I was just wondering myself about how to create runs. I have read many a book, website or tab example of nice ways to play runs just like you say at the start of your thread, running from low E to high E 12th fret, ascend/descend etc, but I don't know about anyone else it's nice to be able to play a few tricks like that in front of some mates or even at a gig, though I feel personally this gives me no satisifaction in terms of knowing the best way to implement the technique during a given chord progression. For example I might have the chords G D Amin constantantly revolving over and over but its going to sound like a bag of spanners if all I do is start on G in the Key of Emin pentantonic ( yes I undesrstand what I'm describing is technically a mode) from the lower end of the fretboard and rattle through till I'm playing G at the higher end of the fretboard. My question is when playing a fast run how do other people approach this in terms of getting something with a melodic, or even blues rock context that sounds fitting over any given chord sequence? I feel if I could understand this, it would help me interms of creating my own runs over other people records and for my own musics sake. :confused: