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2. Guitar pick - Wikipedia

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   Example of an animal horn guitar pick. Plectrums crafted from natural animal byproduct are the oldest materials known due to their availability and durability, [1] and are still regularly used by plectriers to craft guitar, bass and mandolin picks. The tonality produced by each type of natural animal material varies greatly, and is further ...

3. Plectrum - Wikipedia

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   Three plectra for use with guitar. A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument.For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the plectrum is often called a pick and is held as a separate tool in the player's hand.

4. Carol Kaye - Wikipedia

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   Kaye primarily uses a pick, or plectrum, on both guitar and bass, rather than plucking the strings with her fingers. [21] She also typically muted her bass using a piece of felt on top of the strings in front of the bridge, thus reducing unwanted overtones and undertones. Later she said, "for 25 cents, you could get the best sound in town".

5. Hybrid picking - Wikipedia

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   Hybrid picking is a guitar-playing technique that involves picking with a pick and one or more fingers alternately or simultaneously. Hybrid picking allows guitar players who use a pick to perform music which would normally require fingerstyle playing. It also facilitates wide string leaps (e.g. from the sixth string to the second string, etc ...

6. Flatpicking - Wikipedia

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   Guitar strum, with down and up strums indicated Play ⓘ Flatpicking (or simply picking) is the technique of striking the strings of a guitar with a pick (also called a plectrum) held between the thumb and one or two fingers. It can be contrasted to fingerstyle guitar, which is playing with individual fingers, with or without wearing fingerpicks.

7. Guitar picking - Wikipedia

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   Fingerpicking guitar. A pick isn’t necessary. It is easier to play non-adjacent strings at the same time, or immediately consecutively. It is easier to play polyphonically, with separate musical lines, or separate melody, harmony and bass. A simpler motion is required to play notes on non-adjacent strings. With a pick, string skipping is ...