Having been under the weather over Xmas I haven't seen a soul & barely talked to anyone but...
-
Having been under the weather over Xmas I haven't seen a soul & barely talked to anyone but... well, I'm pretty intro so I'm OK & at least I've been able to work on my atrocious picking technique
for many, many hours 
Yes, it's an ongoing struggle; turns out I revert to bad habits when I don't pay attention - this little mirror trick is actually helping a lot, because looking down at my picking hand is really awkward
-
Having been under the weather over Xmas I haven't seen a soul & barely talked to anyone but... well, I'm pretty intro so I'm OK & at least I've been able to work on my atrocious picking technique
for many, many hours Yes, it's an ongoing struggle; turns out I revert to bad habits when I don't pay attention - this little mirror trick is actually helping a lot, because looking down at my picking hand is really awkward
First half is my regular, bouncy, inefficient "Figure-8 Style", compared to a visibly better economy of motion in the second half, on the upstrokes in particular
there's still a long way to go - this is 16ths @ 60bpm a few days ago & I'm still fighting just to make it stick, nevermind speed at this point...
