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Playing With a Pick . . . Question

#21
dmusic148 said:
It's a combination of muting with both hands. For example, if playing the D or G strings you can mute the E and A with the heel of your pick hand. While playing the E and A, mute the D and G with your fret hand, with whatever fingers are free. This is a very rough guide. Your best bet, I think, is to take a few lessons with a guitarist- after all, they have to master this technique.
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Good advice. Taking lessons from a jazz guitarist improved my bass playing technique more than I ever thought possible.
 
#22
JimmyM said:
Nobody cares. Why you guys who don't use picks always have to interject in these threads with your editorializing and making judgments on those of us who like to use one now and then is beyond me. Either answer the guy's question or don't, but spare us from your nonsense. Nobody asked you to condone what we do.
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When I woke up this morning, I didn't want to be a jack***. Thanks for doing it for me Jimmy.
 
#24
JimmyM said:
Nobody cares. Why you guys who don't use picks always have to interject in these threads with your editorializing and making judgments on those of us who like to use one now and then is beyond me. Either answer the guy's question or don't, but spare us from your nonsense. Nobody asked you to condone what we do.
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+100

Just use your fretting hand to mute unused strings. I even use my thumb on my fretting hand to mute the E and A strings occasionally.
 
#25
JimmyM for President!

I play with my fingers, a pick, my thumb, and a combination of thumb and fingers while palm muting. Hell, I've even played with a drum stick, before (and probably will again). Whatever gets you there...

I used to be an opponent of pick playing, myself, once. There's no good reason to not, at least, experiment with one. It brings new sounds to your playing. Anything that does that is never bad.
 

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