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OMG, He's using a PICK!!!!

EricMordus

EricMordus

Aug 29, 2013
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In my 35 or so years of playing I started as a pick player and stuck to that until @ 10 years ago, when I put the picks away and forced myself to develop a finger style. I have stuck with playing almost exclusively with my fingers ever since.... until @ 3 months ago.

I haven't really played in a cover band in @10 years, but now I'm playing some songs that simply don't work as well with fingers, they need that attack and precision of a pick. So now I'm at @50/50 fingers/pick during my bands sets.

Anyone else coming to this realization?
 
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EricMordus said:
In my 35 or so years of playing I started as a pick player and stuck to that until @ 10 years ago, when I put the picks away and forced myself to develop a finger style. I have stuck with playing almost exclusively with my fingers ever since.... until @ 3 months ago.

I haven't really played in a cover band in @10 years, but now I'm playing some songs that simply don't work as well with fingers, they need that attack and precision of a pick. So now I'm at @50/50 fingers/pick during my bands sets.

Anyone else coming to this realization?
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Pick player until I joined TB and found out what a low-life, d-bag, hack bass player I was.:woot::bassist:<This guy looks like he's playing with a pick
 
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EricMordus said:
In my 35 or so years of playing I started as a pick player and stuck to that until @ 10 years ago, when I put the picks away and forced myself to develop a finger style. I have stuck with playing almost exclusively with my fingers ever since.... until @ 3 months ago.
I haven't really played in a cover band in @10 years, but now I'm playing some songs that simply don't work as well with fingers, they need that attack and precision of a pick. So now I'm at @50/50 fingers/pick during my bands sets.
Anyone else coming to this realization?
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A good musician should be prepared to use any technique that makes the song sound right.
Picks, fingers, fingerpicks, slapping, tapping, harmonics, ebow, broken bottle, funk fingers, etc.
You can't cling too preciously to one.
 
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I play finger style, but always have picks laying around. I’ve been getting into learning some Flogging Molly stuff, and Nathen uses a pick so I figured it was a good excuse to force myself to increase my skills. It is just another tonal option, like pickup selection or rolling on/off the tone knob.
 
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Paulabass said:
This thread could quickly turn into- What's 'better' or 'right', as if there were rules about how you make your music.
As soon as there are rules, the ART is lost.
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Yup.

trailer said:
Picks are a PIA to keep up with. If I'm ever asked to play a song that requires a pick like maybe "Would?", I just borrow one from the guitar player. Or I just play it with fingers, no one really cares either way lol.
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I’d play “Would?” With a toothpick before I played it with nothing. That “would” sound lame. ;)
 
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I'm about 75/25 with fingers being my dominate style. Some songs just sound/work better with a pick though. Example: I just recently learned "I'm Burning For You" by BOC. Pick with a touch of chorus and I'm there. Fingers not so much. Just another wrench in the tool box for me.
 
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Yeah, started on guitar, but I also did a bunch of finger picking on guitar too.

Went to bass, dropped the finger picking, played exclusively with a pick, but I play punk, originals, so it works for our sound. Recently though I've started working up the fingers, both in the standard bass player fashion, and adapting the classical guitar approach to finger picking, well the form, not so much playing in two voices, but that's the ultimate objective, not that I'll ever use any of it with my band, but hey, I can always start a new one!
 

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