GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
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GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
Ok, I figured, since I also have this question, I may as well start a matching thread.
So... when my fingers are moist (ooo-er) I have fewer problems gripping a pick. However, when they're dry, which is more often than not, it's diabolical. Picks slipping and rotating between my fingers, or just flying off when strumming. I end up using Dunlop max grip nylon, or jazz grip. I also have a couple of Dava picks that work reasonably well.
Just for shits'n'giggles I bought a couple of chicken picks. Yikes... not sure what to make of them other than they're not worth the money in my clumsy fingers.
So... when my fingers are moist (ooo-er) I have fewer problems gripping a pick. However, when they're dry, which is more often than not, it's diabolical. Picks slipping and rotating between my fingers, or just flying off when strumming. I end up using Dunlop max grip nylon, or jazz grip. I also have a couple of Dava picks that work reasonably well.
Just for shits'n'giggles I bought a couple of chicken picks. Yikes... not sure what to make of them other than they're not worth the money in my clumsy fingers.
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
Does anyone else have issues with picks rotating in their grip?
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
I just use the standard green Dunlop Tortex .88 ones. On electric and acoustic. Useless trivia: I flip the pick over between strums sometimes. I have no idea why, or when I started doing it. But I caught myself doing it years ago at a gig and gradually realised I kind of do it unconsciously. Weirdo.
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
I normally scuff the pick up to give me a bit more grip to stop this happening. The picks I use now have holes in them which seems to stop them rotating.codedog wrote:Does anyone else have issues with picks rotating in their grip?
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
I do that. But mostly to change the wear on the pick. I use a lot of angled attack so one side wears quite fast.SimonHirst wrote:Useless trivia: I flip the pick over between strums sometimes. I have no idea why, or when I started doing it. But I caught myself doing it years ago at a gig and gradually realised I kind of do it unconsciously. Weirdo.
Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
I used to suffer from this with Dunlop big stubbies, but not so much with other picks. I have been using Dunlop Prime Tone picks for a while now, and they are awesome...but they give me the opposite problem: they are so grippy it can be hard to reposition. The little dots seem to just lock into your fingerprints and never budge.codedog wrote:Does anyone else have issues with picks rotating in their grip?
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
I have been using Dava picks for a while. My picking hand thumb is partially numb (long story) so smooth picks are hopeless. These have really good grip.
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
Those great big stubbies or my fingers 95% of the time... oh
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
Jazz 2 or 3's depending what I 'pick' up at the time... they both feel the same to me.
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
I use Jimmy Dunlop 1mm or whatever they are called. The black ones. They're easy to grip and I like the mellower tone they give. They don't click click click like normal picks.
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Re: GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!
Occasionally I try thicker picks for lead, and then i do some strumming and go back to my old Dunlop .6s.
Pick type is on the long list of things I haven’t thought about enough.
Pick type is on the long list of things I haven’t thought about enough.
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
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