Darrell Lance Abbott (Dimebag Darrell) Quotes

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.

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• 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.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
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