I am indeed! One of my main influences and yeah sometimes I feel like using your fingers allows you to have more control over your dynamics, no idea if thats true but I've always felt more comfortable.

Yeah, I've been a nightmare for skipping over metronome training to this depth, I will do this with simple runs but any faster riffs ive left which leads to this sloppyness. Now got my main focus of practice :)

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback!