Reach MORE Frets Instantly Using this SIMPLE Trick (any hand size)

0:00 if you think your hands are too small to properly play guitar think again because i'm going to show you some tricks that'll get your hands stretching across that fretboard real quick let me tell you about how i personally struggled with this same problem when i was early on playing guitar i couldn't stretch beyond just these four frets right here that was as far as i could physically go at the time and i thought that was it those are just the cards i was dealt these are the hands i was born with i could never hope to stretch beyond those four frets i'm going to show you a super handy little exercise handy get it that's gonna build the elasticity in your hand to give it the stretchy stretchy right ability that it needs to span across more frets than you otherwise could do so what we're going to be doing here is with our first finger on the fifth fret of the high e string we're going to just

0:45 fret that right then our pinky is going to reach over to the eighth fret of the high e string and let's just say this is our current physical limit right let's say we can't stretch more than this right now okay so this is going to be our starting point now what's important is your thumb placement here too so you want your thumb to be on the back of the neck like that you don't want it to be like this right because it's going to severely hinder your range of motion you want your thumb you want your hand almost to be hanging off the neck of the guitar like a sloth on a tree right you want to have a lot of space here between the fretboard right or the neck of your guitar and your palm because again this is all about giving yourself more range of motion to work with right so that's

1:31 very important make sure you maintain that throughout this entire exercise so what we're going to do is we're starting off between the 5th fret and the 8th fret we're not going to be using our picking hand you know this is purely a physical exercise for our fretting hand just do this you can mute the strings if you want to it's not about sounding out the string or making any kind of sustain happen we are just going to be hammering on and pulling off between our first finger and our pinky here and what we're going to do next is we're going to gradually walk our way up to the next fret now what i mean gradually as in you can even walk across the fret wire to get there you don't have to go straight from the fret to the next fret make it gradual because even when you reach your limit for whatever your limit of the day is

2:16 right even if you're just hammering away at the actual fret wire that's okay every little bit of progress we're able to make is important so once you find yourself stretching across one fret let's say for your first time you're able to gain one fret that's awesome right you don't have to put too much pressure on yourself and gain you know two or three frets your first time but if you want to keep going after you're doing that you can gradually walk your way up another fret remember you can walk your way through to it right so it's like you're you're just kind of like trekking across the fretboard here you don't have to worry about skipping the actual fret wire and moving on to the next fret right because let's say your absolute limit is you know you're just hammering away

3:03 right on the 12th fret wire here right with your pinky that's okay that counts because again this is about building elasticity in your hand you build elasticity you build range of motion and even the little things like switching cords and navigating through scales and stuff is all going to come easier to you one additional thing you can do to give yourself even more reachability is to sit with your guitar classical style so that your guitar is essentially between your legs in your lap with the fretboard and your neck angled upwards right this actually does help with stretchability and if you think about classical guitar players they're generally dealing with wider necks you know there's more space between the notes so their hands really have to do lots of crazy stretches in order to you know comfortably reach the

3:50 kind of things that they want to play right so sitting in this position is a lot more accessible for your hands as opposed to this position right so that's another thing you can do you can bring it up here like this and you can practice that exercise and you may immediately notice a difference in how much more comfortable it feels to be able to stretch your hand right so when you're practicing this exercise remember you you want to almost think of it like uh like when you're growing up you know and you're you're drawing a line with crayon you know on the wall at home being like oh i've grown an inch today right and then you try again in a couple weeks and you're like oh i've grown even more right it's kind of the same idea you're just gradually finding that little bit of extra you know distance that your hand's able to go and

4:35 you make note of that and then you try the next day or the next week or however long the progress takes it you know it really doesn't matter what matters is every day you're stretching your hand out just a little bit more okay you're gonna find that the actual physical limit of your hand is a lot more than you previously thought so if you previously thought you couldn't span across more than four frets the truth is your hand does have the capability to go even further even if it's just further by one fret right the truth is this is this is exactly what i discovered you know in myself that i'm imparting into you right now is that it doesn't matter you know how limited you think you are you just put a little bit of elbow grease in there and work gradually over time you're going to make some pretty big gains so now that you know this simple but

5:20 powerful new exercise i want you to do this every day whether it's part of your official practice routine or not as you saw it doesn't really require much you can do this while you're sitting on the couch watching tv with your spouse just got your guitar in your lap and you're just just doing this right you don't you don't even have to make noise you can just sit there and just lightly tap at your fretboard as you're stretching your hand out it definitely won't be louder than the tv i hope right and you know it may not seem like much but you're actually making big gains in the stretchability of your fretting hand but speaking of practice routines you know that i'm a big fan of getting big results in small amounts of time which is why i gotta give you something it's a free practice session cheat sheet this is gonna show you exactly what you need to do to get the maximum results in

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