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There can be far too much emphasis on technical wankery....there's no point in using a stupid-amount-of-notes-per-second (even past the point of people being able to distinguish each note). Songwriting is whats important imo, technical ability is a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. In fact I think you find people are more creative when they have no idea what they're doing...

I've done the whole thing of playing Satriani, Vai, Michael Angelo, Malmsteen etc etc and its largely pointless (though Satriani tends to be a notable exception...sometimes) because the emphasis is on showing off not songwriting.

To think you're better than someone because you know more theory or can play more notes per second is ignorant and pointless. There are players that can say more with a single note than the aforementioned shredders can in an album.