@Paul Bridge That is definitely progress! You’re on a great place on the road….progress from here will be really fun. I’d suggest, as Ben said, noodling over a backing to get that time thing, and to start interacting with the chords. Ben said a blues in A. That’s where I started out, but I found I made more progress as regards my ear and finding melody when I started trying to play over maybe simpler chord progressions. The basic dominant blues is not, I think, strictly diatonic, in that three seventh, or dominant, chords can’t all be in one key. Although we play it as if it’s 1 4 5 with the root of 1 as the key. Also we play that minor third thing against the Maj chord, and micro bend it towards the Maj, but there’s a slight ambiguity? That’s what gives the blues its uneasy vibe….all’s not well. A diatonic progression is, I think, easier to play over, and all the chord tones are in the underlying scale associated with the key. So….I’m going to post a noodle, kind of inspired by you, over a very simple, melodic, diatonic progression in G/Em……relative Maj/min…..same notes. All the chord tones are there although the C is not in the Emin pentatonic being the flat 6th. But it’s a great progression to sound good over if you noodle in Em, resolving to the G note? I’ll post it separately. Hope it is interesting.