I’ve started using a “tighter” trigger grip recently, by which I do NOT mean “more force” but “pick is partly over the DIP joint of the index finger, but slightly past” I’ve found that this paradoxically allows me to use less force holding the pick and still get good haptic feedback. It also seems to enable a wrist-only DBX motion that I find quite awkward when using an extended trigger grip (pick mostly held by the thumb over the distal phalanx of the index finger).
Are there any notable pros and cons to these two grips? The pick is roughly the same distance from the axis of motion (i.e., held by the same part of the thumb). I had found that the extended grip was crushing and causing me skin pain on my index finger.
The only drawback to the “closer” grip that I’ve found is that the wrist range for tracking seems lower, making crosspicking and string skipping less comfortable. Also, less of a drawback, but the close-trigger grip I’m talking about seems to work better (particularly when standing) with a sharper pick, since it’s harder to get a low edge picking angle.
Reference:
extended trigger, which causes some discomfort:
close trigger:
