Josh O
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I currently have a sweet JP6 that I've been favoring as my #1 since I got it in April '06. I'm so used to/in tuned with every nuance of that guitar that I want another. I've always been kind of a Les Paul guy, always liked that heavy, chunky, block o'wood. Have had a couple, been through three Terry McInturff singlecut style guitars and kept one. It has a '57 style baseball bat neck and has always been my top choice. Not anymore, I played it last night with my band (what's left of it anyways since now there is only two of us and freakin' drum machine) and it just didn't feel right anymore for soloing. I'm no shredder by any stretch of the imagination (I tend to play sloppy penatonics and EVH type soloing) but I just felt lost without my JP in my hands. I like my TCM for good chunking and for ripping out some Pagey type riffs or other stuff you'd associate with a Les Paul and I use it as my detuned workhorse to play Sabbath stuff that's tuned down to C# but man, nothing feels more comfortable to me than my JP for everyday jamming.
I've been thinking of getting another tremolo equipped guitar, one that I can leave tuned flat to play early EVH, AIC, Hendrix, etc and have another that I'd leave normal tuned. I thought about a Wolfgang (I did, sorry, didn't get it though!!!!), maybe an Axis but you know, why not another JP baby!!!! I could leave my current JP tuned flat (which it currently is) and have a new horse in the stable ready to roll, a horse named JP.....but what JP would it be, I'm actually thinking JP7 but I'm a little apprehensive, I have a hard enough time with six strings, why go seven???!!
I like the balls you get with a ripping chord using that low B. I play in a dual guitar band that normally plays in normal tuning but I can envision mixing it up and getting more sonic landscape playing matching chords but on the low end of the world and maybe making up for the lack of a bass player right now. But should I really dump the dough on one? I briefly owned an Ibanez JEM Universe and admittedly back then, my skills weren't what they are right now, and I didn't know what the hell to do with that seventh string. I think I can make some use of it but my main fear is that my whole playing style will change when playing normal six string stuff, getting used to not being able to sloppily rip into the strings when playing chords, being very conscious of not hitting that low B and then switching back to my six strings and feeling lost.
Those who play both six and seven strings, does it just become second nature after awhile to play either one with no thought given that they are different???
I've been thinking of getting another tremolo equipped guitar, one that I can leave tuned flat to play early EVH, AIC, Hendrix, etc and have another that I'd leave normal tuned. I thought about a Wolfgang (I did, sorry, didn't get it though!!!!), maybe an Axis but you know, why not another JP baby!!!! I could leave my current JP tuned flat (which it currently is) and have a new horse in the stable ready to roll, a horse named JP.....but what JP would it be, I'm actually thinking JP7 but I'm a little apprehensive, I have a hard enough time with six strings, why go seven???!!
I like the balls you get with a ripping chord using that low B. I play in a dual guitar band that normally plays in normal tuning but I can envision mixing it up and getting more sonic landscape playing matching chords but on the low end of the world and maybe making up for the lack of a bass player right now. But should I really dump the dough on one? I briefly owned an Ibanez JEM Universe and admittedly back then, my skills weren't what they are right now, and I didn't know what the hell to do with that seventh string. I think I can make some use of it but my main fear is that my whole playing style will change when playing normal six string stuff, getting used to not being able to sloppily rip into the strings when playing chords, being very conscious of not hitting that low B and then switching back to my six strings and feeling lost.
Those who play both six and seven strings, does it just become second nature after awhile to play either one with no thought given that they are different???
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