Missing the point- Guitar hero shredding vs what to play
Many players when they are beginning, just want to play fast.
There is nothing wrong with this, hey its kind of fun, but playing fast just for the sake of playing fast will get you nowhere, except staying in your moms bedroom.
Seriously, in the world of real professional musicians there are always people that can play fast, but many of them fail to get and keep gigs because they ignored factors other than speed which are actually much more important.
What are those factors?
They are myriad depending on the style of music and the situation, but no matter what the gig is, whether it is your origionals, a big stadium, or the holiday inn, one of the biggest is your TIME. Seriously, you are playing solos maybe 5 percent of the time (10 percent if you are Nigel Tufnel from spinal tap) and the other 90-95 percent of the time you are playing rythm of some sort. You gotta lock with the drums, bass, dj and whoever you are playing with, or it won’t matter one bit that you can play a zillion miles an hour.
Shredding is a lot of fun but is a bit of a trap. I have seen a lot of players on youtube playing amazing things, but they are really not paying attention to what they should play, as opposed to playing some notes fast.
In my book playing something interesting is what I am concentrating on now, although we all have our old habits we fall back into 
So my point is, play something interesting, whether it is slow, medium, or whatever. David Gilmour is not a shredder by any stretch of the imagination, yet he captivates people with sometimes just a few notes. Get the magic. Do it now.
