Heehee, Matt, you’ll recognize the song…Pearl Jam (awesome band btw) resurrected this hit from (ahem) 1964! Not that you’ll remember when it was on the radio back in the day. 
@Ontime Jason, thanks for pointing this out!
@jjw John, your taste is right up my alley. I can’t wait to become proficient enough with this technique to play some R.E.M. using it.
Yeah the Cavilears or something like that. They were before I was born.
Pearl jam is amazing, Vedder is last of the 4 big front men from the alt-rock band who hit it big in 1991 who is still alive, It’s hard to belive.
I am still suprised that there are people who dont know them. But I totally understand it. Thats why I am enjoying justins so much, so many different people from different generations amd types of people and different countries and backgrounds. It is very enlightening with so many different prospectives.
Hello community!
I 've found myself struggling, from the beginning of 3rd grade till now, with all the 5 min exercise of technique section. First with “How to Link Guitar Chords using Scales” then with Greensleeves (not particularly with the rolling chords) and now with the “How to Pick Individual Strings While Strumming”.
Should I play each exercise for the set amount of time in my practice routine, just like the others, and move on without repeating it?
Should I take breaks and revisit them regularly until I can play them correctly?
Or would it be better to gather all the exercises I struggle with, add them to the practice assistant, and focus on them until I master them?
…Maybe other suggestions?
Your help is important. Thanks! 
There are a lot of ways to do it. The way I do it and It works for me, but you really have to take time with your practice assistant.
I add them to my practice routine and do my practice routine daily. In the description area I list the levels I am trying to achive. And keep the details more in the level I am currently in. So I dont always need to go back to the video lesson. I do go back if i am unsure or if I go to the next level of practice for that particular practice item.
Justine will say
First start off doing practicing like ‘this’, until you can achive X. Once you can do X, practice like ‘this’ until you can achive Y.
Only after, start doing ‘this’ advanced routine for success.
I list the details of the ‘this’ I am currently in and the X Ys. That way I know my short term goals and know what i am currantly doing to get there. The final goal is a sort of fluency, I dont really need to list that. Also the fluency may or may not be during the individual practice. It may be during consolidation or during song practice. I didnt get my F shaped Barr chords until i needed them for songs I really wanted to play.
I pulled mine for example show what I had for that, target notes when strumming. Its a tough one.
The other question is do you need to practice everything to compleat 100% fluence. I dont not belive so. You should give it a go to get the basic understanding and form, understand the ideas and how to do it and why. So you can know what to do when you run into it in a song you want to play, or at least know the options.
Lets say you want to play metal or something barr chord heavy, you dont want to sit on green sleeves for 3 or 4 months. You can drop it in your practice routine. Change the time down to a couple of mins, change the song to a finger picking song you like maybe something from Guns and Roses. If you like finger picking then sure spend time on it tweak the timer to more time.
It is your practice to manipulate, its very adaptable. There is a OnBording meeting you could sit in that will give you some ideas about how to do stuff like that. Its very helpful.
I hope this helps some.
Thanks a lot! That thing with the notes that you’re doing is very helpful! I will do the same.
FYI, I worked on these lessons for many months, 5 minutes per day, before I mastered them to the level where I felt comfortable moving on. In general, many of the Grade 3 lessons are teaching much more challenging techniques than in Grades 1 & 2, and will take significantly longer to “get under your fingers”.
I spent as much time working thru Grade 3 as I did working thru Grades 1 & 2 COMBINED.
YMMV
For months??? I guess i was very optimistic! 
That’s encouraging. Because as i can see many people struggling with some exercises for months.
Thanks a lot! 
