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Over four decades of teaching roots and blues guitar technique, I would say that 80-90% of the problems that I resolve with players have to do with the use of the right (picking) hand and the role that the arm and the thumb play in grounding the sound of the instrument and arrangements.
We have a tendency to focus on the left (fretting) hand's role, leaving aside the right hand. But, while the left-hand changes the notes, the right (picking) hand makes the sound. The personality, if you will, and the power or delicacy of the sound you make depends entirely on how you use your right hand, wrist, and arm they are the distal parts of.
Working here in Dropped-D tuning, you'll find details of exactly what is going on as the right-hand addresses the guitar string plane to get clear, strong, individual notes with both a flat pick and with finger picks (same principles apply for bare-fingered playing).
As I say at the end of this brief demonstration, making music is often a matter of millimeters--as string is too high or too low, the string spacing is slightly wider or narrower than one expects, the gauges of the strings are heavier or lighter--taking the time to really deeply explore how very physical our relationship to the instrument and the music is will play an important role in advancing the sound of your playing.