I'm having the exact same feeling now, and I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to take even longer to get it... What are these elusive skills? I think of them as sequencing and damping. Sequencing of the left hand fingers so the next one is placed before the previous one releases (thus giving that super-cool flowing sound) and damping of bass strings to prevent notes (or harmonics) ringing over and muddying the next bit. I can see the sequencing happening eventually - though I guess I will have to work out the LH fingering in advance because my automatic choices rarely seem to hit upon the right answer. And I've already seen that it sometimes involves a more difficult LH fingering pattern. I guess I'll have to suck it up if that's what it takes. However organizing my thumb is going to be an entirely different story. Though I finally succeeded in getting it to rest on a random bass string, the thought of having to make it go to specific places at specific times? Oh my! And another thought - if I move my thumb around deliberately, it will also affect my RH fingering...
Question: is this going to take all of 2017 to master? Methinks it might.
Happy New Year everyone😊
