How do you play?

[GuitarStv]

Just curious what the most popular methods of sounding strings are.

Me personally, I flatpick 95% of the time . . . always been interested in fingerpicking on acoustic, and have recently been trying to incorporate a little more hybrid picking into all my guitar work.

[ehdwuld]

Plain fingers

[Mincer]

Hybrid for me, pretty regularly.

[Clint 55]

I'm only interested in pick lol. I think the other styles are cool but if I could rip what I wanted with just pick be it jazz or metal I would be hella happy.

[beaubrummels]

For me, depends on the song.

[Obsessive Compulsive]

Michael Angelo Batio picking style.

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[jeremy]

i use a pick, i hybrid pick, and i play just with my fingers. i switch back and forth all the time, mid song, even mid solo. i almost always play slide with my fingers. ive become very adapt at palming my pick and pulling it back into playing position with almost no thought

[JB_From_Hell]

I play guitar about 50/50 pick & fingers, and bass fingers about 95%. I like the idea of hybrid picking, but I can't get my ring finger to uncurl properly if I'm holding a pick.

[playas]

But the poll only allows one option

I mostly use a plectrum, (so I picked pick) but also fingerpick and very rarely dabble with hybrid, which I hope to learn properly in the future.

[ArtieToo]

I play mostly in the style like Wes Montgomery, using my thumbnail as a pick. Mind you . . . I don't play like Wes Montgomery. Just use his style, because, so far, I've never dropped my thumb.

[St_Genesius]

I play nearly exclusively with a pick, but that's not what I want to talk about.

I want to talk about this dumb thing I did as a beginner: I couldn't keep hold of a pick to save my life, so I developed this technique where I held my thumb and forefinger as though I were holding a pick (even though I wasn't) and then played like that, with the tip/nail of my index finger striking the strings.

I kept that up for literally YEARS.

Anytime else ever do anything that dumb, repeatedly?

[Bogner]

Pick with a little finger now and then sometimes on clean parts.

[NegativeEase]

Don't really have a good option for me.

• I travis pick with a pick between thumb and 1 and fingerpick with 2,3 and sometimes 4 about 1/2 of the time.
• Straight Flat Pick 1/4 of the time
• Two Handed Craziness 1/4

[weepingminotaur]

Mostly pick (for metal, rock, funk, blues) but I'll go fingerstyle for some jazz and bossa at times.

[Edgecrusher]

I play nearly exclusively with a pick, but that's not what I want to talk about.

I want to talk about this dumb thing I did as a beginner: I couldn't keep hold of a pick to save my life, so I developed this technique where I held my thumb and forefinger as though I were holding a pick (even though I wasn't) and then played like that, with the tip/nail of my index finger striking the strings.

I kept that up for literally YEARS.

Anytime else ever do anything that dumb, repeatedly?

Thats hilarious, I used to do the same thing, for the same reason. When I was a kid the music store was an hour away and i was lucky if i could convince a parent once a month to take me. So i spent waayy too much time playing like that. TBT I still do it, rarely but there are moments usually in music stores when i just want to strum something for a second and ill do it.

Side note to this, this problem was cured for the most part when i was 15 my girlfriend at the time bought me a gross of 144x2mm Dunlop delrin picks, I still have some over 25 years later...