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look up Scales and practice them regularly find some really easy to follow jazz lead and force your self to find the notes by ear start slow with it then once you have learned it try to play it faster and faster . I don’t know how good you are yet at doing that kind of stuff so maybe it would be better to look up some easy Little ditty like purple haze intro and try to play that faster than jimmy does speed slow easy songs up . the important thing is to remember to start out slow if you jump into something trying to go fast you will make bad habits that are hard to break .

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Practice patterns and vital passages first.

Scales, etudes (studies) , patterns, etc. Everything you can get your hands on. There are tons of resources – I’ve included the most important one below.

But here’s the key…. you MUST work with a metronome or a click track, and you should practice everything at at least three tempos.

I studied guitar in college – my profs had me use three speeds… make the fast speed a little faster… and the slow speed a little slower day by day. You need to develop _absolute accuracy_ slow before you can get it fast. The slower , the better… just like "the faster – the better". Do both.

- Do each scale at all three tempos in half notes, quarter notes, eighth, sixteenth, eighth triplets, 16th triplets.. etc. Up and down. You should be able to do this without looking at your left hand at all. Practice doing the position changes "blind".

- Learn correct classical guitar fingerings for all major, minor, diminished, and other scales. Three octaves of a "G" scale for instance will take you through several position changes and they are different going up than going down. I still use "Segovia Scale Studies" with my students. They hate them but this is the real deal. Andres Segovia standardized scale fingering on the guitar.

http://www.amazon.com/Diatonic-Major-Scales-Andres-Segovia/dp/1598060597

I urge my students to turn off the distortion and delay when doing this. Really perfect your picking and fretting accuracy- you can’t do that with distortion. Clean settings will make every glitch painfully obvious. If you can do it clean… you’re going to RIP with some distortion.

At first – do them first all picked… all up.. all down…. alternate picking….. Do that until you absolutely master it and can make the position changes with your eyes closed at all speeds.

Ten practice hammering/pulling every other note. Then practice picking one note and hammering/pulling two notes (in triplets = Pick-hammer-hammer Pick-Hammer-Hammer etc. . Make up every combination you can think of.

Once you master the major, minor, diminished, augmented, pentatonic, and other common scales… move into "advanced" mode and learn modal playing, advanced jazz scales, etc.

Also – record yourself every day. Listen critically to the tiniest screw-ups … fret glitches, pick noise, position change hesitation, etc. Today it’s so easy to record yourself there’s no reason not to do it. I have no problem with backing tracks and etc. AFTER you’ve run the studies clean and with no other noise in the room.

Work hard. Work methodically. Write down your tempo settings so you can duplicate them and bump them up slightly every day. I have my students spend half their practice time on studies, and the other half on music. Nobody gets this stuff for free – it takes a lot of work, and anyone who seems like they’re an "instant shredder" is only fooling themselves, trying the easy way out. This is a life-long pursuit. Best of luck to you.

PS – Clarinets play in exactly the same written range as the guitar (they’re a Bb instrument but that doesn’t matter here) … and there are tons and tons of scale studies and etudes out there for clarinet that you can adopt on guitar. It also brings a whole new ‘thing’ to your playing to play studies written for other instruments. Go for it !!

Scales & modes are essential but! you also have to develop your ear.
It won’t matter diddley if you can solo 100 mph in E Aeolian mode if the solo section should change key to something like F# & you’re still in E.
Granted, it doesn’t happen often but it does.