Picking

[friskynibbles]

I generally pick gently and I was wondering if that is a good thing or a bad thing...

[lalimacefolle]

If you need to play Metal, it isn't... You need to use a lot of dynamics in your playing, from gentle to savage, and all in between. A music without dynamics bores faster than a very dynamic music.

[Benoit]

I play mostly metal and have to agree. In my riffs I used a lot of different picking attack. I'll picking softly and concetrate on accuracy when doing some in between licks or in my solos.

Also, I don't pick the same way in rythmn and solos. In rythmn I'll attack with my pick slightly rotate forward while I'll do the opposite in solos.

I don't know why but it works for me. I also use fingers motions to pick and almost never use my wrist, except for accoustic guitar.

[hrckid]

I kinda have two ways of holding my pick depending on if i'm soloing or strumming ..much the same as Benoit. Haven't had a lesson in all my born days and have been wondering if having two different ways of holding the pick was a nasty habit I'd never get out of and be consigned to being a middling guitarist forever!

I quite like these Jim Dunlop picks as they have some nice 'grippy' stuff on them and are bendy without being so thin you can't strum loudly with them. I think their 0.6mm.

I'm always worried I'm gonna snap a string if I get too medieval with my picking.

[Benoit]

I use the same exact picks Dunlop's .6mm

[hrckid]

Spooky