So as you can see, it’s not just about making guitar solos.
It’s really about learning to make your own lines that fit into the rest of the arrangement.
And to me, lead guitar is really the art of musical composition.
I mean don’t you want to learn how to express yourself, and not play someone else’s solos note for note?
Doing that will give you barely any insight into how it works……Playing guitar is not always the same as making music you know.
The First Thing To Do Is Know Your Fretboard In And Out
Go grab a copy of the fretboard in the google search engines, and learn a fret at a time.
A trick I’ve told people elsewhere is to learn the first three frets, understand how sharps and flats work, and then learn frets 5, 7, and 9.
Everything else will fill in the blanks.