Classical Guitar Forum

The 7-string classical guitar

Ramón — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:14:06 GMT

I believe that the 7-string guitar should have the same range as the 8-string and 10-string guitars. This can be achieved by tuning the seventh string to A. In 8-string guitars, the tuning would be A and D, and in 10-string guitars, A, B, C, and D.

The seventh string can also be tuned to G if we are going to play in C, as in the Prelude BWV 846 from the Well-Tempered Clavier.

[link text]https://youtu.be/57UdYQjBtYA(link url)

Anyone for Tango

emilernebro — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:18:07 GMT

@markblues
Thanks so much for sharing Mark! Sounds wonderful!! We need more tango on this platform!! :)
Kind regards/E

Help identifying this guitar?

PUPV — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:51:19 GMT

Hey all. New to the forum and created an account because I inherited a classical guitar from my deceased grandfather. It’s an Amalio Burgeut classical style with nylon strings. I play modern rock and acoustic stuff but I’ve never touched a classical guitar. I tried to identify what model it is but am struggling to read the cursive on the label. Any help?
Thank you! )

New Sonata for Guitar

emilernebro — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:07:22 GMT

@lucascamparadiniz Sounds great Lucas!!

Jesu, joy of man's desiring by J.S. Bach

TheLostMoonstone — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 05:05:26 GMT

Hi!
Check out my cover of "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" on my Instagram @the_lost_moonstone. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfLdKBPjZpv/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

New composition

Asaad Hamzy — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:36:21 GMT

Hello,

I am new member here, I am composer and Guitarist from Syria living in UAE, I would like to share some of my compositions.
Thank you for listening.

Asaad Hamzy: Hopeful hearts Op.20 for two Guitars. – 12:22
— Asaad hamzy

Best

"Beethoven Virus" OST on 10 string classical guitar

m_decacorde — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:15:16 GMT

Sometimes you need a sad song on guitar, even if you're yourself a guitarist ,
when you are felling blue. This music is a soundtrack from "Beethoven Virus" Korean
movie. I just arranged it for the 10 string guitar and recorded it live.

sad song on 10 string guitar (Beethoven Virus OST cover) [Marina Krupkina] – 03:09
— Marina's Decacorde

The recorder I use is ZOOM H6, camera - Nikon D3500.
Strings - PYRAMID
Tuning - e b g d a g D B A# E

"Ouroboros" - original song for 10 string guitar

m_decacorde — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:22:43 GMT

Here is a piece called "Ouroboros" composed and performed on 10 string guitar (a classical one with nylon strings) by Marina Krupkina :
Marina's Decacorde - Ouroboros (10 string guitar) – 03:50
— Marina's Decacorde

Tuning : e b g d a G D Bb A F

Amplifying Classical Guitar

TheLostMoonstone — Mon, 14 May 2018 06:15:05 GMT

Hi @michaelsmith!
Instead of micing up an acoustic guitar, which can be really hard to do to get a good sound there are guitars with built in tuners. You can run these types of guitars through an amplifier with a standard mono-mono cable. The sound is much more reliable and much easier to get. I've got on of these myself.

"Inventor" of the modern 8-string and its tuning?

westinbrodey — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 12:31:05 GMT

Hi,

It's well-established that Narciso Yepes, in close collaboration with Jose Ramirez III, came up with the design and specific tuning scheme for the modern 10-string guitar. This all happened around 1961 to 1964, no one seems to know the precise date of the 10-string debut. Even the location of that concert (Madrid, Barcelona, or Berlin) is up for dispute. And again, I am specifically referencing the modern version, and not factoring in Carulli's decacorde and/or other 19th century designs. But what about the modern 8-string? The earliest one I can think of (again speaking of the modern design) was Jose Tomas's Ramirez, built in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Was this designed as a "smaller/simpler 10-string"? And what was the initial "preferred" tuning scheme for the 7th and 8th strings? On my own 8-strings, I've tended toward 7=B and 8=D, a re-entrant sort of tuning, and this is meant for renaissance lute music*. Drew Henderson uses 8=A and 7=D. Paul Galbraith and others throw a real curve ball here, by keeping the "main six" strings in slots 2 to 7, and adding a higher and lower A string to the outermost slots.

Bach, Brahms and Pachelbel

Markblues — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:28:05 GMT

I figured that it would be nice to share a little more classical guitar playing here today. Sitting in a cafe in Helsinki I'm posting music by three great composers with songs not normally played on guitar. A much nicer experience if you have your headphones handy. All links are streamed on Spotify.

Canon in D - Pachelbel
https://open.spotify.com/track/1XHpgjGclNtCsI6wshAbKP?si=6QKstSHkSLKA5BVhNuTZhA

Hungarian Dance no.5 Brahms
https://open.spotify.com/track/0PbXYY71BLrQv1FiSLcsMv?si=dFtBL6Q8S4u9u24QmwJl6Q

Air on a G string - Bach
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FM7cT5xZ5OmeOoS3nOQ0V?si=tQm-sF7uSQKZkGVu1lMe2A

Gran Vals

Markblues — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 12:12:09 GMT

Still a bit thin on the ground, I'm posting another video of me playing a classical guitar standard. Hope you enjoy it and include it and consider it in your repetoir

Gran Vals - Mark Hussey, Classical Guitar (Tárrega) – 03:01
— Mark Hussey

Guitar strings

SION — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:14:50 GMT

Thanks, I have been using exclir but they don't last more than a year....

Not too much here yet - Here is some Bach

Markblues — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 06:57:30 GMT

@Woy Thank you very much I really appreciate the comment. Sorry its taken me so long to reply. These is now a Spotify link for this arrangement which will have better audio. https://open.spotify.com/track/1FM7cT5xZ5OmeOoS3nOQ0V?si=Dd9Ly7orTe2gFYB0LZPkMg