ahhhh thanks for all the responses, and ive been working on it, its much easier than i thought it would be (unless im doing it wrong) . just to be sure im doing it correctly: when skipping a string in a tab only to have to go back up, im striking up on the preceeding string, and also when i strike the last key to loop back to the beginning i strike up
e|-------------0 l up (to keep in the motion to go back to the a string)
b|---------3-----| down
g|---0-----------| up
d|-----2---------| down
a|-3-------------| down
E|----------------
if this is not correct, please let me know.