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Here's my headless Ibanez :)
(lemmy.nz)
I've been playing this beauty almost every day for a few months now, probably about 30 minute sessions on average. I started to play some today but my fretting hand was giving me some not-so-good feelings when I was playing some bar chord heavy stuff so I decided to wait... This has been happening infrequently, and I had a pretty good session yesterday, so I figure I'm probably still recovering from that.
Pluck, pick to mouth, turn the tuner, pick to hand
Don’t do this though. I accidentally swallowed a pick doing something like this in high school, and I choked. It blocked my wind pipe and I was basically fucked. Thank god someone was there and witnessed it, and my English teacher had to basically dry hump me, but thank fuck he was able to get it dislodged. I was fading hard.
Also wasn’t good for trying to pick the babe that sat in front of me up. I don’t think she was able to get the image of that whole event out of her head after that, and it really salted my game. Or at least that’s what I still tell myself, here 30 years later.
That sounds rough! Glad you ended up being ok! Sorry about your game getting salted too 😆
Gross. You can also learn to tuck the pick into your bent middle finger. The guitarist from The Police did this when switching between picking and finger picking, like for things like artificial harmonics, which require an available thumb and finger on your right hand. (I suppose you could do it with just two fingers on the right hand, but that would be crazy.)
So, I'm trying to picture what you're talking about here. Typically, I've been moving the pick into the palm of my hand where I hold it with the tip of my middle finger while I adjust the tuner.
Also, I've never heard of artificial harmonics 🤯
When I would do it, one edge of the pick was was in the fold of the middle finger between the last segment and second segment, the other edge of the pick is in the bend where the first segment meets the palm. The tip of the finger doesn’t touch the palm. Or doesn’t have to anyway.