Originally Posted by: hunter1801I have no medical conditions....and I still know I will never be able to play like some of the people I look up to. It irritates me, but at the same time I know that I will still enjoy playing the guitar as much as ever, even if I'm not the next Vai or Malmsteen.

Yeah I know what you mean. If speed is not something I can vastly improve upon, I'm sure I can adapt. It is great inspiration knowing that the man who invented sweeping only had two working fingers on his fret hand. Then there is another guitarist (whose name I can't recall) whos hands are stricken with an illness in which his fingers curl up, yet he has adapted, and even further still there is Jason becker who is perhaps the greatest inspiration of all as he hasn't given up hope and he is far worse off than I.