anyone else play the guitar with a pick?

[kennytomson]

newbie at the musical genre, never played a guitar hero game before this...anyway it feels best when using a pick playing the guitar...curious why the game doesn't come with one? i can't be the only one (not a guitar player by the way).

[Kevhouse]

I've actually been meaning to run out to guitar center sometime and pick up a few. I tried it once with a friend's pick on the x-plorer guitar (sucked terribly) and also on the fender strat (amazing). I always thought from the beginning they should have used a pick, for the sake of realism. But I suppose they're pretty easy to lose for the average person, and it's probably easier for someone to pick it up without a pick.

[Ryder35]

I play with a pick all the time, it just feels "right" to me, even though it is harder at times (Alt strumming)

[Darkhorse4life]

I thought the whole point of the "strum bar" was to emulate you holding a pick and strumming. This kind of why I never understood the "I use a real pick" or "I strum the strum bar as if it were the strings" dealie... but then again, to each his own! ;)

[CC_Ryder]

I thought the whole point of the "strum bar" was to emulate you holding a pick and strumming. This kind of why I never understood the "I use a real pick" or "I strum the strum bar as if it were the strings" dealie... but then again, to each his own! ;)

I thought it was supposed to be the strings?!?!?! When I strum a real guitar I need much more room than the strum bar on the rb/gh guitar moves.

[Ryder35]

Yep, also, if you hold the strum bar like you would a pick you have to centre it after every note which is a pain so most people simply play downstrokes with their thumb unless they are alt picking.

Bottom line do whatever feels good.

[CC_Ryder]

What would be really cool is if there was a string pulled tight there instead of the strum bar that you could strum with a pick. I guess that would feel weird though if you are supposed to be strumming chords and you only pluck 1 string.

Would be cool for solos though.

There could be another area with a few strings to strum for chords. I dunno...

[a44gas]

thats the stupidest thing ive ever heard.

for the last time GH/RB DOES NOT = REAL GUITAR

get a life and get some skill

[JukeBoxHero]

thats the stupidest thing ive ever heard.

for the last time GH/RB DOES NOT = REAL GUITAR

get a life and get some skill

It was a simple question, a blunt insult was not need.

[Micker]

I use a pick on songs that have a lot of fast alt strumming. I play real guitar and find it MUCH easier to keep the right rythem with a pick. For songs with a lot of single notes and solos, I find not using a pick to be better.

[icantwaitforrockband]

I decided to try a pick the other day. I liked it. Somethin' I'll have get used to...but it was pretty cool..

[AllMe]

A pick? That is the strangest thing I've ever heard.:confused: But Hey, whatever floats your boat;)

[cdestey]

Just got RB yesterday and though it was never an option with the design of the GH guitars, a pick works great with the stiffness of the RB strum bar. I'll never go back to "thumbing" the bar.