GUITAR: oh, cliche topic - what picks do you use!

[codedog]

Ok, I figured, since I also have this question, I may as well start a matching thread.

So... when my fingers are moist (ooo-er) I have fewer problems gripping a pick. However, when they're dry, which is more often than not, it's diabolical. Picks slipping and rotating between my fingers, or just flying off when strumming. I end up using Dunlop max grip nylon, or jazz grip. I also have a couple of Dava picks that work reasonably well.

Just for shits'n'giggles I bought a couple of chicken picks. Yikes... not sure what to make of them other than they're not worth the money in my clumsy fingers.

[Conway]

[JHorner]

[codedog]

Does anyone else have issues with picks rotating in their grip?

[SimonHirst]

I just use the standard green Dunlop Tortex .88 ones. On electric and acoustic. Useless trivia: I flip the pick over between strums sometimes. I have no idea why, or when I started doing it. But I caught myself doing it years ago at a gig and gradually realised I kind of do it unconsciously. Weirdo.

[Lyle]

Does anyone else have issues with picks rotating in their grip?

I normally scuff the pick up to give me a bit more grip to stop this happening. The picks I use now have holes in them which seems to stop them rotating.

[Scooter13]

Useless trivia: I flip the pick over between strums sometimes. I have no idea why, or when I started doing it. But I caught myself doing it years ago at a gig and gradually realised I kind of do it unconsciously. Weirdo.

I do that. But mostly to change the wear on the pick. I use a lot of angled attack so one side wears quite fast.

[onguitar]

Does anyone else have issues with picks rotating in their grip?

I used to suffer from this with Dunlop big stubbies, but not so much with other picks. I have been using Dunlop Prime Tone picks for a while now, and they are awesome...but they give me the opposite problem: they are so grippy it can be hard to reposition. The little dots seem to just lock into your fingerprints and never budge.

[opsguy]

I have been using Dava picks for a while. My picking hand thumb is partially numb (long story) so smooth picks are hopeless. These have really good grip.
https://www.davapick.com/

[Bg]

Those great big stubbies or my fingers 95% of the time... oh

[Bg]

Jazz 2 or 3's depending what I 'pick' up at the time... they both feel the same to me.

[dylan]

Stainless triangle picks.


https://www.amazon.in/Alice-Stainless-S ... B01N9CK703

[KNNZ]

[Vince]

I use Jimmy Dunlop 1mm or whatever they are called. The black ones. They're easy to grip and I like the mellower tone they give. They don't click click click like normal picks.

[Delayman]

Occasionally I try thicker picks for lead, and then i do some strumming and go back to my old Dunlop .6s.

Pick type is on the long list of things I haven’t thought about enough.