Pick grip

Hi all, I've been working my way into finally learning to play entire songs after a million years of a few chords, but I find I have more trouble holding on to the pick than making chords or strumming. Any advice would be great.

What's the problem, are you dropping it all the time?

While we wait for your explanation of exactly what the problem is I can say I empathize. When I returned to guitar after a loonnng break I was dropping the pick big time. It was particularly frustrating 'cause I didn't have the problem before and some of the songs I knew the best and came back to me the quickest were the ones that had the most dropsies.

I was not pleased. :mad:

And then in my Christmas stocking these showed up, http://www.davapick.com/ . I really liked the grooved grip and there was an immediate improvement/reduction in picks on the floor. I don't have the dropsie problem anymore but I continue using the Dava picks.

P.S. Before I started with the Dava picks I was sticking little Velcro pads on my picks. They did a great job too...just didn't look as nice. ;)

Thanks John I will check that out. I can't get through a song with out the pick moving all around and eventually dropping it. If I grip it tightly I begin the strum haphazard.

I found these picks called CACTUS picks on e-bay. Very cheap. Excellent grip. They run a little heavy. If you norm use a med - order the light. Anybody have this problem?: I use a particular grip to do note runs and a slightly different grip to do strumming. When I do a song that requires the quick change I struggle with it ( eg: Jingle Bell Rock: open note intro that changes very quickly to a soft jazzy strum). Unfortunately the sticky picks cure the dropsies but contribute to the subtle grip change problem. Can anybody relate or am I alone fighting a bad habit I should have licked 20 yrs ago?

I've always had good luck with Dunlop Tortex picks. They have a wide variety of thicknesses.

What I like about them is the surface has a rough feeling to it. It's not smooth plastic, but not grooved.

Standard plastic picks will slide around in my hands, but I've never had that problem with these picks.

I use those, mainly the bright yellow mediums, which have the advantage of easy location if you do drop 'em ! :)

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Wrapping a piece of cloth type band aid (plaster you use to cover cuts)

Where you hold the pic helps a lot

Dave