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I'm sure with all the accomplished guitar players hanging around this is old hat, but it has been a real break through for me. I've been religiously going through the Flatpicking Essentials books and have learned to move my individual fingers around to hit melody notes outside the chord when playing Carter style. So over time my chord changes have gotten very smooth and I realized last night that I'm walking my fingers over fretboard from one chord to the next to get to them. It is very interesting and as long as I don't think about it everything just flows. Of course when I do think about it everything goes back to stabbing the fingers into the chords, but it is coming along. It is pretty exciting for me.