Thunderbird Club

[godofthunder59]

What's a pick?

Pick or plectrum, used in the most advanced style of bass playing, attempted by many mastered by few.

 

[dagrev]

We should go to a Brooklyn Cyclones game sometime. It's more hanging out drinking beer and... "Oh, did someone score?"

So it's in actuality, "Bro & Beerball."

 

[dagrev]

One of the chains(Sonic)is offering a "pulled pork BBQ burger". Pulled pork(cooked how and for how long?)on a burger, topped with "barbecue sauce".
WRONG!

Their out of Louisiana, so....

 

[TBird1958]

Good times!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

c’mon guys.:.. no slap I get but no pick?….

 

[dagrev]

You should hear me attempting to play with a pick

Look Jeff, if I can do it, I know you can do it because me doing it means anybody with two hands can do it.

 

[TBird1958]

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I really enjoyed his little series about bassist' on Paramount, he's very genuine and I'm a bit envious that you got to meet him.

 

[BklynKen]

c’mon guys.:.. no slap I get but no pick?….

I WISH I could play well with a pick. Never learned.

 

[Rickplaysbass]

I WISH I could play well with a pick. Never learned.

no time like the present

 

[Ringhammer]

c’mon guys.:.. no slap I get but no pick?….

I can use a pick, but palm muting is super awkward for me, and something I only occasionally work at. The way my fingers automatically deaden the fatter strings when I play the thinner ones makes for cleaner sounds to me. Plus finger playing gives me a fatter tone. That said, I frequently use a pick when playing quietly and working out parts or coming up with new ideas. I feel a different groove when using a pick. Plus, these big “Thumper” picked keep the sound fat:

…only disadvantage is when they warm up they soften up a little…

 

[JJR58]

Look Jeff, if I can do it, I know you can do it because me doing it means anybody with two hands can do it.

I’ll let my fingers do the walking

 

[Stealth57]

I can use a pick, but palm muting is super awkward for me, and something I only occasionally work at. The way my fingers automatically deaden the fatter strings when I play the thinner ones makes for cleaner sounds to me. Plus finger playing gives me a fatter tone. That said, I frequently use a pick when playing quietly and working out parts or coming up with new ideas. I feel a different groove when using a pick. Plus, these big “Thumper” picked keep the sound fat:

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…only disadvantage is when they warm up they soften up a little…

when they warm up, throw it to your groupie and get a new one. And a few of us know you really do have a groupie...and she's cute.

 

[dagrev]

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A form of pick called pick Mattock, generally just called a Mattock to differentiate. Garden picks are more pointy on both ends an don't really have a blade. I say this because decades ago when working construction one of the laborers came up and was having trouble and asked where the Felix was. No one was really paying attention to him be case he was a bit of a drama queen. He was irritated and kept going from place to place, site trailer, trucks, etc and came back and asked again, "Where's the __ is the Felix?" Several of us stopped to look at him. I laughingly asked him "What are you talking about and what the __ was a Felix?" He started pantomiming using one and describing what it looked like and said, "You know a Felix." We started laughing even more and I told him "that's a Mattock you ___" (sometimes lazily "Mattox"). He wasn't any happier when he finally knew where it was.

 

[JJR58]

Good times!

Good times indeed!

 

[Stealth57]

Good times indeed!
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[TBird1958]

c’mon guys.:.. no slap I get but no pick?….

I know, it's a technique and a lot of songs require it - glad I know how

 

[WillyW]

I play fingers if i drop my pick for a bar or two... or i sit out a bar or two....

 

[Bent77]

I learned to use a pick by watching V play on YouTube. Once I stopped botching, butchering? those songs so bad I started learning Joe Osborn songs

 

[godofthunder59]

I really enjoyed his little series about bassist' on Paramount, he's very genuine and I'm a bit envious that you got to meet him.

He is genuine I think. He was very gracious taking the time before a show to greet me and the inclusion in his book was beyond anything that I ever would have hoped for. I can still hardly believe it happened.

 

[TBird1958]

I drop the pick somewhere during the guitar solo...D'oh!