I'm tryin to tackle warehouse and might I say this ones a bit on the difficult side. Pick wise I normally use the dunlop thin picks, the red ones. I know dave uses the orange dunlops. I like the thin picks for the simple fact i strum a lot better with it. With the mediums I don't like the sound it produces and basically the song jus sounds bad. But now when I attempt warehouse, I find that the thin pick doesn't give me the sound I want as opposed to the mediums, which the notes are more distinct and pretty much what I'm looking for. So I use those for that song. I been playin now for 7 months and I know the basic riff for crash, still tryin to get nancies down, almost got trippin billies down (the verse, my final piece to conquer, is a BITCH! but I almost got it. and since billies is so easy now, grey street jus automaically clicked cus I attempted that earlier on, got frustrated and put it down heh.....
Soo the question is...
Which pick should I stick with for the long haul???
Sorry for the spheal but didn't know how else to get my question across...
Well, that's up to you. Go with what you feel comfortable with. Don't be afraid to try new things, like heavier picks. I used to use really thin picks when I started out, but found that I really liked the tone heavier picks gave me after I tried them out for a week or so. It's all a matter of preference.
taparoo wrote:Well, that's up to you. Go with what you feel comfortable with. Don't be afraid to try new things, like heavier picks. I used to use really thin picks when I started out, but found that I really liked the tone heavier picks gave me after I tried them out for a week or so. It's all a matter of preference.
This is true with me too. I started with .5's, then .6's, then .88's, now .96's and 1.14's.
I tried the very light picks, moved to mediums, even tried heavy picks for a while. I've jumped around so much, and I still do on occasion, but right now I'm fine with .75mm. They just work well for me.
Same story for me as well. I started out using martin thin picks and then once i became more comfortable with strumming and picking i switched to martin heavy picks. Then, there was time that i used a small corner of the top of a cardboard milk carton which was more or less like the heavy pick. Now i use Jim Dunlop 1mm cause i stole a whole altoids box full of them from a FLOATER concert i went to probably three years ago. There were a lot of picks, i still have about 10 that are still brand new.
Anyway, thats my story and the moral is very comforting and easy to understand: go out and test all types of picks, play with your fingers only, use the corner of a cardboard milk carton, maybe a nickel. Whatever works out best for you is probably the best choice
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I have some of those orange tortex picks but i always drop them when i play standing up, i can't get a good enough grip on em'. The black jim dunlops have that raised type, it helps me grip the pick more comfortably.
"They called it Aspen because "buttpencil" was already taken."
--my little brother(stoned 1st time )
"A commom mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is underestimating the ingenuity of complete fools." --Ford Prefect
and since billies is so easy now, grey street jus automaically clicked cus I attempted that earlier on, got frustrated and put it down heh.....
