I'm no kind of picker at all but having found a "how to" video on Elliott Smiths' Angeles I decided that it might be a worthwhile thing to learn how to do, if I nail it I'll be a dramatically better player. After 3 hours of practice on the picking pattern last night my hands are fucked this morning in a way guitar playing hasn't made them since I first started playing. And all I learned was the first chord.
So maybe not stupidly good playing but it's stupidly hard for me to do
So maybe not stupidly good playing but it's stupidly hard for me to do