Speed Skips

Downpicking fast string-skips in "Jaded"

- MIKE STRINGER

HELLO EVERYONE, AND welcome to my new Guitar World instructional column. In this series of lessons, I will be sharing and demonstrating some of my approaches to playing seven-string guitar and the various ways I use the instrument to craft the riffs that I write for my band, Spiritbox.

I'd like to kick things off with a look at some of the technical and musical elements I employ in our song “Jaded,” which we recorded for our 2023 EP, The Fear of Fear.