Pick Vs. Finger

[ZOMGAsa]

well, thanks to you all, I've been able to finally play with two fingers, I've been working on that pick to fingers thing and I can play New Born and Hysteria in time. Thank you all.  

[Old Fashion Cliche]

i can go either way but i'm slightly faster with a pick though. also, it depends on the song. if theres a lot of movement i use my fingers.  

[Rael Rose Valentine]

ZOMGAsa

which can you can you crank out more with(faster)? which do you prefer and why?

fingerstyle.
Picking just allows you to get heavier tone, whereas finger style lets you get that
real down home style. I find that my chord tones are lower with my fingers.
Fingers are kind mute. But, I am faster with a pick, for heavy metal and fusion...
finger blues bass is fun...  

[Multicolored Kiwi]

I'd have to go with fingers as well. I'm just more used to it-- I play stand up bass and only recently began with the bass guitar.
Plus picks feel just weird in my fingers, y'know?  

[the blue Monk]

I would have to say finger(s)

Picks never really apealed to me. they tire out my arm and wrist, and I loose alot of skill with it.

fingers give a better sound, speed and feel to the bass. Why use one pick with you have 2 or 3 or some people 4. I go much faster when I have my fingers.

Alot of people i talk to don't like bass players that use picks. I really don't see why. I think it mostly matters what your left hand is doing.  

[Exorb]

M_D1scharge

I would have to say finger(s)

Picks never really apealed to me. they tire out my arm and wrist, and I loose alot of skill with it.

fingers give a better sound, speed and feel to the bass. Why use one pick with you have 2 or 3 or some people 4. I go much faster when I have my fingers.

Alot of people i talk to don't like bass players that use picks. I really don't see why. I think it mostly matters what your left hand is doing.

I prefer my fingers as well(I'm faster, have more tone variation, and string skips are easier), but with a pick and the right tone you can get some very funky and fat sounds. If your arm and wrist get tired though you probably have poor pick technique. My instructor and I talked about pick technique the other day, one of the main things that you MUST do with a pick is make sure your arm is very relaxed. If you stay relaxed you get the most out of your movements and you don't tire out.  

[the blue Monk]

Exorb

M_D1scharge

I would have to say finger(s)

Picks never really apealed to me. they tire out my arm and wrist, and I loose alot of skill with it.

fingers give a better sound, speed and feel to the bass. Why use one pick with you have 2 or 3 or some people 4. I go much faster when I have my fingers.

Alot of people i talk to don't like bass players that use picks. I really don't see why. I think it mostly matters what your left hand is doing.

I prefer my fingers as well(I'm faster, have more tone variation, and string skips are easier), but with a pick and the right tone you can get some very funky and fat sounds. If your arm and wrist get tired though you probably have poor pick technique. My instructor and I talked about pick technique the other day, one of the main things that you MUST do with a pick is make sure your arm is very relaxed. If you stay relaxed you get the most out of your movements and you don't tire out.

Yeah your right about the picks tone quality. but it has to be just right other wise it sounds clanky and .... how do i put this... "chubby?" Go ahead and laugh lol. Ill keep my relaxation in mind next time i play guitar.  

[vXv_D_vXv]

I would have to say using your fingers is faster but a pick puts out more of a cleaner sound  

[Shoden]

I use picks for fast paced songs but when its slow and boring, fingers all the way.
Jimmy Bain of Rainbow and Dio uses picks
Roger Glover of Deep Purple and Rainbow
for the Metallica fanboys, Jason Newstead.
Ian Hill of Judas Priest mainly uses picks.

I prefer the darker, heavier sound they give over the clean jazzy sound with fingers.  

[Funkuccino]

I prefer Finger...With finger I can have a finest feeling with the instrument.
However I like hear the bass played with the pick...great bass player use it.  

[Seth Darkdragon]

i prefer to use my fingers, but i cant keep up the pace for a long period for time. (i havnt been playin very long lolz) so if i have to keep up a fast pace for too long, i break out the pick.  

[Viper1115]

Well, pick is what I use for most of everything. Im not inept with fingers, I can even do three-finger style if the song isn't insanely fast, but Im faster at string switching and tremoloing with a pick. Although I love to slap, and when I play pizzicato, then I use my fingers (or if Im too lazy to go find a damn pick)  

[Onani Master Luna Thoth]

I found that if you take some distortion, and play with your fingers you can get a prity cool sound, but the pick does make things a bit grittier. I kinda like the deep thunder kinda thing personally.  

[Chikiya]

I can't use a pick, when using a pick I lose tempo, pick all the wrong strings because I can't feel my way across them with my thumb, and I think it generally doesn't sound as good.

I'm a finger person, even if that has meant quite a lot of pain in the past, especially if I'm out of practice in weeks where I'm practising for a gig or something where I'm playing for hours every day, but they strengthen up. I never really have a problem with speed any more, used to when I started out but I can play pretty much anything now.  

[Darkplace_Assistant]

People who say real bassists play with their fingers are stupid!A bassist is someone who plays bass,and you can play bass however you want cause you can.But putting down another fellow bass player because they play with a pick is just wrong.Though i not saying that people do that here[maybe?] but i just think people should realize this.

As for me,i prefer fingers and if i need a faster way to get from string to string i just use my nails[flamenco style?].