Megadeth - Tornado of Souls (SOLO)

Honestly, if guitarists wanna learn to shred.
Learn your Pentatonic Scale
90% of fucking classic rock, metal, and just any kind of soloing is based off that scale. Learn the scale up your whole neck, and then other scales are just based off that one. You add a few different notes to your pentatonic, you get blues scale, minor scale, harmonic minor scale and others. Best tip I can give as a guitarist. It's fkn gold.
Pentatonic - Pentatonic - Pentatonic.

Close accept that the Pentatonic comes from the diatonic scale Ionian and Aeolian modes/scales not the other way around. And it's the Pentatonic "MINOR" scale not the Pentatonic which would mean the Major Pentatonic.

So the one to learn would be "Pentatonic MINOR" all 5 positions.

Not bad for someone who doesn't have an ounce of theory.
Least I was close, thanks.

Hey, no problem. Besides you know enough.

This man speaks the truth.

zakk wylde would be proud lol

@felphero Haha, good one, yep he would! But you learn the pentatonic as a base man. Zakk Wylde is a guy that just never went beyond pentatonic, Although he can really shred the shit out of it.

best advise ever! period.

Between Chris and Jeff, I can safely assume sweep picking is the future of young guitarists...everywhere.

Pretty hard to improvise without them mate. Learn your modes properly and you can solo all over the neck in any key no probs.