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So Bob ... you think playing with a pick is retro and playing with fingers is more modern and you use your fingers ... I thought you were the guy who always wanted to do it old school ...

heheheheh ... just pulling your chain ... I couldn't resist ...

I still say learn all the methods for playing and then choose the one that fits your style ... or if you play in a cover band then use slaping, picking, and fingering as needed in any given song ...

So Bob ... you think playing with a pick is retro and playing with fingers is more modern and you use your fingers ... I thought you were the guy who always wanted to do it old school ...

heheheheh ... just pulling your chain ... I couldn't resist ...

I still say learn all the methods for playing and then choose the one that fits your style ... or if you play in a cover band then use slaping, picking, and fingering as needed in any given song ...

A cage works...so does a pull up bar.

Liked that one so much you put it in twice, huh?
Actually I agree with you, I think all ways are good to know but most people have a main primary style they use. that's enough, I don't want Ronn's neck veins popping out, haha!

Too late

haha!

I love the pick!!!

and I love fingers ...

and I love slapping ...

I used a pick for the first two years of my playing. Then I got into Rush and it beacame obsolite. I use fingers 99.9% of the time, but sometime yo just need a good pick to play, like when you have horrible blisters that won't go away. That happened to me for three months. It was hell!

Or you have a broken middle finger on your picking/plucking hand. Took about 6-8 months before I could use my fingers.

That must've sucked!! I had a split on my middle finger that wouldn't heal but it gave me time to develop one finger triplets, and strumming.

I use a pick to play rush ... and I can play Squire stuff with my fingers ... and I can slap metal ... so I break all the rules ...

listen to the Who live at Leeds ... Entwistle puts on a clinic on using a pick ...

if you play an 8, 10, or 12 string bass then a pick comes in handy ...

Geezer used a pick? I thought he just played like the old guys and used that one finger (all the others behind it) and smacked the string kinda. Cause when i learned some sabbath i just played how i saw him play. And it kinda just got thrown in with my playing now.

You should learn a little of everything tho. If you ask me its important finding a pick you like as well.

Haha! I've been using the same pick for 3 years. Dunlop USA 1.5 mm. Best I've used. Just about worn down to nothing. I've lost it a bunch of times but I always found it. I'll post a pic when I get home. I pick near the brige a la Roger Waters. Picks are nice but I'm just no good with one anymore.

I seem to remember Geezer playing with his finger right near the neck.

Man, I started a flood........




Thanks!