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I give the opposite advice. I would start off with the thick picks. Thin picks are easier to play with, but it will be another tough learning curve to move up to thicker picks once you decide to do that. If you start with the thick picks, then you can very easily move down in thickness to your preference, and you will probably find that since you started with thick picks that you can pick much quicker with thin ones than if you had simply started thin.

I think it was the drummer from Nirvana who said he learned the drums with the big massive marching band drumsticks. As I remember, he said by the time he realized that drummers used the smaller sticks, he could already play great with the big ones and then found that he could play extremely fast with the smaller ones.

It's similar advice that I took here for Guitar Hero. I had never played until III, but I started the game on hard. Though it was tough at first, it was going to be tough anyway so I might as well get used to the harder difficulty in the process. Now I can move down in difficulty with no trouble, and without having to go through two extra learning curves starting with easy, going to medium, and then going to hard.