[HANASHIR:13182] Re: more on fingerpicking -- great tone

[BEBWH <BEBWH...>]

Sorry for my delay on this thread, been busy at work. I don;t know if anyone 
threw this out yet but there is a very diferent tone that comes from a thumb 
pick vs. and flat pick. Although I can imitate the flat picking technique 
with a thumb pick but the tone is not the same. I once heard a great trick 
from Nancy Griffith. She glues a flat pick to a thumb pick. I have no control 
with a flat pick but with this technique I can control the destination of the 
pick on the string because for me my thimb is what works, and still get that 
flat picking sound using my thumb where I have the control. I would not use 
this for songleading because there are enough changes happening with capos 
etc. between songs, but it does lend itself to certain songs in performance. 
You have to experiment alittle to find the placement where you're 
comfortable. You;ll need a half a dozen thumb picks, flat picks and some 
crazy glue to find that out.