[delondcosta27]

heylo.........ok im wanna play a song thts on a 7 string guitar but i only have 6 strings.....
so so so how wod i do it?the 7 string is BEADGBE and its JOHN PETRUCCI so ...i dunnno

[Chaotic Kittie]

I guess the best solution would be tuning your guitar down to BEADF#B.
Otherwise you'd have to play a few notes 1 octave higher than in the song, but then you'd lack the heavy sound.
But if you're going to tune down that much you should get some thick strings... there are special heavy bottom strings for this, that work pretty well. With regular 090 or 010 the strings would get a bit too slack.

[delondcosta27]

yea i realised bout tht octaves but i wodnt get the right pitch or wutever.. and tuning it down wodnt b any good cuz the tab im using has 3 guitar parts and im doing all of them so all strings are needed with their perspective tuning...
and besides tuning it tht much wod just decrease the longivity of the strings and i dun wanna face the harsh whiplash of them strings anymore!!

[Donovan]

Hey delondcosta, is this song perhaps called "A Change Of Seasons"? If I remember right, there is a 6-string guitar part as well. Either that, or I must confuse it with the transposed/slightly altered version I have tabbed somewhere. So if you don't want to tune down (Ok, B is not that bad for your string, but they'll be very slack and probabaly unplayable ), or transpose the song to another key (playing along is not an option here, unless you use software to change pitch) then the only option left is... to buy a 7-string guitar

I've heard that the 7-string Ibanez Jems (by Vai) are pretty good... However, there's a nasty price tag attached to just buying one of these, of course If you're actually ARE intending to play Change Of Seasons (da capo al fine, of course), two thumb up to you Don't forget to post it in the Recording Booth if you have something substantial!

[Chaotic Kittie]

discovered this post again, and I now remember another way to solve this.
You can "fake" the downtuning by taking power chords like this:


D-------------------
A--5--3--2----------
E--5--3--2----------

so those are D C and B. It won't be exactly as a downtuning or 7-string, but it's close enough, it gets that heavy sound you'll probably want, so it works.
Just thought it might be worth bringing up!