Early in my journey with guitar and TAB, I would "visually" memorize 5 or 6 notes and then look down at my guitar and play them, and then piece in the next 5 or 6 notes, It seem slow and frustrating at first but after time a few things start to happen,
You start building muscle memory in you picking hand, and won't feel like you have to look at it,
Your EAR will start to develop you begin to HEAR what to do instead of pulling it from memory |