Poll - Who Is Using A Jazz III ?

[Securb]

When I learned to tap it was always with the middle finger . . . because then my pick didn't need to go anywhere or change grips. I know a ton of people tap with their index finger, but it always amazes me when I see it - it seems so much more complicated that way.

I want to say it really isn't, but it is whatever you are used to doing. I could not feel comfortable using just my middle finger, but I have no problem using it for two-finger tapping with my index finger. I guess I need the index to take the lead. There is no best way as long as something remotely musical is coming out of the speakers.

 

[MikeS]

I switched to primarily using the Dunlop Gator Grip Jazz III a couple years ago. I had tried Jazz III picks early in my playing days (late 90s) but couldn't care for them. Bought some on a whim a couple years ago and love them now. I've tried the JP variant, too, and while I like the sharper point on the JP, I prefer the material of the gator grip.

 

[ehdwuld]

Rarely use a pick but when I do.......

It's usually something setting around random

I bought a set of .73 snarling dog eb textured grip
Sometimes I find one of those setting round

I got a tin of them somewhere

Some of the guitar stuff inbuy includes a collection of picks
those are scattered round the house

 

[grumptruck]

Tortex 1.5 and Ultex 2.0 are my Jam. The black Petrucci Jazz 3's aren't bad.

I have a 3.0 mm Flow at my desk at work I use to fidget with. I didn't like the bevel on the flow line including the Petrucci one he tried doing with them. The flows are better thinner imho

 

[GuitarStv]

Tortex 1.5 and Ultex 2.0 are my Jam. The black Petrucci Jazz 3's aren't bad.

I have a 3.0 mm Flow at my desk at work I use to fidget with. I didn't like the bevel on the flow line including the Petrucci one he tried doing with them. The flows are better thinner imho

I've tried using .73 flows on acoustic and like them as an all-rounder . . . they're decent for strumming and work OK for doing faster picked passages. Still switch to nylon picks for a darker tone for some strummy stuff though.

 

[Mincer]

I just don't like nylon. It feels weird to me, and I don't like the attack. But a Jazz III made of tortex or ultex, and I'm in.

 

[solspirit]

I just don't like nylon. It feels weird to me, and I don't like the attack. But a Jazz III made of tortex or ultex, and I'm in.

Yeah, I can't handle the feel of nylon either, the only one I like somewhat is the Dava control pick. It has to be, ultex, tortex, celluloid, or metal for me, not in that order.

Coin metal picks are my favorite, followed by Fender celluloid, tortex/ultex.

 

[Seashore]

The Flows are interesting. They didn't hold up to tremolo picking long enough for me to stick with them, but the shape felt good. As my standards wore down I would basically file them into a Flow shape and actually found them easier and quicker in the hand that way. I kind of wish that Tortex and Ultex lasted longer because the feel is so natural to me.

I'm still adapting to the Chicken Picks. If someone had told me last year that my new favorite pick would be a 2mm+ thick, completely rigid small triangle that was at least 1/8" shorter than a standard, I would have said they were nuts. But they're great, and I'm still using the same one I bought months ago.

 

[GuitarStv]

The Flows are interesting. They didn't hold up to tremolo picking long enough for me to stick with them, but the shape felt good. As my standards wore down I would basically file them into a Flow shape and actually found them easier and quicker in the hand that way. I kind of wish that Tortex and Ultex lasted longer because the feel is so natural to me.

I'm still adapting to the Chicken Picks. If someone had told me last year that my new favorite pick would be a 2mm+ thick, completely rigid small triangle that was at least 1/8" shorter than a standard, I would have said they were nuts. But they're great, and I'm still using the same one I bought months ago.

Try the thicker flow picks. I've been using the 3mm one on and off for about four months for practicing alternate picking and doing speed drills and it has barely worn.

 

[Ez74]

I’ve used the pickboy carbon edge picks for years. They are larger than the jazz3 but smaller than standard size pick

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I just can't gel with Jazz IIIs. I can't control them the way I do with a standard pick.

I'm the other way around. I'm so used to Jazz III's, regular picks just feel so alien.

