Picking At It
May. 20th, 2024 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperSo my friend Amy McNally posted a picture of a set of fingerpicks several weeks ago with no real notice of what the plan was for them. There are a lot of things you can do with fingerpicks and I'm sure I'll find out at some point.
When I was in fifth and sixth grade, I spent a fair amount of time playing with fingerpicks as my guitar teacher taught me fingerpicking using a couple of Chet Atkins method songbooks. This was a good thing in the sense that I learned a lot about fingerpicking that way. It was a bad thing in the sense that it's really nice to have fingerpicks that fit.
My hands are not the largest hands in filking. They are, however, large enough that very few fingerpicks are likely to fit. I got some metal fingerpicks, because they are a bit easier to adjust. Unfortunately, I really hate the tone of metal fingerpicks to the point where I just put the things away.
But it is a brave, new, Internet-enabled world out there. Maybe I could find some fingerpicks that were big enough. And I found some large size fingerpicks on Amazon and ordered them, figuring that it was worth a try.
They were lost in shipping.
Stop laughing.
After several weeks of watching Amazon not deliver my order, I canceled it, ordered the same fingerpicks over again yesterday, and they arrived today, which is the sort of performance that I had expected in the first place, given that the picks are shipped *from* Amazon.
The new fingerpicks are still a bit smaller than I like. But they sound ok. And they fit ok *enough*. I played a few songs with them tonight and detected some long-buried memories drifting back to the surface.
I'll try it again and we'll see how it goes. :)
When I was in fifth and sixth grade, I spent a fair amount of time playing with fingerpicks as my guitar teacher taught me fingerpicking using a couple of Chet Atkins method songbooks. This was a good thing in the sense that I learned a lot about fingerpicking that way. It was a bad thing in the sense that it's really nice to have fingerpicks that fit.
My hands are not the largest hands in filking. They are, however, large enough that very few fingerpicks are likely to fit. I got some metal fingerpicks, because they are a bit easier to adjust. Unfortunately, I really hate the tone of metal fingerpicks to the point where I just put the things away.
But it is a brave, new, Internet-enabled world out there. Maybe I could find some fingerpicks that were big enough. And I found some large size fingerpicks on Amazon and ordered them, figuring that it was worth a try.
They were lost in shipping.
Stop laughing.
After several weeks of watching Amazon not deliver my order, I canceled it, ordered the same fingerpicks over again yesterday, and they arrived today, which is the sort of performance that I had expected in the first place, given that the picks are shipped *from* Amazon.
The new fingerpicks are still a bit smaller than I like. But they sound ok. And they fit ok *enough*. I played a few songs with them tonight and detected some long-buried memories drifting back to the surface.
I'll try it again and we'll see how it goes. :)