Does anyone else hate playing with a pick?
- bessieboporbach
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Re: Does anyone else hate playing with a pick?
I use a thumb pick and otherwise play fingerstyle.
- del
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Re: Does anyone else hate playing with a pick?
I frequently use a pick. My faves are the Herco Flex 75 or the Clayton Raven, rounded triangle, in .63 or .80
I sometimes use my thumb, index, and middle fingers (occasionally pinching them together as though I had a pick but striking with my index-fingernail or flesh of my thumb). I wish I was better at playing this way and think there's a lot to Lightning Hopkins' and Mississippi Fred McDowell's finger style playing that links to my garagey/scuzz/gaze style.
I sometimes use my thumb, index, and middle fingers (occasionally pinching them together as though I had a pick but striking with my index-fingernail or flesh of my thumb). I wish I was better at playing this way and think there's a lot to Lightning Hopkins' and Mississippi Fred McDowell's finger style playing that links to my garagey/scuzz/gaze style.
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"The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world." - David Fair
"The idea is to put a pick in one hand and a guitar in the other and with a tiny movement rule the world." - David Fair
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Re: Does anyone else hate playing with a pick?
I was full plectrum until encountering Danny Gatton 30+ years ago, then went to pick & fingers. Essentially flat picking but with hybrid elements often rather than just pick strokes.
I mess around solely finger style but prefer the pick & fingers.
I mess around solely finger style but prefer the pick & fingers.
- MC5tooge
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Re: Does anyone else hate playing with a pick?
Yeah me. Can't get my head round them. Just feel horribly limited with one.
But I started with classical so that's probably why.
But I started with classical so that's probably why.
- CS
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Re: Does anyone else hate playing with a pick?
For many years my entire collection was a bass and a classical. Not only do I struggle to use picks I can't remember where I left them.