pick/finger player...pick storage

[KarateKid25]

I use my lips too.

Pickholder on a strap would probably be the best alternative.

And also, much like Spanky, I prefer the BF-2 to the BF-3. Its a great Flanger!

 

[HeebeeJB]

What ever happened to scratchplates!!

 

[.Chris]

I remember I removed a screw so it could slide in, or you could put it between pinky/Ring?? IT would be different.

 

[sliceanddice]

since I played Hardcore Punk, sometimes it wasn't economical to play with three fingers, I used to slip my pick where the neck connects with the body, or.... put a few strategic niches in your pickguard, so that you can use your pickguard as a pick holder

Maybe you could put them between your strings on the neck too????

slice

 

[Happynoj]

I like to hold them between my teeth. But my g/f doesn't like me doing it. She thinks I will swallow one .

I do it anyway...

 

[b to g is yummy]

last night i discovered that a pick fits quite nicely into a little gap between my neck pickup and the bass...its just if it's there it isnt ideal to rest my thumb on, put i could work around it i imagine

 

[niftydog]

She thinks I will swallow one...

Been there. I never noticed it making an exit, if that's any consolation.

 

[funkalicious101]

Been there. I never noticed it making an exit, if that's any consolation.

been down that road too. same about never noticing it again though.

and i usually have a pick in my mouth all the time.

like ALL the time.

 

[xwpx]

i like to go back and forth with fingers and picks so i keep one stuck in-between the bottom of my pickup and the body, makes for and easy grab or to put back

 

[joshwa]

how about a small piece of two-sided tape on the back of your headstock?

always worked for me...

 

[JanusZarate]

Here's what I've done:

• My Planet Waves strap (the 3" wide black one) actually happens to have a pocket for a pick on it! It's very convenient!
• I sometimes stick one under the pickguard.
• I sometimes use a shirt pocket.
• I once had a Dunlop pickholder mounted on my first bass.

 

[dex]

If you don't slap you should try the thumb pick. I use plastic Dunlop thumb pick for a few songs where I mix fingers and pick. Hope this helps....
P.S. You can check out Dominique Di Piazza, fantastic bass player.

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[Daytona955i]

Depending on how your strap is adjusted, and what kind it is. I have a Levy's nylon strap. You might be able to slide the pick between the strap adjustment/tensioner and the strap itself. Just push it up and it fits in very snuggly and is easy to pull out, doesn't fall out either.

 

[NINoah]

I got a sharp razor and cut a deep slit in the side of my strap that is just big enough to fit a pick. I also put a piece of low residue double sided tape on my pick guard and put the pick on that. I tried one of those pick holders you put on your headstock but I found it was to hard to get too

 

[Zappstorius]

I think I have the perfect solution for you...at least it worked for me!

I bought a Digitech Bass Whammy ($795 on ebay) and modded it. It disengaged all of the whammy functions-which is ok because all I just use it for looks anyway...but I "turbo-charged" it so that when I press on the whammy it flings a pick heavenward and I snatch it out of mid air...then I use the pick for the chorus of the song and chuck it into the crowd for ENORMOUS CROWD APPLAUSE!!!

j/k I never use a pick and own a Whammy IV...I'm such a loser!

 

[JohnDavisNYC]

if you are playing with a pick then your bass should have a pickgaurd. I keep 1-3 picks somewhere around the lower cutaway of my jazz bass at most times, under the pickgaurd.

John

 

[Equin]

I think I have the perfect solution for you...at least it worked for me!

I bought a Digitech Bass Whammy ($795 on ebay) and modded it. It disengaged all of the whammy functions-which is ok because all I just use it for looks anyway...but I "turbo-charged" it so that when I press on the whammy it flings a pick heavenward and I snatch it out of mid air...then I use the pick for the chorus of the song and chuck it into the crowd for ENORMOUS CROWD APPLAUSE!!!

j/k I never use a pick and own a Whammy IV...I'm such a loser!

+100

 

[BioDriver]

One of my bass straps is a Pik-Pocket strap; it has a pocket near the strap holder that can hold a couple picks. You should look into them, especially if you only use a pick part of the time.

 

[Fetusyolk]

i put em in between two strings on my headstock, so its sitting in between them, and the wood of the headstock.

u can hold several that way and itll never get in the way, and no one will notice

 

[Jared Lash]

I'm primarily a fingerstyle player, but I occasionally use a pick in two of my three gigs. Between songs I just leave them on the amp.

But if I have to switch during a song, I'm with Geoff, I just palm it. I just curl my pinky (and if I'm not using it my ring finger) and hold it there. I can play fingerstyle or slap just fine and it's easy to "flick" the pick back to my index and thumb so I can switch back and forth quickly.

It's worth practicing.