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Originally Posted by Wyllys
BINGO!!! Now you're working within a context, an ever-expanding context.
I find taking the songs I have down and putting them in other keys is also helpful. And it's no small thing to mention building LH/RH technique as so much of what you do with the fingers of the picking hand will be influencd or flat-out dictated by what the LH is doing.
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Yeah, it seems like the best way to learn tbh. I tried the whole systematic practice approach, but there's just too much variation in everything we play that you can't really break it down into neat exercises that cover everything.
Just the other day I learnt a song with a very simple G > D7. Piece of piss right? But no song I currently knew had that particular chord change with the same fingering, so my muscle memory hit a brick wall. Of course, it didn't take very long to learn, but it highlighted to me that you just can't always learn every situation through exercises. Instead you just gotta start playing songs. Plus, it's more fun.