Pick or no pick?

you wish you were a suck

 

Everybody drop everything and light up a J.

 

or not

 

everyone wishes they had a felt bass pick like me. i know guys, it's hard tourturing urself with plastic against metal. I'd cut off my ears too if I were a guitar player...

 

I use graphite picks.

 

My brother had some felt ones, but he lost them before ever getting to use them.

 

No pick is just so much better. Much more control than a pick, and a much richer sound.

 

well if its chords or chordal melodies then i usually use my fingers. i like using my fingers and i learnt to do so in the absence of a pick and then found i liked fingers bette.r

however, if im playing anything distorted, or requiring clear individual notes then ill generally use a pick. when recording my songs, i generally need a pick for the clearness of sound. but it soundes nicer just to play, with fingers

you need both

and it depends on the music

 

how does a felt pick stay upright? or does it?

 

no pick i let my fingar nails grow out and us those i like it alot better i hate picks havent payed with one in years

 

See, I couldn't use one of those. They turn my strings black.
I'll describe Black Diamond brand strings to you sometime.
Trust me. They are REAL Pretty strings.

 

I've done that, but I play so much that my nails wear down so easily and I hardly ever have to cut them.

 

i cant stand guitar hands.... with those huge nails?
its not just on myself.. i feel awkward being around anyone with them.. theyre dangerous. ive been accidentally scratched too many times by guys with long fingernails and unlike women, men tent to just clip them and not actually manicure them to make them nice and un-serated haha

 

Haha...Reminds me of Esteban, that bastard.

 

I've got the callouses on my fingertips. BOTH hands.

 

I'm just going to buy some clip-on nails. I chew mine too much.

Me too, except for my right pinky. :H

 

It's weird. I play fingerstyle, but I use this hybrid picking pattern with a flatpick, so my right hand doesn't callous that much... just lightly. The hardest callous is on my right thumb, but I use a thumbpick. I've got a slight callous on my left pinky from playing jazz, but I don't use my pinky much at all.

 

Pick, can't use my fingers because it turns my fuzzed out bass into a wall of mud.

 

I have some rubber bass picks. I dont like then though, too much friction. Ive been playing with a pick less lately because im trying to get callouses on my right hand because I am going to start playing upright very soon.

 

I use a plectrum almost all of the time. I'm pretty hopeless at fingerpicking.