No... let's fight! πππ
I'll get the popcorn!
I don't trust online dictionaries as they are easy to manipulate and edit.
The truth is that both of these terms are basically interchangeable and have gotten mixed up by common usage but to a classical guitarist.
Finger style is 'sans picks' πππΈ
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
Well I was a classical guitarist first :) I would say a fingerstyle guitarist fingerpicks.
OED says the same.
So, are you saying that if you play fingerstyle with fingerpicks (not flatpicks) the you are not playing fingerstyle any more as you have changed to fingerpicking?
Take your (finger) pick :)
We could move on to hybrid/chicken picking...
Ha ha touche! Finger lickin, chicken picking sounds tasty.
Alternate picking techniques are also hard to define.
Where does flat picking end when we use finger and thumb picks both at the same time?
I have done this myself in the past.
What do we call that? Not finger style.
As a classically trained guitarist you know that using finger picks is frowned on by many purists.
I said it was controversial πππΈπ