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I hold my pic so that my tips of my pointer finger and my thumb meet at a
little greater than a 90 degree angle. My pick is inbetween these two
fingers perpendicular to my thumb. This always just felt natural although
I'm sure I was taught to hold it different.
The picking is a little in the elbow and a little in the shoulder I guess.
I use my whole arm. That's how I've always done it and I've read that
that's how Dick Dale does it too.
I have 12 guage flatwounds but I still break these ALL the time. I think it
might be my bridge. I'll break them at the most random times. Sometimes a
string will break when I'm not even playing on it, I'm playing on another
string. Or sometimes when I'm playing very softly. Since the string is
broken at the bridge, what I do to save lots of money is I tie the string
back to the little cylindar thingie and restring the same string. I've only
gotten a string jammed a couple times heh. ;)
I guess you can kind of see my picking technique in this music video of my
surf band. I just uploaded it to my band's website: - It's in the "Sound Waves" section.
-Thor Andersen
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