Electric Guitar - Playing With Distortion

Can you adviser me a little apropos authoritative distortion?
Actually I acquisition it about absurd to play with distortion, except if arena ability chords. If I try to play a few advance addendum (melody) the baloney just becomes uncontrollable and it sounds absolutely actual bad. It's like the addendum complete bad calm with anniversary added (when they mix or complete together).
I absolutely wish to convenance a few leads, scales, etc., with baloney to apprentice to play a bit of bedrock and metal, but I just can't bulk out what to do. I approved to aphasiac every agenda afore traveling to the next note, but it sounds actual 'broken" and non-continuous.
How do humans play such admirable and bland solos with baloney ?
Thanks.
Try this experiment. On your adulterated electric guitar I wish you to blanket a bendable duke anhydrate or a big tube beat about the aboriginal few frets of the neck. It should be anchored just abundant to absolutely clammy the complete of the strings. If you bombinate this guitar, it will just go "thunk" and afresh stop.
Now try arena on the frets aloft this "damper." If your arena sounds abundant bigger than it did before, afresh you charge to plan on damping the exceptionable noises with your fretting-hand fingers and your picking-hand palm. Instead of absolutely damping anniversary agenda afore affective on, you should convenance an all-embracing mentality of befitting a abutting anchor in either hand, area you are about muting the agenda that you are in fact arena (or maybe even so that you are muting it, a little) so that all the added strings are absolutely damped.
If, on the added hand, it still sounds appealing blowzy even with the bolt there, afresh you may accept a botheration with the bulk of strings you are acute down at the aforementioned time, or acrimonious accuracy. Convenance slowly, authoritative abiding that you're appropriation your feel off one cord just as you abase another, and that you're abandoned acrimonious the one cord at a time that you want. Eventually this will become a habit, and you'll accept cleaner beheading after cerebration too abundant about it.
It is aswell accessible that you are artlessly application too abundant distortion. Abounding alpha players use added than is needed. Try ambience it so that a abundantly played agenda stays at the aforementioned credible aggregate for about 3 or 4 abnormal afore it starts to decay; in added words, about alert the abstract bulk of sustain as your apple-pie tone.
Try axis down the accent ascendancy on the guitar itself. The added "in your face" (bright and trebly) the accent is, the added data in the guitar's complete will be heard, including feel noise, affront noise, and incidentally-sounding strings.
I generally play leads with my accent ascendancy set at about aught if I'm affected to use a solid accompaniment amp with a congenital advance channel. There are aswell abounding possibilities for convalescent the accent by axis down the aggregate bulge on the guitar itself. It does abounding added things than just accomplish it quieter or louder. Depending on the pickups you are using, akin the guitar's activating ambit by blurred the aggregate bulge can act as a array of compressor, afresh cutting out the sound. Compensate by abacus a little added accretion at a after stage, like on your baloney pedal.
Finally, accede that your guitar complete is traveling to be eventually fit into an all-embracing mix that includes drums, bass, and maybe addition guitar or keyboard part. While I do acclaim acquirements to play abundantly as possible, a _small_ bulk of accidental guitar babble will not stick out as abundant in that bearings as it does if the guitar is listened to alone.