CJ
I did not think that your reply sounded arrogant. I would assume that anyone who has played guitar for 25 years and has already been playing
slide for a year copping licks from your list of influences should be a bit beyond the fundamentals offered on many of the available beginner's level videos.
I hear you about the fingerpicking vs slide dilemma.
In my experience a natural evolution of playing slide is to want to develop a cleaner style, which usually involves damping adjacent strings with the picking hand. Eventually this will force you into doing a lot of fingerpicking just because the flatpick style works against muting adjacent strings with your right hand. Many players get into that hybrid thing cupping the pick in your palm when you need to fingerpick. For me its evolved into all fingerpicking when I'm playing slide. But I suspect that fingerpicking for slide is very different than traditional fingerpicking because of the damping thing.
Its not something I think about much, its something we probably learn to do because....we have to.
