Hybrid picking

The technique is not widespread in most genres of guitar playing (though notable exceptions exist), but is most often employed in "chicken pickin'"; rockabilly, country, honky-tonk, and bluegrass flatpicking styles who play music which occasionally demands fingerstyle passages.

The pick is held in the usual way...and the fingers execute free strokes in the typical fingerstyle manner...Hybrid picking allows fingerstyle-like passages to be freely interspersed with flatpicked passages...without any delay.

[1]Generally the pick is used to play bass notes, which are emphasized by increased amplitude, longer duration, and timbral difference.

The primary issue stems from the angle at which the free fingers must pick the strings.

The timbre of fingerpicked notes is described as, "result[ing] in a more piano-like attack,"[3] and less like pizzicato.