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Yeah, I both “had lots of fun” and struggled! I love finger-picking but it is at least five times harder than strumming! Especially when the string your thumb is thumping is adjacent to the string your finger is picking, it’s really easy to let the further finger fire first, even if it’s not supposed to. My biggest “hack” here is to listen to a measure of the play along, close my eyes and play it ULTRA slow, then repeat it till I’m up to speed. Often, I have to treat the transition between two mesures the same way (learn counts 1 through four-and of measure n, get it down, do the same for measure n+1, then treat count 3 of measure n through 2-and of measure n+1 as if it were its own measure, learn THAT, then I can practice those two together. Then add the next measure, etc. takes longer, but it’s usually the transitions that get me, especially if there is a hammer on or pull off or something that connects the measures!