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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Since the Amelia workshop and the Travis picking lesson...
For no particular reason... I started thinking about and am intrigued by and have been practicing playing with a pick between thumb and forefinger while also, using the remaining three fingers *including the pinky*... (not that I have any more fingers to use... I live in Virginia... not WEST Virginia)
I have little trouble playing with a pick and two fingers... but, adding the pinky is a bit of a task... Though I've managed some success, using the pinky is very difficult... at one point, my brian hurt enough to make me feel nauseated. |
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| Neither classical nor flamenco players use their pinkies, so why are you?
I hope your brian feels better soon. I've got a cousin called brian. |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Hey, I resemble that remark...
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Jeff, use a thumbpic and then your normal picking fingers. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Muscle memory is a powerful, powerful force of nature.
Like changing the course of a river.
Heck, just that small bit advice from Matt about the correct angle of attack between the fingtips and the strings made me feel like a beginner again. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I don't use a pick at all, but on some songs I use thumb and three fingers. On some songs I use the pinky too. And on some songs, all those extra fingers get in the way so I just use thumb and two fingers. |
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Location: NJ | Jeff needs t'stay outta' the Philly airport . . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | <> |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I use a form of thumb and all four fingers I developed myself. It's called Flailing.
JeffW wrote:
Playing with the pinky... that's what we call it up here too.....in polite company. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | learn to use the pinky |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I use them all. Not very well, but better than I do with the pick. I just can't seem to hit the right strings with those things. |
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Location: North Carolina | Well, since we only have five fingers per hand, whose dumb idea was it to put six damn strings on the guitar in the first place? |
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Playing with the pinky...
