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Stupid--and hopefully instructive--pick experience
OK, so the other night I sit down with my new Martin and start strumming. I'd recently installed a bone saddle and had been loving the new tone. Well, I sit down and...my god, it sounded horrible. I mean, it was just atrocious how tinny and brittle and weak it sounded. All these awful thoughts ran through my head--I ruined it with the bone saddle...I bought a crappy guitar...Something has broken and will need an expensive repair...The winter cold has taken its toll...I'm a crap player. All of it went through my head.
So I freak out for a couple minutes, playing more and more trying to make it sound better. I finally stopped in pure frustration and stared a my right hand--there was nothing else to look at--and saw it: I had flipped my pick and was playing it "backwards". Apparently, the bevel I'd worn into it DOES NOT like it when I turn it around. I can happily report that my mediocrity cannot be blamed on my pick. |
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Don't worry, I think we all have those moments at some point or another!
I don't have this issue however, since I use my picks with just about every corner and side they have for different tones
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