PickGrips

[Obese Chess]

I use Wedgie .88mm Delrins with Gorilla Snot.
They don't move.

 

[tijuana_bass]

... i was told that a good bassist should be "pick proficient.".

James Jamerson never used a pick. He was pretty good.

 

[Fuzzbass]

James Jamerson never used a pick. He was pretty good.

Paul McCartney uses a pick, he's pretty good too.

The advice given was absolutely correct: being fluent in pickstyle, fingerstyle, and slapstyle will increase one's marketability.

 

[tijuana_bass]

...i was told that a good bassist should be "pick proficient." It's part of being a well-rounded bass player.

James Jamerson never used a pick. He was pretty good.

Paul McCartney uses a pick, he's pretty good too.

The advice given was absolutely correct: being fluent in pickstyle, fingerstyle, and slapstyle will increase one's marketability.

Sorry, I understood this as a categorical statement regarding the relative "goodness" of non-pick using players vs. pick using players, not as advice regarding the enhanced marketability of a player who is proficient in more than one right hand technique. Jamerson's mastery of the bass without a pick refutes the first interpretation, notwithstanding McCartney's mastery with one, but as you correctly point out, it has nothing to do with the second interpretation. Touché, mon ami!

 

[pnut166]

Bad idea. I tried some griptape on a pick once. Initially I thought it was great, until I hit a string with the corner of it. Ripped the pick out of my hand, felt like it about ripped the string in two.