[jer]

I woudlnt bite off more than you can chew just yet.

Start with the rhythm parts before exploring leads.

Get some riffs down, hear the leads in your head. When you have a solid rhythm foundation for the song, front to back, then look at the leads.

Its easy to get overwhelmed and not get anything accomplished if you are learning too much at one time.

[shredfreak]

Personally i go for the vocal melodies since the singer always determines what key/tuning you're gonna play in. Since i'm all grunt that's not much of a problem so .

But no, usually i just noodle around untill i find something that's usuable or get an idea and start working that out in guitarpro. I'm one of those people who likes to see where he's going most of the time. Most of the stuff i find usable i tab and after a while i gots me a song, or put them in a riffbox file if they're a dead and at the time being.