Any guitarists out there?

Heyo. 
 
Been playing the electric guitar for over 3 years (September 3rd, 2006), i never took a single lesson. I'm not interested in having a musical background and knowing notes or writing music... 
 The only thing im interested in is playing my favorite rock/metal songs on guitar. And i managed to learn and master, well, over... 2000 songs maybe? who's counting ..  
 
P.S. during the... lazy depressed year i had, i didnt touch the guitar and i got kinda rusty.. never practiced as much as i should. 
 

 
@SteveMason99:

What do you mean by intermediate level? 
 
I've been playing guitar for 2-3 years now. Didn't really get serious still recently. I think I'm okay; I can't do any crazy solos or anything, but I'm not bad.

" Check out the album Damnation, it's full of songs that will get you chicks backstage. "

" And wow... that guitar is the same one I have :P "

" @Ahmad_Metallic: I have that same exact guitar. "

@natetodamax said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic: I have that same exact guitar. "

" @SteveMason99: Opeth has a ton of fun songs to play. Sometimes it's a little tough to work out what is what because so much is going on, and there is more than one guitar playing on virtually every song. They're my second favorite band next to TOOL.  Check out the album Damnation, it's full of songs that will get you chicks backstage. "

" @SteveMason99 said:

" And wow... that guitar is the same one I have :P "

@natetodamax said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic: I have that same exact guitar. "

 I'm not an expert, but im positive that there are several Fender Stratocaster brands and they all look alike. Mine is, and im not ashamed to say, the cheapest Strat brand "Squier". Check the back on yours and tell me what brand it is. "

ive been playing around 11 yrs or so my honest to god recommendation it to learn some basic cannibal corpse to get your speed up trust me on this it will help in the long run

" Mine is a Sunburst Squire. I'm telling you, it's the same thing as yours. "

" ive been playing around 11 yrs or so my honest to god recommendation it to learn some basic cannibal corpse to get your speed up trust me on this it will help in the long run "

my one band corpulate is more like technical brutal grind if your into that www.myspace.com/corpulate

It's all about the music your into. Learn some scales and modes(ie: major scales, minor scales). It's great practice material and will greatly improve your guitar playing. As for myself, I like metal and blues so I practice some diminished scales(evil sounding) and I youtube some blues backing tracks in different keys and just improv to them.

 
My pics dont work,but mine is a sunburst Les Paul fake from China.

I've been playing for 10 years or so. Song wise you really just have to find songs you like. By too hard do you mean the song's have crazy solo's that you would never be able to play? I would say instead of moving on to harder songs, if you can't figure songs out by ear yet, try doing that. That will make you a lot better, even if it takes you all day to figure out half a song. 
 
Back when I was around your level I tought myself a bunch of As I lay Dying songs - 94 Hours and Elegy off Frail Words Collapse. They sound harder than they actually are.
 
I guess I'll show off one of my guitars too lol. American Tele Deluxe.

I've been playing for about 4-5 years, I own a Dean Soltero Standard which is pretty much Dean Guitar's version of a Les Paul

i've been playing for 5-6 years now, and im still not very good.
 
i'm not much of a help to get over this roadblock but what i did was learn all my scales and theory until it wasnt even a second thought.
It gives people the impression that your better than you are because you can just freestyle a song and have it sound really good without much effort.
 
your best bet for speed/difficulty is some shred metal, but i cant stand that stuff :)

Personally when I was stuck for something to learn I always looked to the classics. Hendrix, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne. The first songs I learned that I'd class as intermediate were probably Sultans of Swing and Sweet Home Alabama.  
 
PS3RG is right about scales. Even if you only spend 10 minutes a day on them, it'll be worth it. Practicing scales and improvising over a backing track will improve your musicality and timing more than just learning new songs all the time.

Been playing since I was 8, so 12 years now.

Dude if it's to hard then keep at it.  No one has ever said that playing and picking it up would be easy.  My thing is when I learn a song I don't care how hard it is as long as I like it and it keeps me coming back.   I have a blue Ibanez GSA60 with a ten watt pratice amp by Ibanez as well

Yes

" my one band corpulate is more like technical brutal grind if your into that www.myspace.com/corpulate "