How to pick the right guitar pick for your situation?

Hey everyone! So today, I’m going to give some guitar tips for you guys. 

Let’s get into it. 

Which guitar pick is the right one for me?

So there are quite a variety of guitar picks that there are out there. 

There are different shaped picks, there are different thickness, there are bass picks, there’s just a variety of picks that are out there. 

And what happens is that each one serves it’s own purpose. 

For this post, we’re not going to go over every pick in existence because frankly, I wouldn’t know how to explain each one. 

But rather, we’re going to talk about some of the most common picks in mainstream music. 

Let’s get into it

For soft acoustic rock and acoustic tracks

So I believe that in an acoustic track, you should be using a light to medium thickness pick. 

With a regular pick shape, a rounded triangle with a pointed end. 

The material that could be used is celluloid.

It’s just in my personal experiences that these picks sound the best for acoustic tracks. 

Especially if you’re playing free open chords, it just sounds so good. 

It would be optimal if you could get a light pick, however, sometimes those lights picks are a little too light and they break while you’re playing with them. 

Which is most often the reason why I pick the medium picks. 

But the great thing about most music stores is that they offer a wide variety of pick selections. 

So if you could get a pick that fits between light and medium, I think you would have a Golden pick right there, metaphorically speaking of course. 

For hard rock and Distorted electric guitars

I’m pretty sure you guys didn’t come to this pick blog post looking to talk about acoustic tracks, but rather, what everyone came here for. 

Rock. 

So for electric guitars, it’s important that you note that the strings can sometimes be harder to press down on, and also on an electric guitar, you often hit the strings harder and you really hit the pick against the strings really hard. 

Therefore, it’s important to note that a light pick and some medium picks might not be able to withstand the abuse that you’re going to give it. 

So go for a heavy pick. 

But it also depends on the material that you use. 

It’s very strange because I tend to lean more on the Heavy Tortex guitar picks, this post is not sponsored by them in any way, but in reality, those are the picks that I would choose. But you could choose whatever pick you want and it would sound good. 

I know the Tortex guitar picks are usually more expensive.

For metal

There is a slight difference in metal and rock guitar picks. 

Metal players often play fast and hit the guitar strings a little bit harder too. 

This means that you need to change the shape of the guitar pick to accommodate the position of your hand for that fast playing. 

So on a regular guitar pick for medium, light, and heavy guitar picks, they are shaped in a triangle shape with two rounded edges and a pointed edge. 

But on an ideal metal pick, it would look smaller and like a tear drop. 

And they actually have those tear drop guitar picks. 

Sometimes they are in more special guitar stores, but they still do have tear drop guitar picks. 

And believe it or not

Believe it or not, that’s where most pop music falls under. 

Of course there are strict triangle picks, there are big picks, bass picks, even some picks that have parts of the picks cut off. 

But if you’re trying to make music that hits, that’s most of what you’ll ever need. 

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