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View Poll Results: What piece of change do would you use??? | |
Penny
|    | 1 | 1.61% | |
Nickel
|    | 2 | 3.23% | |
Dime
|    | 1 | 1.61% | |
Quarter
|    | 7 | 11.29% | |
Other
|    | 4 | 6.45% | |
Fingers baby!
|    | 47 | 75.81% |
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02-24-2006, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago, IL | | | What do you pick?
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I'm sure it's all happened to pick-players in the past. You run out of/don't have a pick....what piece of change do you use???
As I never play with picks...I always have pennies on hand. 
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02-24-2006, 10:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Wausau, WI | | | I can play equally well with either a pick or my fingers...so if I lose a pick, I'll just play using my fingers. No big deal.
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02-24-2006, 10:42 AM
| | | | if i must have the picked sound. i'll typically just play with my fingernail. i can play guitar that way just about as well as i can with a pick. |
02-24-2006, 10:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bronx, New York | | | Doesn't it change the sound of your bass? Metal on Metal?
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02-24-2006, 10:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Holland, Michigan | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by DougP if i must have the picked sound. i'll typically just play with my fingernail. i can play guitar that way just about as well as i can with a pick. |
FINGERNAIL!!! Do you use some top secret marykay stuff to beef up your nails? 1. mine would bend/break 2. I don't think I've ever had a nail long enough to pick a string with.  |
02-24-2006, 12:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Houston, TX | | | Fingernail here. I hate the sound of metal picks, and quarters feel funny to me as picks, too. I'm actually not much of a fingerstyle player, but I can do about 90% of my picking stuff with a fingernail. |
02-24-2006, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Orangeburg, NY | | | Billy Gibbons is famous for using a peso as a pick. Curt Kirkwood from the Meat Puppets plays with a quarter.
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02-24-2006, 01:00 PM
| | ...Bluesin' and Funkin' | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | | The only time I would ever worry about needing a pick is if I was playing guitar.
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02-24-2006, 01:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Beautiful Western Colorado | | | I hate the sound of metal picks so much I use plastic fingerpicks on steel guitar...and it is darn hard to find plastic finger picks. I don't normally use a pick on bass, but if I absolutely had to I would probably find something other than a piece of metal...perhaps cut a piece of plastic or wood to shape.
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02-24-2006, 01:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Wausau, WI | | | Recently I went back to playing with a pick...just for the fun of it. I like the sound...and it's fun playing it differently.
Though it wouldn't matter if I had a pick or not. Either way is fine with me.
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02-24-2006, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago, IL | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Aaron Schiff I hate the sound of metal picks so much I use plastic fingerpicks on steel guitar...and it is darn hard to find plastic finger picks. I don't normally use a pick on bass, but if I absolutely had to I would probably find something other than a piece of metal...perhaps cut a piece of plastic or wood to shape. | man, thats a lot of work! I was posin' the scenario of...you broke your last one...you look over on your dresser, and theres some change. but cuttin wood or plastic? damn! thats dedication!
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02-24-2006, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Chicago, IL | | | lots a fingers.
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02-24-2006, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | I almost gave my guitar-playing friend a heart attack once when I used a quarter on his Ovation acoustic. That was the last time I ever touched his guitar...I don't see what the big deal is.
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02-24-2006, 04:34 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | If a pick player could pick picks
which pick would a pick player pick
a pick player would pick all the picks
if a pick player could pick picks.
ummmm,  Fingers |
02-24-2006, 06:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Rochester, NY | | | I can't use a pick for my life on a bass, and I can't use my fingers for my life on the geetar... |
02-24-2006, 10:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | Break a piece off of your pickguard!
Use the plastic thing off of bread, hot dog buns.
Credit card, bank card, etc.
Once playing in a crust punk band I used a broken beer bottle shard and got cut up pretty bad.
I usually carry lots of picks with me, I keep about 3 bags at home and always keep 5 in my wallet, 3 in my pocket.
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02-24-2006, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | I'm primarily a pick player. I keep one in my wallet, a bunch in my car, a bunch in each case. I try really hard not to be without one. I will use my fingers if I HAVE to, I'm just better with a pick.
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02-24-2006, 11:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Bellingham, WA | | | If it were Bass, I'd probably just make it work with my fingers. However, this has happened to me a couple times when I play a guitar gig. I'm much more likely to carry a pick than any kind of change, so when I find myself without either, I usually fold up a piece of paper or some kind of credit card type deal.
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