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kaden · Post by **kaden** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:58 pm

Cymbal bronze.

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Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:09 pm

Robert Randolph wrote:
Kriminal wrote:Cant do that over hear, its illegal to deface a coin of the realm.
It's illegal in the states too heh.

Never stopped me or many other tattoers from using coins on our machines. Dimes make great washers!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:09 pm

kaden wrote:Cymbal bronze.

K

I have given that some serious consideration, but it's costly and you can't get real thin (like .015") sheets. They're more like .032, which is too heavy for my taste. I also have a couple of those commercial made ones. But the imperfections in my picks are a big part of the charm...

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:13 pm

clueless wrote: do you use the pick for senile acoustic or senile electric? Or both? I ask because I could never get on with picks, for ANY style of playing, but I'd still like to be able to play with one.

in u.s. i've seen a number of products that slip over a pick and have a ring that goes around your finger, or similar. my previous fave was using thin metal picks and punching holes in them with a nail for grips. that's better, but seriously, maybe just the tactical difference in holding something that feels thick like a block of wood is a good 'focus' cos this is a marked improvement.

i prefer to use fingers/minimise artifact count, and have seen some killer electric playing w/ fingernail only, but seriously, i got no advice for you.. i've 'played' for ~20 years and still don't have a single song i can pick up and play, or scale i remember past putting my guitar down. i guess my 'style' is 'peaking on acid,' so no rules there.

t-willy · Post by **t-willy** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:16 pm

banjo picks!

yee haw!!

lates

t-willy

clueless · Post by **clueless** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:27 pm

xoxos wrote:i prefer to use fingers/minimise artifact count, and have seen some killer electric playing w/ fingernail only, but seriously, i got no advice for you.. i've 'played' for ~20 years and still don't have a single song i can pick up and play, or scale i remember past putting my guitar down. i guess my 'style' is 'peaking on acid,' so no rules there.

yeah - I just play with fingernails, thumb and forefinger pinched together. I tried those, er, "strap-on" picks, but I found them to be extremely strange.

As for the 'peaking on acid' style, that rings a bell...

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:39 pm

xoxos wrote:
clueless wrote: do you use the pick for senile acoustic or senile electric? Or both? I ask because I could never get on with picks, for ANY style of playing, but I'd still like to be able to play with one.
in u.s. i've seen a number of products that slip over a pick and have a ring that goes around your finger, or similar. my previous fave was using thin metal picks and punching holes in them with a nail for grips. that's better, but seriously, maybe just the tactical difference in holding something that feels thick like a block of wood is a good 'focus' cos this is a marked improvement.

i prefer to use fingers/minimise artifact count, and have seen some killer electric playing w/ fingernail only, but seriously, i got no advice for you.. i've 'played' for ~20 years and still don't have a single song i can pick up and play, or scale i remember past putting my guitar down. i guess my 'style' is 'peaking on acid,' so no rules there.

one of the reason's I so love the thin brass picks is that they mold to your grip. I will admit I do always play with the same side up. I do a lot of false harmonics, pinches or squeals...whatever you wanna call em (I call em squeals beause thats what they are, squeals of joy). But all my brass picks are a little convex, however the advantage to this is that picks when grabbed quickly slide right into my sweet sopt on the grip. I also use the outside edge of my thumb to create sounds so those slip on picks won't cut it. However, I found a glass slide that is about 1 1/2" long. I used some leftove pieces of aurelex to pad the inside..it's great

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:47 pm

i think my biggest guitar strides came when i stopped trying to play what i saw or heard (don't like to use 'play' in a sense where you 'try..') and started doing what was easiest to do, suddenly i started sounding more like other players.. :)

Cornhead · Post by **Cornhead** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:10 pm

Something you might try is put a coin of your choice on a train track and see if it becomes a good pick when flattened. I know this is a childish trick but I had a few that came out in shapes that made good guitar picks. American nickels and pennies were used.

