This is pretty much the only Black Friday deal for me this year. Good discounts happened at Gravity Picks so it was an easy decision since I'm a fan. I'm currently favouring the 003 XL version (left), this time I spec'd a smaller manifestation very close to a Jazz III, devoid of any grip enhancing features. The objective was to find out if size enhances grip. If it does, grip enhancements are unnecessary.
Verdict: Size influences grip. Two things: 1) Psychology 2) Picking style.
- I'm too used to bigger picks so half the battle here was telling myself it isn't difficult dealing with something smaller, something out of my comfort zone. I failed miserably. Even before any picking happened, I dropped the darn pick.
- Many of us get along with the Jazz II-esque picks (regardless of the brand) because of our playing style. If you are not peddling bass notes furiously all the time, it would be a winning outcome. It was definitely not the case for me. More energy was expended trying to hold the pick in place & I got tired very quickly.
The circumstances discussed above might not hold true for some of us because we were conditioned to prefer a certain pick type regardless of our music genre. This is especially true if we started with a certain pick type & went on with it for a very long time before trying something else for variety's sake. For my case, I was with the Stubby 2mm for a long time & moved on to the 3mm version. Then on, I couldn't get along with something thinner or smaller.
Might be giving away those failed picks 😔
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