Here's a few tips for you all.
A couple of things I work on with students is separating the parts each hand does.
If you are a beginner and you want to learn chords quickly, practice memorizing the shapes with your fretting hand and start with an easy progression like a 4 finger open G chord to Cadd9 to Dsus4. In this example your ring and pinky fingers stay in the same place on each chord. Don't worry about strumming or picking as your fretting hand chord changes really determine your overall speed. Also the above progression is the intro progression to Good Riddance by Green Day.
If you are a good player that has hit a speed bump in a song and can't seem to get a part, use Guitar Pro as it has a loop feature that you can increase at any percentage you'd like. So for example if you are working on a song at 120 beats per minute and the part you are learning is proving too difficult, loop the section and get it to play at 50 percent increasing 1 percent in speed after each repeat. If you are getting close to the tempo but have hit a bump try increasing the tempo to 120 percent which is 20 percent faster than the song is played at. The goal is just to move your fingers physically at that speed and you can be as sloppy as all heck but you should notice when you move the song back to the original tempo that the parts will seem much easier to get and you will succeed in learning the part that was giving you trouble.
For the super advanced who want to increase ability, close your eyes and visualize playing the part and how your fingers have to move. It's what athletes do before big races and also works with athletic musical parts.
Hope some of that helps and good on you all for learning guitar.
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