Originally Posted by: Greg Vinson you need to matter of factly slow it down until you can play it perfectly, and gradually work it up to speed, but never pushing to the point where you're making more than minimal mistakes. If you ignore this, and push yourself so that you find yourself frustratedly repeating the same mistake, then each time you practice, you are building the neural pathways to wire the mistake into your brain/body. The only way to overcome this is to slow down. Then when you think you're going absurdly slow, slow down some more. It's very hard to do in our "faster faster, gotta have it now" culture. View it like a meditation, and it can have the same relaxing, healthy effect.