Which is better? Pick or Fingers (Guitar)

I don't often play what I would call fingerstyle, I just use fingers and thumb as one or more picks. Picks do give a crisper, cleaner sound but I often prefer the more muted sound of fingers. I still hit wrong strings a bit playing like that. It usually doesn't matter much with the songs I play. I don't hit nearly as many wrong strings when playing fingerstyle. It just takes practice, and more practice, and more practice, and ...

Like every guitarists, I lost my pick.

Lost them, broken them ( I recently broke my favorite thin pick), had them chewed by dogs, even one chewed by my cat. I've used them as screwdrivers, pry bars, toothpicks (they don't work well), even occasionally to play guitar.

Poor Picks, May they rest in peace.

The physical pain when pick falls into my tuned guitar

Turn the guitar with the sound hole down then quickly drop it a few inches while shifting it toward where the pick is. This will let the pick "hop" over the internal braces and get to the sound hole. With a little practice you'll get the pick out quickly without detuning.

edit: another way is to turn the sound hole up and use the above technique to get the pick under the sound hole. Then quickly flip the guitar over. If you're lucky the pick will fall out but I'm more successful with the first technique.

Or just use an electric guitar because they are better

I'm getting a electric soon! Which is better though a Epiphone SG or Squier Telecaster Bullet?

One is no better than the other. I play both. it just depends what's right for the song and your ear.

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A no better answer there is.

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Those guitars will have very different tones. The humbucker pickups on the Epiphone will have a fuller or fatter tone. The single coil pickups on the Squier will have a cleaner, clearer tone. Effects can do a lot with tone but that's what you'll start with. Effects can make a single coil sound fatter but nothing will make humbuckers cleaner. I once had an American Standard Stratocaster and an Epiphone Original ES. I liked both a lot but overall I prefer humbuckers over single coil.

What styles of music would you want to play?

Rock and ALOT of AC/DC.

I always use thumb picking, and I can't swap. I'm precise with it, but I suck on up strokes.

Well, like I said, effects can do a lot with tone but the Epiphone's tone will start out more like the Gibson SG that Angus Young uses. After all, it is a copy of an SG. It used to be that humbuckers were the standard with Rock with only a few players using single-coils. That seems to have changed in the last ten or twenty years. I haven't paid too much attention in years but it seems like I'm seeing many more single coil guitars with bands than formerly.

After blathering on about all this I should say I've played acoustic almost exclusively for years. Only because I can just grab it and play anywhere I want without hassling with amps, cords, and effects pedals. My fingers learn slowly (far, far too slowly) so with an acoustic I can watch a movie while my fingers are learning the motions. Over and over and over again.

But every once in a while it's good to fire up the electric and send the cats into hiding.