I'm 16, been playing non stop since i was somewhere in 14 yrs old. Heard Metallica's S&M cd, changed my view on what rock and metal can be, so I got into (and still am getting into) more technical forms of rock (ex. vai, petrucci) while at the same time looking at wut peeps like rhoads and page did. I'm always working on my scales and their speed, and I have recently started looking into middle eastern scales to see wut I can create.