Unleash your inner guitar god with the Music Man Majesty, available in 6, 7, and 8-string models. Designed in collaboration with John Petrucci, these guitars feature sleek, contoured bodies for optimal comfort and playability. Constructed with a neck-through design using mahogany and basswood, they offer exceptional resonance and sustain. Equipped with DiMarzio Dreamcatcher and Rainmaker pickups, they provide a versatile tonal range from clean and warm to aggressive and powerful. The custom floating tremolo bridge and locking tuners ensure precise tuning stability, making the Majesty a top choice for serious musicians across genres.
John Petrucci is known for many things: his incredible facility as a guitar player, his genius-level musical intellect as a composer and producer, his impressive beard, being absolutely jacked, and the memes (oh my, the memes). But for us gearhounds, he's equally well known for his relentless pursuit of perfection with his equipment. The Majesty line of guitars is a reflection of this commitment to excellence from both Petrucci and Music Man, resulting in the apex of guitar ergonomics and performance.
For the unfamiliar, the Majesty is a purpose-built shred machine, taking inspiration from Formula 1 cars and built to offer as little resistance to the player's creativity as humanly possible. It's perfectly balanced, with an effortlessly slim through neck, capped with 24 glassy smooth stainless steel frets. It has a trem that not only has a massive range of travel and perfect return to pitch but also houses custom-built Fishman piezo saddles. It comes loaded with a pair of custom DiMarzio Dreamcatcher and Rainmaker humbuckers that deliver articulate crunch, liquid leads, and beautiful cleans, and all of these tones are laid out to enable effortless switching via the ergonomic control layout. It's been available in both six and seven-string configurations for a while, but recently Music Man has also added an eight-string variant to the range.
The six-string is shred perfection personified and plays absolutely effortlessly. If you're used to a bit of fight from a guitar, you'll find none here. Your chops have to be "on it" to make this guitar work, and sloppy technique will be starkly revealed; but if you can handle it, the Majesty will encourage your playing to new heights.
The switch from six to seven strings can often throw off players who aren't used to extended range instruments. Myself, I played seven strings for a while in my youth, but it's been almost twenty years since I spent more than ten minutes with one. Even still, the transition was surprisingly natural. The pickups sound very close to their six-string counterparts, and the low B is clear, rich, and punchy.
Things get really crazy on the eight-string model, though. Gone is the trem, gone is the 25.5" scale, and instead, we have a fixed bridge, multiscale monster with a 25.5" scale on the high E, fanning out all the way to 27" on the low F#. Now, fanned fret instruments are basically kryptonite to an old hand like me, and eight strings already baffle me, but even with the relatively short period of time I got to spend with this monstrous instrument I could feel myself quickly adapting to it. I'd imagine in a day or two, it'd feel like second nature, and the crushing chugs and piano-like cleans have to be heard to be believed - especially if you layer the piezo pickup on top of the split middle position.
No matter whether you're a six, seven, or eight-string player, the Music Man Majesty offers the absolute pinnacle of playability, construction, and versatility for the modern player. You'll need to have your sh*t together, but if you can go, the Majesty can keep up with whatever you can throw at it and then some.
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