Hey, first off, this site kicks ass.

Second, I'm completely new so I want to make sure I don't develop any bad habits.

I'm trying to make sure not to palm the neck and come straight down with my fingers but I'm still getting use to it.

When I play, I tend to always look at the strings I'm picking. Is this good or bad? Should I not look at anything or at fingering the notes?

When I look at the notes I need to play it seems to slow me down. If I don't look at the strings I miss them sometimes. Will I start getting muscle memory on where the strings are?

I'm working on the scales right now. I'm still kinda confused on how to incoporate those into the tabs an such but I JUST started playing electric like 2 days ago and played a little acoustic with no formal training before that.

I figure I'll just get it to where I can run up and down the scales real well without making almost any mistakes then I can start messing with them. It's the mechanical way, I know, but you can't improvise stuff you don't know.

Thanks for the help and I hope I have this in the right place.