4Hayden Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Do you use a pick or you a finger plucker ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparquelito Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I generally use a pick. There are one or two songs in my band's song list that require finger-picking (Dust In The Wind by Kansas, and Landslide by Stevie Nicks, to name a few). But all in all, I am a die-hard pick user. I generally run around with four or five in my pocket at all times, day or night. I'm weird that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markini Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Generally finger picking on acoustic and a pick on electric. I play each 50/50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 flexible pick - even on bass - couldn't finger pick to save myself. kudos to those who can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeyGhost Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I did use a pick a lot of the time until recently. However, I'm now receiving tuition in music theory and starting to go through chord progressions and key changes/modulation on a classical nylon string. So I am tending to use my fingers more and more as I do this but I also use steel-strings as well. Does interesting things to your fingers. Was Ouch! for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Both, but finger style usually just playing chords. I don't do enough chord-melody... would like to do more. I've recently been playing around with using only a thumb pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromnabulax Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I just use my finger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeyGhost Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Well, that's something to look forward to! And, yup, they're getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 For decades I played with a flatpick and sometimes picked additional notes using middle or ring finger. Using my ring finger has always been my way of picking octaves. After a seven-year hiatus from playing bass I decided in 1994 to switch from flatpick to fingers. Another bass hiatus followed from 1996 to 2013 but I decided to stay with fingerpicking the bass. Finally I started experimenting with fingerpicking on guitar, too, and currently use it to about 25 or 30 percent of my playing. Power and endurance of my index and middle finger are fine due to playing bass, and although I use my ring finger seldom for bass patterns, it also feels and sounds nice - on my beginner level, of course. However, my little finger will take me lots more practicing, but I found it nice to pick with it, too. Being a hack as a flatpick player as well, my progress in fingerpicking is not worth mentioning on principal, but anyway, I'm having lots of fun. Picking three or four strings with perfect synchronicity sounds very different from strumming with a pick. I use my fingers for picking and brushing one string per finger as well, and there is lots of sonic differences to discover. My biggest problem seem to be fast arpeggio patterns, with fingers and flatpick as well. I fear I will never get this trouble sorted :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
american cheez Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I just use my finger. i was threatened to be banned on another forum for posting a similar pic. they said it was "offensive". i told them to look out the window, there might be kids on their lawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPguitarman Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Pick mostly for electric guitar. Both for acoustic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I just use my finger. Now....that is funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorod Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 I use a combination....Stiff pick or loose fingers, jes' sayin'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 what ever it takes,,, -- what everrrrrr it takes... (acoustic, probably 75% finger.. electric, 85% plectrum) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Never could stand any calluses and fortunately never have any. The currently four of my fretting and picking bandmates also couldn't. Two of them are pro players since 30+ years, and they say it would be hell for them. Only the cuts of their fingernails tell what they presumably do several hours per day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Pick, But every few months I work on plucking. And usually only on my nylon. I'm just too used to it to change now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 For most of the styles I play, I use a pick. But I do some hybrid and pure finger picking on occasion too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 I'm exactly like Saturn. Lately, I've been doing a hybrid style when I play the blues. Everything else is with a pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Hayden Posted January 19, 2016 Author Share Posted January 19, 2016 I just use my finger. I like that picture 4H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingarmadillo Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Both, but I prefer fingers to pick, particularly for acoustic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Neither I use my PIP joints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Acoustic : Fingerpick Spanish guitar. Fingerpick + Thumbpick for steel acoustic. Electric : Plectrum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 I usually use a pick but use the other three fingers at the same time. Is that what Saturn means by 'hybrid'? Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 I fingerpick, without fingerpicks, and "flatpick" with my index finger, only rarely with a flat pick.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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