Re: Holding the pick
What you are doing is starting right, before the bad habit gets too solidified.
Learn to do it correctly.
You wont regret it.
It sucks to have to unlearn something after years of doing it that way.
Much better to get it out of the way, and just do it right.
The correct hold on the pick lets your hand be relaxed, and you get the best possible tone out of the mandolin. Plus you will be more accurate as you get more advanced.
Holding the pick with the ends of the fingers is a weak method. You don't get the wight of the hand behind the pick, and you end up just plinking the strings with your fingers. The mandolin pick hand should work as a unit. More power, better tone.
Mandolins: Northfield 5-Bar Artist Model "Old Dog", J Bovier F5 Special, Gibson A-00 (1940)
Fiddles: 1920s Strad copy, 1930s Strad copy, Liu Xi T20, Liu Xi T19+ Dark.
Guitars: Taylor 514c (1995), Gibson Southern Jumbo (1940s), Gibson L-48 (1940s), Les Paul Custom (1978), Fender Strat (Black/RWFB) (1984), Fender Strat (Candy Apple Red/MFB) (1985).
Sitars: Hiren Roy KP (1980s), Naskar (1970s), Naskar (1960s).
Misc: 8 Course Lute (L.K.Brown)
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