Chucking?

[Acousticdude]

I read about a technique called Chucking, where you hold your forefinger and thumb like you were using a pick but without the pick. I was wondering if anyone out there has tried this technique?

[PJSShearer]

I have and I use it. I'm normally a fingers player but some things are much easier to play with a plectrum - the Intro (and solo) to "Everybody Dance" by Chic and "I should have loved you" by Narada Michael Walden are great examples - so I "chuck" these parts and revert to fingers for the rest of the song. In fact it was Bernard Edwards of Chic (I believe) who first called this technique "chucking".

[tZer]

I use that technique often.

I keep my nails reasonably short so with just a little angle adjustment, I can get either a very fingered or picked attack.

When I want a muted picked sound I'll palm mute with my picking hand and use that technique with all down-strokes to use my nail and get the 'picky' attack.

Otherwise, I find it to be a nice alternative to using a pick when a pick would be 'too much'. It keeps things 'pure' sounding, finger-wise.

"Chucking", huh? - Never knew it had a name.

[Rimshot]

I, too, never knew there was a name for this. I use it when a piece calls for a 'pick-like' percussive tone in a small section of a tune where I otherwise play fingerstyle. Alternatively, if a section is just too fast for my ham-fisted, sausage-like finger technique to accomplish (like the little riff in Ozzy's I Don't Know coming into the last verse).

Chucking... I like the sound of it.

[JimK]

Someone in the past 2-3 weeks posted a youtube lesson on "chucking"...it's worth looking at.

Found it-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnBJW...eature=related

[HolmeBass]

I use it, but not so much to emulate standard pick playing as to strum "rhythm guitar" parts with double stops on the D and G strings.

[tZer]

Originally Posted by HolmeBass

I use it, but not so much to emulate standard pick playing as to strum "rhythm guitar" parts with double stops on the D and G strings.

+1 - that's where I find myself using that technique the most.

[Acousticdude]

Originally Posted by JimK

Someone in the past 2-3 weeks posted a youtube lesson on "chucking"...it's worth looking at.

Found it-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnBJW...eature=related

Very cool thank You

[lareamond]

I use a technique similar to "chucking" every now and then in place of a pick. My index finger becomes the "pick", while my thumb and middle fingers "hold" the index finger. I seem to be faster with that than an actual pick, so it works for faster rhythms if I can't make it with fingerstyle.

[FretlessMainly]

I do this often, but I never knew it had a name. Unfortunately, I sometimes get a bit overzealous and this is the result:

[BassBob2112]

I've tried it but hate it. It feels so unnatural and wrong to Me.

However, I have gotten into the 'Geddy' technique (Which I'm sure he didn't invent, but that's where I got the idea)...where he just flicks one finger back and forth like a pick, sort of a flamenco type technique I think he described it as. Once you get the hang of it I think it works pretty well for playing straight ahead 8th note type lines.

[JimmyM]

i usually just use a pick, but i have done it, and my pal dave larue does it a lot.