I never said I have that kind of habit. Actually any of my fingers lead, any of my fingers finish. It's not about that I can't put the index finger on the next string because it is the one that ended the previous bar. And I didn't say that I use 1-2-3. Actually I use 1-3-2.
And of course I am using the next finger possible, or perhaps I TRY to use the next available, but when crossing strings too fast that is when the problem occurs. So I am sorry Fergie but your exercise was not helpful for my problem. :/
Sorry i assumed the 1-2-3 as an example of your fingering used, rather than realising you actually fingered 1-3-2. It is me saying it is a habit, not you. I see it a lot in players that try to work in patterns or shapes, it is a subconcious thing that happens, the player in doing such things actually makes it harder to develop a true independence of playing technique.
The fact you say
my fingers "get confused" about which finger's "turn" it is to pluck the next string.
was the essence of what i was saying about working out what you are playing with what finger and when.
To now say
Actually any of my fingers lead, any of my fingers finish.
confuses me further, because i would now assume that the fingers cannot trip over each other or be "confused" because any finger can handle the job of changing and the brain knows which finger is doing what in the plucking hand, so therefore no confusion should occur.
As i said any such exercise has to be done slow and deliberate, this will hard wire the brain to the movement required. It is about thinking it through slowly as you play. Then after a time the thinking is not needed because it becomes a subconcious reaction to playing. If it is a speed thing, then again slow is the way forward to learn speed.
It is not un-common for the fretting hand to favour certain fingers in the plucking hand to combine with in scale studies, songs or practice. This can also lead to problems as the plucking hand trips over the fretting hand when the "wrong or unfavoured fingers are used, leading a player to believe the plucking hand is the problem. Sometimes an injury to a finger occurs and another finger has to be used, this leads to a problem in the other hand as it is different to what the brain has hard wired as "learned".
Maybe your plucking hand is confused with what the fretting hand is doing and this sense of confusion you get is a momentery hesitation in the fretting hand that the plucking hand reacts to...giving you the feeling it is the fretting hand at fault or vica versa.
This is why slow and deliberate is needed to give you the time to see and feel what is happening, to realise what is wrong so you can correct it. This is why breaking exercises and scales down to interchanging pattens and numbers slowly, works, because you can compare results and feel what is going on.
By interchanging them you never really learn one way to play them, but you do learn different options and learn to cope with different fingering alternatives so the brain is comfortable with what is going on and does not cause doubt, that may lead to hesitation, that leads to a problem because in music any hesitation or doubt will lead to a timing issue as music is forever flowing, as is a good playing technique.
Again, i apoligise for not grasping your point or problem, good luck with a solution.
