Choosing Guitar Picks

Most of the time, in order to play guitar, you need to use a pick. There are many different kinds of picks available in the market to cater the type of songs/sounds that you're gonna produce. Here are are some of the different picks:












Fig. A - Stubby Picks









Fig. B: Fin Picks











Fig. C: Fender Heavy Picks









Fig. D: Triangular Picks


The shape, material and the thickness of each type of pick will affect your playing. If you're gonna play an acoustic guitar, I would suggest you get thinner picks. From personal experience, the sound and feel when playing an acoustic guitar is just awesome. If you use thicker picks on acoustic guitar, you're gonna have a hard time picking it because acoustic strings are more thicker compared to its electric counterpart.

Metal players usually use thinner picks because it allows greater control when playing heavier gauged strings.

Lead guitarists tend to use thicker picks because it provides more control of volume and attack on the strings. In the future, if you're into lead guitaring, I would suggest that you check out stubby picks. (Fig. A). I use it quite a lot and I find that the notes that i pick produces a crystal clear sound.


For starters, I would suggest checking out Fender Heavy/Medium picks. I felt that it is one of the most versatile picks that I have ever use to play just about almost any kind of genre, especially rock/metal music. But do explore on other different picks as you go along. You may never know one day, you might come across a pick that you like other than the ones I mentioned.