Originally Posted by: ChristopherSchlegel

Originally Posted by: petemcr.phIt does indeed, give me a lot to work with there.[/quote]

Good deal!

Originally Posted by: petemcr.phAs for my current level, not sure how I could label it, I've been working mainly on alternative picking in my practice sessions and a few legato style drills

I have a several series of tutorials on practicing scales. These first 2 only focus on one octave in the lower register.

Major Scale Patterns 1

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=453

Minor Scale Patterns 1

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=887

The next 2 expand the idea to 2 octaves in order to incorporate the higher register. This effectively covers the fretboard with diatonic scale patterns. I use these to warm up every day.

Major Scale Patterns 2

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2643

Minor Scale Patterns 2

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2646

Many rock solos use pentatonic scales which are a derivative form of the diatonic scales. But it's helpful to understand & play them as separate excerises.

Pentatonic Scales

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=296

Pentatonic Major

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=722

Pentatonic Minor

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=185

These tutorials are aimed at really ramping up your alternate picking on scales for lead work.

Speedy Ideas 1

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=287

These next 2 also incorporate legato exercises playing the scale patterns.

Speedy Ideas 2

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=928

Speedy Ideas 3

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=929

[quote=petemcr.ph]I'd love to understand what it is I am playing, I've always just been learning songs without any actual understanding of how they are constructed and hear people discuss concepts that just go way over my head, so I've had a look at the Music Theory for beginners.

My collection of tutorials on music theory will go a long way toward that goal.

https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/music-theory

My collection on improvisation will do the same for that topic.

https://www.guitartricks.com/collection/learning-to-improvise

Hope that helps! Best of success!

Awesome, much appreciated.

Probably should have committed to full-on practicing when we were in lockdown but lives and learns.