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RIGHT HAND   
PLAYING WITH A PICK    

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Important !!!
Choose a medium thickness and size pick. As they are not all done in the same material (wood, metal, bone, plastic, tortoise shell...), I advise you to acquire a few in order to see which suits you best. The choice of a pick is very important for it conditions your playing, as well as the quality of the sound you will produce with your instrument.

 The pick is held between the thumb and the index of the right hand (see figure VI below) but not gripped too tightly. There are two possible strikes :
  1. Downstroke (a stroke from the low strings towards the treble ones. Will be noted ^ at the top of the tablature).
  2. Upstroke (a stroke from the treble strings towards the low ones. Will be noted v at the top of the tablature).

Figure VI.

 Movements of the wrist and front armlever must be flexible. See the good and bad positions on figures VI and VII.

Figure VII.

 You should strike the string(s) as perpendicular as possible using the most pointed part of the pick (see figure VIII).

figure VIII.

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