great point- would make sense why my fretting hand tries to do something else after!
i would learn these two patterns so you can use your original one and this one to grasp the musical aspect of resolving that sequence.
maybe this might help break you out of the rhythmical flow hitch/rut happens to me alot. i use swing tempo sometimes to learn dexterity of the fretting hand.
6,7,9,6,7,6,9,7 < repeat a few times
6,7,9,6,7,6,9,6----7
One other potential issue could be, you havenāt really internalized it as a chunk and youāre in fact still thinking about the individual notes.
Just watch from where I timestamped through like the 5 minute mark (unless you feel like watching the whole thing)
So the forward chaining thing I mentionedā¦but FAST enough. 150 bpm may be too low (and again Iād do all this sans metronome, maybe just spot check periodically to make sure you arenāt going drastically faster/slower than you think you are)
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I assume that I should be doing it at a slowish tempo? to embed it?
depends maybe the musical idea hasnāt been found yet and you just gotta keep tinkering with it to clearly comprehend what the mind is trying to find.
this is why i like italian solfeggio and wish i had learned it as a kid. cause you can take one syllable and play huge chunks of a ton of different notes as one solfege syllable embellishing that syllable. 
That does seem to be the case given everybodyās feedback here. I thought that being able to play something once was considered āchunk achievedā. apparently not! hahahha
Back to the woodshed!
thanks @bradejensen , @Riffdiculous and @joebegly for your comments so far - given me lots to think about and experiment with
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At first, yes - I had to think of it as two mini-chunks, because my hand wanted to slip into a different sequence I have burned in. But after a little bit the sequence started to become its own single chunk.
Here it is at 150: Picking Apprentice Sequence - YouTube
I hope you had your āsmug faceā on in that video! lol. Awesome, Iāll get onto all the advice in the thread.
Nice guitar by the way! very tasty
You know me so well!!! 
Iām ātempo deafā - without an external source I can stay in time, but Iām clueless about how fast Iām going - somedays I think Iām totally blazing until I pop the metronome on to check for tempo and Iām frickin MILES off! haha
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haha Thanks! Good olā RG752, been my main axe for 5 years.
That pattern definitely didnāt want to happen immediately for me, so I do believe some slight adjustment in how youāre feeling it is all youāll need to make it work. I hope something here helps!
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Just an update and another thankyou to @Riffdiculous, @bradejensen and @joebegly.
I took all of your advice in this thread and completely mish-mashed the ideas into a randomised fashion and sat in front of the classic movie āPlanes, Trains and Automobilesā, playing in between the laughs. By the time it was over I checked in at 176bpm for 4-5 reps. Still a way to go to internalizing it fully, but at least I can āfeelā the pattern a bit more when its right as you all described.
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Congrats! But I think that right there was your secret sauce 
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donāt tell anyone!! 
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