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In addition listen to recordings of Duane Allman, Derek Trucks, Bonnie Raitt, George Harrison and others for electric slide and no end of artists for acoustic slide.
As Justin says in the vid, it’s essential to play over looped or recorded backing while practicing to be totally sure you are playing in tune.
As the second video mentions there though @Wasmeister, I usually try and practice for about a day or two then my guitars get tuned back up and I don't pick up the slide for another 6 months... It's basically fucking hard.
I think I'm regretting never really learning to play finger style on an acoustic. I think that would have stood me in better stead for that right hand playing and muting technique.
Ring finger has the advantage of better control, and the opportunity to fret in front of the side with the pinky, so it's swings and roundabouts. It's good to be able to choose between pinky and ring finger depending on what you're playing I find.
As long as you play cleanly and in tune, everything else is down to a) what is comfortable and b) what best enables you to play what you want. Slide is just a technique, like legato or sweep picking. Yet people expect to be able to put way less effort into it than, say, sweep picking and then fall into the trap of thinking the reason they're not sounding great is because they need these strings, or that slide etc. Those things help a bit but they are not essential, otherwise the world would be awash with amazing slide guitar players, and it certainly isn't