So you advocate learning how to play over actual chord changes... just for the sake of it?

If you don't play fast you're wrong

For sake of a question like that ^

If you can play well fast and you can play well slow, aren't you playing either just for the sake of it?

I really hate playing music just for the sake of it, personally.

If the music calls for it, sure. I suppose I could've articulated better. When "fast" is the apparent goal - not the tune, music, idea, or line. Trying to cram in as many notes as possible, as fast as possible as a goal, without regard what those notes are / how they fit in context.

I get what you're saying. I was just joking with you. :)

There's a whole genre built around playing fast for the sake of it. The music definitely calls for it then.

:shycouch: :D

Cliched rhymes. Think early Beatles. "Only" rhymes with "lonely". "You" rhymes with "blue". Et cetera.