Fingerer, Slapper or Picker?

[EddieBass]

I'm not so much into slap...
Don't like it much.

I'm 100% PIZZICATO !

I'm into the Precision of the 70's.

[bassman4d521]

pick, fingers, slap, pop, thumb.... technique is just a means to an end... how it sounds is what matters!

[ghostjs]

i do all 3. but i've been recently using pick more often

[carlthegroover]

50% / 0% / 50%

I love the diversity of tones that we can achieve when playing fingerstyle as opposed to picking.

I've tried my luck on slapping, but I don't find it too useful for my main genre at the moment (hard rock, blues rock, grunge).

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I'd say around 60% fingerstyle, 25% slap, 10% tapping and 5% using a pick.

[ClassicRocker]

Pick for first 10 years, switched to fingers for 15 and back to pick for the last three. I blistered one night and borrowed the guitar player's fattest pick. I like the crunchy drive sound that I got and have been using it since. By the way, I have tried several brands of picks and have settled on Moshay. Their heaviest pick offering works best for me. Another back-up would be a very heavy V-Pick made by Vinnie Smith in Nashville V-Picks Guitar Pick, Electric & Acoustic Guitar Picks.

[AmpedSilence]

Originally Posted by bassman4d521

pick, fingers, slap, pop, thumb.... technique is just a means to an end... how it sounds is what matters!

Testify!!

I catch myself feeling "guilty" for using a pick so much but it sounds so good

[CauliColin]

60% Finger, 40% Slap

[worshiprocker]

pick for my Rock band and fingers for blues and CCM

[AmpedSilence]

Originally Posted by ClassicRocker

Pick for first 10 years, switched to fingers for 15 and back to pick for the last three. I blistered one night and borrowed the guitar player's fattest pick. I like the crunchy drive sound that I got and have been using it since. By the way, I have tried several brands of picks and have settled on Moshay. Their heaviest pick offering works best for me. Another back-up would be a very heavy V-Pick made by Vinnie Smith in Nashville V-Picks Guitar Pick, Electric & Acoustic Guitar Picks.

thanks for the link, I just ordered a Freakishly Large 3.0mm pick!

I'm scared

[AmpedSilence]

Freakishly Large 3.0mm pick came in the mail today. (they also included a 2.75mm large pointed pick, works good with the ol guitar)

the white one is the 3.0mm



here is a comparison of the V pick and the Clayton 1.26mm I use:


all three:


I have yet to try the v picks out with the bass and amp, but I could certainly feel the difference just with the bass.
I believe I'll like them!

[ryco]

fingerstyle, mostly two - sometimes three
a little slap
no pick, but really like the sound!

[Jhengsman]

Fingerstyle, I don't slap but I do thump and pop. It is just a matter of my slap technique is not gig ready.

[Mudcat35]

All of 'em. Depends on what sound I need. I probably play 95% with finers, pick when required, and slap when I have to.

[Rick Blanc]

Fingers nearly all the time for me. There's only one song my band does that requires slap. Thanks doG to because I am no plank spanker. I love the technique. I just suck at it. I used a pick way back when I was doing the punk thing. But that was a long time ago.

[keiththebassist]

Originally Posted by JAUQO III-X

All of the above.

+1

[deshi00]

mostly fingers, which I find odd since I played guitar for years before switching to bass... even when I first made the switch I only used fingers... Im trying to add in pick a little more often now.

[rockscott]

50% fingers 50% pick. No slapping!

[Gaius46]

fingerstyle and some slapping, though my slap technique leaves much to be desired.

[sadasar]

Mostly fingers and pick when I'm playing with my band. I slap a little here and there because it's something I would really like to become good at.