nice! yeah i want to get a 7 string acoustic soon, nothing too expensive. it really is nice having that extra string below for finishing up licks or just playing the 5th below.Yep, these. I'm almost exclusively 7-string these days except for my '68 Gibson acoustic. Yes you get some interesting looks showing up to play cover songs or funk with a 7-string, but if you learn how to incorporate it, you can do cool stuff. My learning process was similar to what Chris described.
One thing among many - it's great having additional 'space' to do a turnaround at the bottom of a pentatonic lick. Your traditional blues box just gained another 4th/5th below it.
Jazz chords and voicings especially become way more flexible and cool. One of my 7-strings is a hollowbody which is a ton of fun once you get a handle on some new chord shapes (was almost going to say non-traditional, but 7-strings go back a long way in both jazz and classical guitar).
I'm currently building a half-fretted/half-fretless Ibanez to experiment with (frets deleted after #10). That feels way more weird than adding another string did.
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would you happen to know any resources for chord shapes/voicings for 7 string? i've looked briefly but didn't find much. just if anything exists already, not asking you to type anything out
