Long story short - I just moved, won’t have my guitar gear unpacked and set up for a while yet, and also had a daughter a few months back. So, I’ve barely touched my electrics but am playing a TON of acoustic, often times to my infant daughter (who’s super squirmy at baseline and seems to legitimately enjoy dancing/squirming along in time).
It’a made me realize that while I’m getting better with a pick, I really don’t know the first thing about proper fingerstyle technique. I can sorta thumb, pointer, and middle finger my way through a lot of stuff but beyond that I don’t really have a good handle on how I’m supposed to be doing this. I know in particular classical technique is pretty well cannon-ized; are there any good resouces that cover how to play fingerstyle from like a purely mechanical, “picking” hand standpoint? Less repertoire and drills, more “this is your neutral position, after plucking a note your finger should return to a “rest” position (and, like, what that rest position is), or remain floating over the strings until needed, or whatever.” I just want to get the nuts and bolts of mechanically what my right hand should be doing here down so I make sure I’m building the right habits.
Figured, if there’s any corner of the internet that would be great to ask, this is it!
