from Jack Grassel's book "Guitar Seeds"
Most of us have been confronted with music that's too difficult for us to play. This 7-step process can help you learn such a passage sooner:
By moving accents around, you gradually remove the obstacles that exist between each pair of notes. With dotted rhythms you can play each pair of notes faster than you could play the whole line. If after going through this process you still have trouble with the original, repeat this process on the line every day until you get it. Use a metronome.