Picking At It

[billroper]

Ok, this seems counterintuitive. I'm playing around with picks of various gauges. It seems like it's easier to play softly (that is, with less volume) with a heavier gauge pick than it is with a lighter gauge pick.

Hmm.

Comments

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

I get textured picks, and Alaska picks. I think sandpaper would be painful pretty quickly, but I'll remember the idea anyway.

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

He uses a pretty fine sandpaper, so it's not as ouch as it sounds! But then he's an industrial electrician and he has calluses a foot wide, so perhaps it would disturb your fingers more than it does his...

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely! My eczema makes my skin thin and fragile, especially in places with dry air, like winter and hotels.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

I have a Dava flatpick with a section in its middle that is both thinner and ridged. The idea was that if if you grip it down by the tip it's a thick heavy pick, but if you grip it back behind the thin part, it's flexible like a thin pick. I was thinking that if you need a flatpick, this one might be less slippery than the ones you mentioned trying.
http://elderly.com/accessories/items/PK80P.htm
http://elderly.com/images/accessories/PK/PK80P_close.jpg

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Thanks!