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Hi all- I've been playing Fahey style fingerpicking for 5-6 years now. Over the past year or so my precision has been diminishing and it's been very frustrating. The degradation seems be focused on my index finger specifically. I watch old videos of myself and I notice I was able to keep that finger a lot more rigid but still have a fairly light/quick attack. Nowadays I have a tendency to 'curl' it inward towards my palm and I feel like I'm tensing up or something. At times it even makes regular contact with my thumb, which never used to happen. I've been trying to fix by practicing basic patterns along with a metronome but I've now developed slight tenderness in the knuckle in the index finger. I'm guessing I was (or still am) orienting my hand in the wrong way for a long time and it's catching up to me with that finger specifically. Taking the fingerpicks off helps a great deal actually, but I really prefer the attack/speed/volume with them. I've also adjusted the angle with a plier to provide for a better attack. Other than these remedies I'm not sure what to do. around 1:10 here and at 4:40 on this video from a few years ago you can see how i just have more poise and accuracy on that kind of basic fast travis pattern and my index finger stays relatively stationary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pXMWdH-nMY around 2 min here on a newer video of the same song you can see the 'curling' going on on my index finger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mCyLh2tgI Anybody else experienced a diminishing technique, (fingerpicker or otherwise), and had to remedy? What approaches did you find helpful? Do you notice something I could improve, or am I overlooking something entirely?
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I've switched to acrylic nails, seems to cover the difference between metal and bare finger. I'm also 90% sure I've got focal dystonia, which ends music careers and hobbies so  I've been playing too loudly and too fast for too long and basically gave myself a repetitive motion injury
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