Yeah, I"ve watched Arekkz, PWARGaming, and a few others. It's all information overload. I'd like to find one that just gives a simple description of how to start a fight, get into the red spirit gauge as fast as possible, and hopefully just repeat that process until the monster is dead. The only way I've been able to get into red consistently is by popping a bunch of wounds in focus mode with RB. Also, I suck at countering and I don't think I've successfully executed a foresight slash even once yet.
PWARGaming made LS sound like a good option for doing the story stuff, since he recommended just using the paralyze sword the whole way through, but maybe LS gameplay just isn't for me. I normally play charge blade or gunlance, but it's been ages since I played any MH at all and I didn't feel like relearning all the phial or shelling stuff to git gud again.