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Don McLean has always used a thumb pick, and in this interview he is also using finger picks too. Does any one else use them on a steel string?
Here is a link to how you can see his finger picks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJH-NQnyrc
CG
That wasvery good. Interesting conversation regarding songs - Thats what I like a lot - finding out what was behind the song.
Thanks for sharing
Jim
Although I'm primarily a flat-picker, I use the same set up McClean uses when I finger-pick ballads. (Plastic thumb pick and metal "banjo" style finger picks). When I play my Nashville-tuned acoustic the metal finger picks sound much better than a flat pick so that's the only method I use. I've got metal picks in .013, .015 and .018 thicknesses.
DE
I know one guy who plays a steel string and he uses a Dunlap thumb pick and Dunlap plastic finger picks and he told me the plastic finger picks sound a little more mellow and he has a Martin but I do not know the model number.
I'll usually use a flat pick or my fingers. I went looking for a thumb pick once, but couldn't find one large enough to fit my thumb. I've noticed several other top notch guitarists who use one (Chet Atkins, Don Ross, etc.) and would like to try one. From what I can tell, a thumb pick gives a guitarist the best of both worlds: the ability to do both up & down strokes like a pick, while also having the fingers free to do other things.
I'd also like to buy gloves that I can get on ... they'd be very useful in the winter, but they're rare for hands my size.
Don McLean has always used a thumb pick, and in this interview he is also using finger picks too. Does any one else use them on a steel string?
Here is a link to how you can see his finger picks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJH-NQnyrc
I've tried several different varieties. I just can't get used to them. The Alaska Picks were the closest to something I could see myself using regularly. There was a neat wire based design I ordered. I didn't know they were coming from China! It took quite a long while for the package to arrive, and when it did... well let's just say that my fingers appear to be a good bit larger than the Chinese fingers the picks were designed to fit. A shame.
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