guitar pick info?

Question

how are they made
what are they made of
types of guitar picks
what do they do
please this is for the research paper for my science project

Answer 1

Guitar Pick
How are they made? The most often take the shape of an acute isosceles triangle with the two equal corners very rounded and the third corner rounded to a lesser extent.
What materials are they made of? A guitar pick is a type of plectrum designed for use on a guitar. Over time people have made picks of various materials, including nylon, plastic, rubber, felt, tortoiseshell, wood, metal, and stone.
Types of guitar picks: Many picks have some form of imprint on them, from simple manufacturer logos to completely customized artist picks bearing the imprinted signature or bandlogo of the musician. One of the early "mass distributors" of customized guitar picks was Rick Nielsen of the rock band Cheap Trick. Rick was known to toss out hundreds of customized picks over the course of a single concert. These artist picks have become more popular over the last few decades to the point it's somewhat rare to find a famous artist who doesn't use a custom pick. As the technology for printing improved over the years, so did the variety and quality of the imprints. What began as simple block lettering has evolved into multi-color and highly-detailed graphics. With such a wide variety available, people began collecting guitar picks as a full-fledged hobby. There is even a global network for collectors to trade their picks called PickNET that sprang up in 1994. Custom picks are available at concerts as the musicians frequently toss used picks out to the audience. Some artists even sell their picks through their websites or fanclubs.
Technique: Picks are usually gripped with two fingers—thumb and index—and are played with pointed end facing the strings. That's the most common technique. However, it's a matter of personal preference and many notable musicians use different grips. For example, Eddie Van Halen holds the pick between his thumb and middle finger; James Hetfield and Steve Morse hold a pick using 3 fingers—thumb, middle and index; Pat Metheny holds a pick normally, but plays using the rounded side of the plectrum, as does George Lynch. Stevie Ray Vaughan also played with the rounded edge of the pick, citing the fact that the edge allowed more string attack than the tip. His manic, aggressive picking style would wear through pickguards in short order, and wore a groove in his beloved Fender Stratocaster, Number One, over his years of playing. Jimmy Rodgers and Freddie King have a special kind of technique utilizing two picks at once.

The motion of the pick against the string is also a personal choice. George Benson and Dave Mustaine, for example, hold the pick very stiffly between the thumb and index finger, locking the thumb joint and striking with the surface of the pick nearly parallel to the string, for a very positive, articulate, consistent tone. Other guitarists have developed a technique known as circle picking, where the thumb joint is bent on the downstroke, and straightened on the upstroke, causing the tip of the pick to move in a circular pattern. Circle picking can allow greater speed and fluidity. The angle of the pick against the string is also very personal and has a broad range of effects on tone and articulation. Many rock guitarists will use a flourish (called a pick slide or pick scrape) that involves scraping the pick along the length of a round wound string (a round wound string is a string with a coil of round wire wrapped around the outside, used for the heaviest three or four strings on a guitar; this wrapping creates a rippled surface that produces quite a distinct sound when scraped with a pick).

The two chief approaches to picking are alternate picking and economy picking. Alternate picking is when the player strictly alternates each stroke between downstrokes and upstrokes, regardless of changing strings. In economy picking, the player will use the most economical stroke on each note. For example, if the first note is on the fifth string, and the next note is on the fourth string, the pick will use a downstroke on the fifth string, and continue in the same direction to execute a downstroke on the fourth string. The economy picking technique sounds as though it would require more conscious thought to execute it but many guitarists learn it intuitively and find it an effort to use alternate picking. Conversely, some guitarists maintain that the down-up "twitch" motion of alternate picking lends itself to momentum better, and hence trumps economy picking at high speeds.

Answer 2

Guitar picks are made up of rubber, plastic and metal too. There are many types of guitar picks. They depend upon the design made by manufacturer company. You can create your own design too. With the use of pick, it will be easy for the guitarist to play it. For more info you can visit the site in the source box below.

Answer 3

Guitar design is very important on learning the manufacturing of guitars. There are many different things to consider when designing a guitar.
One important question is what type of wood to use. There are many different types of woods to use for a guitar, and you must choose the one that you feel will fit your style of playing. It is important to take into consideration the differences in wood structure. Many woods will have a brighter tone with crisper sounding high end, and others will have a deeper, more rich bass sound.
Traditionally some of the finest woods used on guitars have been picea exelsa and pinus abies. This European spruce is used for sound boards because of its grain pattern. The grain pattern is a good choice for sound, and is very appealing to look at (Brosnac, 1974).
When choosing a wood for the back and sides, it is important to consider a couple of factors. The harder the wood, the brighter the sound, and adversely softer woods provide a mellower, softer sound (Brosnac, 49) Brazilian rosewood is a very popular choice for the backs and the sides of a guitar. Also, East Indian rosewood is a good choice, most of the rosewoods are very popular choices for guitar acoustics. There are problems with rosewood though, their have been shortages and it can be very expensive (Oribe, 14).
One of the common woods used for necks is mahogany. Mahogany is a very strong wood that will limit sound vibration in the neck, which increases the production of sound in the body. Rosewood is a very common choice for the fret board, although ebony is seen as the best fingerboard wood (Oribe, 17)

Answer 4

Try to check this article about a guitar pick that increase your speed picking

http://www.techcinema.com/2014/04/this-guitar-pick-increases-your-picking-speed.html

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_pick