I have been playing a lot more guitar these days. I just want to go to “pretty good” guitarist to being an actual “musician”. I feel I play rhythym guitar pretty well and can make my own riffs fine. I just want to improve my lead soloing. Get better at guitar solos. Now, I don’t want to be a shredder. I’ll never play like Joe Satriani or Steve Vai, I just want to play some good lead guitar in a blues/rock kind of way.

Everybody thinks guitar improvisation is really difficult and challenging. You see, not really. All you gotta do is learn theory which should be simple to learn and then memorize the notes on the guitar in your head. That’s pretty much it. I’m not afraid to admit that I’m not good at improvisation. I could figure out songs by ear fine, but it’s the guitar soloing I need worked on. I want to have a better ear at it. Be able to improvise without having anyone to tell me what notes to play. Improvise mean being able to play everything you hear, in the right key.

I’m studying music again and will stick with it to achieve my music goals and get better. When I get better, that will be an appropriate time to form a band. I’ve always wanted to form my own rock group and will one day. I just want to do all lead guitar work in the band, rather than having someone else play all the solos in the songs. If I ever formed a band, it would be just a three piece: guitar, drums and bass probably. When will I form a band? When I feel the time is right. I want my chance to experience the full band thing and one day I will.

Many of my acoustic songs that I write were originally meant to be played in a full band. That’s how I hear my songs, full band rock songs. I play ’em on acoustic first ’cause I don’t have a band yet. I jammed on “Mr. Tough Guy”, a song I wrote, with a band once and it was a lot of fun.

Now that I finally have an electric guitar and amp, that’s why I feel it’s time to get better at it. I just want to play guitar ’cause it’s my passion. I will do the band thing at some point ’cause there are other musicians around here that DO support my music. I don’t have much full band experience and would like to start soon.

Kev