Thumb Picks
Enucleation
May 11 2010, 06:40 PM
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There is a song that my band is working on that for one guitar alternates a lot between clean fingerpicking and fast distorted tremolo picking. The other guitarist is having trouble swapping between the two, I suggested that for the clean parts he just toss the pick and have a spare nearby, but he didn't like the idea. We figured it would be best to use a thumb pick for this song but how do you do pinch harmonics with one of those?


Granted, I don't even think there are any pinch harmonics in this song, it would be nice to know how to do this.

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Bluesberry
May 15 2010, 10:08 AM
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In my opinion, tremolo etc. stuff is pretty challenging with a thumb pick. I think it would take a lot of (wasted) effort to play all the "normal" pick stuff with a thumb pick. I like Ivan's suggestion, also all kinds of pick - no pick -movements are always doable.

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- Enucleation   Thumb Picks   May 11 2010, 06:40 PM
- - Sollesnes   It's always good to know how to put the pick i...   May 14 2010, 12:00 PM
- - Ivan Milenkovic   Why don't he use hybrid picking?   May 14 2010, 10:42 PM
- - SirJamsalot   Interesting problem to have. Here's what I wou...   May 14 2010, 11:14 PM
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