RE: picking question?????

[bedwellm@WellsFargo.COM]

Okay, I'll bite.

        I had to abandoned the speed co-efficient awhile ago. I wasn't go 
to
be John Mclauglin, or any of those great African guitarists out of Zaire.
So, 
naturally, I started to use a pick and my middle finger in combination or 
in
tandem. It's served me well. Now, if only I can get the other fingers
involved.

"Lenny Breau - white courtesy phone!"

        Micah 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com [SMTP:pvallad1@tampabay.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 4:04 PM
> To:   Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
> Subject:      Re: picking question?????
> 
> At 04:35 PM 10/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >i have a question to the guitars out there. what is the best way to hold
> a
> >pick. i for years now hold my pick somewhat like you would a dart( you
> know
> >as in a dart board.) i saw this guy a bar play very very fast something 
>i
> >have been trying to do but he held his pick differently.
> 
>>http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/f/p/fpm108/glw/pictures/lesson3_figure1
> .jp
> >g this is how he held it. i took this off of a guitar lesson page.
> 
> Yes, this is the way I was taught by my jazz guitar teacher (back when I
> was actually playing guitar - I play mostly tabla these days).  For me, 
>it
> was basically learning how to play all over again because I was holding 
>my
> pick like Steve Morse, but my teacher deemed it a necessity because I was
> taking an classical guitar to private and small group lessons and the
> Steve
> Morse method was not producing enough volume acoustically.
> 
> If you ask 10 guitarists, you will probably get 10 different answers. :) 
> 
> Cheers,
> Paolo