Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.
I have to do so many scenes cooking that I wanted to learn how to chop like I know what I'm doing and do certain things around the kitchen that look right.
I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.
I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.
I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.