Where To Go From Here?

Hi everyone. I'm new to GMC since about a week now.

I used to play guitar constantly (a few hours every day) from 12 years old to about 18 years old. Then I'm not sure what happened but I lost interest. I still kept playing once every few months...but hardly worth mentioning. I'm now 27 I wanted to start practicing regularly again. So I went and bought a new guitar and amp, signed up to GMC and here I am.

Since I've signed up I've practiced a few lessons here and there. Some I found easy and some difficult. It seems like most rhythm based lessons come real easy to me...but it's not so with the solo/lead based lessons.

It seems like I can remember the rhythm lessons easier. Whereas if I practice a lead based lesson which let's say is broken down into 5 steps...by the time I get to step 5 I have no clue what step 1 was. I never have a clue to where the following notes are going...whereas with rhythm it just comes naturally. I there a way to get around this? Or am I sounding crazy?