I actually meant you are more likely to completely lose it and suddenly be flat out on your a** in the middle of playing. Of course hitting a sour note in a slow song is going to reverberate for much longer and have much more impact, but you can technically get back to where you were. What is interesting about this thread is the way everyone says things like "playing with speed and feeling makes guitarists great, like x" and they all name different speedy guitar players. It seems that individual listeners do actually think that particular guitarists play with feeling and speed, even though others can't hear it. Perhaps it is this: it is likely that every guitarist actually puts some sort of feeling in there playing, I just can't believe otherwise. However, with faster players it is harder to hear the feeling; you have to more attuned to it. So that less people think shredders are playing with feeling because they can't hear it despite the fact that others can. WHAT?! It's all in the mind of the listenr? No.....
"Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year, it's just not that widely reported".