How do you cope? My three piece band has some songs where we are going for such a sound. But the pick constantly migrates in my grip. This is where I have arrived. https://imgur.com/a/MWln0Vr
Iβve always wanted one, but they are all like 800$ and up, and I canβt pay that. Is there a place to find them cheap, or is there a way to convert, say, a tenor to a plectrum?
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I plan to pluck with fingers 99% the time but a pick wouldn't be a big investment.
I'm just curious whether something like an ultex 1.00mm (preferrably regular shape) would sound different enough from finger plucking to make sense to get or if I should go thinner than that. (Also don't know how well thin picks can take bass strings.)
I'm just starting bass and I know using a pick in bass is a bit of a niche and not really something a beginner should care a whole ton about, but I'm curious.
EDIT: Got 3 picks to try out: 2 tortex triangulars (a blue 1mm and a green .88mm), and a Fender celluloid medium (.88mm, normal shape). Just to try out. (Also mainly because the minimum amount of picks the store let me order was 3.)
These two gauges of tortex sounded the nicest to me on a demo, the celluloid I couldn't find a demo of but someone recommended it.
I just got my first guzheng a few days ago. Iβve played guitar for many years so am familiar with the use of finger picks/plectrums but the taping seems like an unnecessary obstacle.
Has anyone ever made straight guzheng picks that slide on and off like guitar finger picks? If not, is there a reason for maintaining the taping method from a musical level?
it was an unplugged show if im not wrong. i saw this video somehere a long while ago and now it just haunts me not finding it
I know there is a ton of manufacturers, shapes and sizes, and it seems to be a very individual preference to all who uses one. Playing style and guitar type have an influence too.
I remember a few years back when I had a couple of guitars and really started getting into it. Metal was/is one of my main influences and what got me hooked on the first place.
The first time I remember being picky (excuse the poorly executed pun) was when I realised that for me personally a thin bendy pick wasn't the best for what and how I play, my GF got me a value pack of 1.0mm picks and they were a big improvement. Then the problem I had was sometimes the pick would rotate a bit or if my hand fingers got a littke bit of sweat it would move from the angle and position I held it in. I tried a bigger pick, something more to hold onto, but it didn't feel right. The problem was grip. So I took an office hole puncher thing and popped a hole out of the center where my index and thumb would meet. It worked surprisingly. And that was my little custom thing I did.
Then I remember Gravity guitar picks sendi g a few different wild designs out to me, made of different materials, unique shapes, some finished with an acrylic shine on the blade, others with an unfinished blade edge that gave a kind of scratch to each note picked. They were awesome. But I felt like I hadn't found the perfect match because I'd keep the overall thickness but change the maker /material here and there.
Anyway fast forward a few years to now and I've just got a guitar again and started playing. I found some of my old ones but my amazing GF got me a new mixture of different brands and types at aroubd the 1mm gauge.
I have found 2 that I love and they're cheap too.
One I think is spelled Dava, is quite thick but has a rubber feeling coat over the grip area while leaving the blade exposed.
The other one has no manufacturer on it or gauge. It is the style of a USA Nylon, with a grip pattern kind of etched in to the surface of the pick itself, but this one has a curve in the grip. It took me a minute to decide which way around to hold it, eg, index in the curve grip or thumb in the curve grip. I think for me personally, I favored the thumb in the curve, because it feels like it gives me a little more downforce in my downstrokes if that makes any sense.
Maybe I am just a nerd for guitar picks, but I'd love to hear what other players prefer in terms of gauge/thickness, shape, and material ( how they affect t
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So. I know this isn't a guitar sub. But it may as well be. Fellow guitar players, I absolutely suck at picking. I have played for over 15 years now and I am really aware of this problem in the last 5 years or so. I have just started to learn Paul Gilbert style chromatic runs. Because I'd like to be able to string skip. And I think it may help me in general. But picking is my big weakness. Anybody else feel like this? I have never used a metronome and think this may be the problem also
I never fit into any community of genre. I never seem to be metal enough to be heavy metal, I'm too intense for rock, not noodley enough for prog and I got no game so I'm not rapper. Playing Bach on a nylon isn't alternative so what am I?
Hi Guys, newbie here. I was wondering if you could suggest which strings to use for tuning a plectrum tenor to CDGA. Any help is appreciated!
I've been playing consistently for about 8 months now, and for a short while I tried picking with a pick and found it incredibly frustrating. Missing strings, picking the wrong strings, super loud, super bright, lack of speed, etc. Then I tried finger picking and it just clicked. It felt like I put in 10% of the effort I put into picking and got much faster improvement, so I kinda just abandoned picking in favor of finger picking.
I've seen similar questions get asked around this topic and largely I see people say either "do what you prefer" or "there are techniques you can only do with a pick." My questions are: what are these techniques? How often do they show up? How much will not learning to use a pick inhibit me going forward?
If I can, I'd like to avoid having to learn pick. I still remember how frustrating it was to not be able to play anything, and I'm not very keen on returning to that point if it's not really worthwhile.
I've recently began playing acoustic guitar, and found I don't like how any of the plectrums I used up till now sound with it. The metal jazz 3 I use with my electric sounded too jangly and ringy as it slid across the string (possibly from it's texture, though I don't notice this on my electric). I have a jazz 3 1.14mm which I believe is acetal (it's smooth, fairly stiff, very dark sound) that I use for my bass; it had the best tone on lone notes and nice bass response, but left the chords dead and lifeless. The standard medium celluloid that I had laying around felt too snappy, and was too soft to let me really bite into the strings, and felt too long.
I was hoping someone could recommend me a plectrum which is stiff enough to really let me bite into the strings, in a small form factor like a jazz 3, and will still produce a nice tone when strumming chords. If you have any experience with something like that I'd appreciate your input, thanks in advance
Over the years, I've tried all sorts of picks. However, I always seem to come back to the same one that I preferred within the first month of learning guitar. At this point, I don't know if I've just conditioned myself to like this specific pick, or if it really is the best choice for me.
