With speed playing, it all temds to become one big competition, where instead of fully evaluating what really works for us, we tend to get lost somewhere along the way. Speed is a natural ability, which shows us just how comfortable we have become with our instrument. Practice like mad, get your hands on all of your favorite solo parts, learn the inside out, but know enough to rely on yourself instead of the material of others...

You know, when playing the guitar there are so many different rules to follow, and from the very beginning as we try to learn everything the whole experience can be very overwhelming. Its important to realize that everything we learn on guitar we will find someway to use it later on, every little bit counts, and when it comes to speed, its all about confidence, and the only way to build a stroing level of confidence to find our sweet spot. And the way to get to this point is knoiw enough that its okay to bend the rules once in a while, the rules are important to learn, but once you have a firm grasp, feel free to break them in any matter that suits you. Which is the very essence of creativity.

-Joseph, :)