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Can you play this song without a pick?


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Of course, why should I need to use a pick?

 

Well of the people I've seen not many can nail it without a pick. Just seeing where I and others stand in our speed I guess. :idk:

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Well of the people I've seen not many can nail it without a pick. Just seeing where I and others stand in our speed I guess.
:idk:

 

Fingerstyle is quite a bit faster than picking style though.

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Fingerstyle is quite a bit faster than picking style though.

 

I dunno, I've never played with a pick except for just messing around. I figured people used it for speed they couldn't get w/ fingers. :idk:

 

Why the hell use a pick at all then? :confused:

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I dunno, I've never played with a pick except for just messing around. I figured people used it for speed they couldn't get w/ fingers.
:idk:

Why the hell use a pick at all then?
:confused:

 

Tone.

 

Playing with a pick tends to give you a pretty specific biting tone, that cuts through quite nicely. I don't play with a pick often, but when the song calls for it, it can be a good tool.

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Hysteria is much easier to play with fingers.

I agree that most of the time fingers are faster.

Some pick songs are quite challenging to play with fingers though, and a great exercise most of the time.

Try

When you're done, try this.

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Hysteria is much easier to play with fingers.

I agree that most of the time fingers are faster.

Some pick songs are quite challenging to play with fingers though, and a great exercise most of the time.

Try
this.

When you're done, try
this
.

 

Actually I used to be able to play Maxwell Murder with my fingers, I've forgotten most of it though as I havent played it in years...lol

 

Try play some of the old Operation Ivy stuff...damn thats fast... :freak:

 

I agree about the RHCP song though, you just couldnt get that kinda attack with your fingers.

 

I prefer to go between fingers and picks, sometimes songs dont sound right with one so I'll go for the other and it'll sit right. :)

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That guy in the Muse clip is playing with his fingers, so why would you need to use a pick for it?

 

I mostly use a pick for the tone, not the speed..... I've got three fingers I can work with on my right hand.....

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Easily played w/o a pick.... damn...

 

With that said, I'm actually going back to pick playing with my band. Mainly because it makes it easier to stop the Thunderbird neck-diving with a whole forearm resting on the back of it, rather than just my thumb pushing down on the side of the neck pickup.

This should change when I get another 4-stringer that likes Drop-C tuning just as much (or more??) and doesn't neck dive.

 

I've had to change my pick-style to accomodate some of the slap parts I'd previously written too. Its a mediocre substitute for slapping... but I still do the pops with my middle, and ring, fingers.

 

Now my right hand doesn't cramp up after playing for half an hour holding the neck up!!

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Not a problem! ... But then again I'm a long time finger player, I'm no beginner. Some players use a pick so if you're covering their tune and want to sound more like the recording using a pick makes sense but personally if I need more SPEED I use more fingers. I normally use 2 or 3 fingers to pluck the strings and frankly haven't been faced with a tune that couldn't be played that way yet. So IMO using a pick is a decision I'd make for the SOUND it gives more then any speed it provides. ........ I guess if I had to play machine gun notes on a single string a pick might be easier ... but that example tune doesn't qualify and the bass player is using his fingers so pick tone isn't an issue.

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I find picks to make bass more percussive. Think that might help this song, but I wouldn't play it that way. (Don't really pick a bass very well. I'm not a converted guitarist.)

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