The mediator is a thing completely unknown to people unfamiliar with musical art. And it’s very important for those who devote their lives to creating music or just love to play the guitar sometimes.
Self-taught in this regard is a little more complicated. Most home-grown musicians do not know about the existence of this subject, and in vain. The mediator allows you to fine tune the sound timbre and its frequency. Thanks to this property, you can give new sounds to familiar music.
Nevertheless, many are interested in the question of how to properly hold the pick. In addition, beginners are interested in all the moments associated with it: how to choose it, what parameters to follow, what to pay special attention to.
Mediators themselves are an aid to playing musical instruments, usually the guitar. This is a kind of intermediary between a guitar and fingers. Sound quality directly depends on its quality. As a rule, all the picks bought in branded and music stores are made in good faith. Interference in the game is possible due to manufacturing defects, or in the event that the mediator is homemade and has flaws. You can do it yourself, but there’s not much point in it: the price is quite small, at least for ordinary picks.
A music store is generally useful for beginners and more. Usually they don’t take people who know little about the product there as sellers. Therefore, the seller can explain a lot: the principle of choosing musical instruments, orient the buyer by price, show how to properly hold the pick, tell about it in detail. In some cases, if the seller is also a good connoisseur of musical instruments, they may even tell you how to properly set up an electric guitar, and much more that is necessary and interesting. If there is no time or opportunity to visit such a place, the musician needs to learn the peculiarities of playing music independently.
When choosing a mediator, it is worth paying attention to such properties as thickness (the most important property), size and roughness of its surface. After all, it is important not only how to play the mediator correctly, but also the right choice when buying it. Inaccuracy in selection can nullify all efforts. Small with a rough surface is useful in a quick game - it will prevent accidental slipping of fingers. Beginners should refrain from buying a metal pick, take a plastic of average price.
Thickness is the most important thing to be guided by; tones of sound depend on it. Choose based on what kind of music you will play. The thickness can be of four types, and the thinner it is, the better the mediator transmits high frequencies of sound, and vice versa. This property can be determined not only by eye. It is even more correct to say that it is not necessary to determine it yourself, because each pick has stamps with designations of the degree of thickness. But what you really need to do yourself is to determine what degree is right for you. It is better to have several mediators at once and experiment in sounds - if you have good hearing, you can reproduce and create real masterpieces.
And yet, how to properly hold the pick? It should be held between the index and thumb of the right hand. Although the more correct answer to the question of how to properly hold the pick, you can consider this: the index finger is bent, the pick is pressed to its edge with the thumb. Point it at a sharp angle on the strings. In fact, when playing, it replaces the punches (nails), and thus gives a good sound.
Next, you need to learn how to get into the strings correctly, because in such a game there is no direct interaction between the fingers and the string. Gradually, you will learn this. It is important to relax the right hand. In the beginning it will be difficult, but over time the habit will do its job.