Kennis Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 let's see how differently we do this. maybe we can learn something/get some tips.. I exclusively use dunlop jazz IIIs, bigger picks just don't work for me any more. but I seem to be wearing these plastic ones out pretty quick. they're cheap though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Dava control picks preferred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 hey that's my pick grip Surf…. Geeze, the nerve of some people…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 hey that's my pick grip Surf…. Geeze, the nerve of some people…. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobF_ Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 Like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 mine is the same as Surf's. like to keep my index finger at the edge, for hitting the harmonics and squeals ... have been chasing that since I fisrt saw Roy Buchanon in 1974. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFord Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 I'm too lazy to take a picture but I use the small jazz picks and keep the pick's pointy end up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 My family already thinks I'm weird. I'll never hear the end of it if they see me taking pictures of my hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 mine is the same as Surf's. like to keep my index finger at the edge, for hitting the harmonics and squeals ... have been chasing that since I fisrt saw Roy Buchanon in 1974. Gotta have those squealies! (in moderation of course lest you end up like Zakk Wylde) My family already thinks I'm weird. I'll never hear the end of it if they see me taking pictures of my hand. I know, right. I already had one since we did this a couple years ago. It did feel kinda weird. I don't do selfies either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Top-view: View the pick-guard sees: P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drog Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 I was going to post a picture, but oddly realized something.... I grip in the pick in about five or six different ways, depending on what I am doing. Never realized that before. I had assumed that I had one grip, lol. I just learned something about myself, lol. A couple looked even odd to me, ha ha. I might have to post a series of them, when I have time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 .... I grip in the pick in about five or six different ways, depending on what I am doing. That's a very good point! My pick moves around a fair bit in my hand too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Mac Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I'm pretty heavy-handed and sometimes the picks tend to move around in my grip alot so I started using the over-sized rounded-triangle picks so I don't lose one out of my handing during a gig. I often have to readjust my grip during a song and that can be a little disconcerting, but I seem to do OK with it... The larger rounded-triangle picks allow me to relax my grip a little for a more sensitive touch to combat my heavy-handedness... My hand used to fatigue, I suspect from my proclivities for tendinitis, when I used standard picks, the bigger rounded-triangle picks were/are a God-send! I also tend to use the backs of my fingernails on my pick hand for strumming too and use all my fingers in this approach quite often... In that approach I even hold my index finger and thumb together like I'm holding a pick, only without one, and use the back of my index fingernail on down strokes and my thumbnail on up strokes for some lighter playing... I change-up my attack tremendously and often to key off the emotional cues of The Blues that I play... I do alot of emotional content playing to the feel of the song/moment/crowd and stress/accent different parts with much harder and a more ferocious attack vs more subtle and content passages and fills... I'll suddenly tone it way down to a light volume and finger pick with my index finger like Albert King or Albert Collins, but usually for the quieter passages; like Buddy Guy, to take the audience on that roller-coaster ride from barely audible to over-bearing; ala Peter Green and Buddy Guy. I do alot of right hand muting so I tend to let alot of pick hang out of my grip... I'll post a pic later if I can get around to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 Over the years my pick grip has changed. When I first started learning as a teenager, I tried to be a lead player like Randy Rhodes, EVH etc. So I had a consistent grip and used a thin pick and got real good at past, alternated picking. I've heard someone here call it "tremolo picking". Somewhere along the way I got more into blues style and went through the SRV phase (much to the chagrin of RCT ) and got into heavy picks. But I also found myself in the 90s trying to practice late at night when wife and babies were sleeping, so to try and be quiet I held a very loose grip. To this day I have never recovered and my pick hand is a mess, just holding it any which way, and it's constantly moving around in my fingers. :unsure: I still need a heavy pick though. Hate thin picks. My buddy even gave me a metal pick a few months ago, and I am loving that. Edit: thinking more about it, it seems like I am that way with everything I do. There is nothing I can think of that I do consistently the same way every time and that includes playing guitar. In the same way that I hold my pick differently all the time, I can remember years ago we used to have ping pong tables in our work break rooms. There were some really good players, but everyone else had a certain way they held their paddle all the time. I was never the best player, but I had about 3 or 4 different grips that I would alternate using many times within the same game. Even when I was into martial arts, I would spar both southpaw and righty, sometimes switching in the same match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Paul Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I get mine in a squirrel grip and make it squeal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Mine is a lot more like Pips but I use V-Picks so you see a little more of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 This is it, but when I use one of my brass picks, I pick flat. Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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