How long will this take to learn?

Iam dropping the pick and starting to use my hand...Approximatly?

 

Well ive definaty become better at it but iam still not as good as i want to be...Another month id say

 

The same amount of time it takes not to.

 

How long will it take to learn how to finger pick?
Lol, that depends on to what extend you want to learn.
Considering that, I'd say anywhere from a month to a lifetime.

 

lol well ive become better at it....A life time? i quit.

 

first i flatpickled then i finger-pic , now i'm back to flat-pic but with all the style of finger-pic if i want to do that . it's adept serious adequately precise cross-picking . sometimes i'll use fingers 3 and 4 just for fun while thumb and index hold the plectrum tho do not for a flat-picklers contest .
i might cheat a little bit . in a down strum , my index finger nail can hit the strings ahead of the pick for a chorus echo effect .

how long ?

i'm at half-life and mostly have been lazy . music endures ... and is salvation .

 

A flatpick is just a regular pick? or is it the one attached to the thumb that creates the country type blues type thing i hear on youtube?....Ive been finger picking since the first of this month and iam becoming used to it and i use the four fingers, it creates an awesome sound iam really enjoying and that echo thing can be done with a pick also, its weird. But ive been playing guitar for id say year and iam just finding my own style on it. Its awesome but time consuming. Half a life on guitar? Thats incredible!..I love the freedomness it gives.

I plan on playing it like that for this month so iam able to play both style and i might even drop the pick. :cheers2: Good job lol

 

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By the way, that level of skill will take more than a month ^

 

wow thats incredible.....Id put another year into the instrument..Id play in train stations across the land lol...Iam technically a certified monk since ive been jerking of my whole life with few prayers so another year wouldbt hurt lol..Sorry that i spread that information...Classical music sounds great on a guitar, it has that ring to it. lol

 

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Check her out lol...The two of them are inspirations lol

 

I've never used a pick. I've been playing for about 5 years. I don't know if I even could use one. I imagine its just practice....

 

I've been playing for five years, fingerpicking for about four, and I'm nowhere near as good as I could be or would like to be. I can play some pretty funky stuff and impress the shit out of people who don't play, but I'm really an amateur at it.

I second the suggestion of the lifetime. The guy who taught me pretty well everything I know has been playing for about forty years, and he too says he's not nearly as good as he could be. And he's about a hundred times as good as me.

 

Well yeah iam really falling into place when iam fingerpicking chords. Iam able to use my whole hand. Amazing. I didnt think it would be that easy, well iam still nowhere near as good i could be but you know what i meant i think. Iam gonna keep playing and hope for the best.

The guitars gotta be awesome after playing for so long, how is it?

 

everyone has their own fingerpicking style, there are some things that come easy and some are almost impossible. I use a pick most times but when doing live performing sometimes ya gotta go with the flow so i learned to not rely on a pick in case there was a situation that I didnt have one.... now its kinda second nature to me to not have one.

I will add that I have stepped up from the cheap picks usually found at instrument dealers at a dollar a handful. I was amazed how much better a good pick sounds than a cheap one~!

 

Best pick you can buy...


I use the .88mm green ones...

ZW

 

ye gods man, how do you stand them? Those things are incentive alone to learn to fingerpick! Those got popular in the late 80s when Kirk Hammet said he used them but they never gave me anything but trouble.

When i went for cheap picks, i used Clayton. Those dunlops wear out too fast and the claytons never seemed to. One night of playing and a dunlop would be lop-sided. I have had them break, crack, wear down and just give out so many times when faced with them I just use my fingers. And Im not that heavy handed on them or flawed on picking technique! lol

Last year a friend of mine gave me an assortment of picks made from different natural and man made materials to try. They are nice quality and range from hard resin to rare shell - I had no idea how much difference a real pick would make in the sound!

I might compare it to a microphone... a cheap one and a good one are made of the same basic components but there is a major difference in the tone.

If you think there isnt a difference, dare to compare a dunlop with a brossard pic made of abalone shell or ebony. I wont be going back to cheap picks again anytime soon if I can help it. I get a kick out of guys who have thousands invested in their gear but use ten cent picks :biggrin:

 

Dude, you need to learn how to pick both directions...:smilielol5:

 

so tell me the secret then, how are you playing with the part of the pick that faces away from the strings?

 

I'm not sure what you mean, but my picks wear fairly evenly, not lob-sided.
Eventually the tips do wear down... I pick pretty hard sometimes but I have never broken or split one. The green ones are damn tough, I have no idea what you could be doing to break one of these...
(They degrade if you let em' go through the cloths dryer...)

Edit; Ok, seeing as how the pick is not held perfectly flat but is always presented to the string at somewhat of an angle, naturally the pick will wear on the leading edge of the down-stroke and on the leading edge of the upstroke.

If you hold a worn pick directly in front of you may observe,
A right handed player will show wear (beveling) on the left side of the tip for the down-stroke, and on the right side of the tip (on the opposite face), representing the upstroke. Is this what you are talking about when you said they wear "lob-sided"?

I used to use a tempered copper pick but I like a little more "grab", so I find the softer Dunlop material (Delrin) more to my liking.

BTW I've been using Dunlops since Pre-metallica

P.S>Sorry for the derail, itsallgood.

ZW