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^ More or less agree.
It's impressive to listen to someone play super fast, but that's often irrelevant to how good a song is.
Seems like some guys think the goal of a musician is to be faster than anyone else. There is good music that is also fast, so it's good to be able to play fast, but at some point it reaches a speed where the sound just becomes a blur and you can't really process it. That's not "good music" imho, it's just a guy playing really fast. Also, nowadays you can get a synth to play any speed you want it to, so musicianship has to revolve around more nuanced skills like timing and volume control.
Yngwe Malmstein is my favourite example of super fast but otherwise unimpressive. It's just not music I want to listen to, so after I hear it once I go 'well done', but I don't want to go buy his records.
Eddie van Halen's "Eruption" is another where you kind of go 'aaah, that's fast', but it's not really much of a piece of music in any other way. His "best" songwriting AND guitaring imo are evident on a lot of other songs - Pretty Woman, Ain't Talking 'Bout Love, or Jamie is Crying all spring to mind.
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