Originally Posted by: smnyitus

Hello,

I am a 33 year old busy engineer with a wife and 2 year old son. I can only practice some 20-30 minutes very early in the morning.

I love playing guitar, so far I can play some classic rock covers. I know pentatonic and major scales. I know what the modes are. My problem is I don't really know how to apply scales/modes.

My main goal is to be able to improvise, Blues is my focus now, and I can play with scales over backing tracks without making it sound great.

I wish I understood what to play on which chords, etc.

So, having said all that, do you have any recomendations? Any help is much appretiated.

Thanks in advance

Sounds like you are more advanced than needing to go through the Fundementals courses but if you need a brush up, here is the link. With that said, you may want to start looking through the Blues catagory. This gives you a great foundation for understanding how what you already know applies to the blues. And really, most all rock soloing. From that page, I'd just go top to bottom. It will give you a very solid foundation. To me, on that page, is Chris' Blues Licks section is very important once you get the foundation.

I've said this a lot here; learning the blues licks vocabulary is everything. Blues soloing is not just random note selection or noodling through a scale. There is a vocabulary much like language. It's about building solo themes. Listen to the solo section of Lynrd Skynyrd's Freebird. Lots of soloing but it is a shifting/moving series of blues lick themes. If you listen to it understand that it is theme oriented and there is a bit of repitition, you start seeing how blues soloing works.