Originally Posted by: damaged...So why does being fast due to competativness or being the fastest make you musicaly better?

It doesn't, it just makes you the fastest! being 'better' is subjective as well. I learned to shred because I wanted to, and because I reasoned that if I could play something at 100mph, I could do it even better at the usual 40mph. Thing is, once you get in to playing fast, it's kinda hard to stop.... at least in my experience...