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Hey @Cadgirl I started watching the strumming jumpstart course and got to the 3rd video and had a light bulb moment and I wanted to make sure that you’re ok with your pick size and I realised that mine was no good.
It suddenly occurred to me when Tony mentioned about finding the right pick for me, that I realised NO I wasn’t. I’ve always had a 0.71 pick and it’s seriously to thick and I have no control over what I’ve been trying to do, which is strum the strings both down and up smoothly, but with this pick I’m wrestling with it and getting nowhere.
So I thought, right lets see if there’s a course on Flatpicking and there is (Flatpicking jumpstart I think it’s the 16th course on the first page of the skills courses).
I have a spare assortment pack of picks (so I thought) and there’s about 20 of them and about 15 of them are guess what, yep size 0.71 and the remainder are 3 different sizes 0.38, 0.60 and 0.?6 (faded) and even just trying these ones is making life so much easier. I mean I still need to watch the strumming course, so thanks again @polarpeak75 (without your help I’d still getting nowhere) 👍
But Starting from basics by working out which size pick I want, is a major break through for me in learning strumming at the beginning and not back to front which obviously was never going to work in a million years and I guess I’ve heard it mention to be many times about pick size, but it’s never even registered.
So are you happy with your pick or do you maybe need to think about this and try out some other sizes.