Use a plectrum??

[skankdelvar]

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No controversy intended! I just can't play faster with a thicker pick, is all.
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Keep your wrist loose and your action 'in the fingers' for those intricate movements when building to a climax. Always remember that quality is more important than speed and allow a few minutes to relax afterwards.

As for playing with a pick, I have no suggestions at all.

[KingBollock]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1391343138' post='2355927']


No controversy intended! I just can't play faster with a thicker pick, is all.
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Have you tried one with a tapered tip? I use 3mm picks but if they were 3mm all over I think that would slow me down considerably, or even anything above 1mm.

[MiltyG565]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1391343138' post='2355927']
No controversy intended! I just can't play faster with a thicker pick, is all.
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I play faster with a thinner pic, because I just saw right through the string. Probably not the correct technique at all, but then El Borracho is using the wrong point of plectrums... what a weirdo

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1391343138' post='2355927']
No controversy intended! I just can't play faster with a thicker pick, is all.
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Yes, I realise that but I meant that I thought it was common knowledge to associate thin picks with rhythm/chordal strumming and thicker picks with soloing and fast jazz licks/shredding ... and having a bit of a Google round t'interweb, it does indeed appear so.

[discreet]

For guitar, maybe?

[EssentialTension]

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For guitar, maybe?
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For bass guitar too, maybe?

I had thought it was a matter of the physics of the recovery times of flexible materials. But as I'm not a physicist, I'll keep out of it.

[Clarky]

I now play exclusively finger style, but that comes from gigging double bass for the past 3 years. However, when I used to play with a pick (eg, in punk and metal bands) I played MUCH faster with a thin flexible pick. I found stiffer picks occasionally 'jammed on the strings', completely throwing out my rhythm.

[NancyJohnson]

The Dunlop Max Grip is pretty flexible; I do find I move it around quite a bit. I would rarely play a whole song with just the tip.
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[Si600]

I'm not sure I'm allowed to do this but....

I've got 11 .73 Tortex pics if anyone wants them, well, I've actually got 12, but one is a bit scruffy having been used They're not flexible enough for me, I prefer the .60s.

First to shout gets them.

[Thunderbird]

ooooo yes please

[tedmanzie]

[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1391364179' post='2356251']
No. I actually use this bit. Or is that what you meant?



That's just how I picked it up over 30 years ago so I don't think I'm going to change now.
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that's what i understood you to mean too, good diagram actually they are quite comfortable round that way aren't they?

[malcolm.mcintyre]

Dunlop 1.0mm nylon (black)

Never use anything else (well my fingers sometimes)

[dannybuoy]

Definitely give the big triangle shape a go if you haven't already (I like Dunlop Tortex blue 1mm).

Smaller picks are better when it comes to guitar, but when you have the wide string spacing of a bass you can get away with something bigger that offers better grip and feels nicer in the hand. Small picks just feel awkward now, like eating with toddler size cutlery!

[njr911]

I use Tortex .88 greens (like Phil X) and .73 yellow (like Duff)

Whichever i scrabble out of my bass case first

[2pods]

Away back in the stone age , when I last used plectrums there used to be big triangular Fender Mother Of Toilet Seat chappies. They were good, I'm thinking of finding some and giving my fingers a rest. Shiny !!

[Billy Apple]

[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1391364179' post='2356251']
No. I actually use this bit. Or is that what you meant?



That's just how I picked it up over 30 years ago so I don't think I'm going to change now.
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Oh, I see. You're a bum man, not a tit man.

[discreet]

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1391548649' post='2358543']
Oh, I see. You're a bum man, not a tit man.
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He should hold his plectrum how he wants to and ignore the knockers.

[Billy Apple]

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He should hold his plectrum how he wants to and ignore the knockers.
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Don't be a bummer, man

[Roland Rock]

I play with a pick only maybe twice in a set. Being the clammy-handed type, I prefer a grippy plectrum, and have tried loads of different types. The one I've settled on is Cactus Picks - without doubt the grippiest pick of them all.

[tedmanzie]

This thread has had me raking through my stash of plectrums. I've been quite taken with my fatter picks, but i've only got to about 1.3mm. Has anyone tried a really FAT pick? Like 2 or 3mm?

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1391627950' post='2359465']
This thread has had me raking through my stash of plectrums. I've been quite taken with my fatter picks, but i've only got to about 1.3mm. Has anyone tried a really FAT pick? Like 2 or 3mm?
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There's been several of us stating in this thread that we use 3mm Big Stubbies.

[tedmanzie]

you're right, i've lost track!
i tried those stubbies when i played guitar, i can't get a hold of them, they are small aren't they.
i was thinking of a regular sized pick i suppose, but chunky!

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1391628366' post='2359477']
There's been several of us stating in this thread that we use 3mm Big Stubbies.


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......and the colour's nearly as purdy as an old time Cadbury's foil wrapper, which is a bonus.

[KingBollock]

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1391632839' post='2359606']
you're right, i've lost track!
i tried those stubbies when i played guitar, i can't get a hold of them, they are small aren't they.
i was thinking of a regular sized pick i suppose, but chunky!
[/quote]You're thinking of the normal Stubbys, the Big Stubbys are much er... bigger.

I recently changed from Big Stubbys to 3mm Primetones.

[Mark Dyer]

I use a Roger Glover Tortoiseshell Signature model, I've had it for years and it has guided me in my musical journey since I first learnt Smoke on the Water at school.

Some people who have seen it say it's just a regular Fender pick with Rogers name on it, but I know different.

I don't actually use a pick to play but I like to keep a pick about my person just in case of an emergency. I've no idea what that emergency might be, but I did once use it to play Hash Pipe by Weezer, that seemed like the type of song that needed a pick.

The spirit of Roger is always with me.