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lloyd64 Hold your pick correctly (34) Hold your pick correctly 09 Apr 00

Learn now to hold your pick…..

After fifth years of paying rudimentary Guitar and Mandolin, I have just found out I am holding the pick incorrectly. I did not even know there was a correct way to hold a pick. When it was not in my teeth, I held my pick with my thumb and the tips of my first and second fingers. I now realize, every guitar and mandolin book in the world shows the pick being help by the thumb and the side of the first finger. Will it make a difference in the sound? It sure did, but I'm having a hard time getting use to it. The pick keeps slipping. ( Maybe I should have a thumb pick like Art). Can you play a Mandolin with a thumb pick? :)

So, you young pickers, start out holding the pick correctly.

Lloyd62 (formerly lloyd62

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