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Location: Upper Left USA | (must resist urge to hit choice three...) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Can you do " The Dualing Nostrils"? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | It all depends what I'm playing. The adamas, to me calls out for a pick, but at times fingers do better, and for CA, fingers 95% of the time, but I'll take a pick to it. |
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| I'm impressed there are so many fingerpickers. Real guitar players don't need to attack their guitars with bits of plastic. :p |
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Location: SoCal | Flatpick and fingers. Done it so long that I can't seem to do anything else. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by schroeder:
Real guitar players don't need to attack their guitars with bits of plastic. :p some of us are unreal players... |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Real guitar players don't need to attack their guitars with bits of plastic. How about a bit of a glass bottle or a brass pipe! :D |
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| I use a flatpick (tortex med) with thumb and index finger and finger pick (with rolls) with the 3rd and 4th fingers...I learned it watchin' some skinny kid from arkansas play that way..
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Depends on the song... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Wilblee....welcome to the board and way to go.....jumpin in on a poll and leaving a message to boot! Good start! ;) |
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Location: Mt Clemens, MI USA | My name sats it all, thumb and fingers. Sometimes I use a plastic pick but I kind of like a coin for a pick if I'm going to use one. |
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Location: Paris/France | I'm learning to play with 4 metal fingerpicks.... :D
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Well, I voted flatpick, as I do the vast majority of my playing with a pleccy.
However, I do fingerpick on occasion, although only usually at home for myself - it's a style that rarely gets gigged! Currently in the Knopfler style due to no tuition, and making things up as I went along (two fingers resting lightly against the top), although I think that I need to completely change this to do the Rock and Roll thing properly!
As for the third choice... no comment. I'm just off to clean my computer keyboard...
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Location: NJ | I'm with Willie B. Lee . . . .
. . . depends on the song. |
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Location: Hernando Beach (Tampa area) | I'm with unpluggedthumb on the coin -- an old coin (non-milled edge) makes a great pick. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | depends on the song. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | fingerpicks ( www.alaskapik.com ) |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Originally posted by schroeder:
I'm impressed there are so many fingerpickers. Real guitar players don't need to attack their guitars with bits of plastic. :p Well Schro,
I was giving it my best shot at just using fingers. But the dang guitar was just too tough. So now, although I voted fingerpicker in the poll I do confess to augmenting my sad maniciure with Alaskapiks. Now my snooty little guitar fears me. Knowing even as I approach, that he/she will be plucked like pullet perfect for panfrying.
Plastic...what're you talkin' about man...there's nothin' wrong with plastic!!!!
Excuse me now, I must be off to an appointment with my Manicurist... |
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Location: SoCal | Boy, if you think you can't get good volume with just a thumb and picks, you've never heard Temp play. Along with being a monster player, he's got volume coming out of every orifice in his body (some guitar, some otherwise). |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I'd have to say all three depending on the tune.
Flatpick for some, thumb fingerpicks sometimes, and some are just butter with just your fingers. |
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Location: NJ | Butter on the fingers . . . hmmmm . . . interesting.
I'll have t'TRY that one, Bill . . . . |
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Location: Central Florida | Again, it depends on the song, but mainly I play with a flat pick and fingers. I learnt to play that way from seeing the same skinny kid from Arkansas that Steve saw. I bet'cha he's the same guy that inspired Moody too! ;)
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Location: SoCal | Yup. |
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Location: NJ | ". . that skinny kid from Arkansas . ."
. . . the kid from "Deliverance"?? |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I don't recall ever having to PLAY a post to understand it....but I do believe I know how it would sound.....
I flatpick 99%. I mess around with fingerstyle once in a while, but I doubt I'll ever be that good at it.
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Location: Place | fingerstlye usually, unless the song isn't |
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Location: Denver, PA USA | I use to finger pick a lot. With Alaska picks. I have very short finger nails. But over the years I have been doing more with a flatpcik. I like to cross pick with a flatpick. I really like to start songs cross picking and then build by going to strumming, and sometimes back and forth a few times. Depends on the song. Or my mood. ;) |
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Location: Indiana | Since this is the OFC, I prefer using my fingers when playing my O's. Ironically, I use a pick when I play bass.
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Location: Indiana | We would like it to be known, all the preference that are shown, are exclusively our own. All our own....all our own.
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Location: Oregon | Well, I voted, and was not at all surprised by the split at this point.
I do both ( as I guess many others do ) and really don't consider it a matter of preference; but
rather a matter of what works or what feel like. Sitting home alone; fingerpicking for sure. Jammin' with my buddies; usually flatpickin'.
Choice three in either situation, or when stuck in traffic.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Tom,
I'd recommend coated strings. They hold up much better than uncoated for nosepickers. |
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Location: Oregon | Well, my understanding is that it acts as a natural string protectorant. Kinda like armorall for the strings. So I don't have to buy those expensive new fangeled strings. Some string company, I think their name starts with an "E", pioneered the whole idea.
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I have only myself to blame.
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Location: Evansville,IN | I voted #3, as I'm still learning, and in memory of Ray Nostril and The 5 Nasty Nosepickers... Play it Ray. :D |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Silly? We don't DO silly...
I was merely offering my best sound advice as to how you might maintain better tone over the life of a set of strings that might be exposed to coagulated olfactory mucus.
I was most certaintly snot being silly. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | don't get snotty Jeff... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | go play your 12 string...(little boogie woogie, perhaps) |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | First post here, so Hello. I'm not much for forums in general; read a lot and post very little. (A man can save a lot of trouble by listening a lot and talking a little). Thought I would offer my thoughts. Lot of fingerpickers here from the poll results. I'm torn. Some tunes (and guitars) are better with fingers and likewise for flat picks. And then some with a combination. It's a great guitar world isn't it? I am on a lifelong quest for the best finger picks, especially thumb picks. I've found it tough to get a good comfortable fit, so usually settle for fingernails. Any recommendations for thumb and finger picks? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | try alaskapik.com as mentioned earlier in this thread. Folks seem to be daft for them...
they are the best I have ever tried...
as for thumbs, i've just used a regular ol dunlop and trimmed it down to a nub.
BTW, I suck at finger picking.
...two leonard cohen bites in one night...maybe we are seeing an influx of a more refined clintele round here...
...course, the other reference was on a thread about boogers.... |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | you thought it was about boogers... but, it'snot.
Although I'm more of a rank amateur, I've never found a flat pick I could hold comfortably without it turning between my fingers. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I would choke up so much on the pic there came a point were it was not even hitting the strings.
There are times that I still strum with at pic, but not very often. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Mostly fingerstyle, although I've been known to pull out a Jim Dunlop Jazz Stubby 1.0mm from time to time (the lexan ones, not nylon and I mean from the case or my pocket, not my nose).
Apropos of nothing...the prairie dogs are my favorite exhibit at the zoo. Always have been, don't know why. They just crack me up. Weird, huh? |
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Location: Denmark | Ditto, except that statistically I will be fingerpicking at least once everytime I take the guitar. Not quite as faithful to the plectrum. |
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| hey beatlejuice bill, i use a felt pick for the bass too..it seems natural that way after all these years of pickin' a 6-string guitar..
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Location: New Orleans | can't choose one because I incorporate both. |
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