The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102676 Message #2084042
Posted By: Midchuck
22-Jun-07 - 10:59 AM
Thread Name: how to keep hold of your pick???
Subject: RE: how to keep hold of your pick???
Early on in my guitar playing career, such as it was, I used a thumbpick and either finger picked or played "Mother Maybelle" style, picking bass notes with the thumbpick and strumming with the index finger.
I switched to a flatpick for three reasons:
1) I really liked some of the flatpick guitar I heard, especially, early on, John Herald's stuff on the early Ian and Sylvia records. And when I got Doc Watson's first Vanguard album, that settled it.
2) I could make more noise.
3) If I was playing in a bar and drinking beer, it eliminated the risk of going to the toilet and forgetting to take the thumbpick off. Memories of the pain still linger.
Peter.