Keep up the Great Work My Friend! "Patience, Desire and Practice" is Eddie Van Halen's Autograph Intro, which He used when signing guitars back in the 1980's through the mid 2000's. And that is "IT" in a nutshell. Also from My Own experience, be forgiving when You make mistakes as they are necessary to get You to the next level, BUT maybe go slower and Imprint the various chords and scale patterns so that they become converted Muscle Memory. When it is time to SOLO, it is a GASS when You don't think of what You are about to play, rather than just allowing it to 'HAPPEN' naturally from Your Spirit. That also goes for Rhythm playing as well as trying to think of regimented articulation takes away from Spontaneous Flow.

Good Luck, DJ.