guitar and stay committed to the instrument. It's basically playing to express yourself and not to just play because you have to or don'twant to but feel you should. “Watch the clips of legendary guitar scenes or solos” Here's some instant inspiraton.... Goto Yahoo or Google and click on the "video" tab above the search bar and type in anything having to do with guitar solos. You will find some amazing solos along with amazing guitar tricks. One really cool guitar clip | remember is of this Asian guy playing the super Mario brothers theme for Nintendo. That guy can play that song like you wouldn't believe! There's so much inspiring guitar playing footage out there. It's everywhere and anywhere you look, especially online, Also, checkout the movie with Ralph Maccio from the 1980's called "Crossroads"... there's some amazing guitar playing in it. (Haha, Ralphs notreally playing it, but it's incredibly inspiring) “Try tabbing out songs by ear” This is extremely helpful. Tabbing songs by ear develops your musical ear Very quickly. Choose one of your favorite songs and sit next to your cd player with a guitar and a piece of paper and try to figure out the chords in the song first, and then try to figure out the riffs within the chords. Once you find out the overall "key" of the song it's easy to figure outall the riffs and chords. “Take a college music course” (Beatles, history of rock and roll) While | was at community college for two years studying to get my Associates Degree, | had taken a “History of Rock & Roll course”. This course was extremely interesting. There was 50 much music that this class opened my ayes up to. | gained so much more appreciation for the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who and many more bands of that era. Those bands really did change music forever. | definitely recommend taking a class like this anywhere you can; 't will definitely open up your eyes to some great music out there and help you grow asa musician.