[ouijaouija]

I've bought so many picks, I can't use them well but I find that the best one that works for me is the dunlop nylon .43mm so thats very thin, anything over .5 and it starts to sound really bad.

so for the acoustic strumming do we go for thin ones?

[Graeme! Yes, Graeme!]

It's all down to personal preference. I prefer thicker plectrums, myself. I find I can control them better than thin ones. For quite a while I've been using Jim Dunlop Tortex .88mm plectrums. Quite heavy, but not so thick that it's like a big chunk of hardness hitting the strings.

[improviduto]

Graeme is right. It all boils down to your personal preference. I prefer Ernie Ball mediums. They give me the flexibility I need for fast strumming, but are heavy enough that they won't tear or sound thin.

[guitarstrummin63]

i got for tortex .73's usually but on acoustic i tend to stick with fingers unless i want a really sharp attack.

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yeah i like the .73 thickness picks, ultex or tortex usually for me

but it all depends on what you like and what you wanna sound like

[Father Fonz]

I generally try not to use picks as I prefere the sound without and its more fun to play that way.

When I pick I use a fairly hard one but thats simply because fast picking is much harder with a soft pick imo.

[ouijaouija]

hi thanks for the info, i have those .73mm picks but when i strum it makes a loud 'guly sound' so maybe im not strumming right? i like really thin ones so that they bend really easy, cuz im not a good strummer its hard to learn it without any guidance..

[okiejohn]

I like thin flexable picks. I'm always dropping the heavier stiff ones.

Someone said the heavier picks were good for speed, but I just have two speeds and they are slow and slower.

[lilljolle]

When I started out I used a dunlop .38mm for strumming, but over time I have started to use thicker ones. Now I usually go for something like .60mm - .80mm and I would never use a .38 again!

[sk8element092]

When i play my acoustic i use the tortex .60 mm. I like them a lot. I think im going to be more apart of all the boards in GTU. We'll or I'll see how long that lasts.

[PingerFicker]

I am predominantly a fingerpicker, meaning I use pretty much only the flesh and nails of my fingers. Even when I do strum I usually use the back of my nails on my middle and ring finger on the down stroke, and the back of my nail on my thumb on the up stroke. But Occassionally I do pick up a pick, if I need a little more volume. When I do this, I swear by my Tortis medium sized Mondo pick with a speed bevel. These things are really great picks. The only downside is that they are $20 a pop, just for one. But they are worth it. Check em out here.

http://www.redbeartr....com/picks.html

[wolf.0]

I'm really fond of my Dunlop Tortex .60mm, they have three sides, one like a regular pick, one point that is swooped, makes it easy to quickly do riffs, and one side with kind of a lace edge that sounds great strumming, i cant use anything else.

[k1llahd]

This might be a little off topic. But I have a problem with my pick in that when Im strumming for a while my fingers start getting sweaty and my pick keeps movin around in my fingers. And when I start to notice it I sweat even more, and well you get the picture.

any of you guys hvae this problem? and how do you combat it?

[billy16]

I've had that problem. What you can do is if you have those celluloid picks with the smooth surface, take a knife and from about the middle of the pick, make cuts in the pick along the width. Cut up to the thickest end of the pick. That should give you a good area to grip so the pick shouldn't slip too much. Or you could try a different pick, maybe a nylon. Dunlop has one called the Gator grip pick or something like that. Those are good too.

[Mikky04]

I use .73 or .88
Who's the chick in your sig billy16?

[*black*sabbath*]

i use .73 on acoustics
but on an electric or a bass i love turning amp full blast and using a 2mm
i like pickboy i have a .50 pickboy with grip its great

[billy16]

I found the chick on the web. Certain sites that cannot be mentioned...

I was using .60mm Dunlop nylon picks, but I've switched to medium guage celluloid picks now.

[k1llahd]

great tip about cutting grips into my pick, ill try it out, i have million picks laying around the house, Ill run into them while im vacuuming or looking for the tv remote but whenever i wanna play guitar and need a pick i can never find one laying around, then i have to get a brand new one out of my pick jar

anyway im pretty sure that chick is kate something or another. shes pretty popular on the net, dont ask me how I know that. anyway i used to think she was hot until I found out about her hoof-foot.

If you do a search on the internet you might find out more about it, although i hear her lawyers are always trying to block sites that show her hoof-foot.

[PingerFicker]

In the past, when i used the dunlop picks, I used to drill a 1/4" hole in the center of the pick. THis gave me a little more grip. Now the only pick i use is my tortis pick, but I would never dream of drilling a hole through that thing.

[ramblingman]

ya i use jim dunlop nylon .88mm, when im doing a song with a soft strummimg part i use a .60 or .73 mm

[AdamXiah]

I use Dunlop Gatorgrip .58 mm, easily my favorite type of picks.