Any Hybrid pickers hangin around here?

[NeoDog]

I've been getting into this style for about a year and I love it. Lot's of great players to learn from too? Anyone else here playing this style?

[J Moose]

I've been getting into a bit of it...

Got a client who's pretty 70% fingers at this point. Hardly uses a flat-pick anymore...some thumbpicking action too.

Does some killer stuff. Great tone & feel.

While working on his bands record over the last several months he's gotten me into travis picking & cats like Doc Watson.

New ground for a guy raised on things like Randy Rhodes, Allmans & The Meters...

[Mincer]

all the time...learned it by playing some classic steve howe, who got it from chet. i use it all the time now.

[bungalowbill]

I use it and I love the dynamics that it allows the player to get...I'm suprised that more people don't use it.

[frankfalbo]

I always do it and I think it was born out of repairing guitars and needing to test them on the fly without having a pick handy. Then again, my first and only guitar teacher was a large bluegrass/folk lady who had me doing Freight Train and Duelling Banjos when I was 9 and 10 years old. So it was always back there. I remember coming back to it when I was like 15 or 16 and realizing that I still had those skills from way back. And becoming a junior shredder only helped with dexterity. So I never really let it go since.

I think all the newbs should learn to finger pick, just so it's there. I use all my fingers now, whether I'm tucking the pick under or not. It made it a lot easier to migrate to lap steel too.

Hey everyone! Toss your picks for 2 weeks and see what happens!

[Hot _Grits]

I've been hybrid picking for years. I started getting into it at the tail of the shred era, when I found out that Michael Lee Firkins was a hybrid picker and that Richie Kotzen often didn't use a pick. I really started getting into it about three years ago as a way for covering more territory on the fingerboard without over-taxing my left hand, as I had some trouble with hand stamina.

If you absolutely want to have the crap frightened out of you by hybrid pickers check out:

-Brent Mason's Hot licks video -hard to find but absolutely brutal.
-Brett Garsed's new dvd, available from www.brettgarsed.com.

-Both different approaches, both unbelievable technicians.

[NeoDog]

Great !!
You guys may not be into hot tele pickin but I promise some of these cats will blow your mind. Check out Brent Mason, Johnny Hiland, Brad Paisely, Doug Seven and of course Scotty Anderson. They all have web sites and some are on MY SPACE. These are the dudes I've been working from. You may have to ferret through some of their commercial stuff to get to the killer pickin but it's worth it. Man it's cool to run across others that are kinda into common stuff.

[Blue_Fingers_Jay]

I use it alot, especially when playing slide.
I picked it up from Rory Gallagher and Danny Gatton

[Butch Snyder]

I play a little hybrid and thumbpick style too....

[NeoDog]

I use a flat pick (heavy) and my middle and ring fingers. I like this set up cause I can transition in and out of this style in the middle of a run. I also have ceramic nails on those two fingers. You can't tell at all and your own nails can't stand up to the beating, especially the poping and stuff. Now don't get me wrong they are manly ceramic nails.

[Gearjoneser]

Hybrid picking is really the best way to get the most out of fingerstyle, while still getting to use the pick for strumming and bass notes.

I got into it around 91, when I was in a band with an acoustic DADGAD virtuoso.
I learned so much from him, being a country/celtic type player, that it seeped into my rock playing. After that, it just became my whole style, because I realized how the fretboard and phrasing possibilities just open up.

Now, to just pick everything with a pick almost feels restricting, because it's harder to skip to an adjacent note, than it is to throw a finger on it.

[TimmyPage]

I'm a better Hybrid picker than anyone else I know.

...comparatively it's not much.. but it makes me a much faster player to pick some notes that are far away with just my middle or ring finger. Plus it's easier than just dropping your pick in the middle of a song if theres a finger picking section.

[Butch Snyder]

There's a huge amount of great hybrid players out there. Just go to youtube. There's a guy who plays an orange Strat-looking guitar with a minihumbucker and he's just crazy. But, I would say Tommy Emmanuel is my top favorite. He switches back and forth between using the hybrid method and a thumbpick.

[LesStrat]

Gotsta do it.

[Pete Galati]

I use a pick, and my fingers, but it's not something I conciously do. It's mostly just a matter of using the extra fingers to do things the pick can't do. Sometimes I tuck the pick, and use my thumb.

But I don't really think of any of it as hybrid picking.

I stopped using a pick at all for a couple months, but there were too many things I couldn't do without a pick. So now I just do both.

The nice thing about learning to not use a pick is that you're not lost if you drop your pick. But I'd hate to have to do all of one or the other.

Pete

[ImmortalSix]

I've always done it - I use it quite a lot in my writing.

Learn "Mombasa" by Tommy Emmanuel as a great / easy intro to this style!

[Hot _Grits]

Brett Garsed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qzDDyPYnsg

Brent Mason getting a bit jazz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj78PPVElMI

Brent Mason doing the country thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeJHnkUKg_M

[ravendouglas]

i like to sometimes hold my fingers like im holding a pick but im not i use the fingertips and its kinda fun and i think that for laxck of a better word technique adds some extra grit to my sound

[NeoDog]

Check out Scotty Anderson. A killer picker of a different flavor. http://home.fuse.net/pvee/SA.html

[Carl762]

I must say that Brett kicks some ***.