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Strech 7-2
How many of you can strech pull offs from 7th to the 2th fret? For those who can, is it because u have banana hands or did u eventualy strech yours out? I cant do but it quite painful, and i dont consider my self to have small hands. Any advice would be great thanks!
# 1
My farthest stretch is from the 2nd to the 5th. I have small hands though. I can make it to the 6th if I really try, but it hurts to do so...
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# 2
it's definatly possible, but this is one of those things that tapping with your picking hand comes in handy for
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# 3
use your thumb to bar the 2nd fret a la Jake E Lee.
Im trying to learn how to get into and out of this at the moment and it is quite difficult !
But damn it looks flashy !!!
Im trying to learn how to get into and out of this at the moment and it is quite difficult !
But damn it looks flashy !!!
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# 4
I can do it and if you want I can share my secret with you...
If you want to stretch far all you have to do is:
Practice practice practice, as always.
I most certainly didn't have big or flexible hands to begin with, I've stretched them out with alot of practice.
So now I can reach 2nd to 8th fret.
Some people think "what the heck do you need to do that for??".
Well, there isn't alot of songs involving that kind of stretching, but it makes
you pull off the smaller stretches alot easier.
Not that I want to show off, but I have a great stretching exercise in my trick
section that I learned from my teacher a few years ago, The Spider! Check it out:
http://www.guitartricks.com/trick.php?trick_id=7638
If you want to stretch far all you have to do is:
Practice practice practice, as always.
I most certainly didn't have big or flexible hands to begin with, I've stretched them out with alot of practice.
So now I can reach 2nd to 8th fret.
Some people think "what the heck do you need to do that for??".
Well, there isn't alot of songs involving that kind of stretching, but it makes
you pull off the smaller stretches alot easier.
Not that I want to show off, but I have a great stretching exercise in my trick
section that I learned from my teacher a few years ago, The Spider! Check it out:
http://www.guitartricks.com/trick.php?trick_id=7638
# 5
It should hurt a little when you practice stretching, otherwise you won't stretch the fingers out.
# 6
1.Technigque
Listen it boils down to thumb placement behind the neck. If u have ure thumb peeking out from the top of ure neck when ure hitting notes on the High -E- string (granted ure geetar is tuned to standard E) u won't be able to stretch far at all EVER! Now place ure thumb in the middle of the neck - usually theres a kind of lining on the neck but ure thumb should be roughly behind the 3rd and 4th strings (the two middle ones!) now try ure stretches - u should be able to move from the first fret to the 12th with alot less effort
2) TRULY stretching
My cuzzin taught me everything i needed to cover metallica in one summer vacation - one tip he told me to do daily was to
a) stretch the inner lining / webing o ure hands - this is done by u griping the neck aroudn the first fret with ure index and middle finger placed on either ends of the neck - above and below. have the webbing touch the neck it self! hold this for 30 seconds then move it up a fret - wait 30s then cont till u hit the 12th fret. repeat with the other fingers.
b)Then do crazy chromatic patterns up and down the neck not ure standard 1234 3rd grade shannigans but ure 1346 take that pattern all over - then take 1235 allover and then hit 1345 all over. Soon u'll b stretching like pro!
keep it at
Listen it boils down to thumb placement behind the neck. If u have ure thumb peeking out from the top of ure neck when ure hitting notes on the High -E- string (granted ure geetar is tuned to standard E) u won't be able to stretch far at all EVER! Now place ure thumb in the middle of the neck - usually theres a kind of lining on the neck but ure thumb should be roughly behind the 3rd and 4th strings (the two middle ones!) now try ure stretches - u should be able to move from the first fret to the 12th with alot less effort
2) TRULY stretching
My cuzzin taught me everything i needed to cover metallica in one summer vacation - one tip he told me to do daily was to
a) stretch the inner lining / webing o ure hands - this is done by u griping the neck aroudn the first fret with ure index and middle finger placed on either ends of the neck - above and below. have the webbing touch the neck it self! hold this for 30 seconds then move it up a fret - wait 30s then cont till u hit the 12th fret. repeat with the other fingers.
b)Then do crazy chromatic patterns up and down the neck not ure standard 1234 3rd grade shannigans but ure 1346 take that pattern all over - then take 1235 allover and then hit 1345 all over. Soon u'll b stretching like pro!
keep it at
real tyte bro \m/
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