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Thereis absolutely no rule for this, and it depends entirely on the sound you want. A thicker pick allows for more precision because it does not bend (as much) when you pick a string. This goes very far; Brian May is known for sometimes using coins as guitar pick.

A bass pick is also 'wider', with a larger surface than a normal pick. This gives you more leverage, which is nice on a bass's thick strings, but I can imagine that it is not that handy when playing the guitar. If anything, using a bass pick on a guitar would feel a bit clumsy.

Anything you use to pluck a guitar/bass string will affect the sound. A thick pick will give a thicker sound than a thin one. Fingers and finger nails will give different sounds again. Really, you need to try it. It certainly won't hurt either instrument, but personally I can't think of a reason for using a pick with bass. Slapping and popping become impossible, and there's hardly any variety in tone that one gets using one's fingers and thumb.

A felt pick was (is?) available for bass playing, but I imagine it would sound awful on guitar. Wooden picks are supposed to make a guitar sound different, and there was a certain player who used a coin...

There are sooooo many different picks to choose from and every thickness and size will make a different sound. For me, I play bass and I prefer sharp guitar picks: for some reason these are the most comfortable for me and I like the sound.

A bass pick will generally be louder (well, you'll notice when playing acoustically) and have more attack on your strings and a higher gain from your guitar signal, but if its more comfortable then there are actually thin-medium sized bass picks (like just the fender ones) that will give you a very similar tone to guitar.

I think in general, the tone will change based on the thickness of the pick and sharpness of the edge. I haven't seen sharp bass picks, they tend to be the normal rounded edges. So if you pick a similar thickness, just in bass pick size, I can't imagine you're messing with tone too much.

Picks are an easy thing to experiment with to find your best comfort zone while playing and your best tone (though it is not by far the defining tone factor) that are really cheap. If you think a big pick would be more comfortable for your playing, go for it! Try em out.

You can use anything as a pick if it's comfortable for you. I'm not a guitarist but I tried coins, wood picks, metal picks, bass rubber picks, plastic picks of different sizes and a lot more. I even tried a violin "pick" (whatever it's called) and a glass pick and also different possible variants. My friend a guitarist made himself some bone picks and a silver pick even and they both sound great.

Indeed every pick can create a different tone and of course some are good for strumming like 0.2 to 0.7 sizes and others are good for solo. The shape and extra attributes like bumps or holes male them either less comfortable or more.

I know that the recommendation is to play the D,A,and E string with your thumb and the e, B and G strings with your ring, middle and index fingers respectively but I do not follow this standard strictly.

There is a more contemporary three-finger technique called Travis picking used on steel-string and electric guitar, named for the American country music guitarist Merle Travis. In that technique, one wears a thumbpick on the thumb, and also picks with the fingertips and fingernails on the index and middle fingers.

There is a third method. Some players use hybrid picking, where one holds a conventional guitar pick (plectrum) between the thumb and index fingers, and then uses the middle and ring fingers to pluck with the fingertip and fingernail. So that is the equivalent of three fingers.

It depends on a piece. What if a classical piece has a passage of fast 16th notes which land on the bass strings? If you adhere to the rule that only the thumb plays those strings, it means having to play that passage with the thumb, rather than by alternately picking with the index and middle finger.

Or what if a bass line rises high, and is most easily played on the G and B strings, against a melody line that has a faster tempo? Usually, a slower bass line against a faster upper voice is easy to play using the thumb for the bass, and multiple fingers (e.g. alternating index and ring) for the upper voice. This is because the thumb is opposed to the fingers.

In all demanding music styles, you have to work out the most comfortable, efficient and least error-prone fingering on a case-by-case basis, at least for the harder passages where the generic "rule of thumb" (pardon the pun) approach doesn't fit.

It is not necessary to strictly adhere to the system you described. While it can be a very useful base by which to fall back on, you should generally go with whatever fingers promote a more comfortable style of playing without stretching too far. You should generally use your thumb on the main beats in the bar, if there are other notes on the bottom 3 strings (E,A,D) in between the beats, it is normally a good idea to use the first-finger. In terms of the top 3 strings it is difficult to describe but you shouldn't always use the ring finger on the top E string - especially if your middle finger isn't doing much and can reach it without a stretch. If you're playing a picking pattern which involves playing the top three strings in quick succession however - it would be better to use all three fingers rather than jumping between strings with the same finger. It is generally about economising in terms of finger movement and sticking to the same fingering for a given picking pattern. Good luck - and remember there's no shame in taking lessons!

Because there are so many different approaches to right hand technique and guitar types as well as musical styles, only you can ultimately say which if any established method is the best approach for you. This to me (a 30+ year professional player and teacher in all styles) is the best part of being a guitarist. That said, all methods hold certain advantages and disadvantages to performing music on the instrument and obviously the best answer is to master them all but that will take a lot of time! Ultimately even once they have all been mastered the one you use the most may well end up being the method you currently employ.

Because you are questioning not using the ring finger I can only assume this is because you are working with a book, chart, or instructor suggesting a particular right hand method. Many classical guitar scores have both right and left hand finger notations which do use the 3 finger PIMA notation. If classical guitar is your goal I would strongly suggest PIMA and a good classical teacher to work on tone and technique but even in classical guitar there are works incorporating all five fingers if that is your goal Charles Postlewate has done a lot of work advocating and teaching the 5 finger right hand method.

I think it is upto the person's style and fingers. We can choose what is best to us. I have watched on Youtube that a female classical guitarist does not use ring finger to play "tremolo". She does it well. To some people the ring finger is "out of control" - less strength, wrong timing. For myself, my left middle finger, I think, is a bit longer so that sometimes I cannot master some chords. Playing guitar is fun.

I've been thinking about building myself a rackmount rig to replace an old 12" combo amp, and was wondering if it really makes any difference to use a something that's marketed as a "guitar" speaker cabinet... Why not just select a nice PA speaker that's ostensibly already built to faithfully reproduce whatever is pushed through it?

This is especially of interest to me because I'd like to be able to use this rig for electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and mandolin. Ideally I'd have a rackmount preamp for the electric guitar and use a Baggs DI direct into the power amp for the acoustic instruments, and get appropriate tones on each instrument through one speaker cabinet.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using a PA speaker cabinet, especially if you plan to play amplified acoustic instruments through the rig. It might even produce a better overall sound with these.

Guitar cabinets are designed for a very specific purpose - electric guitar amplification and thus have their construction optimised for this purpose. They will generally have a limited frequency response - in the range best suited to the electric guitar - and will genrally be more robust than the typical PA speaker in terms of handling level and square-shaped waveforms, such as distorted guitar. Like guitar amplifiers, guitar cabinets are generally designed with a specific sound in mind and will contribute to the overall tone. This actually makes them less-suited for general amplification jobs, since they tend to colour the sound too much.

The drawback of using a standard PA speaker for an electric guitar amplification system is that it does faithfully represent whatever is fed through it, thus losing the aforementioned speaker colouration that is an element of many guitar tones and producing a sound not unlike a DI-ed guitar, which is disliked by many guitarists. You should try out both options before choosing one or the other.

The electric guitar signals are raw and needs to be processed by the electric guitar amplifier to get the best results. That is why there are many effect boxes that can be used to further process the raw electric guitar signals before they are being amplified.

An electric guitar signals is like a wild horse that needs to be tamed before it is safe to ride it. Although it may seems ironic, the electric guitar signals may also be made more "wild" but in a controlled manner (distortion, overdrive, etc). The waveform is being shaped but the wild swing in amplitudes and frequencies (desired and undesired) are being moderated before they are being sent to the listeners' ears.

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