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Mark,
Reading your thoughts and presenting my own thoughts seems to help me refine my understanding. This last comment of yours helps me to see something that has only been seen in vague outline until now.
You said “yes- both methods work, absolutely”. And that’s when I saw clearly how I can improve my own learning method.
I think the two ideas we are discussing are two parts of the same method.
When I am trying to learn something that involves technique on the guitar, I need to go slow, very slow. I need to continue going slow until it speeds itself up automatically and I can play fast and clean.
However, I shouldn’t work on one thing for more that 15 or 20 minutes tops or I will burn out. It will be more of an exercise in frustration than a slow but steady technique improvement session.
Now this goes for learning a new song or anything that is taking effort. So obviously it covers everything except when I am just having fun on the guitar and flowing along with my sound effortlessly. And another obvious thing is that if I am practicing for an hour or two, that involved many different things I was working on.
This clear picture of how to practice by going slow and limiting the time spent on any one thing is going to change my guitar practice a lot. I may well have a small win to share in the near future.
MG 😀