Struggling With My Pick >:| Options

[uv777]

Hey everybody :-D

I'm just about to learn how to hold the pick how it's recommended. The Problem is, that I've been playing "wrong" for like 10 years, and its really hard for me to switch :-S

The reason why I decided to change my way of playing is, because I felt lack of control in my pick hand. --> I used to hold it like this:

since I've changed I feel like I have more control, but I got a lot of other problems :-(

So here are my problems:


description to the pic

1. means the pick starts to drift away until it points to the same spot as my index finger. What can I do against it?
2. the pick somekind slides up my index finger. is that normal?

other problems which I have:

- My index finger starts to hurt and the pick seems to leave blue marks on my finger ^^ I dont think thats normal?
- When I try to play chords, the edge of my index finger hits the strings :-S How can I avoid that?

note: these Problems mostly show up when I try to play chords. Ooh and I also checked the videos where it explains how to hold the pick.. but I cant find any explanation for my problems there :-(

Cheers Mike

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This post has been edited by uv777: Dec 30 2008, 02:52 PM