How Hard Should You Pick and Press Your Guitar Strings?

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6 ай бұрын

In this video I talk about how hard you should pick your strings and how hard you should press your strings. Knowing this will keep you from getting unwanted fret noise as well as keep your hand from getting as tired....and make you legato runs sound better.
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00:00 Intro
00:21 How Hard Should You Pick
11:47 Subscribe to Help My Channel and Join Patreon
14:12 How Hard Should You Press the Strings
20:24 The Ultimate Pick Hunt

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@alsmith7316 6 ай бұрын

Another great video. I just went through another pick search a few months ago. I had been playing Jazz III's and some variants. I discovered that I was having weird string muting things happening on some bends around the 15th fret. Found changing the pick got rid of it. Loved the pick for playing everything else. I am currently liking the Dunlop Primetone Plectra picks. Slightly rounded / softened tip and these are my current go to picks. I do love your channel, you discuss guitar and music topics that most other channels do not. I cannot understand why you do not have a better following on YT.

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

thanks brother. Yeah I have been moving though picks like crazy. I have a couple of the primetones and they are not bad. Checking out these V picks right now. they have tone of different styles and so far so good. Brother, I have been trying to figure out how to get more subs. I am trying my best to do a lot of things that others aren't. I see some channels with hundreds of thousands of subs and it just surprises me. But I do think a lot of it is that my channel is only 3 years old and I jumped into a very very crowded pond of guitar channels. But I am going to keep moving forward and hopefully one day it will take off. Thanks my friend.

@dcbluez4883 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely correct. Im a thumbpicker and do not like the standard stock picks and I actually dress my picks for the action I like. If the pick is pointy it will be bright and tinny and cause issues. A smooth more rounded both directions is better up to a point. Too round is not good for speed and attack, over 50 years of experience playing.

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

I know right? It is really hard to find that balance of smooth, tone, attack and resistance. The best I have played to this point is the blue chip but they are insanely expensive. And I too have altered picks to get them how I want them. So the look continues....Thanks brother.

@Morstad64 6 ай бұрын

Interesting stuff. I've always been a light picker (I think), and rarely have any issues with fret buzz - even with super low action as long as the neck is straight and the frets are even, but I get your point

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

that is good. When I first started playing I literally beat the life out of the guitar. took me sometime to ease up on it. One day I am going to try and get some of my subs to send me a video of them playing to put up on my channel. when I do that you should consider sending me one brother.

@devonswars 6 ай бұрын

I actually ordered the "acoustik Attack" multi pack last week. I love the way it couches between the fingers. Extra bonus, I can now pick my acoustic almost as good as my LTD EC 1000's . I went from green tortex, to the Jazz 3, now I think I will stick with the new Acoustik Attack for a bit. There really is something there - for me.

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

I will have to check those out. Not heard of them. I am messing with the V picks right now. they are not bad and they make a billion styles, which I do like and they are about 5 bucks a piece. Personally I still think that is high for a pick but better than the 40 for the blue chip. But the blue chip is still the holy grail of picks to me.

@devonswars 6 ай бұрын

@@TraceTaylor3 I think for 10 dollars you get 6 picks. The multi pack (a good way to find which one fits) was $19, but I also received 12, or 15 picks. 2 picks of various types, and a weird "nobbied" one

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

@@devonswars Yeah I have been looking at the multipacks but they never seem to have the ones I want to try. I had to buy those damn V picks each since their pack I guess was their best sellers. I am going to start ordering some regardless. However....the nobbled one.....Now that one I have to see.

@chrisluck78 6 ай бұрын

We haven’t met, yet, but I’ve known your wife longer than you and she turned me on to your channel some time back. She freaks out whenever we start talking, about how much we’re alike and the things we have in common. I LOVE your channel and really wish I’d picked up a guitar 50 or so years ago, but I’m the guy on the other side of the desk making everybody sound like they’re supposed to (FOH). Tell Tara Chris says, “Hi” and that Carrie already misses her!

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

Dude. I know who you are even though we haven't met. My wife was telling me about you. She keeps telling me that you and I would get along great and that we have to meet. So.....I guess sometime we should all meet. I will definitely tell her you said hi and that you left a comment. She will get a huge kick out of that. thanks brother. I guess until we meet...........

@devonswars 6 ай бұрын

Pretty guitar sir. I can't seem to play a guitar with a tremolo system, I have to use a solid tailpiece (LP) or I can't "go fast" Nice video, great tips

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

Yeah it takes a little getting used to. I am kind of the same way one say....a les paul type bridge. I have been playing trem guitars for so long I struggle with a raised bridge, but something I am going to start working on. I used to have a really thick neck to play well, then a spent months on a Ibanez to break that, so now it really doesn't matter what neck I play on, still prefer the ibanez necks however. I guess as I have gotten older I have started more on getting past limitations then anything else. thanks for the comment my friend.

@paulo.costa2103 6 ай бұрын

Hi. Great content. Dava jazz picks for me. Sometimes derlin, sometimes nylon, don't know if you tried them, maybe yes, but check them out if you didn't.

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

Thanks brother. I have not even heard of them. Here in Knoxville TN you can't find picks anywhere. I have to order most of what I get. I will check them out. thanks for the comment brother.

@paulo.costa2103 6 ай бұрын

@@TraceTaylor3 no problem. I live in Portugal, in the country side, no music stores, also have to order them. Amazon it is.

@TraceTaylor3 6 ай бұрын

@@paulo.costa2103 Dude....and I thought I had it bad. I guess you have to order about everything.

@paulo.costa2103 6 ай бұрын

@@TraceTaylor3 I don't mind. An improvement compared to when there was no Internet, back in the day. 😉

@TraceTaylor3 5 ай бұрын

@@paulo.costa2103 Oh I bet. Yeah the internet has made things much better. Even though we have a guitar center here....it is terrible....I order pretty much everything from sweetwater. They just make it too easy.