Synyster Gates and Schecter have teamed up once again for a new signature guitar that extends the Avenged Sevenfold guitarist’s range to seven-strings and removes the head for those on-trend ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Ibanez via YouTube Few players have done more to popularise the Ibanez seven-string ...

If you’re reading this as an adult, chances are you know how to tie your shoes. Whether you learned the loop swoop and pull method or the bunny ears method, you probably didn’t learn from a book but ...

Brian "Head" Welch explained why Korn started playing seven string guitars, and the reaction that one of their heroes had to it. Head and Munky weren't playing in a band together yet, but Head ...

The seven string guitar has existed in many iterations over the years, though finally had its first mainstream electric production model as the Ibanez UV7 in 1990. The Ibanez UV7 was made for Steve ...

The 7-string guitar has long been the weapon of choice for the harbingers of doom, delivering the extended range needed to play everything from djent to death metal and, of course, nu-metal. So, if ...

An unusual Davis musical tradition returns to the concert stage in early July, as guitarist and composer Matthew Grasso holds another of his annual concerts featuring multiple performers playing music ...

Dokken, Steve Vai, Munky, Head. It all came together. "I wasn't playing with James at that time, but he invited me to come back and jam with him. That's when I started playing seven-string. So I ...

While guitarist Lenny Breau's innovations may not seem so significant now, he was like a bolt of lightning when he emerged in the '70s out of Manitoba, Canada. A true self-accompanist who integrated ...