Here exercise to help you with left hand/right coordination.
Pick up/down, you can do it while watching TV that'll keep you from looking at the fretboard. Start out slow and listen for how clean you play the notes. Then you work up to playing it faster.
pick down up down up on each string
down stroke on E string
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|--1---------------------------------------------------|
up stroke on E string
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|----2-------------------------------------------------|
etc.
|---------------------------------------------1-2-3-4--|
|------------------------------------1-2-3-4-----------|
|----------------------------1-2-3-4-------------------|
|--------------------1-2-3-4---------------------------|
|-----------1-2-3-4------------------------------------|
|--1-2-3-4---------------------------------------------|
|--2-3-4-5----------------------------------------------|
|-----------2-3-4-5-------------------------------------|
|--------------------2-3-4-5----------------------------|
|-----------------------------2-3-4-5-------------------|
|--------------------------------------2-3-4-5----------|
|-----------------------------------------------2-3-4-5-|
|----------------------------------------------3-4-5-6--|
|--------------------------------------3-4-5-6----------|
|-----------------------------3-4-5-6-------------------|
|--------------------3-4-5-6----------------------------|
|-----------3-4-5-6-------------------------------------|
|--3-4-5-6----------------------------------------------|
etc to 8th fret or 12th fret,
do it over and over, forwards and backwards
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