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If you don't want picks on your other fingers, lots of people hybrid pick with an ordinary flatpick. It takes some practice, but it'll probably pay off. Thumbpicks aren't designed for flatpicking. Flatpicks are. |
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I'm sure no one here is doing this, but I was at a beginner banjo workshop last winter and a fellow was wearing his thumb pick upside down. Needless to say, he was having a very hard time with it. The instructor got him straightened out. But later he told me he had gone through a dozen different styles of thumb picks trying to play them upside down like that.
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For years i struggled to find a thumbpick that worked for me. Had written them off until i started attending a jam with louder instruments (piano et al).
I've since switched over to thumbpicks almost all the time. The pick i found that worked for me was Black Mountain Jazz Tipped |
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And - as I said - his teachers at the Howff (Len Partridge, Archie Fisher) used thumbpicks, as did his main inspiration Brownie McGhee - as well as other players he witnessed in the early days, like Martin Carthy and Peggy Seeger. It would have seemed the normal thing to do! (Davy Graham - his other big hero - didn't use one, but he didn't see Graham play until a few years later.) But you're right about the clubs with no PA. He has said that his aggressive right hand technique - snapping strings back against the frets - came from trying to make himself heard in clubs where other performers would be mostly either singing or strumming, and therefore carrying well enough with no need for mics. Fingerpicked instrumentals could easily get lost. And he also wanted to be loud and bluesy, certainly in the early days, to create driving grooves. So the thumbpick obviously helped with that.
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FK Speedpick, Ive tried most others but no go till I found this one. I dont sing and dont strum, only fingerstyle with very long nails.
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I heavily modify my thumb picks but the ones I choose to modify are Fred Kelly Slick Picks. Fred Kelly Delrin is super tough
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I currently use a Fred Kelly Slick Pick, extra heavy (no longer made). I have been using this thumb pick for about the last 15 years. Before that I used National and Fender thumb picks, but had to grind down the length of the blade. I never had to modify the blade on the Fred Kelly Slick Pick.
What works for some folks does not work for others, depending on how your thumb is put together. Thumb picks always worked for me for fingerstyle playing and they never slipped or moved very much. However, I don't use a thumb pick for strumming, as they don't work well for that, at least for me. For strumming I generally use a flat pick, though I also use other techniques as required by the song. I cannot wear finger picks anymore due to rather advanced osteoarthritis. I wish I could, but they just hurt my crooked fingers and finger joints way too much. - Glenn
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I use the Fred Kelly orange ones. I file the blade down to where it's pretty short and that helps with control for me. Seems to work well but I also just use my thumb a lot as well.
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Fred Kelly speed picks for me. Strumming is not easy. As others have mentioned, down strokes with the thumb pick only. You can incorporate your fingers on down and up strokes. This is interesting for those who need to strum and pick.
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I like Fred Kelly slick or speed. Dunlop are fine. Blue chip, national and black moutain too.
Main thing though, you just have to do it, and do it, and do it, again and again and again until it sticks. I tried thumbpicks many times. Always gave up on them. Only thing that worked was forcing myself to use them, always, until I cracked it. Took about 3 weeks of daily practice, about an hour or so per day. You won't suddenly find the right pick and crack it that way. Once you can do it you can use any pick, although we all have favourites. You just have to persevere. It's definitely worthwhile.
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Any good player I know can use a thumbpick if they choose to. Even if they generally choose not to. I think it's a basic/foundational skill, like being able to use a flat pick.
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Main thing though, you just have to do it, and do it, and do it, again and again and again until it sticks.
I tried thumbpicks many times. Always gave up on them. Only thing that worked was forcing myself to use them, always, until I cracked it. Took about 3 weeks of daily practice, about an hour or so per day. You won't suddenly find the right pick and crack it that way. Once you can do it you can use any pick, although we all have favourites. You just have to persevere. It's definitely worthwhile.[/QUOTE] |
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This ^^^ Once you've got the hang of it with one particular pick you'll be able to hunt down your favourite. Same worked with fingerpicks for me also, you just have to keep wearing them and playing with them. Once it clicks you can shopping around. |
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finger picking, finger style, finger style guitar, thumb pick, thumb picks |
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