How To Hold A Guitar Pick

Hi @Victorius
I can see how that will ‘feel comfortable’ but the issue I worry about is the actual mechanics and anatomical movement of your hand, wrist and fingers.
Holding the pick in your preferred way and rotating the wrist - which is an absolutely vital movement when strumming - will swing your fingers and pick in an arc that will cause the pick to ‘dig in’ and get stuck between the strings rather than gently gliding across them and ‘caressing them’. That is not a good habit. It is also likely going to cause you problems of pick accuracy when you want to strum only certain strings for certain chords and / or play individual string with chords further down the line.
Cheers
Richard

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