I did Ok with the Hotel California solo that I wanted to nail during may. I'll post one of the practice recordings I did later on. Or maybe record myself again to try to do it better. As for june....hmmmmm.
I think I'm going to work on my vibrato. I found out while listening to my practices of Hotel California that I recorded that they are not consistent and sound too technical.
I'm going to practice them by learning "Crossfire by Stevie Ray Vaughan" because it has awesome vibratos after every last notes of every phrase.
Also it will be more fun then to just sit and do vibratos :)
Kasperow, if I was you I would work on my picking before the speed. That's probably what you already had in mind but I'm saying just in case.
You might end up taking some bad habits if you work on your speed too soon.
Master the basics, then make them faster.
I would also start working on my legato's speed before alternate picking speed.
It sound less aggressive and flows nicer....to my ears atleast. Listen to Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. Damn they are fast, but they dont pick that much. Legatos all the time !
But offcourse there's place for those aggresive fast alternate picking runs :)
There's a lot of focus today on speed. I think the music listeners think that being a good guitar player means being fast and that influences us musicians. It's very impressive indeed and I also want to build up my speed but it's not absolutly necessary.
I'll quote Albert King of the "In session" with Stevie Ray Vaughan:
-" There's a lot of good guitar players out there, they play fast but they got no soul "