Pick your PICK!!
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- KVRAF
- 5946 posts since 16 Aug, 2017 from UK
Cracking the code, practise regularly, slowly and accurately with a metronome. Cracked.
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Is materialism devouring your musical output? 
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- addled muppet weed
- 105769 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRAF
- 5946 posts since 16 Aug, 2017 from UK
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- KVRAF
- 3245 posts since 21 May, 2004 from Deep in the Heart of Texas
I haven't read this whole thread. Sorry if I'm duplicative.
I went on a pick-testing binge a couple of years ago, as I struggled to get my chops and speed up.
Ended up playing Jazz III's, mostly the lighter ones with the enhanced grip. But I've lately finally begun to have touch a bit. The Jazz III is still the best size and shape, IMHO, but it now feels like I have to fight through the friction on the edge when I don't get the angle and depth just right.
This week I broke out the agate 1 mm Jazz III pick I got from Picks and Stones for a ridiculously high price. It has a much smoother glide through the string, since it's polished stone, but still has excellent attack at the tip. I'm really liking it a lot, now that I can actually feel the difference. I think I'll spend the next week or so trying to get better control of it.
I still suck as a musician and guitarist, of course. No pick will fix that.
I went on a pick-testing binge a couple of years ago, as I struggled to get my chops and speed up.
Ended up playing Jazz III's, mostly the lighter ones with the enhanced grip. But I've lately finally begun to have touch a bit. The Jazz III is still the best size and shape, IMHO, but it now feels like I have to fight through the friction on the edge when I don't get the angle and depth just right.
This week I broke out the agate 1 mm Jazz III pick I got from Picks and Stones for a ridiculously high price. It has a much smoother glide through the string, since it's polished stone, but still has excellent attack at the tip. I'm really liking it a lot, now that I can actually feel the difference. I think I'll spend the next week or so trying to get better control of it.
I still suck as a musician and guitarist, of course. No pick will fix that.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1858 posts since 26 Nov, 2018
haha,
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Peter - IK Multimedia Peter - IK Multimedia https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=217907 - KVRAF
- 7860 posts since 20 Oct, 2009
I'm pretty basic, I guess. .88 or 1mm tortex (or similar material available from almost any other manufacturer) picks for years now. I have to find my Daddy's Junky Music jazz style pick I've had since college, but mainly because it reminds me of Hink because he worked for them and I used to tell my daughter that's how she knew it was my pick (it just says "Daddy's" on it).
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- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
hey I worked therePeter - IK Multimedia wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2019 6:58 pm I'm pretty basic, I guess. .88 or 1mm tortex (or similar material available from almost any other manufacturer) picks for years now. I have to find my Daddy's Junky Music jazz style pick I've had since college, but mainly because it reminds me of Hink because he worked for them and I used to tell my daughter that's how she knew it was my pick (it just says "Daddy's" on it).
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
daddy's junky music
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 8982 posts since 1 Aug, 2003
I just ordered a new pick. Actually, a little more than just a pick.
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- KVRAF
- 8982 posts since 1 Aug, 2003
It's a... bow for acoustic guitar. And a pick. And an excuse to get your strings all greased up in (psychoactive?) rosin.
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index ... w.2095199/
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index ... w.2095199/
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- KVRAF
- 5946 posts since 16 Aug, 2017 from UK
thecontrolcentre wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2019 11:47 pm Haha cool! Do you use the rubber washers from Grolsch bottle tops to stop your strap coming off too?
https://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_strap_blocks.htm
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Is materialism devouring your musical output?
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- KVRist
- 49 posts since 31 Oct, 2019
i use Jim Dunlop Jazz III Max Grip,
anti-slip for sweaty or just ate chips fingers
been using it for years, for guitar and even sometimes for playing bass also
anti-slip for sweaty or just ate chips fingers
been using it for years, for guitar and even sometimes for playing bass also
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- KVRAF
- 2751 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Central NY
Tortex for more years than I care to admit. Started on Purple. Briefly went to Blue. Played the Greenies for many years. Finally settled on Yellow. Sometimes Orange on acoustic.
Also occasionally pull out, stone & metal on electric and one of these on acoustic:
And while not really a pick.....I do like a bit of E-Bow noodling once in a while.
Also occasionally pull out, stone & metal on electric and one of these on acoustic:
And while not really a pick.....I do like a bit of E-Bow noodling once in a while.
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https://soundcloud.com/cristofe-chabot/sets/main
https://soundcloud.com/cristofe-chabot/sets/main
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 1858 posts since 26 Nov, 2018
I'm still floating back and fourth..........The "medium" Fenders are great for some things. The "flex" is good for others. I still find this subject intriguing and interesting. Everyone is different, it's NOT placebo..............
