OK, I'll start. With guitar, or banjo, or mandolin, or dulcimer etc. the right hand (assuming you're playing right handed) and fingers are THE TOOLS. You simply have to do the boring drudge work of memorizing right hand attack techniques if you want to be a smoothe player. That means before attempting anything complex with the left. Gotta get that right hand 'muscle memory' operating whether it's rolls, arpeggios, flat pick strums, or Burl Ives 'thumb and pluck.

Earl Scruggs says 'you have to practice a bluegrass 'roll' (a series of four notes) 10,000 times before it's ingrained in your subconcious. I believe he's right.

Once you've done the 'hard work' of getting the right hand 'tools' working without thinking about them, the left hand stuff is sooooo easy.

In another thread I suggested putting your instrument in an 'open tuning' (no left hand needed at all) while you practice the right hand.....watch TV, or stare out the window, to ease the boredom....'cause it WILL get boring...but oh brother, is it worth it!

Rick