Originally Posted by: Hjorvard I am not able to play a clean and fluent single note tremolo riff as is expected of extreme (more precisely death) metal.

Who ever said that metal has to be constrained to what other people expect? The whole point of most progressive metal is to NOT conform to what other people expect. Have you ever thought of may be using your inability to do certain things as a bridge to doing things other people would never think of doing because they can do what is expected??

Think outside the box.. this is music.