Nowadays , almost everybody can insanely shred (and occasionaly play with soul too) after a couple of years of disciplined practice , but when you look in guitar magazines , you find guitarists from rap-metal bands (who probably donno what's the meaning of a triplet) taking credits and making the guitarist of the year here and there.
If you keep playing and practicing for shredding , it's not unique anymore , cuz the day when you play faster than everybody else isn't gonna come , and even if it does , who cares ?
The best you could do then is to be able to find some recording label that's interested to release your solo records , and nu-metal guitarists will still be guitarists of the year.
Find yourself a band with good and promising musical directions that goes well with you , that's the only way to huge success IMHO ... Who knows , may be then you could bring good guitar playing and shredding into life through some kind of pop music.
