Okay, thanks for the info! I mistakenly thought you're more at the beginner stage because we kept having conversations about how you didn't understand certain aspects of scale patterns.

Originally Posted by: iiiiiii-0so believe I need something quite a bit more challenging than this.[/quote]

If you are well past the beginner scale exercises, then you can work toward exploring the entire fretboard with these tutorials. This is how players like Steve Vai can cover & use the entire guitar so effectively. They see the repeated visual patterns & they've practiced using them enough to make it look effortless.

Visualizing Fretboard Scale Patterns Series 1 (Repeating Octaves)

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=11094

Visualizing Fretboard Scale Patterns Series 2 (Major)

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=14128

Visualizing Fretboard Scale Patterns Series 3 (Minor)

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=14138&s_id=899

Visualizing Fretboard Scale Patterns Series 4 (Chromatic)

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=11319&s_id=462

After that you can work on applying those patterns in musical situations with this series on building speed & dexterity required to play lead solos at a high level.

Speedy Ideas Series 1 - Building Speed

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

Speedy Ideas Series 2 - Major Scale Pattern

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

Speedy Ideas Series 3 - Minor Scale Pattern

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

Speedy Ideas Series 4: Advanced Minor Shredding

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=973

Speedy Ideas Series 5: Advanced Major Shredding

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=980

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Originally Posted by: iiiiiii-0One of my goals is to comfortably jam with other musicians and play with others and just walk into a jam session and be able to join in. I guess a good marker would be to look at a jazz real book and be able to improvise and play along with others based on the specific chords.

Then you should be practicing improvisation. I have several tutorials on jazz guitar improv. And the first one shows how to use & practice scales & even modes.

Intro To Jazz Lead Guitar

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=21866&s_id=1757

Jazz Blues In B-Flat

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=30254

Jazz Blues In F

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=30367&s_id=2605

Jazz Lead Lines

https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=16386&s_id=1205

After you learn the ideas & skills in those tutorials, I encourage you to get a Real Book, or score book of jazz standards & start working through one song at a time.

[quote=iiiiiii-0]I like to have structure because without it I really lose motivation. I had structure when learning the positions of the Aminor pentatonic and saw so much benefits by having a practice routine. I'm just not sure what to practice to be honest.

Hope the above tutorials will give you the structure & path you want. If not, then let me know & we can try something else.

For future reference all my tutorials can be found on my instructor directory.

https://www.guitartricks.com/instructor.php?input=155014

Hope that helps!