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12-03-2007, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reynoldsburg Ohio | | | Pick Technique
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What with all the threads about yes or no on this subject I thought I'd make my humble offering on bass songs I've done with a pick. I have 2 songs up on my soundclick site--one slow and one fast. No, don't mind being scorched but hope some of you have fun listening to them.
Happy Holidays to all TB'ers and thanks for such a great bunch of knowledgeable players on a great forum! I have found you to be a great help in many ways. http://www.soundclick.com/members/de...m?member=meker |
12-03-2007, 09:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | you've got some pretty rad tracks there 
what pick are you using? |
12-03-2007, 10:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reynoldsburg Ohio | | | 73mm
Gray Jim Dunlop 73mm. Tip speed is part of the technique and you need a pick to have enough firmness to bite, yet enough flexibility to wrap around the string to jump or or down to the the next string. The 73mm does that for me. An 88mm is do-able but prefer the 73's. Its about bass string mass vs guitar string mass and the force required to slip over the strings. I actually shape and move the pick, as needed, in my fingers as I play. Cupping the pick makes it firmer and a loose hold or holding farther back on the body of it has its uses also. And no, I have never dropped a pick in my life while playing. |
12-04-2007, 02:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Perth | | | 73's or .73's? |
12-04-2007, 03:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Oulu, Finland | | What, you really believe there is picks that are over 7 centimeters thick? Now that's just silly. 
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12-04-2007, 10:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phe  What, you really believe there is picks that are over 7 centimeters thick? Now that's just silly. | but imagine the tone! |
12-05-2007, 12:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Reynoldsburg Ohio | | | LOL
of course its POINT 73mm---otherwise its close to the size of a mortar shell!! When I buy a pick I say "Gimme some 73's" not "Gimme some POINT 73's". Bet you don't say the point either. Get the point? |
12-05-2007, 02:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Oulu, Finland | | | Yeah... I'm not sure what your point is.
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12-05-2007, 02:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phe Yeah... I'm not sure what your point is. | 73
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12-05-2007, 05:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cornwall, UK. | | | I like the jim dunlop .73mm tortex picks, the yellow ones.
They have a better grip on them i find than the grey 'shiny' ones.
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12-05-2007, 09:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Oulu, Finland | | Trent Reznor plays with those... but he plays the g**tar... what a sissy
Edit: I contribute nothing to this thread and should probably be quiet in the corner. Sorry.
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