The Acoustic Guitar Forum

Go Back   The Acoustic Guitar Forum > General Acoustic Guitar and Amplification Discussion > PLAY and Write

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 05-28-2015, 11:34 AM
Vee_Voe Vee_Voe is offline
AGF Sponsor
 
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 776
Default Tuck Away Pick

I've been trying to learn how to tuck my pick between my fingers while fingerpicking, then pull out the pick for strumming. Does any here use this technique. The pick keeps falling out, though sometimes it stays put. Any tips would be great appreciated.

Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 05-28-2015, 12:05 PM
skitoolong skitoolong is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 992
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vee_Voe View Post
I've been trying to learn how to tuck my pick between my fingers while fingerpicking, then pull out the pick for strumming. Does any here use this technique. The pick keeps falling out, though sometimes it stays put. Any tips would be great appreciated.

Interested in this....

I tried to learn last year. I abandoned the technique in your picture in favor of wedging it between my curled finger joint and palm to finger crease of my ring finger. I could never get quick enough to move it back and forth from a picking grip to this fingerstyle holding place to satisfy the music. I never got good enough at that style, either though.
__________________
Breedlove C25/CRe-h
Taylor 516e FLTD
Taylor GS6
Gibson J-30
Walden CO500 (camper)
Fender FSR BSB Telecaster

Last edited by skitoolong; 05-28-2015 at 12:12 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 05-28-2015, 12:08 PM
amyFB amyFB is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Lehigh Valley, Eastern PA
Posts: 4,599
Default

I gave up on that idea after trying it for a while.

My guitar teacher didn't much like the idea for the reason that it imposes a restriction on the hand and fingers, and, is hard to hold onto.

That said, I know a number of guitarists that have mastered it and I can guess it was persistence in practice.

My current solution is to leave the pick on my knee until I want it.

My future solution is to develop my flatpicking skills such that I can pick all those notes my fingers once did.

good luck and let us know if you found a nifty trick to share.
__________________
amyFb

Huss & Dalton CM
McKnight MacNaught
Breedlove Custom 000
Albert & Mueller S
Martin LXE
Voyage-Air VM04
Eastman AR605CE
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 05-28-2015, 03:21 PM
Random1643 Random1643 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Upper Midwest
Posts: 992
Default

I'm a barefingers picker for life so no dog in this fight, but have 2 thoughts:

1. Along the lines of Amy's post, one of the best pickers I've had the pleasure to be around was a buddy back in Wisconsin whose picking style I believe was what some call "blended." He'd keep a flatpick between thumb and forefinger and then use the other 3 fingers for fleshing out the chord structure and the melody. He's also a stellar lead player, so this approach allows him shift seamlessly into lead. Just a joy to watch/hear.

2. Another WI buddy and I jammed for a few hours one day and then spent about a half hour playing and replaying a segment of a video featuring Buddy Guy playing live. He's like a magician going from playing with a flatpick to storing the flatpick while he fingerpicks for a bit then !Woah! the flatpick reappears. I sorta remember that we figured out he was palming the flatpick. Suggest you maybe hit youtube and look for live footage.

Hmm. One post featuring 3 buddies. ;-}
__________________
It's all one big note. - Frank Zappa

Ain't Nobody's Business:
https://soundcloud.com/vern-equinox/...usiness-but-my
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 05-29-2015, 11:10 AM
jdmulli jdmulli is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Alabama
Posts: 458
Default

I hold mine with between my curled pinky finger and the palm of my hand, but I guess that could be restrictive to some folk's playing styles. It works for me, anyways.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 05-29-2015, 11:51 AM
JonPR JonPR is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 6,450
Default

Seeing as I use mainly middle and ring for my fingerpicking style, I can easily tuck the pick in my curled index finger.

But I don't play many songs which require switching from fingerpicking to pick. If I'm fingerpicking a large part of a tune, I'd probably make do without a pick at all, and use fingers or thumb for any other picking/strummng involved; or I'd pick the chords in some way instead of strumming them.
Alternatively, for a tune that's mostly strummed, with just a little fingerstyle - and if I can't get the pick in my index in time - I might attempt hybrid picking, which is what Random1693 describes in his example #1.
__________________
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 05-29-2015, 12:05 PM
skitoolong skitoolong is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 992
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Random1643 View Post
I'm a barefingers picker for life so no dog in this fight, but have 2 thoughts:

1. Along the lines of Amy's post, one of the best pickers I've had the pleasure to be around was a buddy back in Wisconsin whose picking style I believe was what some call "blended." He'd keep a flatpick between thumb and forefinger and then use the other 3 fingers for fleshing out the chord structure and the melody. He's also a stellar lead player, so this approach allows him shift seamlessly into lead. Just a joy to watch/hear.