My story with Jazz III's is some years ago, I was tired of getting so scrapy/scratchy pick attack from my tone. I don't remember what I was playing at the moment. Must have been a POD XT. But I read online that Jazz III's smooth out the attack, so I figured I'd give the a try.

I struggled at first with the small size, but eventually, I ended up adapting. And they do sound different. More smooth and/or thuddy compared to Tortex. Not night and day, but with tone, I feel every single detail, subtle as it may be, adds up.

I go on an off these days regarding materials With EVH amps (and the EVH amp sim I'm using right now), the regular ones do help tame some of the scrapy-ness that's inherent to those amps. But if I'm using something like a Recto sim, I definitely prefer the tone of Tortex. But rather than using a full-size Tortex, I like the Jazz III Tortex because I realy don't want to have to re-learn how to hold my pick again.

People often say Jazz III picks are "shredder's picks" because "you have more control with them" and whatnot. I don't find that to be the case at all. To me, it's just a matter of what I'm used to. I don't feel like my playing improved at all from using Jazz III's. If anything, it was worse for the time that I was learning how to incorporate them.

 

[Teleplayer]

I like the XL size, because my knuckles don't bend well enough to use a really small pick.

 

[GuitarStv]

People often say Jazz III picks are "shredder's picks" because "you have more control with them" and whatnot. I don't find that to be the case at all. To me, it's just a matter of what I'm used to. I don't feel like my playing improved at all from using Jazz III's. If anything, it was worse for the time that I was learning how to incorporate them.

My playing improved a ton from Jazz IIIs . . . but when I started using them my playing was terrible. I was using very thin, large picks and gripping them pretty far from the point of the pick. So every time I tried to play fast the pick would flop around and not be in the place I wanted it to be, and I'd be jamming like half the pick past the strings and getting stuck. Just not having the room to do that forced a bunch of beneficial corrections.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

My playing improved a ton from Jazz IIIs . . . but when I started using them my playing was terrible. I was using very thin, large picks and gripping them pretty far from the point of the pick. So every time I tried to play fast the pick would flop around and not be in the place I wanted it to be, and I'd be jamming like half the pick past the strings and getting stuck. Just not having the room to do that forced a bunch of beneficial corrections.

Each to his own. These days, I feel like I play better with Jazz III's, but just because I'm used to them.

That being said, the standard ones do sound nice. It's more of a tone thing for me than feel.

 

[JamesPaul]

I do not know if I am bonding with the Red Nylon Jazz III. It is not bad; something is just a little off.

It is thick after 30+ years of Yellow Tortex., but somehow I think thickness is contributing to keeping me more accurate. Exaggerating, but like I am more precisely lifting it over the strings for some stuff. Maybe it is just the Nylon seems more slippery off the strings than Tortex.

I am kind of against Ultex (clicky off the strings for me) and Gator Grip (seem to grind them up too fast), so I ordered some Black 1.35mm Tortex Jazz III and then some Purple 1.14mm Tortex Jazz III XL to try out on bass.

Overall, I feel less sloppy in my picking, so I am going to try and find the best of the lot Jazz III and stick with it a while to give it a chance.

 

[Mincer]

I don't like the little raised bumps on an actual Jazz III.

 

[JamesPaul]

I was thinking the advantage of the bumps on the Red Nylon Jazz III were for grip.

I just finished a couple hours using the Tortex Pitch Black Jazz III 1.35mm It seems to have almost everything the Red does except those raised bumps. Feels like Tortex in my hand as well. So it appears the is what I will continue with.

 

[Mincer]

I was thinking the advantage of the bumps on the Red Nylon Jazz III were for grip.

I just finished a couple hours using the Tortex Pitch Black Jazz III 1.35mm It seems to have almost everything the Red does except those raised bumps. Feels like Tortex in my hand as well. So it appears the is what I will continue with.

They are, I just don't like the way they feel. I also like the feel of delrin over nylon.

 

[GuitarStv]

My hands sweat when I get excited while playing, so I depend on those little bumps to keep everything in place!

 

[JamesPaul]

They are, I just don't like the way they feel. I also like the feel of delrin over nylon.

This is a large part of it for me. I have been using the Tortex for approaching 40 years. Even with the raised stuff on the Red Jazz, the Nylon still feels slippery to me. Also feels like it "slips" off the strings.