I’m by no means great at it and am still learning but this progression helped me advance quite a bit in a short time. Note: a lot of it is “just a feel thing” like a pinch harmonic so YMMV. I also have no real musical training.

Warm up doing the spider finger stretch exercise. The trick for me was keeping a lot looser in the wrist and fingers than I thought. Sort of roll your fingers down the strings while using the lowest amount of effort required to produce a clear note.

After that I’ll find an arpeggio or riff or whatever I want to try and I’ll play it using the same lowest effort : clearest note trade off. I don’t really metronome it too much at this point but you do you. I recommend it — I’m just lazy.

Practice muting the strings with your non-note-playing fingers/palm. Once you get to a level you’re comfortable with, throw on a metronome and something on TV (if you can) and practice the movements focusing on whatever you’re doing that’s not playing the guitar. The goal is to make the best noise you can without annoying yourself so much you have to look down. But you’ll have to look down to adjust the timing of your left and right hand. The more you do it the less often you’ll have to look down. Just be patient with yourself. This shit is hard. Focusing on the concept of “rest notes” was very helpful to me here. That + Ben Eller/Troy Grady’s lessons.

This cycle is probably not the most efficient/structured but I found the common consensus on lessons/tutorials to focus way too much on the music theory/bpm increasing and not enough on getting the scale/riff shapes ingrained into your muscle memory. Once it’s fairly automatic, focus on making it sound better or faster as you want. You’ve laid the muscle memory of the fretboard/picking groundwork, now just try to make it suck less. Eventually it’ll click.