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There's nothing too special here. You've decided to pluck the string and started your picking motion. The most important thing is the position of your right hand, how you are holding the pick, and how you are carrying out the motion (finger/thumb, wrist, and/or elbow joints). This will determine the velocity, location, and angle of the pick when it contacts the string. While these things can and sometimes require alteration in the middle of a picking stroke, most of the time it is too late to change anything once you've made contact. Any change that occurs is due to the string's resistance to being displaced or just the subtle changes in angle that are a result of the pick being moved by a close or distant fulcrum (finger joints vs. wrist vs. elbow).
=== First Contact ===Contact is when the pick first touches the string. If the approach was lengthy with a high velocity, there will be a slight audible thud on contact. It will be noisy rather than musical. This can be desirable or undesirable depending on context - it adds more noise and volume to the initial attack portion of the note, making it sound more raucous. On the other hand if the approach was basically non-existent, there will be no thud, and the note will sound cleaner.
=== Displacement ===