are guitar picks only for acoustic guitars?

Question

or can they be used on electric ones too

Answer 1

of course you can use them for electric guitars. in fact, if anything they are used more with electric guitars than with acoustic guitars. Its more common to fingerpick with an acoustic while fingerpicking with electric guitars is less common than before. It doesnt matter what kind of guitar it is, you can used a pick or your fingers. Its all about the way you want to play and the type of sound you want since fingerpicking has a smoother sound but with a pick you can articulate louder and can have more of a percussive sound sometimes.

Answer 2

Yes, most people who plays the electric uses a pick too. Actually you should ask the other way round are guitar picks only for electric guitars, that would be a more appropriate question. God blessed.

Answer 3

You'd be hard pressed to find an electric guitar player play completely without one!

Guitar picks come in varying thicknesses to correspond with the type of strings they are played on- electric guitars generally having thicker, metal wounds strings in some cases.

Answer 4

just depends what you gonna play.but since you dont know how to play yet then yeah youll should probably get like 10 cause you will misplace them or drop them in the acoustic. i've benn playing guitar for like 2 years and yeah i have gona through about 200 picks. they arent exspencive at all. just start by learning Chords and power chrods

Answer 5

They can be used on electric guitars too. My guitar teacher once said, use a thin pick, until you can play with a crowbar like Eddie Van Halen, stick with the thin pick.

Answer 6

yes, they are used on both... there are about three types of picks, and you may use them for any kind of guitar.... but sometimes, electric guitarists use a different type of pick than the acoustic players... it just depends...

Answer 7

Not at all, guitar pics can be used on any stringed instrument, banjo platers use a thimb pick for instance, I use a pick for playing my acoustic and electric

Answer 8

My father and a bunch of his relatives played guitar and they used picks for various instruments.

Answer 9

They can be used for both. It's all about personal preference, actually. I can go with both, but I prefer picks on most of the songs that require...well, picking, instead of using my fingers to...pick.

Answer 10

Nope, havent you ever watched Jimmy Hendrix rock and roll? He used his pick to make a siren sing! Rock On!