Switching From Fingerstyle To Pick

[greghagger]

If you exclusively play your bass with fingerstyle, you might not know where to start when it comes to pick playing. This is a common issue for bass players, and students often come to me with this problem.

 

They say that when they've tried using a pick, some of the following challenges arise:
❌ Unable to play consistently
❌ Unable to play fast
❌ Not knowing how to hold the pick

 

This is not surprising really if you think back to how difficult it was to play a bass line when you first started bass. It's fine if you started on pick, but if you didn't, you have to develop your picking technique.

 

✅ Playing pick bass is not as hard as you think though. You just have to add in some pick playing to your practice sessions.

 

I've put together a video tutorial to show you how to get started and to give you some tips and exercises that will help you to become a great pick player. These do work, as this is how I started playing with a pick when I was in the same boat as you, years ago! Now I often use both fingerstyle, and the pick.

 

You’ll find a free download link in the video description. The PDF contains all the lesson exercises in notation and Tab.