Am I Holding My Pick Correctly?, any help will be great! Images included. |
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Am I Holding My Pick Correctly?, any help will be great! Images included. |
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Mar 14 2007, 08:42 PM |
there's nothing wrong with the angle and how you hold it seems pretty normal too.
BUT pain in your index finger sounds weird to me and that's not very good. maybe you hold the pick to thight or something? maybe lower the pressure a bit. and stay relax I think you won't get pain if you stay relax. I hold the pick almost the same as you btw tips: experiment! and mayb you have to get used to it, when I played for the first time with my guitar on my left leg, my left butt hurt like hell This post has been edited by ezravdb: Mar 14 2007, 08:44 PM -------------------- The coolest new community: Lockerz Wanna join Lockerz? Send me a PM with your mailadress. |
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Mar 17 2007, 12:44 AM
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Dont angle your thumb. Keep it in straight position.
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Mar 17 2007, 01:58 AM |
Dont angle your thumb. Keep it in straight position. +1 I might hold it a bit differently from others but the tip of my index finger doesn't stick out, I bend mine further up so it's parallell with my thumb so to say. And with the index finger out of the way I keep less of the pick stcking out aswell. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Mar 19 2007, 10:02 PM
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Who ever said one way is the correct way? Just do what works for you man.
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Mar 19 2007, 10:10 PM |
Who ever said one way is the correct way? Just do what works for you man. I don't agree. "What works" might be a technique that sucks. And not knowing what's better than "what works" might leave the guitarist with worse chances to succeed. Then I agree that there can be plenty of ways that works, not only one. To put it in another way. If you can run 100 meter on 12 seconds that might be "what works" and you're pretty satisfied with that. But if lifting the knees higher and holding your upperbody more still will get you down to 10 seconds that's a pretty good impreovement, right? But if noone tells you how to improve, what's the chanse you'd find a better way? Especially if the better way means you'd suck the first three weeks, like you would when chaning how you hold the pick. Been there, done that and I improved a LOT from changing the way I held my pick. Both in spee and accuracy. This post has been edited by MickeM: Mar 19 2007, 10:13 PM -------------------- My bands homepage
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Mar 20 2007, 11:44 AM |
Mike: exactly why i posted this topic. I found it harder to pick much faster the way i held my pick before. So i changed it. Now that im getting used to it more i feel like i can pick faster already. But still need a bit of getting used to. But even though i changed the angle of the pick.. theres a very good chance im actually holding the pick in a way that won't allow me to pick at my full potential. Id appreciate any tips. Cheers CJ I experienced the same thing, righ after changing you're a beginner again and nothing works. Here's an old thread where I posted a picture of how I'm holding my pick now. The old way was more like I held it between "fingerprint" area of both my thumb and indexfinger. It's a bad picture, I know, both in size and resolution but I hope it shows I hold the pick with the thumb-"fingerprint" and the side of my indexfinger. I'm not sure about the angle of the pick and I can't measure since I don't have a guitar where I'm at now but I guess it's between 30-45 degrees... more like 30 degrees on the fat E string and up to 45 when I reach the thin E-string. Also check out the Marshall-video posted in that thread! And I'm not saying my way also works best for you but I THINK it is what works best for me. You know I dropped everything, everything, and restarted from the very basics after playing for many years. So I've spend quite some time finding my way This post has been edited by MickeM: Mar 20 2007, 11:45 AM -------------------- My bands homepage
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Mar 20 2007, 12:12 PM
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I experienced the same thing, righ after changing you're a beginner again and nothing works. Here's an old thread where I posted a picture of how I'm holding my pick now. The old way was more like I held it between "fingerprint" area of both my thumb and indexfinger. It's a bad picture, I know, both in size and resolution but I hope it shows I hold the pick with the thumb-"fingerprint" and the side of my indexfinger. I'm not sure about the angle of the pick and I can't measure since I don't have a guitar where I'm at now but I guess it's between 30-45 degrees... more like 30 degrees on the fat E string and up to 45 when I reach the thin E-string. Also check out the Marshall-video posted in that thread! And I'm not saying my way also works best for you but I THINK it is what works best for me. You know I dropped everything, everything, and restarted from the very basics after playing for many years. So I've spend quite some time finding my way That really helped man. I know this may not be the perfect way for me to hold my pic but its definitely worth a try. It feels very comfortable and pretty similar to the way i'm holding mine on the images i uploaded. But i gotta admit i feel like its my first week playin guitar again. Atleast i feel like im on the right track Mike i got just one last question for u. Do you hold your pick the same way while strumming? or does it change slightly? Thx alot cheers -------------------- "Sing. With your head up. With your eyels closed. Not because you love the song. But because you love to sing" - Copeland
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Mar 20 2007, 12:47 PM |
I'm pretty sure I hold it the same way while strumming... havn't though about it really but I don't see that I should change it. I will try with a guitar later today when I get a chanse to but until then I'll stick to that I'm holding it the same way.
It gives a very flat hand, a tiny bit of the pick showing and I have low action on the strings. I think it gives me great control, but the first couple of weeks were the shit... Good luck with the picking -------------------- My bands homepage
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