Final call, removing it in a couple of hours.

@Keshav Jugran Building your technique by only learning songs and solos is not the most effective way, in my opinion. The biggest reason is that you will most likely end up with a very lopsided technique, and it will be harder to move on to other things depending on what you have already been working on. For example, if you work on a lot of pentatonic alternate picking and then try to move into three notes per string later, you might find that combinations like 1–2, 2–3, and 3–4 are very challenging. In pentatonics you are mostly using 1–3, 1–4, and sometimes 2–4, so many finger combinations are never trained. This is also why you see a lot of players struggle with using the pinky. They tend to choose the easiest fingering available and over time their technique becomes unbalanced. Because of that, I prefer a combination approach. Even 15 to 30 minutes a day of more systematic technique work can be enough to build a balanced foundation. After that you can spend the rest of your practice time working on licks and solos if you want. Another drawback with only practicing licks and solos is that you will be very tempted to play them up to speed before you are ready. With exercises this is less of a problem. They usually do not sound impressive anyway, so you can focus entirely on the technical details and play them at whatever tempo allows you to execute everything correctly. That means you get more out of the practice and you are less likely to push the speed too early. Once that habit starts, it tends to affect your entire technique, not just the lick you are practicing. I am not saying it cannot work to only learn songs and solos. But it can make things more complicated, and it is very easy to end up with a lopsided technique. That is when you run into the frustrating situation where you can play one difficult solo but another one at a similar speed feels impossible. On paper they might seem equally fast or technical, but because your technique developed unevenly, one works and the other does not.

@Raphael Reekers Hey Raphael, a few things based on the clip. 1) I wouldn't plant the index finger like that. It might feel like you're saving time but it actually creates tension in the fretting hand and breaks the 1-to-1 relationship between your hands. One pick stroke, one finger movement. When that relationship breaks down, synchronization suffers. 2) It looks like you're pressing quite hard with the fretting hand. Would you say that's fair? 3) The sync is a bit off. Slow the video down if you're not sure what I mean. It's not completely off but you could get it much cleaner. Start with the Daily Speed Builder in the Classroom. It addresses all three of these directly. Do it for a week and come back and let me know what you notice.