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If you learned how to read music early on I would recommend getting Julio Sagrera's first 2 classical guitar books. It will strengthen your reading and help you develop that area of playing.
My own personal experience: In junior high (way back when) I first heard Yngwie I became obsessed by that type of technique. Because I was so burnt on Rush, Zepplin, VH, etc all I listened to was that Neoclassical fusion. (Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine, Paul Gilbert- 2 of my still favorites Marty Friedman and Jason Becker) plus Al Dimeola and a few Jazz Fusion players. Anyway I practiced alternate picking, sweeps, and the fret hand hammer ons for about 5-6 hours a day. About 2 of that was spent using a steel string acoustic. To make a long story short; it eventually seemed like I was working out then playing music, so that "playing form the heart" may have suffered; but technically the results were amazing.
That's probably my own personal experience though. My overall advice is to develop you ear training (aural perception) and further develop your technical chops. I understand that to some that kind of playing sounds too mathematical but having that type of clean technique opens the pathways to multiple areas that may have not been developed otherwise.
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.- Stephen Hawking
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