Hey Mike, Thanks so much for the response, that hit home once again. I will try harder to infuse some scale work and drills into my practices. By the way tonight while practicing the BB King tune, even though i was only at 75% speed, I closed my eyes felt the music and played the intro pretty close to perfect i think. That felt pretty amazing to me.I think i've told you before that i want desprately to get to a point where i feel good enough to play publicly. I don't care where, garage band, party, festival, club, church. I'm not even sure i will do it, i just want to feel like i've gotten to that level...Thanks so much for your readiness to help, It's greatly appreciated!