The guitar is an incredibly personable instrument, and picking techniques are one of the most unique aspects of playing of them all – there’s no ‘official’ way of attacking the strings.
Joe Satriani picks in a way that means he’s had to add a pickguard to the horn of his recently modded EVH Frankenstein. The Edge and Billy Duffy, meanwhile, are known for using the shoulder of the guitar pick, and Jeff Beck and Matteo Mancuso are two players who ditched the pick entirely.
