So I've been practicing lead guitar steadily for just about a year, Mostly just making sounds and annoying my family with my playing and singing. They hate it, I love it, go figure.

These last few weeks I've noticed a serious improvement in my playing, I can strum steadily and fast, keep beat, sing (scream) on key along with the song, and not pay any attention to my hands. My Fingers hurt though.

My only real problem with guitar is learning by ear, because I'm going deaf in my right ear.

For some reason I'm extremely exhilarated by this its just fascinating to me how fast I learned this instrument. With every new song I learn there's much more meaning to my life (Cause my life is very much so bland, I program and listen and play music that all.) Its like there's a cocaine party in my head and I'm not allowed in; I can only feel the aftermath of the doped over festivities.

I've played a few before this like: Violin, Baritone, Trumpet, but Lead Guitar is my new thing, and while playing none of these I've never gotten this enlightened feeling. Its so stress relieving.

When I play along to Tool, Deftones, Lamb of God, and a few select other bands like All that Remains, I feel much more connected to the music, because I'm not only enjoying it as solely the audience, I'm the vocalist and the lead guitar, and I'm in my own little headbanger's cover band and there's only me and my spiritual connectivity to the music. No better (mental) feeling in my life.

Don't knock my taste in music either, it works for me.

@Also

Just me throwing this idea out there, but if you've ever been to the Skyrim nexus they have a nice front page showcase of peoples in-game art, I was thinking whoever maintains the website would consider adding something similar to the front page so the community could showcase any art we've recently done instead of making a whole Blog.