Try the clayton black jazz picks, they reduce string pop and give a really warm fat attack. One triangle pick will last about ten years of 6 hours a day practice, you'll lose it before it wears out. It also really cool for playing artificial harmonics and also for slipping in and out of you index and middle finger so you can comp your chords with your thumb and fingers.

I prefer the 1.90mm which is the thickest clayton makes.

Triangle pick

Standard shape for cooking.


Myself I hybrid pick. Using the pick for speed and fingers for pulling off chordmelodys that wouldn't be possible with just a pick.......well maybe if I were Johnny Smith. I used to do a lot fingerstyle playing myself, but man o' man it's brutal on the nails.....nothing worse than doing a gig and you snag you pinky nail on the high E string, although it still happens even with my short nails. Of course Pat Martino uses a pick about 99% of the time and he gets a sound that's fatter than Wes's.