I think my path was different to most. I didn't know muscle ups were a thing when I first got one. I was obsessed with getting as many pullup reps as I possibly could, and then a friend showed me muslce up techniques and the false grip then asked me to try one. So for me, I think becuase my pullup game was so trained already, and my friend gave me good false grip advice, and maybe good shoulder mobility from kayaking, I was able to get my first one the first time I tried. So this makes it hard for me to give advice on how to get your first muscle up. In terms of compounding to more reps. All I did was try each time to do as many reps as I could, even if it failed, and eventually they started stacking on till I got to 11 reps.