Guitar – How To Hold The Guitar Pick
June Moris June 20, 2009 - 12:21 pm .
As soon as we grab something there is pressure involved to hold the object in our hand or between our fingers. The wrist will be locked to help and this is exactly what we want to avoid. Playing any musical intrument requires flexible wrists therefor at all times we must be focussed on relaxing them.
Why? Because they need to make very subtle and fast movements while playing. On holding the guitar pick you want to apply as little pressure as possible holding it to keep a flexible wrist.
The main rule is: Don’t ‘grab’ the pick because you need to press on it in order to not drop it. Instead you will take the pick and lay it on your index finger the tip facing your finger tip Put it slightly further than you finger tip. Lay your thump vertically on top of the pick. This way the pick will stay between thump and index finger with the least amount of pressure when playing.
WRONG 
On the picture above the person is holding at the most half the pick between the fingers and thus has to use more pressure in order not to lose the pick when playing.
RIGHT
As you can see only the tip is exposed and this is the only part that plays the string so the rest can be hekd beween he fingers. Holding the pick like this needs only the least amount of pressure.
Jim Dunlop Stubby
Of all picks these are my favorites as they produce 
the best tone especially when playing solo. Its tip is sharp and thin. I started off using he small ones(on the right) and later switched to the Big thick Stubby. My taste has changed a bit in the past years and now I use the middle size of he Big Stubby(the middle one on the left picture).
