Thanks! Will check it out!
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Welcome to the frustration 
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As has been said time and again, Billie Jean is a rite of passage.
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I actually came across a YouTube video earlier today with Billy Jean playing in the background, and I could not skip it fast enough.
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If you feel like you need to, try using your ring and pinky finger there instead of trying to roll that pinky. I can roll on the D & G strings with my pinky but if I try doing it on any higher strings than that, the higher string always seems to hit the joint. As much as I can, I use my ring and pinky or I’ll roll it with my ring finger.
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In the first iteration of the course, this was a normal lesson and having it as a benchmark lesson makes a lot of sense.
I am going through the course for the second time and this lesson is soooo much easier. I have no doubts you will get it down in time, just be kind to yourself about it and really do treat it as a benchmark lesson to come back to. I marked all the hard lessons when I went through the course the first time, so I could go back to them and not interrupt my progress and get stuck.
Hope that perspective helps your journey somewhat
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This is what really unlocked it for me.
I ended up doing a sort of hybrid movement. I fretted the higher string with my pinky and lower string with my ring finger, but I kept those two fingers stuck together as sort of a single unit and used a rolling motion to shift between strings. Rather than using them completely independently.
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We all find ourselves in this thread eventually! Welcome! It’s kind of like the BassBuzz equivalent of being jumped in.
You’re officially a member now.
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Well, I finished Module 7 and decided to revisit Billie Jean. On my first time trying it I couldn’t even keep up with the workup at the end of the lesson, but now I can play the slow workout. I’m not quite nailing it yet (I’m sometimes getting some fret buzz in that spot where the pinky and ring fingers overlap unless I really focus on my technique there) but I’ve definitely made progress. It helps that there’s a pattern to it that finally clicked in my head.
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I saw this BJ’s cover….mmmmm. I’m gonna play it as wild as this one …. Lolololol
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I’d want the invisible back-up singers, too! 
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Ha! Same. Kept looking for the other vocal mics.
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There are so many post already, idk if someone mentioned this before… but is there a F# hidden from the original? like a deeper challenge on this song… haaa… https://youtu.be/lcz9S5ynnR0?si=Wys8UNvLXpwdiIJ9
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….aaaaand I hit the Billie Jean part of the course. And here I though I was doing pretty good nailing the fast workouts for everything previous. It’s like I don’t even know what I’m doing. Just when I think I’ve got the fretting, as soon as I hit play to play along with Josh on the slow workout, my fingers get all messed up within the first 5 notes. Very humbling. I’ll be coming back every so often to take another pass at it to see if I’m improving.
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MICHAEL JACKSON - BILLIE JEAN https://youtu.be/GIncs3tCN28?si=L2Tk5JLXvLeWHG9C What a wicked mistress she is!
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Twin brother from another mother… awesome beard my friend and excellent cover!
Thanks for posting, just subscribed to your channel
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Haha thanks my dude! Much appreciated!! You have the awesome beard, I’m still playing catch up! 
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I’d cut it off in a heartbeat if I could have your bass chops.
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Don’t ever cut that off! You can always just practice the bass to get the chops! What a compliment. Thanks brother I appreciate it so much! This song about drive me over the edge, no kiddin’! It was a monster among songs. Billie Jean is indeed a wicked mistress haha
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Billie Jean 
haha
Wow, definitely struggled with it
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