Artistic Edition Guitar Picks – Pack of 12

Design: 12 different designs

Shape: standard heart shape

To choose your pick well – which is recommended even for beginners on the classical guitar – it depends on:

1. The speed of your play: to play chords, choose a not too thick pick and to play a solo or play very fast, you will need a thicker pick.

2. If you play acoustic or electric guitar

3. If you want to get a precise and dynamic sound or rather a flexibility of play. Thus the thicker the pick, the more control we have. The thinner the pick, the more tolerance and a rather muffled sound, even when playing loud.

Thus the thickness and the material determine the ability of the pick to deform in contact with the strings: to play chords, choose a medium pick (around 0.80 mm).

This is the basic model, comfortable for most guitarists. To play very fast in solo, choose a thicker pick. Flexible picks are between 0.60 and 0.80 mm, the extra flexible,0.40 mm, the hard 1 mm and the extra hard from 1.14 mm. For materials, choose more or less flexible plastics: for example celluloid is flexible, tortex is very hard. Metal gives a… metallic sound to your play! Bone gives a warm sound. As for wood, it depends on the hardness of the species.

If finger play is better suited to the classical or folk style – and therefore we prefer the pick to interpret rock or metal, the pick allows to reproduce more easily the guitar solos, but also to play the rhythmic parts by obtaining a precise sound.

The size or shape of the pick is more a matter of personal convenience. To start, it’s good to test several shapes: small, large, rounded or triangular. The more pointed shapes allow a more frank and precise attack.