Hmm. One post featuring 3 buddies. ;-}
I tried this last night (just spent about 5 minutes to see what it felt like).

I think I can work with this. It gives me the the pick for E, A, D and my other three for the G, B, and e. I can see where the middle would need to cover the D occasionally but thanks, great call.

BTW, I have no idea if this is the right way to do this, but it felt good to me.
__________________
Breedlove C25/CRe-h
Taylor 516e FLTD
Taylor GS6
Gibson J-30
Walden CO500 (camper)
Fender FSR BSB Telecaster
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 05-29-2015, 04:20 PM
JonPR JonPR is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 6,450
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by skitoolong View Post
I tried this last night (just spent about 5 minutes to see what it felt like).

I think I can work with this. It gives me the the pick for E, A, D and my other three for the G, B, and e. I can see where the middle would need to cover the D occasionally but thanks, great call.

BTW, I have no idea if this is the right way to do this, but it felt good to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_picking
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...picking+guitar
__________________
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen.
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 05-29-2015, 07:56 PM
skitoolong skitoolong is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 992
Default

Well, how about that. Thanks.
__________________
Breedlove C25/CRe-h
Taylor 516e FLTD
Taylor GS6
Gibson J-30
Walden CO500 (camper)
Fender FSR BSB Telecaster
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 05-30-2015, 11:08 AM
perttime perttime is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Finland
Posts: 2,101
Default

Just noodling... I sometimes find that I'm holding the pick with my index finger and playing with thumb, middle finger and ring finger. The index finger seems to be my only finger that bends enough to let me hold the pick with only one finger.
__________________
Breedlove,
Landola,
a couple of electrics,
and a guitar-shaped-object
Reply With Quote
  #11  
Old 05-30-2015, 08:07 PM
Davis Webb Davis Webb is offline
Guest
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Toronto
Posts: 4,387
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Random1643 View Post
I'm a barefingers picker for life so no dog in this fight, but have 2 thoughts:

1. Along the lines of Amy's post, one of the best pickers I've had the pleasure to be around was a buddy back in Wisconsin whose picking style I believe was what some call "blended." He'd keep a flatpick between thumb and forefinger and then use the other 3 fingers for fleshing out the chord structure and the melody. He's also a stellar lead player, so this approach allows him shift seamlessly into lead. Just a joy to watch/hear.

2. Another WI buddy and I jammed for a few hours one day and then spent about a half hour playing and replaying a segment of a video featuring Buddy Guy playing live. He's like a magician going from playing with a flatpick to storing the flatpick while he fingerpicks for a bit then !Woah! the flatpick reappears. I sorta remember that we figured out he was palming the flatpick. Suggest you maybe hit youtube and look for live footage.

Hmm. One post featuring 3 buddies. ;-}
This is called hybrid picking and is the basis of country playing. I suggest you learn hybrid picking.
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 05-31-2015, 05:26 AM
Bob Womack's Avatar
Bob Womack Bob Womack is offline
Guitar Gourmet
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Between Clever and Stupid
Posts: 26,989
Default

I've become quite adept at sticking the pick in my mouth for fingerstyle and grabbing it back for pick playing. I don't really play hybrid but there is is surprising amount of stuff that requires me to use pick and fingers together in the genres I play.

Bob
__________________
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring

THE MUSICIAN'S ROOM (my website)
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 05-31-2015, 05:47 AM
perttime perttime is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Finland
Posts: 2,101
Default

Keeping the pick in your mouth could be problematic if you want to sing too...
__________________
Breedlove,
Landola,
a couple of electrics,
and a guitar-shaped-object
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 05-31-2015, 10:02 AM
Bob Womack's Avatar
Bob Womack Bob Womack is offline
Guitar Gourmet
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Between Clever and Stupid
Posts: 26,989
Default

You just stick it in the corner of your mouth and it's no tribble at all.

Bob
__________________
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring

THE MUSICIAN'S ROOM (my website)
Reply With Quote
Reply

  The Acoustic Guitar Forum > General Acoustic Guitar and Amplification Discussion > PLAY and Write

Thread Tools





All times are GMT -6. The time now is 11:06 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Copyright ©2000 - 2022, The Acoustic Guitar Forum
vB Ad Management by =RedTyger=