how to hold a pick in your right hand while playing fingerstyle
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i play bass with both my fingers and a pick depending on the tone and i play in a band and we just wrote a song i there is one part in where it really dosnt sound right if i play with my fingers. i was wondering if there is anyway to hold a pick in your hand while playing fingerstyle. Ive been experimenting but not sucsessfull yet.
You could hold the pick between thumb and index as usual and use your middle and ring fingers to pluck. That's what I do if I want to use my fingers when holding a pick.
Hold the pick against your palm with your pinky and ring fingers. Doing it this way, you still have your thumb for anchoring and have maximum speed/stamina/etc with your index and middle fingers.
And getting the pick from that position to inbetwen your index and thumb isn't difficult, atleast for me it isnt.
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Last edited by Tbirdbassist : 02-01-2006 at 09:04 PM.
ooo that was pretty cool Jauqo. Never seen that before.
Granted it's probably not what you're looking for, I will use a thumb pick and then anchor my thumb when doing finger style. Not sure if you anchor or have a floating thumb; if you float you'd probably need to practice a bit with your silencing technique, otherwise though you shouldn't really have an issue using a thumbpick. Well just a thought.
I used to use a thumbpick when I was playing one song of my old band (RIP ) where I was using a pick to play the song and two-hand tapping in the break part...
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) where I was using a pick to play the song and two-hand tapping in the break part...
