Hard to say for me, but I always feel safe with a Jazz III lol.
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31 years experience, playing 1 mm dunlop. I like to have full control, lighter picks always felt sloppy. But this is highly subjective, play whatever suits you best.
Why did you reply to my comment? Do you want to make sure that others are dissuaded from trying light strings and thin picks? Pathetic. 33 years experience here. Keep trying maybe you get there someday...
Anyways, thicker picks always behave more sloppily than thin, especially with heavier gauge strings. This is because they are less flexible. This is a fact and not an opinion.
Sort of like comparing playing hockey with a pro style stick versus playing hockey with 3 or 4 hockey sticks fused together to make one thicker stick. Which one do you think handles the puck better?
Or say like if you needed to reapetedly strike a very small object, say 0.9 mm square, and at controlled intervals. Which would be a better tool, a lightweight, thin, flexible hammer or a heavy, thick, large hammer?
Your overconfidence and condescension as well overestimation of the value of "time doing x" makes you sound like a prick.
I've seen dudes with the same amount of experience on forklifts cause the most damage out of everyone in a warehouse of hundreds of employees. I've seen dudes in their 60s that have played guitar for nearly 50 years not know jack shit about the instrument and have circles played around them by children.
Experience means next to nothing. It's a useless metric. All that "my opinion is x, and my 31 years of experience makes me right" tells me is that you're more likely than most to have bad habits, bad technique, and pigeonholed preferences.
You know what does mean something? Supporting others on their journey with the instrument instead of talking down at them and acting like you're a part of an elite club that they'll never get into.
With your mindset, you're definitely part of an *exclusive *club. The problem is that you're not gonna find many people out there that care to join you.
I didn't do any of that shit that you imagined. All I did was to share the joy of light strings and thin picks with anyone who would listen.
If you can't hear my song, it's not for you.
Why try to shout me down? Why are you scared of light strings and thin picks?
Go ahead, throw out my experience. What does that change now?
Overall, your reply here is aimed at discrediting someone who had the audacity to recommend light strings and thin picks and who also made the grave error of citing their history in support of that opinion. :::
Your opinion isn't the problem. Your reaction to the thoughts and opinions of others is.
Okay, so I keep asking:
Why did anyone bother to reply to my comment by telling me that my personal choice is wrong?
What did they expect to get as a reply?
I looked at the rest of the comments and all the usual suspects were well represented. Why can't I have a single comment about 0.38 without it getting shitted up by imbeciles?
I don't have any problem here coming from my end as far as I can tell.
Not a single person has done that. You came into the thread claiming to hold objective truth. People responded leaning towards it being a subjective topic and you've responded aggressively to literally everyone.
This is not telling you you're wrong, just that they're of the opinion that the topic is subjective and boils down to individual preference.
Literally, the first sentence of this comment refers to subjectivity.
People are not telling you that you're wrong, they're simply telling you that your opinion is not objective fact and that all of this boils down to personal preference.
Take. The. Hint.
Instead you respond with:
This is all we needed to know. Enjoy your lonely bubble.
Okay, so where did I do what you accuse me of and what you are using as justification for this treatment: where did I claim to hold objective truth?
I never did. Everything you built off of that false premise is invalid.