[MikeTX]

Personally, For Me, I Think... sorry if I missed any qualifiers!

I do both, all of the above. If I'm best at anything, it would be flatpicking and strumming. I do just a very FEW songs where I truly fingerpick (bare) - Blackbird, Stars by Fogelberg, Secret O' Life by JT... There are some tunes I do that SHOULD BE fingerpicked - Classical Gas, Don't Think Twice, Puff, others - but I am so much more comfortable with a flat pick that I play them with a pick, yet my versions work. I also sometimes use my fingers WHILE flatpicking. The only thing I do NOT do is use fingerpicks - I just can't.

I say all this (about ME) only to support the earlier mentioned stance that BOTH is a fine solution, you do NOT have to go completely one method or the other. Find what works for you, practice, perform, have fun!

Best, Mike