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01-01-2012, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Grand Rapids MI | | | Fingers vs pick I prefer the feel of fingers but the sound of a pick. I found the sound in my head with a pick. With my fingers its meh. I think the pick won out. Anyone else go through this?
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01-01-2012, 11:08 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Yes, but in reverse. I'm faster and more accurate with a pick, but prefer the sound of fingers.
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01-01-2012, 11:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Central NY | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by tycobb73 I prefer the feel of fingers but the sound of a pick. I found the sound in my head with a pick. With my fingers its meh. I think the pick won out. Anyone else go through this? | Try using your finger nails.
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01-01-2012, 12:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: UK | | | I'm the same, I prefer to play fingerstyle and I'm more comfortable with fingers but they just don't work for the tone I want, so I play with a pick. I've tried with nails and it still doesn't sound right, might have to try the fingerpicks classical guitarist use. | 
01-01-2012, 12:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North Bend, WA | | | maybe use both for whatever feel the music needs.
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01-01-2012, 01:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Oracle, Arizona | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cableguy maybe use both for whatever feel the music needs. | Took the letters right out of my keyboard. Differing positions (close to the bridge or neck), thumbs, picks, finger are all colors. I frankly wish I was better with a pick as the sounds are substantially different. The only "Problem" I would ever foresee is an individual not experimenting.
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01-01-2012, 03:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | To each their own style of playing and tones based on whatever method you choose. The fingers or pick debate could go on and on about how real bass players don't use picks blah blah blah. | 
01-01-2012, 04:09 PM
| | | | Pick = Small learning curve, moderate effectiveness
Fingers = Very large learning curve, giant effectiveness
In other words, you can become good with a pick very fast, but you can't do much once you're at the pick's "skill ceiling". Fingerstyle takes decades to perfect, but you can do amazing things once you've mastered it. | 
01-01-2012, 04:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Oklahoma | | | Love the sounds I can make with both fingerstyle and a pick, but I suck at using a pick.
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01-01-2012, 04:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Gratiot County, Michigan | | | I am confined to a pick, due to physical limitations. I use old gift cards as my pick, cut up in a manner that my right hand can hold them.
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01-01-2012, 06:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tupac Pick = Small learning curve, moderate effectiveness
Fingers = Very large learning curve, giant effectiveness | Not for me it wasn't, I've always found it very easy to play fingerstyle, playing with a pick feels completely unnatural and took loads of practice to be able to play any where near as well as I can with fingers. | 
01-01-2012, 06:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Chile | | | for me it depends on the music, usually it's like 90% pick 10% fingers . | 
01-01-2012, 06:11 PM
| | | Often it does depend on the music that is being played and even your mood. Personally i love the tone that you get with fingers, but when it comes to playing at 220 BPM my fingers cramp up a little to easily  have to work on that quad technique. Pick on the other hand also gives you a legit tone, but theres only so much that could be done with a pick! | 
01-01-2012, 06:25 PM
|  | There are some who call me.......Sactobass | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tupac Pick = Small learning curve, moderate effectiveness
Fingers = Very large learning curve, giant effectiveness
In other words, you can become good with a pick very fast, but you can't do much once you're at the pick's "skill ceiling". | Now I finally understand why Chris Squire's bass playing is only moderately effective and why he just can't do much. 
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01-01-2012, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by SactoBass Now I finally understand why Chris Squire's bass playing is only moderately effective and why he just can't do much.  | Ditto to Macca.  | 
01-01-2012, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Hamlet7768 Ditto to Macca.  | Big +1!
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01-01-2012, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by cableguy maybe use both for whatever feel the music needs. | +1
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01-01-2012, 07:13 PM
| | | | i prefer fingerstyle. I can't use a pick to save my life. I can pick a guitar ok, but not a bass.....plus, I almost always have coloured DR's on my fretted basses. I like keeping the colour as much as possible.
The only time I ever get a pick near my bass is:
- When I have a little overdrive and my non-coated DR's
- When I'm messing with my fretless to Pink Floyd
Otherwise, I sound like somebody killing a goat with a bass when I use a pick
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01-01-2012, 07:27 PM
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What? Use what you need when you need it.
Simple, and you won't need any couch time if you don't agonize over it.
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01-01-2012, 07:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Mexican Megalopolis | | | I'm still undecided as to which one I prefer. I do love the pick because of the "aggressiveness" and prominence, which is perfect for rock. I'm also getting much faster with a pick.
But it is always good to play with fingers, due to the feel with the strings and the different sound.
Edit: I'm also more accurate with fingerpicking.
I will let you know in a few years when I decide.
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