Hi Chris - this is such a great question about a totally common struggle.

If you're feeling anxiety leading into a lick or section knowing that it's a struggle, then, there's no other way around it - you simply have to continue isolating and drilling that lick. Continue to spend several focused minutes at a time drilling that lick over and over (with no mistakes) at whichever slower tempo feels comfortable. This is the quickest and most efficient way to overcome that anxiety. It may take several more weeks to get this lick up to speed comfortably, so you just need to dig in and keep working at it!

You can do it - you're doing all the right things and you've already come so far with this tune! Just keep at it. Once you start getting the lick more comfortably up to speed - the less you'll feel that anxiety and pressure to execute whenever you reach that spot in the song, and it should start to feel more seamless.

Hope this helps - thanks for all your updates and keep going with it!!!

Mike