mad chops

Extraordinary skills when playing a musical instrument, particularly guitar or drums. Also used to describe extraordinary skills with software (e.g. "mad Illustrator chops"), programming or acting, or any other activity where someone demonstrates an extreme level of proficiency, rarely attained by mere mortals.

They are three local kids with mad chops, no fluff, and never a dull moment.

Jazz is full of cats with mad chops, so the question becomes, what have you got besides technical ecstasy?

Victor Wooten's got mad chops.

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