Originally Posted by: ChristopherSchlegel

Take your time & be patient with yourself. I've been playing for over 40 years & I still have to remind myself to relax when learning something new or playing something complex.[/quote][p]

Thank you! I'm relaxing more and now it doesn't feel like my fingers and wrist are going to explode.

[quote=ChristopherSchlegel]

Improvisation requires a vocabulary of things to play that you can draw from. You can start to improvise simply by trygint to recombine things you already know in a new way.

I'm not sure how much skill you've built yet. In order to play lead guitar, to improvise melodies & solos you need the skill of playing single note melodies.

With that in mind, I have a whole series on improvisation here.

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

Hope that helps!

I didn't think about combining things I've learned, but I will try. I will check the link, thank you very much for all the help!