One of the most difficult aspects of it for me is just remembering all the notes. I have to keep going over the same guitar sections to drill them into my head. Something cool I noticed though is that now when I hear guitar on the radio I can sorta pick up on what they're doing to create a riff. Most of you can probaly do this easily, but for me its improvement.

lol as a classically trained musician (as in classical piano, trumpet, and french horn) i tend to like to learn a whole solo by someone else note for note

btu there is a LOT of fun to be had in improvising.


and what ur talking about there is relative pitch
the fact that ur developing it is really good for playing and comes in handy in almost all areas of music
and just because u're just figuring it out doesnt make you any less. every musician has to figure it out at some point if they wanna play. On top of that, it also means ur not tone deaf, which is also a plus.

Well thank you for the encouragement man.

Just go for it...listen and transcribe ...

Go find the Pick of Destiny

or learn beatles songs.
and van morrison songs.
as far as i can tell those are the BEST songs to start off with a group...because they're easy to simplify and still make sound good, they're acessable....or something along that spelling, and they're just plain fun. Use those songs to tighten up and ur good to go!