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01-09-2003, 11:34 PM
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how do you hold your pick???
do you use the closed fist look, like most people do? or do you prefer to have your fingers open and spread? even anchored like a banjoist???
personally i have spread fingers with an anchored pinky with my pinky hand side ready for a plam mute. kyle
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#2
01-09-2003, 11:37 PM
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I hold my picks in a little plastic box that never gets opened. I'm purely fingerstyle these days, you see.
OK . . . that's two dumb posts in a row (and nobody go looking to see if it's really more) . . . Time for bed . . . Zzzzzzzzzzzz
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01-10-2003, 12:12 AM
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i forgot to ask whether anybody has found that one way is better than the other. at this point in my playing, i dont think its relative for me, but maybe for you newbies out there. thanks in advance
kyle
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01-10-2003, 04:34 PM
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I don't know how I hold my pick. I do know that everytime when I'm playing and I think about how I'm holding my pick, I end up dropping it.
 So I try very hard not to think about it.
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01-10-2003, 06:56 PM
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I hold it between my thumb and the first knuckle on my index finger. I have my fist closed. I heard it was better to let your fingers dangle, especially for flatpicking, but I lose a lot of rhythm that way. So I'll keep doing it wrong.
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01-10-2003, 07:40 PM
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I'm dyslexic and thought that "p" was a "d" for just a second!
I hold my PICK between my thumb and forefinger, the other three are not balled up into a fist, but relaxed. Come to think of it . . . Never mind! 
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#8
01-10-2003, 08:45 PM
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I use the index finger and thumb with the other three dangling. My pinkie lightly brushes the pickguard contantly. It helps me gauge the distance above the strings that my hand is so strumming is evenly powered (at least that's my theory).
I had read somewhere that all strummers who also fingerpick use the open hand approach and pure strummers use the fist approach. I share time about 50/50 between fingerpicking and strumming/flatpicking. Rodger
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#9
01-10-2003, 08:53 PM
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I use caulk....and I never drop mine. Hah!
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#10
01-10-2003, 08:54 PM
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Sorry all, that was really dumb.
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01-10-2003, 10:30 PM
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meridian,
im sorry that you have dyslexia, but your switching pick, to well, something else, was funny. i hope these other people got your joke. thanks for the laugh kyle
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#13
01-11-2003, 02:10 PM
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Yeah, Meridian, I got a laugh out of yours. hahahaha.
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#14
01-12-2003, 07:09 PM
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Meridian, You naughty boy.....
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01-12-2003, 07:13 PM
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Actually, this reminds me of a joke a bunch of reliability engineers on the Abrams Tank at Lycoming played on me back in the 80s. I was new to the department,and very efficient. I came back to my desk one day and there were the usual pile of pink message slips. One said call "Dick Hertz", whose name I did not recognize, so naturally I said aloud, "Who's Dick Hertz????" You can imagine, those guys were crying in the aisles.....
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