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Fingers vs pick?

What yall do

  • Fingers

    Votes: 249 78.1%
  • Pick

    Votes: 67 21.0%
  • Slapin

    Votes: 3 0.9%

  • Total voters
    319
Restricting yourself to any one of those approaches -- fingers, or pick, or "slapin" [sic] -- would be like restricting yourself to only one gear on a car with a manual transmission. "Yeah, I prefer to drive around all the time in third gear." :::facepalm:::

I don’t agree. I don’t see playing with only fingers or playing only with the pick as a restriction. I can get lots of different sounds just out of my fingers so I don’t need a pick. You don’t have to be good at all techniques to be versatile. Better to concentrate on a few techniques and really master those than doing everything half.