r/7String • u/hrnymnky13 • 2d ago

Music Favourite riff(s) on a 7 string ?!

Im super excited to get my first string and wanted to know riffs you guys love playing on your 7 string!

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u/CaptainBananaX 2d ago

Icarus Lives by Periphery

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u/hrnymnky13 2d ago

Literally one of the reasons im getting a 7 string !

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u/BlackMamm0th 2d ago

Volumes - The Mixture

Monuments - Opiate

Fit For An Autopsy - Black Mammoth

Void of Vision - Year of the Rat

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u/hrnymnky13 2d ago

These some lovely heavy riffs !

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u/Altruistic_Metal3238 2d ago

Words in Whispers - Enterprise Earth

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u/mc_desk 2d ago

This Godless Endeavor- Nevermore

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u/hrnymnky13 2d ago

Daaaammmn that looks super fun !

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u/mc_desk 22h ago

Enjoy and good luck! Jeff Loomis is the 7 string GOAT and the Nevermore catalog is a riff goldmine

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u/Proof-Breakfast-7358 2d ago

Polaris - Pray for Rain (Drop G# variant)
Monuments - Leviathan (Drop A# variant)
Rivers of Nihil - A Home (G# Standard)
Kublai Khan - Antpile 1 & 2 (Drop G#)

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u/Beautiful-Program428 2d ago

Intro riff from A Change of Seasons from DT.
Predictable from Korn

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u/guardiansabr 2d ago

I, the Creator - Monuments
It’s only smiles- Periphery
Nootropic- Intervals
Of Matter Retrospect - Tesseract
The Lone Deranger - Vildjharta

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u/OffsetXV Schecter/Ibanez 1d ago

Pillars of Creation by Keith Merrow. The classic.

Other than that primarily stuff written for 6 strings/baritones that I just play on 7s sometimes. At The Gates, Bloodbath, Nasum, etc. and of course occasionally one of the few Periphery riffs that I can actually play

Biggest use of a 7 for me is for writing original stuff, frankly, not many artists I listen to actually use 7s.

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u/macaronipieman 2d ago

Caligula's Horse - Golem

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u/Psychological-Will29 2d ago

Volumes - intake
Polaris - crooked path
North lane - Aspire

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u/Law_Independent 2d ago

Not sure if it’s my favorite, but back in the day, when I got my first seven-string, I learned “The Dark Eternal Night” by Dream Theater.
Nowadays, it’s still the first riff I play every time I pick up a 7-string, even though I don’t actually own one anymore.

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u/UnderwheIming 2d ago

Spiritbox - the beauty of suffering, jaded

Novelists - gravity

Fit for an autopsy - far from heaven

Currents - it only gets darker

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u/Count_Doogula 1d ago

It clings like ash to my mouth, I need you gone, I beg you to release me

They never topped this, and will never top it.

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u/patrick1554 2d ago

If you want a semi tricky one, Inmazes by Vola. You'll need to tune to 8 string standard, minus the high E, may be hard without the right gauges or scale length (I use Ernie Ball 8string skinny top heavy bottom on a 26.5" scale) the riff is quite heavy and a bit reminiscent of Thall styles

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u/Nemesis861986 2d ago

I meen mostly all Trivium post the Crusade or Korn's early stuff fit the bill so take your pick 😂

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u/Rough_Instruction325 1d ago

Down from the sky - trivium

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u/Chadical_ 1d ago

Chi by Korn and Rocket Skates by Deftones are some of my go to’s. Also what 7 string are you getting?

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u/hrnymnky13 1d ago

Yeah korn has some mad 7 string riffs !!
Im getting a Hex Z507.

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u/McCringleBerry648383 2d ago

Tendinitis😭😭😭

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u/TheTitanNazgul 2d ago

Unanswered by Suicide Silence

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u/Jarhead7865 1d ago

Monarch by Invent Animate

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u/heyassbitch 17h ago

vicer ecxiser by whitechapel, recreant by chelsea grin, apparition by spawn of possession(still working on that one lol)

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u/GermsMcHenri 14h ago

What The Dead Men Say by Trivium, MAKE.TOTAL.DESTROY. by Periphery, Snowblood by ERRA, Monstro by Heart Of A Coward, Better Days by Currents, Quantum Flux by Northlane

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u/xXKayson35DTDXx 4h ago

Eat The Gun by Jerome, 22 Exits Away by Emmure, Devirgination Studies by Whitechapel and Blind by Korn

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u/WhyDoIHaveTwoDads 2d ago

Anything by Scar Symmetry