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That's great! I tried that on the recommendation of a guy doing a Nic Jones Canadee-I-O tutorial. I kind of liked it, but it wasn't a game changer for me. I'm reasonably ok with a regular thumb pick but by no means an expert.
I started using em when I taught myself (rudimentary) clawhammer banjo. For a while I was using a nylon thumb pick and two metal fingerpicks for live acoustic stuff to try and get a bit of cut-through in a noisy pub.
These days I tend to just play with my fingers or a flat pick. I can just about hybrid pick using a flatpick and fingers but nowhere near as well as i'd like. An approximation of the All My Loving solo is about my limit.
So, after years of struggling to play with a thumb pick, I finally figured it out!
I’ve tried so many type and sizes that I’ve been given and recommended but all of them just never felt right. Even when I found a super comfy one that fit my tiny thumb I just couldn’t get it to work.
So yesterday I thought I’d try again. This time I cut down and shaped the pick tip right down so it only just over hangs my thumb and amazingly within 10mins I was playing as if I wasn’t wearing one.
This is probably really obvious to everyone but anytime I was given one by a player they were so much longer? Anyway I’m super chuffed with myself.