ALLEN ON HIS VERSION OF HYBRID PICKING

I’m not sure I do any hybrid picking in the conventional way. I tuck a small Dunlop Jazz II pick in between the knuckles of my first and second fingers which allows me to pick the strings with my fingers. I’m not sure how this first started but it just evolved that way. This is why I am not an advocate of insisting on any player or student doing anything other than what’s comfortable to them. Much of my inspiration for using fingers is from listening to a lot of Jeff Beck; Jeff always gets a great tone using just his fingers. In addition to Jeff, I grew up listening to The Allman Brothers and always loved the way fingers sound when playing electric slide guitar.