Originally Posted by: zreynoldspI generally put the rhythm together first, but then most of my solos grow out of improvising over the rhythm as a vamp anyway... The full story is I'll come up with the chords, then add some fills here and there to make it interesting, and then improvise a solo with the fills / riffs I've used over the

yeah, just about all my solos are improvised over a steady rhythem. just go slow and have fun. feel the notes out rather than search over the whole guitar for them