Jacob":1wovh1fb said:macca":1wovh1fb said:........
I'm learning music stuff currently and it applies here too - you have to pick your technique to pieces rather than carry on rehearsing the same mistakes.
Incidentally, part of what brought me back to playing music was the realisation that it's just another craft technique which you have to learn, similar to woodwork, knitting, cooking etc. There is no mystery anybody can do it if they take the right steps.
Exactly, Jacob. A teacher can speed up the process by doing the picking for you, but you learn more thoroughly, if slower, by doing the picking yourself. In music slow practice is the trick, taking a speed at which you can play the passage perfectly - there is always such a speed. Then discover which note transitions are difficult and work on those.
I wonder if there is an exact equivalent in woodwork, though? You can't really slow down a process that uses momentum of the tool in some way. Shooting board, for example, maybe sawing. But what you can do is stop very frequently and check that the result is correct.