I got my new picks in... yes, all of them. This means I currently have 3x V-Picks, 3x Gravity Picks and 4x Wegen Picks (just one type, though). Ever since I got those I started learning some bluegrass licks by famous pickers like Tony Rice and Bryan Sutton. I had already started learning Church Street Blues by Rice but I still haven't progressed any further than the intro.
Anyhow, I can't learn those licks without help, so I use this page: www.youtube.com/user/banjoben1 - great guy, exactly the right difficulty for me. Not surprising, since I actually come from fingerpicking a load of songs (Andy McKee, Antoine Dufour, Don Ross and such). Michael Hedges still remains my favorite of them though. But I still haven't learned one of his tunes yet - they're just... out of this world, just like Hedges himself.
With the picks I realized that picks really do matter. The Wegen is especially great, it's very grippy, and it plays like butter - glides over the strings like crazy. The tone is very balanced. That in combination with the DR Rare RPM-13 strings that are still on my Taylor 110ce dreadnought cutaway-electric sounds very nice acoustically. I have yet to do some recordings, though. I will make a video of it soon enough.
I like those Wegen picks so much I want to get a few more, maybe those triangular ones, and also a few of the mandolin picks Michel makes.
On a whole different note I'm considering getting Minecraft... the pre-release, yes. But, I haven't decided yet!
