I'm still very much a beginner at this stage, about 9 months in to trying to be more serious about practicing and improving on the mandolin. One thing I know I need to work on is pick direction, as in here. I resisted this idea at first, but I've watched so many videos of good players and watching that effortlessly rhythmic right hand technique is just mesmerizing.
My hang up is that it is an _agonizingly_ slow process, ha! I'm starting back with the simplest tunes I know and staring at a very slow metronome app while I play. Without that, I still want to do things like continue a down (or up) stroke to hit two eighth notes in a row on adjacent strings. I am making progress.
I guess I'd just like to hear other people's experiences, what they did to overcome this hump, what they believe (or not) that the payoffs are. And maybe a little encouragement, too...
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