Okay, I've been playing for a good nine months (although the first 6 weeks I just ****ted around). While I'm fine with my chords, speed and accuracy, and I've got the hang of simple riffs (radiohead, muse, those kinda things), until now I haven't really bothered to look at scales much...hence I have no clue when it comes to constructing my own riffs and chords.
And my palm muting is piss poor.

Basically, I was wondering where I should be at 1, 2 and 3 years down the line, bearing in mind that I now put in a good couple of hours practice a day. I just don't want to get lazy...