I grip my pick so the pointy bit is about under my thumb's last knuckle. Sometimes a little bit closer to the end of my thumb. But sometimes the pick sort of crawls around while I am playing, and when it crawls too close to my thumb's second knuckle, then I am very uncomfortable and things don't work right and I have to fix it. It only has to crawl a quarter inch or so that way to become very distracting. Fast chord strumming will cause this more often than single note picking, but it can happen either way.
I've been thinking of trying a thumb pick to eliminate this problem, but I haven't tried very hard to find one that I like the shape of. Most thumb picks are too pointy. I usually use a large 1.0mm or 1.2 mm Clayton, the three-pointed kind. Sometimes a 1.5mm ProPlec, likewise the three-corner kind. The thumbpicks I've seen are much pointier than they are. I don't intentionally change my grip for lead or chord playing, and I don't think I do it unintentionally either, though obviously I'm not sure. I go from one to the other so often and rapidly it would be extra work I don't need. I'm pretty lazy and want to get the maximum music for my effort and ensure there's energy left over to open a beer when the tune is over. Topher On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 8:26 PM, MinnesotaMandolin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was paying close attention to my pick hand this weekend I noticed I > do some shifting depending on what the music was doing. Do you folks > use the same pick grip for lines, chords, chops and strums? Does your > grip stay the same no matter your dynamic? Do other people shift their > grip? On a certain level I really felt like I was just watching my > hand and would be surprised to watch or feel a change. What advice > would somebody have to "break" a picking habit and work on a new one-- > if I even need to worry about that. Part of me thinks it's > inefficient, but another part of me thinks it's just my unique sonic > signature. Then that first part of me thinks the second part is just > being lazy while the second part of me thinks the first part needs to > relax... > > Let's talk pick grip!! > > erik > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