Col.G · Post by **Col.G** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:16 pm

Like hink said, " Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top uses a Mexican Peso, Roy Buchanan used a penny, and Brian May of Queen uses a schilling, (speaking of metal). Ritchie Blackmore, formerly of Deep Purple makes his own diamond shaped picks from heavy plastics, while Eric Johnson uses Jim Dunlop Jazz II red nylon picks".
I use those giant triangle picks. I used to be able to get them made out of copper, but after a while they used to get sharp and cut the strings at the worst times.
Read more about picks here

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:22 pm

Col.G wrote:Like hink said, " Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top uses a Mexican Peso, Roy Buchanan used a penny, and Brian May of Queen uses a schilling, (speaking of metal). Ritchie Blackmore, formerly of Deep Purple makes his own diamond shaped picks from heavy plastics, while Eric Johnson uses Jim Dunlop Jazz II red nylon picks".
I use those giant triangle picks. I used to be able to get them made out of copper, but after a while they used to get sharp and cut the strings at the worst times.
Read more about picks here

one point, I think Ritchie (one of my biggest influences, along with Gary Moore) is back with and touring with Deep Purple...though the video I have from 93, come hell or high water he looks like he hated being there...and the band, in interviews on the dvd only refer to Ritchie as "him or he"...such a shame he has such an attitude.

Col.G · Post by **Col.G** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:51 pm

I lost track of Ritchie Blackmore. The last time I saw him he was on VH-1 with his wife. They said they were travelling around playing medieval music at renaissance fairs. He said he no longer plays the electric guitar and now plays the lute and he wears a stupid hat with a feather in it. His wife said she was a "white witch" and she plays the recorder and dresses like Stevie Nicks used to when she was a cokehead and thought she was a witch too. lol
I hope he is back playing with Deep Purlple. I used to have the Made in Japan album and I wore it out trying to learn his licks when I was growing up.

Jeremy_NSL · Post by **Jeremy_NSL** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:01 pm

Once I bought a metal pick for my bass. I tried it at a gig cause my other picks were really ground down (and the guitarist stole the picks that weren't shit

) So I pulled out the metal pick and went to work. Yikes! Those things give a painfully metallic tone, certainly not suitable for bass IMO. Maybe for some jangly geetar chords tho

seamoss · Post by **seamoss** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:03 pm

careful, guys.....

doing this to coins is illegal just like using warez.

you wouldn't want to create a double standard....now would you?

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:14 pm

Col.G wrote:I lost track of Ritchie Blackmore. The last time I saw him he was on VH-1 with his wife. They said they were travelling around playing medieval music at renaissance fairs. He said he no longer plays the electric guitar and now plays the lute and he wears a stupid hat with a feather in it. His wife said she was a "white witch" and she plays the recorder and dresses like Stevie Nicks used to when she was a cokehead and thought she was a witch too. lol
I hope he is back playing with Deep Purlple. I used to have the Made in Japan album and I wore it out trying to learn his licks when I was growing up.

yeah he did that for a while and his album with Rainbow from '98 Stranger in us all is awesome...I liked Deep Purple with Steve Morse, Perpendicular is quite impressive. But the whole thing with his wife was odd. I read that he said he would never play an electric guitar again.

Of three shows with Ritchie involved I went to, two of them were disasters. The first time with Rainbow, '81, '82 he played three songs threw a fit and walked off the stage because the Rainbow was making too much noise. The second time with Rainbow was with Joe Lynn Turner (Aldo Nova opened

)it was great, I was 4th row. The third was with Deep Purple in 90, the last concert I ever went to. It was terrible, by the numbers, no improv, Ritchie never smiled or even moved...I finally sat down and said the hell with it and got snowblind. Winger opened up, I hate Winger, but they were better then Deep Purple. John Lord was awesome, Ian Gillan is always a treat, Roger Glover was great as was Ian Paice...but not Ritchie...like he was mad at everyone....

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