Pick trouble

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I hope my personal fight with this helps you too.

I totally got off track with pick stiffness. A more flexible pick DOES make it easier, however you need to balance the flexibility with ability to feel the pick for the practice I recommended. For play, then you want to go with what sounds the way you want. I grabbed three different variety packs from Dunlop back when I started. I progressed through using several of them, some only for a week or two, until I arrived at the orange one. If you are unsure of the pick stiffness you like (and it will probably change over time) then you would benefit from a reasonable variety. I linked the products here:

Pick Manipulation

Hi Karen, It took me until strumming was clean before a stiffer pick felt right and stopped rotating in my grip. My thought was it had to do with the direction of the strum, angle of pick, stiffness of the strings, and stiffness of my grip. Persevere through those a bit and you will find strumming just works right and they won’t be a problem. I suggest you use them for at least a few minutes a day before you go back to the floppy one. One issue with the super soft pick is that you don’t rea…

I do think that nylon vs steel strings will make your pick choice a bit different. I am playing steel strings on an electric, and have 4 electrics all with different physical profiles. My pick choice comes more from what I am playing (all strumming, power chord chugging, arpeggiated notes…) than from the guitar, but I do not have a nylon string to compare to.