Quote Originally Posted by cwoodgold View Post
One technique I like to use is to learn the last bit of a piece of music first, and gradually learn longer and longer parts always ending at the end. This has advantages -- you always feel as if you're getting to more familiar territory, rather than as if you're always struggling uphill, as you would feel if you had learned the first part of the piece first.
Interesting. I play all sorts of fingerstyle guitar styles, but most often the first part of the music lays down a theme, and what follows explores that theme in various ways. It's usually easiest to start at the beginning and go from there, but you do get the immediate gratification in the same way.