The thing these guys who are playing a thousand notes a minute don't seem to realize is that 1/4 notes, 1/2 notes and whole notes exist for a reason. The same can be said of rest's in those same values.

It seems like they're afraid people will think they lost focus for a split second.

That blizzard of notes they play would be cool if they saved them for the last two or four bars of a solo. To do it incessantly sucks.

It's more like an aural assault than music.

Bob
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