they on 7s? i love the vocals on the last tune on the myspace page

realising i may need tabs here, but oh well - working the stuff out myself can only improve me.

H

Well, it's Matt Heafy from Trivium on vocals, so probably not a death metaller's favourite choice lol. However, on two of the tracks (including 'Icon of Malice') it's Jason Suecof, one of the guitar players (better known as a producer than a guitarist but oh well), doing the vocals in more traditonal death style. Yes, they play 7s, in ADADGBE tuning. There were a few tabs on Rivers of Gore - Brutal Tablature to start of from.

Also, they have Dan Mongrain from Martyr doing a couple of solos and the bass player from Monstrosity so they're a bit of a supergroup!