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Flatpicking speed plateau at 120bpm

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  1. MandoMary

    ♥ 7

    Asked my local teacher and got a shrug, so bringing it to the folks who'd know.

  2. Tom Vasquez

    ♥ 10

    Metronome at 60 and no faster until it's clean twice through. Boring but it works.

  3. SlowHandSteve

    ♥ 1

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

  4. Deb Carrigan

    ♥ 10

    Count it out loud. Everyone says it and everyone's right.

  5. Curtis Rhodes

    ♥ 4

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

  6. MandoMary

    Recording yourself is humbling but it's the fastest fix I've found.

  7. Junior Pace

    ♥ 8

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

  8. Hollis Barnett

    ♥ 4

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

  9. Gary Feldman

    ♥ 11

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

  10. Mick Stanton

    ♥ 2

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  11. Katie Clark Support

    ♥ 17

    Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.

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