Isolating Problems in Your Picking

(from a post on Banjo Buddies)

Isolate problems:

If you're playing a few bars of a song and one little part is more difficult than the others, causing you to slow down on that particular part, isolate it. That is, practice the hardest part that slows you down over and over until you can play it with the ease of the more smooth parts. This is one of the most important points in learning. Isolate. Then play the whole line of music with the same ease.

Failure to do the above can cause timing problems, causing others to politely excuse themselves when you are playing alone with them, and it's your turn to take a short break.

Keep on pickin'

Angie's Banjo.com