Hi Nicolai! I loved your response and hoped that would be the response I would see (and its great that its coming from a doctor). I agree - stabbing at the frets will fail. I will continue on this path and time my progress using the metronome. I started with dropping my ring ringer and adding middle then index (so 3 finger drops). I'm now trying to drop the middle finger and dropping index and ring at the same time and that seems to be working. Anyway, I am sticking with it!

Sorry I mispelled the word "building" in this post.