BGU - The Banjo Picks

[@thebiggestmac]

Great video! Thank you! I'm a 63 yr old "beginner". This is the best video I've seen on picks yet.

[@debalexander5469]

Thank you! This is by far the most informative video I've seen about shaping picks!

[@WhatNow4140]

You are absolutely right about how the thumb pick can get hung up. It almost happened to me. Today was the first time I picked up my banjo and tried it. Sure enough the thumb pick got caught up in the strings.I'm going to go and heat up a pair of pliers and bend that end in right now. Great video. Thank you for that tip.

[@congerscott6064]

Getting ready to buy my first banjo, this will help a lot, thank you 👍🇺🇸.

[@Mikem-mq2hh]

im a 20 year guitarist, and a 20 day banjo player...Very, Very informative. thanks.

[@ZootSuitWolf]

Very good and informative video, even though I cringed when you bent the metal picks on the banjo rim because that I had flashbacks having to replace mine from messing it up not too long after getting my banjo new...lol!!! Thanks for the info. It answered every question I had about this part of learning the banjo that I hate. I hate these things but have to learn how to get use to them. Keep up the awesome work!!!

[@brazilhead]

I've definitely noticed the tail-end snag problem with the thumb pick. I'm going to apply your fix right away! Thank you :-)

[@donward1919]

One of the most informative video s I have seen thanks

[@sharonw2475]

Wish I could find a place that sells picks that are open or flat like the ones shown at the beginning of the video, every pick I've ever bought was already curved/bent that I've had to re-adjust.

[@itsruf1]

He never replied for a reason. He opened them.

[@itsruf1]

Observation: 50 bucks says he opened the metal picks so as to bend them as if he can make them better.

[@SheitlQueen]

Great info! Thanks@

[@kelleymoon8191]

As a beginner is plastic better than metal for thumb?

[@PhilHalt1]

Kelly, plastic is the “only“ choice for thumb pick in bluegrass banjo playing. I’ve been playing a long time and never saw anybody with a metal thumbpic. Don’t use metal. Good luck.

[@jonathanpinkey5992]

@@PhilHalt1 Some really good players do use metal for the thumb pick these days. Excellent video, by the way!

[@spitefulbobby]

That was useful, thank you :-)

[@petez470]

So.... I should tell other banjo players to "get bent" ?

[@paulmc1589]

Thank you

[@georgesskriba7716]

Thank you...!

[@timwright1995]

Thank you so much!!

[@javalina7902]

that was helpful!

[@AlfaPegasii]

Great vid. But why does a banjo player have a dental floss box?

[@PhilHalt1]

Not sure what they are for, found this one in the garbage.

[@mikefinley4367]

When this has to be explained ... It's a sign of he dumbed down America has become.

[@PhilHalt1]

Really Mike? Do you know how to play fiddle? With the basic technique for that instrument have to be explain to you? This is just basic technique that a lot of people just don’t know and it doesn’t come naturally, Nor does it come in books. Good luck with your picking and have fun.

[@itsruf1]

Observation: Bending on the skin screams volumes. The appearance is so wrong on on different levels.

[@PhilHalt1]

I can do this because I am a consummate professional, not recommended for the amateur.😀 if it’s too painful, may I suggest that you don’t look.

[@itsruf1]

@@PhilHalt1 After review no one impressed. FWIW a 6yo could open them like that, flatten and re-form around like a poser. Professional would have been fabricatting a pair. You b.s.'d thru all this. Pliers in hot water. I can think of better ways to apply heat to the tiny area.

[@itsruf1]

@HaltB.S. - "Consumatte" is what the mountain man did to Ned Beatty. In In "Deliverance" that boy was not playing, has never played. Gooogle it. The director was a "consumatte" b.s.'er. B.S. ing others has no place in a wholesome hobby like banjo, and I can usually spot them in life.

[@jameswilkey941]

Thanks. My. Frend. James. Said that