Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a simple method for making sense of pick choice that doesn't require years of nerding out on every possible to pick shape and material to find one that works. Instead, we can use the surprisingly sophisticated relationship between your pick's gauge, it's point style, and your technique to find the design that matches best with the way you play. You may *still* spend years trying them all — and you won't be alone! But at least now you can get started playing right away with a design that you know will work. Working on your picking technique? For more about how picking technique really works, check out the Pickslanting Primer: troygrady.com/primer
Here's a simple method for making sense of pick choice that doesn't require years of nerding out on every possible to pick shape and material to find one that works. Instead, we can use the surprisingly sophisticated relationship between your pick's gauge, it's point style, and your technique to find the design that matches best with the way you play. You may *still* spend years trying them all — and you won't be alone! But at least now you can get started playing right away with a design that you know will work. Working on your picking technique? For more about how picking technique really works, check out the Pickslanting Primer: troygrady.com/primer
