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Chris P.:
I can't slap, even if you'd held me at gun point, but I do use my thumb quite a lot nowadays. I started doing it because I saw John Stirratt of Wilco doing that a lot. He puts his little finger under the bridge pickup and I often use the finger rest of my Mustang, like it was made for originally.
One day Timber Tones sent me a lot of big picks, made of wood, stone, bone, leather, the lot. The thick leather ones are strange and nice. They sound like your fingers, but you play different rhythmically.
uwe:
Welcome to the dark side!!!
Highlander:
Best not go out of your depth... :vader:
Granny Gremlin:
I started out fingerstyle. Loved the control and the slower attack. Now I play with a pick since being in a punker band and it's hard going back. It don't take 30 years to get rusty, only like 10. Every now and then I try to play a no chord song fingerstyle just to see. Usually a sloppy mess, but my Jamerson hook is still OK.
patman:
I have not figured out how to get staccato notes on an open string yet. This is a piece of control I really miss.
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