Hello everyone, I'm new here.

I have a couple of question before getting in to this.

My goal is to learn playing country and folk -music, mainly I would like to learn fingerpicking. I will only play on acoustic guitar.

I have played a bit in the past and when I started out I was tought to pick with my right hand in a way that the thumb takes care of the two top strings and then one of the remaining four fingers for each of the other strings, so that all fingers were used. My hand is now pretty comfortable with this. But when looking at some of the videos here, I see that they teach differently. So my question is: Should I start over and relearn in that way instead, or is my way ok and I can stick with it and still take the courses?

I also wonder about playing with a pick. As I never felt comfortable with it I never used one. Would it be wise to skip it all together and just strum and pick with my fingers instead?