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Neville Marten, Editor
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WHEN I WAS learning to play the guitar, I’d often find myself with no plectrum, having lost it, broken it or whatever. So I’d cut up various bits of plastic, from washing-up bottles to old vinyl records, in order to make my own. Not exactly satisfactory.
So I learned to pick with my thumb and first finger, and found that I could do all sorts of things better than was possible with a pick. Stuff like crossing from the first string to the third, from the second to the fourth, and so on. I also worked out a form of chicken picking and, as Jeff Beck has said he does, held the thumb tight to the first finger and used the latter’s fingertip as a plectrum.