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What is your favorite style of playing?
Finger style
Pick
Slap
Its finger style or pick here. Haven't really felt the slap style. Just me.
Pick all the way. I started out fingerstyle like everyone else and after getting my first picks I intended to play 50/50. When I started my YouTube channel I decided to go pick full time. Its louder so i can be heard over the music, its always been more comfortable and my playing improved after I made the transition.
I always thought slap was a technique like popping or tapping and not a distinct playing style. Learned something new I guess. In any case ive never done it, kind of over rated I think.
Finger style, i can only use a pick a short while before my hand starts hurting and i find more versatility using three picking fingers
Finger style for slower songs and country…getting use to the picking for the faster, heavier songs.
Like Rapid Fire from Judas Priest…I would use a pick.
Pick. I don't know how Alex Webster and Jack Gibson use their fingers. Impossible
Primarily finger style, but it depends on the song really. There's no arguing some stuff simply sounds better with a pick.
I still can't tell, does Tom Araya use picks or not?
Started finger style; eventually switched to pick, which he now mostly sticks with.
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Started finger style; eventually switched to pick, which he now mostly sticks with.
I think he started using a pick around South of Heaven or Seasons in the Abyss. Pretty sure he was still fingerstyle for Reign in Blood.
I use a pick because I transitioned from guitar to the bass and I play guitar mostly with the pick.
Finger style. I don't like picks. I will actually use my index finger's nail when the tone needs that… je ne sais qua… crispness.
I'm sure I butchered that French.
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