I'd like to hear it picked with your fingers rather than with that harsh plastic thi

**Mark Wein** · 06-12-2010, 04:11 PM

I'd like to hear it picked with your fingers rather than with that harsh plastic thing...

I'm sure a Phillistine for playing with a plectrum.

**Bernie Franks** · 06-12-2010, 04:17 PM

*hasn't used a plectrum in a dog's age*

I'm hardcore, buddy.

**parrotheada1a** · 06-13-2010, 12:54 PM

What about using a coin the way Brian May does? The guy is hardly plebian in music circles.

**aliensporebomb** · 06-13-2010, 03:23 PM

I use both fingers and a pick depending on what I am doing. Sometimes I use the back end of the pick (the rounded end) to soften the attack or my thumb.

**Mark Wein** · 06-13-2010, 03:51 PM

Actually I'm quite happy with what I do...I play with the pick, fingerstyle and hybrid picking interchangeably. I just love folks who make comments like this on a Youtube video.

My repsonse:

this is more my style, though. I guess I'm just harsh and plastic at heart

premiermusic 23 hours ago

Here is his response:

@premiermusic Okay...I was a bit out of line. Thanks for being civil about it. I just have a thing about a pick being used for anything other than strumming rhythm. Cheers and thanks for the cool vids... Now throw the pick away and get some tone happenin' ;-)

**Mark Wein** · 06-13-2010, 03:56 PM

And my response:

@zomboxy Thats one of the nice things about music being an art, though...we can all have our distinctive voices. I play finger style, hybrid picking and with the pick...for this particular bit of music I felt it as best articulated with something of a hybrid pick and fingers approach..