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GuitarGym
Dec 05, 2025
Better Tone: Pick Angle or Dynamics?
Tone improvement trick: Pick angle control or picking dynamics?

🎸 When you’re chasing better tone, which matters more, the angle of your pick or the dynamics in your attack?

Both can completely change your sound, but which one has made the bigger difference for you?

Let’s hear your tone secrets, GuitarGym fam! ⚡
Pick Angle50%
Dynamics50%
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Petr Hartmann
Dec 05, 2025
Ah the mystical 'tone' 😱. I usually strike my strings between 82.5° and 87.3°. Otherwise the tone is a total garbage 👎.
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Cuantas Cuerdas
Dec 05, 2025
Nice angle range, @Petr Hartmann !! Perfect tone should be accesible from there! 😉
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Morris Walraven
Dec 06, 2025
Where can I get a gage? You're pulling my leg right?
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Cuantas Cuerdas
Dec 07, 2025
Your right leg.
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Petr Hartmann
Dec 08, 2025
@Morris Walraven of course 😀. I was just trying to be funny. In general I wouldn't stress so much about angles and such a details.
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Petr Hartmann
Dec 09, 2025
But if you really wish to measure the angle, you can of course use regular measurement tools.
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Cuantas Cuerdas
Dec 09, 2025
😂😂😂 LMAO, Petr!!!
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Morris Walraven
Dec 09, 2025
You were funny. I laughed. I was just trying to be funny too. Maybe someday we'll be really good guitar players so I can leave the humor to professionals. As to guitar playing, I got way more issues than pick angle!
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Cuantas Cuerdas
Dec 10, 2025
One skill does not exclude the other, @Morris Walraven : Wherever I pick up my guitar and play, there's so much laughter all around!!