Yes it's bizar how quickly the pick up things... I remember practicing my !@# off (and still) with a lot of effort and little result. I started playing the bass guitar in a much later age in which he is now trying :) And somtimes when checking out a song I have the same problems, the spread of the fingers is to wide for me which causes to ringle the strings. Then I know I have to work around it and play it along mulltiple strings with more sliding for instance :)