{"id":2737,"date":"2013-01-04T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2013-01-04T17:21:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T22:21:43","slug":"friday-work-whistle-is-it-a-sin-to-play-bass-with-a-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/friday-work-whistle-is-it-a-sin-to-play-bass-with-a-pick.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday Work Whistle: Is It A Sin To Play Bass With A Pick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img style=\"margin: 0px 0px 16px 16px; float: right;\" alt=\"basspicks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/basspicks.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"186\" \/>If you&#8217;ve played bass for any length of time, you have no doubt heard the phrase, &#8220;real bass players don&#8217;t use a pick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what anyone means by &#8220;real bass player&#8221;. If you&#8217;re a person that picks up a bass guitar and plays it regularly, then you&#8217;re a bass player. And of course there are no rules when it comes to bass playing as any bass player knows; you simply use what works best for you.<\/p>\n<p>A large reason why many bass players shun the pick is because they believe it&#8217;s only suited to one type of music, that being hard rock or metal. Well, that&#8217;s not true and you can use a pick for other styles, such as funk:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fi051x69UxE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Notice however that the <em>type<\/em> of pick used in the video above isn&#8217;t a &#8220;bass pick&#8221; but rather a guitar pick.<\/p>\n<p>Many bass players who use picks don&#8217;t necessarily use the wide type but instead stick to the &#8220;351&#8221; size (that&#8217;s a Fender standard size).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, players who use picks typically stray away from anything that sounds &#8220;flappy&#8221;. For example, if you attempted to strum a bass with, say, a Fender Classic Celluloid pick, then yeah, you&#8217;ll probably break it in short order. But if you use something which can flex properly, not flap as much and keep coming back for more without snapping (such as delrin which is what Dunlop Tortex Standard Picks are made from), that&#8217;s something bass players can take to easily and play with confidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What pick has the absolute least &#8220;flap&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re entertaining the idea of using a pick but hate the flap\/strike noise, the least-flappy are picks made of wood. Thick wooden picks &#8220;roll off&#8221; the strings almost effortlessly, feel good in the hand and you will barely hear any pick noise when using it.<\/p>\n<p>Said another way, if you want to use a pick where you only hear the hard attack of the string and not the pick itself, wooden picks do the job in fine style. The next best thing are picks made of delrin as mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>No, it is not a sin to use a pick. You just have to use the right kind that suits what kind of sound you&#8217;re going for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve played bass for any length of time, you have no doubt heard the phrase, &#8220;real bass players don&#8217;t use a pick.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what anyone means by &#8220;real bass player&#8221;. If you&#8217;re a person that picks up a bass guitar and plays it regularly, then you&#8217;re a bass player. And of course &#8230; <a title=\"Friday Work Whistle: Is It A Sin To Play Bass With A Pick?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/friday-work-whistle-is-it-a-sin-to-play-bass-with-a-pick.html\" aria-label=\"More on Friday Work Whistle: Is It A Sin To Play Bass With A Pick?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}