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04-05-2009, 04:10 PM
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I've used my fingers since day 20, but recently I came accros this on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbZxwIPIG5M
The tone in the beginning is amazing. So im contemplating if i should try picks again. I need some more convincing.
Post them, and if you can, throw in a youtube link.
Thanks!
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04-05-2009, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Allmanfan456  | This.
Oh, and Lemmy..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4yHy...eature=related
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04-05-2009, 08:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin | | | I've seen John Wetton of ASIA (formerly of King Crimson) twice, both times he was using a pick. I've seen Stu Hamm and Dave Larue use picks, depending on venue.
My favorite bass tone is from QUEENSRYCHE bassist Eddie Jackson, whom records with a pick and plays live with fingers.
Personally, I switch back and forth, depending on the need and the speed.
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04-05-2009, 08:54 PM
| | | I don't know but I think this bass player/vocalist who uses a pick (though in the very beginning he didn't) would be considered 'accomplished' 
I play thrash metal and I think that a pick really lends itself to very clean fast basslines. Even people who listened to the Cliff Burton bass tracks from Ride the Lightning when they could hear it by itself all of a sudden thought it sounded sloppy. Fingers just can't be as articulate for SOME bass lines... BUT, as Tom Araya showed in the beginning when he used his fingers, finger style can very quickly jump all over the strings and be very fast, just not as articulate IMO...  
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04-06-2009, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Kenbuntu I've used my fingers since day 20, but recently I came accros this on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbZxwIPIG5M
The tone in the beginning is amazing. So im contemplating if i should try picks again. I need some more convincing.
Post them, and if you can, throw in a youtube link.
Thanks! | Also if you like the tone in that video, don't forget Danny Lilker! Bassist originally in Anthrax, and for SOD, Nuclear Assault, Brutal Truth, The Ravenous, etc!
Listen to the tone at the beginning of this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79_xwxrjoCw 
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04-06-2009, 01:50 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Delta Quadrant | | | do what u like man... and i can bring a finger assault that my speed picking guitarist couldnt keep up with.. loud and clear too btw |
04-06-2009, 05:44 PM
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04-06-2009, 06:12 PM
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04-07-2009, 04:12 PM
| | | | Dan Lilker is a favorite of mine.
Blacky from Voivod as well.
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04-07-2009, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by shadowmac My favorite bass tone is from QUEENSRYCHE bassist Eddie Jackson, whom records with a pick and plays live with fingers. |
Every time I saw Queensryche he used a pick....I even have some of them.
There are plenty of good pick players. In fact in the hard rock and metal scene HALF of the guys in big name bands use picks.
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04-07-2009, 05:19 PM
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04-07-2009, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by badstonebass Every time I saw Queensryche he used a pick....I even have some of them. | When I saw them in 88 with metallica on the operation mindcrime tour (and justice for all) he used his fingers, he stood right in front of me (I was right at the fence.) Oh and then when metallica went on Jason Newsted stood right in front of me too 
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04-08-2009, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by hrgiger When I saw them in 88 with metallica on the operation mindcrime tour (and justice for all) he used his fingers, he stood right in front of me (I was right at the fence.) Oh and then when metallica went on Jason Newsted stood right in front of me too | Interesting. to be honest when i saw them on The Warning Tour I wouldn't have noticed because I was purely a guitartist at the time....and Geoff's vocals were the type you couldn't NOT watch him.
However when I saw them with Judas Priest a couple summers ago I noticed he used a pick the whole time. I even got 2 of them as he was right in front of us and we were in front row. There are photos on the net of him using BOTH....so maybe the setlist for the Priest tour was such that he needed to use the pick.
That is what can get so confusing in the pick vs fingers debate. So many guys do BOTH.
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04-08-2009, 12:04 PM
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04-08-2009, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by badstonebass Interesting. to be honest when i saw them on The Warning Tour I wouldn't have noticed because I was purely a guitartist at the time....and Geoff's vocals were the type you couldn't NOT watch him. |
With Kiss at the Coliseum?
I was there.
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04-08-2009, 02:51 PM
| | | | In general, I like fingering better.
But some things work only with a pick - Motorhead, for example.
If you wanna play fast, pick is the easy choice. If you can train your fingers to be super fast, that's better in my opinion. But when I wanna fool around, I play with a pick. Myung (Dream Theater) switches all the time, but he plays mostly finger. He is rather quiet, but he is good.
Trujillo almost never played pick, and he's super funk-metal.
Pick can sometimes suit for Metal, like in Ellefson's, Lemmy's, and sometimes Burton's (He played fingers in some songs, like Phantom Lord) case.
Do what feels right to you.
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04-08-2009, 11:17 PM
| | | | Joey DeMaio of Manowar is a very good pick player
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