plectrum players...!?

[clarke111]

Hey guys,

There has been lots of discussion threads on finger picks, thumb picks and just fingers (I use all three from time to time...) However there has been little talk of people using a plectrum. I have recently started using one mor on my reso (with fingers as well) and think it works really well, not in a purist sense perhaps, but it ties in my blues slide playing, with the indie, rock and funk music that I played before, it opens up different ways of playing, and I also found makes me a little less reliant on using a constant bass all the time which becomes a bit to rigid at times,

Just wondered if anyone else plays with a pick as well,

Chris

[smoochimoto]

Bluegrass dobroist Tut Taylor used a plectrum. I know a couple of blues guitar players here in Cincinnati who use one on a dobro also.

Smoochimoto

[andys]

I use a plectrum sometimes on my resonator. Usually I play with thumb and fingers, as I still cant get on with thumb and fingerpicks at all (believe me I've tried), but I do like the sound of a resonator with a plectrum. I suppose I started as a plectrum player, and use them on my electrics, but each method opens up different sounds and styles.

Someone who uses a plectrum to play slide is Roy Rogers. I think someone posted a clip of him playing recently and it was awesome. he doesnt use a reso though, he uses a small bodied Martin.

I never shy away from doing things "how they shouldn't be done". I distinctly put myself in the "Non-Purist" camp as far as my playing is concerned. I always have done.

[thebluesbear( al)]

i use a plectrum often

i use a plectrum often for electric slide

i used to use a plectrum way more tham i should have done sayingthat with hindsight

i met tokio uchida ....checkout this guy on you tube jumping bean well my wife is japanese and gets on well with uchida sans wife

it was after this period that i put my plectrum down

so to answer played with a plectrum for years from june 2008 started doing it rarely

any one reading this i invite you to checkout tokio uchida


al

[Gerry C]

Never use a plectrum on guitars these days - strictly for mandolin & bouzouki! Howsomever, Norman Blake and Richard Thompson both use plectrums (in different ways) and still sound as if they're fingerpickin'... Came across a busker in York a year or two back using a metal flatpick and two metal fingerpicks (on middle and ring fingers) on a reso; AND he was plugged in!!! It's a wonder the Minster is still standing!

Cheerily,

Gerry C

[wolvoboy]

Heres a link to you tube of roy rogers demonstraiting his slide technique

wolvoboy

[andys]

Tell you what, if you want to experience some serious antipathy to plectrum use, you only have to talk to some members of the bass playing community.

I used to play a bit of bass as a stand in, and at jam sessions. I'm not the best bassist in the world, but I can hold a groove, and did so, but with a plectrum.

Wow, the number of bass players who think that plectrums are for beginners!!!

Forgetting some iconic plectrum bass players like Paul McCartney, John Jaques Burnel, Carole Kaye, etc

[fibrebundle]

Rory Gallagher?