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Why I am never playing pickstyle again...

#24
I put an extra pick in my pocket, I have one thumb pick clipped to my strap, and one thumb pick around my tunning machines. I also usually keep a pick on my bridge, between a pickup, and its route, or under the pickgaurd.

The best security though is to be able to play it with or without a pick. I make sure that any song I take to the stage that I play one way, I can pull off the other way. Even if Im not hitting all the notes I have to at least be able to carry the song and carry it well. Its just the best security.
 
#28
After seeing my first KISS concert,I've alway's used two way tape to stick about a dozen extra picks on my mike stand. Once I threw a pick at a woman who flashed her boobs.............she threw it back at me....... she was flashing my chick lead singer......they ended up hooking up........that sucked. :crying:
 
#29
Mike Shevlin said:
After seeing my first KISS concert,I've alway's used two way tape to stick about a dozen extra picks on my mike stand. Once I threw a pick at a woman who flashed her boobs.............she threw it back at me....... she was flashing my chick lead singer......they ended up hooking up........that sucked. :crying:
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... so you'll never throw a pick into the audience again, right?
 
#31
i used to lose picks all the time, especially around the house. i got annoying cos i had to keep buying them. so i learned how to use my fingers. now i can use either a pic or my fingers.
but i prefer my fingers, i can play faster.

you should get a match pick booklet. theyre handy, i just keep one in my wallet....just in case me or a guitarist needs a pick.
 
#32
Mike Shevlin said:
Once I threw a pick at a woman who flashed her boobs.............she threw it back at me....... she was flashing my chick lead singer......they ended up hooking up........that sucked. :crying:
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man that would have sucked if that happened to me. well at least you got to see some boobs.
moral of the story: seeing boobs is never a bad thing






























other moral:it could be a bad thing :hiding:
 
#33
This is so odd....


Why on earth do so many people here think that picks are a necessery to use only when you don´t have the proper finger technique ?? :confused:

A pick is just another weapon in your arsenal!

I play with a pick for about 50% of our bands songs, I play with a pick because of the sound I get from them....

Use the tools which are appropiate for the song in hand... I do.






P.s. For the starter of this thread, keep extra picks in your pockets please. At any given time I have six picks in my pocket.
 
#35
jenderfazz said:
picks.jpg


:D
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I like how the bottom row looks like Chewbacca. Or it could just be that I'm on media overload from all the Star Wars hype.
 
#38
Freaky Fender said:
Jesus man. Don't let one really stupid move on YOUR part hinder your musical ability. Do you curse at the car companies for making sedans when you can't find your car keys?
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Yes!

(I'm going to try growing my thumb nail long and hard...no perv jokes please...and use that as a pick...I don't like playing with one, but the artist I'm working with now likes that percusive attack on some of his stuff, so I figure if I try that out, I can't lose a thumb as easily as I would a pick...)
 
#39
Ívar Þórólfsson said:
This is so odd....


Why on earth do so many people here think that picks are a necessery to use only when you don´t have the proper finger technique ?? :confused:

A pick is just another weapon in your arsenal!

I play with a pick for about 50% of our bands songs, I play with a pick because of the sound I get from them....

Use the tools which are appropiate for the song in hand... I do.
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Hard to believe this made two pages before that pragmatic issue was brought up. Picks add a very different tonal quality that works better for some music and less so for others.

There are some pretty good plans here to combat the loss of a pick. I really don't have much to add to "what you need is a device called... a spare pick." Sage advice, that.
 
#40
I've been playing since 1967 and I use picks sometimes and fingers sometimes. Paul McCartney flubbed a riff on the Anthology disc and cried that the roadie forgot his plectrum and he can't play it right.

I bring out about 3 - 4 picks at a gig. I put a couple on top of my amp and occasionaly will just throw one on the floor if I want to pluck with my fingers and then pick up a pick from my amp if need be for a particular song. Retrieve 'em if I feel like it after the set. Criminy they come cheap enough. I don't believe this pick / pluck divergence I always hear. Use whatever to get whatever sound you want or play whatever style you need to. There is no "right way" to play a bass except the way that gets your sound from your hands to your bass. :hmm:
 

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