Honestly it wasn ' t much studying , but just paying attention in class and actually making the effort to understand what was going on rather than just memorize . <| sep |> Electric will def help but it ' s not magic . I would listen to some older blues guys they tend to play simpler licks than later guys like ClaptonSRV directly before improv to spark some ideas that you can imitateblatantly rip off . Other than that , try to find a couple things that work even short simple stuff and try to do different variations of that lick . Remember you ' re speaking a language . Just because you only know a few ' words ' doesn ' t mean you can ' t drastically change they way you say them . Put emphasis on different ' syllabels ' and think about how accents change words drastically and how that translates to guitar . Two people speaking English from Alabama and Dublin will sound like different languages entirely . Dont be discouraged because you ' re not playing all over the fretboard either . A good guitarist can do a lot with just two notes .