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Originally Posted by Rockerbob
Yikes! You guys know way more about this stuff than I do. I just play. I guess I never went at guitar to learn guitar, but to make music. For many years I have just learned songs. Some songs require that I learn to play a new chord or run, so I learn that chord or run. Over the years I have picked up a few chords and runs. Whatever you do, I would recommend just playing as well.
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Ok then, to tie the two together. Say I want to learn the solo to Final Countdown by Europe, or Bat Country by Avenged Sevenfold. They have really fast picking in them. So you have to start slow and build up speed, but it's not fun. It's not like learning some songs that you can sit with the tab and make a decent fist of almost right off. I'm told that if you sit on it for days or weeks notching up the metronome 5bpm at a time, eventually you are just wailing, but yeah, I find that hard to stick with something that doesn't come easily right off. Especially when so many songs do! So have you worked out songs that have required you to "stick with it" for a period of time before it even sounds like the track?
To the OP, Kudos for you for doing the hard yards. Everyone I know who's done it has ended up good. Google Steve Vai's 10 hour Workout, which you might find interesting (he's got some exercises you might like). I'm currently treading the same path as you, but man, I just end up Noodling. My attention just wanders and I start playing something easier, like some blues. It's so frustrating.
Hope others have some more tips. Guitar is my reward, so if it's dry, I've got nothing else! But I want to get faster.