I need advice. I flew through almost four modules of Beginner to Badass…then broke a finger on my fretting hand. Haven’t been able to play for a month but feeling good now so ready to resume. But where to resume? I feel too rusty to just pick up and go. Should I go back to the beginning? Noodle around for a couple weeks then resume from where I was? Forget it and keep going? I did try to repeat the last workouts I did but was pretty uncoordinated from the time off.
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where you left off.
If too hard, go back a module.
Still too hard, repeat until you grab on again.
Be patient - let yourself get back up to speed.
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How broken was it? Any pt involved? If so, follow the doc’s advice.
The finger will let you know if pushing too hard. Which digit was it?
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I’d start over. you need to break in the fingertips again, sorry for the pun, it’s not a given thing. Each time you stop, you need to pay the toll to the bass Goddess.
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You’re not too far in, so going back isn’t redoing a whole lot. You can take a look at the sheet music and extended tracks in the extra materials and play through the early stuff again to get a feel of where you need to go back to if you don’t want to watch the videos all the way again. I actually do that regularly anyway just as a reminder/warmup.
Thank you all for the advice. It was my pinky playing basketball.
Avoid basketball. ;^)
Start over. You will probably have got through them if you started again yesterday 
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