.. what would i need if i did seven strings and dropped it 3 (or two and a half, depending on how you look at it lol) steps so that.. the first 6 would be B standard and the 7th string is.. wait.. what WOULD the 7th string be if i did that.. ?
?-b-e-a-d-g-b
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The standard guitar tuning cycle is this:
E a d g b E a d g b E a d g b
It's a cycle of 5 pitches in order. Since a guitar is six strings, it repeats the first chosen note once. So, if you want a seven string, you'd get the following, low to high - in standard tuning
B E A D G B E
Basically normal with one lower cycle on low string. If you're tunining the entire thing so each string is one less, then you want to go for the lowest seven strings of an 8 string guitar in standard tuning.
G B E A D G B
That'd be your seven string tuning dropped a full string in the standard tuning.
But, you have a second option. Instead of going with standard tuning of a guitar, dropped one full string with a low seventh - you could go with the guitars standard INTERVALS, not the actual pitch tunes.
The intervals are, of course:
Perfect 4th - Perfect 4th - Perfect 4th - Major Third - Perfect 4th
Or, if you don't know what that means.
up 5 notes - up 5 notes - up 5 notes - up 4 notes - up 5 notes
So you could go that route, starting from any point. I think both are your options - and you might experiment with them. One will give you standard power chord shapes, the other might provide you better chord forms, and more familiar lead lines.
PS: Sorry if one of the notes/intervals in this is wrong I am doing this off top of my head.
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that was an unnessasary tangent. thanks for tryin to help, but i was just tryin to get the right note off the top o my head, and as you can see, we got it.
PS: im droppin two and a half (or three depending on how you look at it) steps on the 1st-6th strings and the seventh string down another step. so it would be E.