Messages posted by: jolasa

Anybody out there use a single flat pick for the dobro, as opposed to the traditional thumb and two finger picks?

Tut Taylor does it. "Tut taught himself to play the dobro. However, he didn't know that dobros were normally fingerpicked. He thought it was played with a flatpick, so that's how he learned to play. But he soon learned that he could hardly play tunes like the others that were playing with fingerpicks so he developed his own style and then wrote the tunes and arrangements to suit his flatpicking style".

As a beginner, I might want to learn flat pickin'.

Pros and cons?