Is THIS The ULTIMATE Guitar Pick?

So if you're anything like me, you usually have multiple different types of favorite picks that you use, whether you're strumming, whether you're playing lead guitar, electric versus acoustic. I know that's what I have. I have a bunch of picks everywhere here in my office. But what if I told you there was a special pick that combined three different pick elements into one? I'm going to show you right now.

So I want to thank Black Mountain Picks for sponsoring this video. This is the Asteroid pick. And I had never heard of this until students in my private community started talking about these picks. And they're like, lauren, what do you think about them? And I was like, well, that looks really weird. I don't know exactly how I would feel about that or what the usefulness might be. And then, you know, Black Mountain picks, they sent me out a few to try. And the first thing that jumped out at me right away was. Was when I held the pick. All right, we'll go into the three different types of picks and the different sounds you can get from them and what the benefits are. But one of the biggest things that I noticed right off the bat that I think a lot of students will like. So I don't know if this was intentional. On Black Mountain Pick's part, there's these eyelets. Okay, they're metal eyelets that calls the pick together. But the great thing about this is it creates a really fantastic friction point for your fingers. It's a really great grip. Like, I feel like this. I've got a really good grip on this pick. So if someone who tends to, you know, especially these are very smooth. One of these picks is nylon. A lot of people use smooth nylon picks, and they fall out of your hands very easily. This eyelet here really allows you to get a good grip on the pick. And I'm going to show you a benefit of this eyelet later when I show you how you can rotate through the different picks and the different sounds. So right off the bat, that was the biggest benefit of this pick. That jumped out to me instantaneously was just the feel. It's very comfortable. It. It's not too big, and overall feels very, very comfortable in my hand. So before I get into the different sound demonstrations and showing you how you can use this pick, I want to talk about the three different types of picks that is in the Asteroid pick. So first, let's talk about the blue part of the pick. That is the strumming tip. Okay. It's made of nylon, and it's very thin. It's 0.6 millimeters. So it's really flexible and great for strumming, especially on an acoustic guitar. But you can also use it on an electric guitar. Then we have the red tip, which is made out of acetal, which is a thicker or a more sturdier product. And this is 1.5 millimeters in thickness. So it's a much thicker pick. Great for strumming, getting a softer sound, a warmer sound. Also great for lead guitar as well. And then the final pick you can see is black. And this is made of ultum, just a slightly different material. It's 1.5 millimeters thick as well. But the great thing about this, this pick is because of that pointy tip, it's frictionless. So it's really great for lead guitar playing and very playing very, very quickly. So those are the three different types of picks and three different types of materials. I want to talk about the sound difference on these, particularly between the thin pick and the thick pick, because that's the biggest thing for me is I often. When I'm playing an acoustic guitar, I usually use a thinner pick for strumming. But then if I want to go play lead or do some picking work, I always find that I would prefer. Prefer to have a thicker pick. So let's go through just the sound differences, and then I'm going to show you how you can quickly just rotate between these sounds. So I'm going to start with the blue pick for strumming. Okay. Nice soft pick, very flexible. Okay. Great for strumming. And it's going to have a much brighter sound. So just listen to this. I'm just going to play a G chord.

Okay. So that's the blue pick. I'm gonna go to the rounded red pick. Now.

I don't know if you can hear that much warmer. Let me go back to the blue pick. I'm just gonna pick individual notes.

A little bit more bright, a little more punch to it.

Now let's go to the red pick. Ready? Here it is.

Can you hear the. Can you hear the warmth in this versus much brighter. So bright nylon. And then a warmer, smoother sound. So you can see how that might be a really nice thing to flip between if you're going from a verse to a chorus to get very different, unique sounds. But, Lauren, how easy is it to flip from one pick into the other? Well, this is where those eyelets come in handy again. So I typically have my thumb right in the middle of those eyelets. And then I've Kind of been when I've been playing this, holding it with my second finger, because then I am using my first finger and my third finger to manipulate the pick. So those eyelets create a little pivot point. And my thumb and my second finger sitting right in those eyelets. And then I'm using my first finger to pull back, my third finger to push forward. And I'm kind of just rotating with my fingers. So I'm going to show you how quickly I can go between that blue and that red sound. So this is the blue pick.

Red pick.

And blue pick.

Now black pick.

Back to the red.

And we're going to end on the blues.

So, as you can see, you know, this might be something that you have to practice. But listen, this happens all the time, okay? You've been playing with the normal pick, and you're strumming, and then all of a sudden the pick rotates and you're not on the tip anymore. You end up on the fat part of the tick. And that's the great thing about this, is you kind of always end up on a pointy pick part, which is cool. But there's many guitar players like Jimi Hendrix or Django Reinhardt who would flip around their picks and use different parts to get different sounds. This is not an uncommon thing. This is just the first time I've seen a company put three picks into one. And I think it's very cool and unique design. Especially love this black pick because, you know, if you're going to play lead guitar stuff, I love having a. I love having a pointier pick for lead guitar. So it's nice to. To be like, hey, I want to go to my strumming. And then if I got to switch over to a lead part. If you're someone who goes from strumming to lead very quickly, this would be a great tool to have. And again, I don't have to keep all three of these. You know, these are the three picks that I tend to rotate through when I'm playing. Well, now, guess what? I can just hold one pick. I can definitely put one of these in my guitar case. Super cool. Very flexible. I like. I like the sound of the strum. Like I said, very, very comfortable to hold. Now, if you're interested in learning more about the asteroid pick, click on the link in the description below. And if you're someone who's an older learner, you have arthritis in your thumb, you tend to drop your pick a lot. Then I highly recommend you go check out this other video right over here that features another incredible Black Mountain Pick production.