1. Introductions

A Musician works is more alike to a painter. Both trying to create an atmosphere, a feeling for his/her audiences. When a painter trying to decide "Which color must i use now ?" then a musician is trying to decide "What/ which instruments/sounds must i use now ?"
A shape to a painter is the chord progressions to a musician. A texture to a painter is the notes for a musician.
You have to rely on your feelings for this one, Don't try to imitate others, just be yourself, Pump Up your self esteem !
When you're planning to play (for instance) Eric Clapton's song on a gig, do not try to play his solos exactly note for note as it was heard in his records, instead try to grab the feelings, the atmosphere that was carried by the songs. Even better, try to write your own guitar solos that you think match the song ( who knows it could turn up better than Clapton's ha.. ha.. ha..)
On creating a basic guitar melody/parts in a song, you must know the three basic rules.

1. Which part in a song is the climax ( give it everything you've got )
2. Which part in a song is the anti-climax ( lower-down that anger )
3. Which part in a song is the basic verse ( try to keep it simple )

Sometimes a song doesn't contains all of the three elements, sometimes the song is just plain and simple, then your playing must match the song's ambience (keep it simple too).
In this lesson, i will give you some example on melodic phrasing, and what it's contributes to a song.
I wil try to avoid the musical terms for this lesson ( E Dorian mode on A7#9#11 Chord ) just strap on your guitar, turn the amp on, read the tablature, listen to the samples and follow your feelings.
 

Here are some books that we strongly recommend:

1001 Guitar Tips and Tricks 

Guitar for Dummies (For Dummies) 

The "First Stage" Guitar Book - Learn How To Play
Guitar Easily & Quickly! 

Basic Instructor Guitar 

Beginning Classroom Guitar : A Musician's
Approach 

80S & '90s Rock : Melody Line, Chords and Lyrics
for Keyboard, Guitar, Vocal (Paperback Songs) 

The Art of Contemporary Travis Picking

2. Triplets and Eight-notes

Before we go any further, i want to to introduce you to the difference between the Triplets and eight notes. Just follow these lessons. Hear the differrence between these two examples.

Example 1

Example 2

On example 1, it just a plain eight-notes melodies. On example 2, i add a bit of triplets to make the phrasing a more syncopated feel and making it more Alive !
 
 

3. Double Stop

The Double Stop are a technique of playing two or more notes on adjacent string to give a more tension, strong character to a part of a lick. Double stop usually add the fifth or the third or minor third from the root note on the currently applied scale.
Here's an example :

Notice that the note in red is the double stop. It give more thick sound to the licks and it can also be employed as half - solo half - rhytm guitar playing, check out Mark Knopfler of the Dire Straits guitar playing to see some wonderful examples of the double stop.
 

4. Blues Styles Phrasing.

 
Let me introduce you to a simple Blues Licks.
Notice that there are some off-beat notes.

Listen to the blues, feel the sadness ?
Translated : I'm sad then the anger came because of the sadness and it ends with a confusion (not resolved).
Most of blues melodies (not all) contains those three parts :

1. Sadness
   
2. Anger
   
3. Confusion / doubt
   

Lets take a closer look: