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Hi @trevor_finally_learns_guitar Love tour moniker. Welcome to the TAC community, and it sounds as if you’re off to a good start. Are you taking the 30 days to play course? If you’re new or old to guitar, I always suggest starting there.
I was a completely green player when I started, and so anything to do with the guitar fretting hand was foreign to me. I remember when ai was learning to pick, that I had to slow it way down and consciously do the down up down up of the picking motion. As time went on, it became easier, and eventually it was embedded in my brain and picking hand, which automatically does the down up now.
Just a side note. Typically the up pick falls on the & count, while the down strum is always on the whole count. SUCH AS 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & would be DUDUDUDU, while a count of 1 2. 3 & 4 & would be DDDUDU