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Originally Posted by jonfields45
Try a Fred Kelly Bumblebee Jazz... not too much play for fingerpicking but a more natural feel for flatpicking.
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I have long been a thumb picker, and could never do much with a flat pick because of their slipping. Recently I got much better at flat picking because of thin textured picks, and gravitated into alternate picking (double picking, back picking).
So I got a few Bumblebees to see if one pick could do it all. They are a hybrid, with a flat pick on a thumb band. A big long thumb pick.
They were OK for thumb picking. For flat picking, they certainly did stop the pick from rotating, slipping, losing the grip. And it was nice to instantly change between flat and thumb picking in a song.
But the Bumblebee was too stiff and rigid for good control. It was OK for strumming and simple downward strokes and notes. But it did not have the feel, flexibility between thumb and finger, and subtle control for complicated or very soft flat picking. It is a compromise.