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I put 50/50 because I hybrid pick almost everything, so I guess you could say I do both at the same time.
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I mostly flat pick. My teacher is a classical player by training, so he's been helping me learn hybrid and fingerpicking. I guess I'm a bad influence as he tells me he plays with a pick much more now.
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I'm 50/50 since some tunes work best with flat pick and some only fingers.
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Thanks Emil for creating the poll--this is interesting. I had a general sense that AGF was a fingerpicker-predominant community, but it's even more so than I expected.
When I'm playing a steel-string acoustic, I use a pick probably 90% of the time. I do also dabble in classical on a nylon-string, so that's fingers of course, but it's a relatively small chunk of my playing. I also play a lot of electric (100% pick) and bass -- on the latter, I began as strictly a pick player and have gradually come around to maybe 70% fingers.
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Fingers. One of my best friends, bluegrass legend Michael "Brother Rat" McFarland, told me (in around 1971) that "Picks are bondage!" so I learned to use just fingers. Nevertheless, when I'm playing the lead acoustic in the church band, sometimes I use a flatpick because I need some speed and the aggressive, percussive sound. But 99% of the time? Flesh.
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50/50 for me
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Kottke was my guitar hero when I was young, which got me interested in fingerpicking. I thought I'd get that down then learn to flat pick (the hubris of the young). The fingerpicking hole is so deep I've never got around to the flat pick.
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If you "flatpick" with a fingernail, does that count as flatpicking?
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Oof! My fingers hurt just thinking about that.
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I’ve been trying to learn jazz for a couple of years so I use a flat pick for that. I picked up a nice acoustic a few months ago then decided to learn to finger pick, which has always been a someday goal. So, the answer is both though the exact percentage varies.
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Flesh only. I found over the decades that as my fingerstyle improved I can get better tones out of my acoustics. Occasionally I'll try a variety of flat picks with different thicknesses just to see what I'm missing. Nothing but disappointment I'm afraid. Quite honestly, I think my guitars sound much, much worse using a flat pick. Or to put it bluntly, if I want to make a $4K acoustic sound like a cheap POS by using a flat pick, I'd be better off buying a cheap POS to begin with. YMMV
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I'm a pick guy.
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