Originally Posted by: CSchlegelHey & welcome!

Aside from the picking exercises & intro to scale exercises in the GF2 course, these tutorials might give you something to work on for picking:

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=898
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=899

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=928
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=929

Then you might benefit from these tutorials that show different ways to practice, visualize & use pentatonic scales:

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=185
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=722
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=737
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=843
http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=914

Let us know how it goes. Have fun!

Well, I did the Visualizing patterns series 2, lesson 2, and it was quite excellent. I played my fingers off with it, but now it's time to research more on the Boss RC-50 looper, since these things can make practice more fun.