Product Review: Jim Dunlop Guitar Picks

My friend Greg and I have come to an agreement that every guitarist has their favorite pick and/or pick brands. When I first started guitar, I denied this small theory and thought which pick you used didn't matter. I was simply wrong.

Upon one day of visiting my local music shop where I was taking lessons at the time, I decided to try some new guitar picks that I had seen on the counter. I generally used generic Fender guitar picks... that is, until I tried the almight Jim Dunlop guitar picks. My guitar playing alone had improved upon religiously using these guitar picks, as they easily helped with pinch harmonics, faster strumming, and much more.

The Jim Dunlop guitar picks that I use are made of Nylon, making them easier to grip compared to some other guitar pick materials used to make guitar picks. However, Nylon is said to lose its flexibility after a couple of months, so it is a great idea to keep many of these guitar picks handy. Also, due to the fact that guitar picks are light in weight and small in size, it would be best to keep many guitar picks around, despite their materialistic ingedients.

The weight and size of the guitar pick is also a huge factor, as it plays into its flexibility altogether. I don't like my guitar picks too flexible, I find that makes it hard to strum, pick out individual notes, and solo altogether. However, if you like those sort of guitar picks, go with a 0.38-0.6 millimeter guitar picks, which are classified as Extra Light/Thin, or just Light/Thin. I like my guitar picks heavier, so I use the guitar picks that are 1 millimeter in thickness. Being 1 millimeter thick, the guitat pick is then classified as Heavy, or also known as Thick.

Lighter in weight guitar picks are easier to use for newer gutiarists, as it will not slip out of their fingers like a heavy guitar pick will. I had the same trouble when I first started, I tried using heavy guitar picks, but they would always twist and turn in my fingers whenever I would strum, or just fall out altogether. As you progess, you can then get into heavier guitar picks.

The guitar pick can initially make or break a guitarist, as a guitariist can break a guitar pick. Once you find that "one love" of a guitar pick, stick with it, and always keep one handy. It is fun to experiment with new guitar picks, but you'll know when you find that perfect brand, that perfect shape, that perfect weight and that perfect thickness. For me, that perfect guitar pick are Jim Dunlop's 1 millimeter guitar picks, and i'll never go back to another brand.

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