Well done. Explained very thoroughly. I have had the same experience and found the same techniques as you explained. However I am interested in why you use two different fingerpick gauges.
Just about everything you need to know. Don't trouble with plastic ones at all on acoustic instruments and for the thumb pick a decent celluloid one such as Pick Boy is better than any plastic ones and dirt cheap too. Picking at random from the tray in the music shop - you can get some really useless things doing that so get a real one from the pick-makers. Don't wear fingerpicks backwards like a fake nail. It's an absolute crime that all the makers of these things don't enclose some little photo because it's so common for players to "give these a go", put them on wrong and never ever touch them again because it feels like you've crippled yourself. If no one tells you, how can you know? If you already play fingerstyle without these, they'll feel odd for a while but they have very significant advantages - volume, accuracy and the option to play so much more forcefully really opens things up. Persevere. Turning them a little to get a clean note takes a few goes - it's common enough to change your right hand position a bit for different techniques but it's not hard to find what works. More important is the right hand position. Some fingerpick with their wrist on the bridge and that's an extreme and limiting position. Try to get used to playing with the wrist altogether off the face of the instrument. Feels funny? Insecure? Remember when you first learned any fingerpick? Crouching over the soundhole, dribbling with concentration and the tight shoulder/feet/whatever when you finish a session of that kind of beginner practice? Revisit that but it won't take as long to pick it up - just that, like the first times of f/picking, it "comes and goes" for a while, some days better than others. Remember when even changing chord disrupted things? How strange and weird it seemed to change from a pick to a strum and back? If you know this, you did it. Just do it again but it doesn't take as long. Recording engineers don't like these things. Close mic-ing can pick up the sound of any scratching and the picks touching each other (which can be quite an attractive sound). First one, pay attention when putting them on, second thing, put a bit of electrical tape around one of the fingers. Third thing, tell the engineer to move the mics around - they're not God, they only think they are and some close-mic from habits of band and multi-track mixes rather than anything else and an ambient sound is more to my taste anyway. Same as they freak out if you tell them you don't need a click track - not all engineers have much experience of recording acoustic things, some are even inclined to look at the screen rather than listen so stay cool and don't be frightened of them. I never play without these picks now. It took a few months and some work (some years ago) but it pays off. Change your strings regularly, about once a month - I've met some that don't even know that strings need changing and if your wife/girlfriend isn't pissed off, you're not playing enough.
Great Channel! Subscribed! Question: One thing I like about fingers is the control over muting. Whenever I hear finger picks there seems to mainly be open strings and chord tones constantly ringing. Is there a way to achieve the same amount of muting with finger picks, or is that one of the advantages of fingers at the cost of volume, percussive attack, ect?
Very helpful, thanks! But might anybody here help me: if I want to play two strings that are next to each other on the same time, would I use two fingers? Because I think it's quiet hard with two fingerpicks so near to each other. Sorry for my bad english, I hope you could understand me!
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Lmao! omg, you have no idea how stupid I feel right now. I put the picks in the wrong direction. This video helped me so much. Thanks!
glad i could help :)
eddybear88 same here dude a hahaha
Same here...😅
Andrew Narzary h
I feel the sameeeeeeeeeee
Thank you, Pat! Your teaching encourages me to try again, 'cause I had completely given up on my picks, and put them away God knows where.
Hi this is exactly what I was looking for am learning to use fingerpicks.you got a student.thanks so much
Well done. Explained very thoroughly. I have had the same experience and found the same techniques as you explained. However I am interested in why you use two different fingerpick gauges.
Thankyou for all your advice .
Just about everything you need to know. Don't trouble with plastic ones at all on acoustic instruments and for the thumb pick a decent celluloid one such as Pick Boy is better than any plastic ones and dirt cheap too. Picking at random from the tray in the music shop - you can get some really useless things doing that so get a real one from the pick-makers. Don't wear fingerpicks backwards like a fake nail. It's an absolute crime that all the makers of these things don't enclose some little photo because it's so common for players to "give these a go", put them on wrong and never ever touch them again because it feels like you've crippled yourself. If no one tells you, how can you know? If you already play fingerstyle without these, they'll feel odd for a while but they have very significant advantages - volume, accuracy and the option to play so much more forcefully really opens things up. Persevere. Turning them a little to get a clean note takes a few goes - it's common enough to change your right hand position a bit for different techniques but it's not hard to find what works. More important is the right hand position. Some fingerpick with their wrist on the bridge and that's an extreme and limiting position. Try to get used to playing with the wrist altogether off the face of the instrument. Feels funny? Insecure? Remember when you first learned any fingerpick? Crouching over the soundhole, dribbling with concentration and the tight shoulder/feet/whatever when you finish a session of that kind of beginner practice? Revisit that but it won't take as long to pick it up - just that, like the first times of f/picking, it "comes and goes" for a while, some days better than others. Remember when even changing chord disrupted things? How strange and weird it seemed to change from a pick to a strum and back? If you know this, you did it. Just do it again but it doesn't take as long.
Recording engineers don't like these things. Close mic-ing can pick up the sound of any scratching and the picks touching each other (which can be quite an attractive sound). First one, pay attention when putting them on, second thing, put a bit of electrical tape around one of the fingers. Third thing, tell the engineer to move the mics around - they're not God, they only think they are and some close-mic from habits of band and multi-track mixes rather than anything else and an ambient sound is more to my taste anyway. Same as they freak out if you tell them you don't need a click track - not all engineers have much experience of recording acoustic things, some are even inclined to look at the screen rather than listen so stay cool and don't be frightened of them.
I never play without these picks now. It took a few months and some work (some years ago) but it pays off. Change your strings regularly, about once a month - I've met some that don't even know that strings need changing and if your wife/girlfriend isn't pissed off, you're not playing enough.
I wore it like a fake nail... thank you for showing this
you're welcome!
Don't tell anybody.... lol I was too
Man me too! lol
me too!!😂😂😂
Me too!!!
Finger picks were so hard because I couldn't feel the strings
I don’t really have nails. Can I use finger picks?
THANK YOU!!!!!
Great Channel! Subscribed!
Question:
One thing I like about fingers is the control over muting. Whenever I hear finger picks there seems to mainly be open strings and chord tones constantly ringing. Is there a way to achieve the same amount of muting with finger picks, or is that one of the advantages of fingers at the cost of volume, percussive attack, ect?
Very helpful, thanks! But might anybody here help me: if I want to play two strings that are next to each other on the same time, would I use two fingers? Because I think it's quiet hard with two fingerpicks so near to each other. Sorry for my bad english, I hope you could understand me!
I think mine are way too loose. I can wear my thumb pick and finger picks like rings...
thanks- very helpful
Tried the metal one on my thumb....ya....didn't work. Thnx
Me too! I tried them for a while and gave up coz my fingers getting caught on the strings! Thanks.
From Where I can buy this??? I'm from India..
KauxZik Das amazon
lol I was wearing them backwards!!
Hi so was I ha ha
Glad i was not the only one. I even saw a catalogue selling them where they wore them properly on the picture and I made fun of them.
after putting on the finger picks it felt like i cant play anything. lol
that's how it usually feels at first, just hang in there and you'll get used to them :)
Bruh they always get stuck in the strings for me and I’ve been playing for 2 years 😂, I dunno how tf u play with them
I hate those plastic thumbpicks. Hurts my thumb. Metal ones can be shaped around your finger.
Comfort !