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Location: Snåsa, Norway | Recently I started playing with a banjo player, doing a little bluegrass stuff. I'm basically a fingerpicker, having a bit of trouble with the flatpick, when trying to do something more sophisticated than six string strumming. After some investigation, I realized that one of the founders of bluegrass, Lester Flatt, used a thumb pick and a pick on his index finger, playing rythm guitar. I've got a set of Pro Pik Fingertone picks:
Those are pretty good for a fingerpicker used to playing with bare fingers, since you hit the string with your fingertip along with the steel rim on the pick, but ror strumming the high strings in bluegrass rythm playing they're not good. I've read that the John Pearse Hi Rider is similar to the picks Flatt used:
Is there anyone here that plays Flatt style, and have advice on picks best suited for this playing!
For the moment I use an old Dunlop plastic pick on the index finger, but I could need something better still! :) |
Fingerpicks for Lester Flatt style bluegrass guitar