tomaburque
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Picks. For something so small and inexpensive they make a big difference for your playing and your tone. Easy to forget that when wasting time on gear forums where big dollar gear is debated endlessly.
Picks are really important to my style because of my early influences - Leslie West, Billy Gibbons and Al DiMeola - all guitarists with very distinctive picking styles. I constantly very the angle, how hard I attack the string the amount of palm muting and the point between the bridge and neck that I pick.
In the 70s I used heavy tortoise shell picks but used the rounded corners not the pointy end. In the 80s I used Herco Heavys nylon picks pointy end because I liked the way nylon flexes and they were durable. In the mid 90s I bought a few Graphtech carbon fiber picks and have exactly one left and the pointy end is just about worn down. Graphtech is still around but no longer makes the picks. They were fantastic picks. The carbon made them stiffer than any other pick I've ever seen relative to their thickness.
I'm hanging on to my last Graphtech but my new favorite picks are 2mm Dunlap Stubbys. I also have some 3mm Stubbys that I only use while practicing scales.
What kind of picks do you use?
Picks are really important to my style because of my early influences - Leslie West, Billy Gibbons and Al DiMeola - all guitarists with very distinctive picking styles. I constantly very the angle, how hard I attack the string the amount of palm muting and the point between the bridge and neck that I pick.
In the 70s I used heavy tortoise shell picks but used the rounded corners not the pointy end. In the 80s I used Herco Heavys nylon picks pointy end because I liked the way nylon flexes and they were durable. In the mid 90s I bought a few Graphtech carbon fiber picks and have exactly one left and the pointy end is just about worn down. Graphtech is still around but no longer makes the picks. They were fantastic picks. The carbon made them stiffer than any other pick I've ever seen relative to their thickness.
I'm hanging on to my last Graphtech but my new favorite picks are 2mm Dunlap Stubbys. I also have some 3mm Stubbys that I only use while practicing scales.
What kind of picks do you use?
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