Originally Posted by: JFRICK... I also will change from holding the pick with my pointy finger and thumb to my birdy finger and thumb. Don't know why I do that, just something else I noticed I do a few years ago.

[font=trebuchet ms]I've done that for many years as a way to control the stiffness of a thin pick. Because the index finger is a bit smaller, the pick is not quite as stiff as when you use the middle finger. If you have both fingers on one side, and press your thumb firmly against the other side, the pick will become curved instead of flat, making it much stiffer. I find that this gives me the best of both worlds when I play a song that has both fast strumming and single-note picking.[/font]