How To Reach BIG Stretches On The Guitar (with 1 simple exercise)

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Download the free tabs / sheet music for the Stretch Exercise here: www.beyondtheguitar.com/stretch

[@giri8081]

The chilled but skilled guitar teacher we always wanted! Thank you ⭐

[@rgreigjazzguitar]

I love stretchy chords! I don't love them because they look cool but because they open the guitar to more pianistic like voicings. Jazz guitarists John Stowell and Randy Vincent got me into these type of stretchy chords. Thanks for sharing this great exercise.

[@andytheindividual3862]

He's hitting those notes with ease.. MENACINGLY!

[@AaronWillmon]

I thought this exercise was going yo be easy but it was not. That’s good. It will give me something to work on.

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

yeah getting all the way down to the first fret is pretty tough!

[@Gaurananda108]

A lot of nice tips, and clear explanation. I'm an electric guitar player, I'll adapt this to my routine, thanks a lot !

[@soundofbeers]

Wow, moving my index finger the first time was unexpectedly hard. Middle finger being even worse. Thank you for this exercise, I expect it to help a lot!

[@SHADOWNS27]

I can't even walk from fret 9 to fret 8. Wtf😂

[@jazzk.6154]

Anchor first, then stretch... Life saving tip. little Nathan vs Professor, hope to see more of that 😂

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Takes some work to make it smooth, but it makes all the difference. Haha glad you enjoyed story time

[@ir2539]

This is called quality content

[@haydenhansen1515]

Goodness, these past few videos have been the only guitar tutorials that have made me laugh

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

gotta sprinkle in some comedic relief to keep you guys on your toes :)

[@alexandretorturela2938]

Very helpful lesson, as always! Very interesting when you say "weight instead of pressure". Thank you!

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

You're very welcome, Alexandre. Hope it helps!

[@hugoheintz]

This video felt like it was over in one minute, time flies when you’re having fun ;)

[@antoilene]

Thanks for this. I have started playing the classic Spanish Romance and at theme 2 I couldn't make those stretches. So I found this video and I will be adding the excercise to my daily practise. I cannot wait to be able to okay this song flawlessly 😊

[@davidcook3795]

I laughed outloud at the intro and the mock lesson with "little" Nathan. I like the blend of humor and practical help.

[@manuelfranco102]

Oh mann, this video is both: funny and useful, perfect mix :0

[@robertz1962]

SIMPLY AMAZING!!!!!!!!! I can’t thank you enough. Just found your channel & subscribed immediately! Simple, effective & on point. Love your style and the way you explain a guitar technique. I am so sure these exercises will work that I added these to my daily routine!

[@michal.morawski91]

Another video after the LOTR arrangement - just 3 days ago! Really appreciate that!

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

working hard over here for you guys ;)

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

What's a piece you've played or arranged that has a massive stretch that still haunts you to this day?? Leave me a comment!

[@AcousticOST]

My arrangement of Isabella’s Lullaby has some brutal stretches! I had to throw a capo on there just to be barely able to reach it. Loving the sideways hat for college Nathan btw😂😂😂

Well, I'm currently practicing Asturias from Isaac Albeniz, and there's this C chord, during the tremolo part that is just way too hard for me to get right now, I hope this exercice helps !

[@TokyoShizu]

Yamashita's arr. of the Chaconne keeps the horrendous stretch from Segovia's transcription, unfortunately for my left hand. And sassy Sam Griffin throws some weird left hand killers into a whole bunch of his arrangements 😂

[@Jasper_the_Cat]

Guinga has some stretchy stuff, e.g. in 'Desacompanhado' there's a stretch with 2 frets between the 3rd and 4th finger with the ring finger on the 4th string 6th fret, and the pinky on the 5th string 9th fret. Only way I can get it is moving my wrist out and angling my wrist/hand so my index, middle, and ring are angled towards the headstock, and with the thumb at the bottom tip of the fretboard.

[@pawneesiux8741]

Your exercises are very very very a propedeutical

[@SparklingDracs]

really helpful video and appreciate that it gave me a good giggle

[@softglow0922]

I am loving your channel. I wish I'd had your videos 15 years ago!

[@garfieldnate]

Thanks for the exercise!

[@Nich0tep]

difficult, but good.. practical exercise

[@joannefleet5546]

Wow! This may help . Thanks

[@AndorSolymos]

Man! You are a pro and so funny! Thank you! Thank you so much for your professional and high quality contents!

[@julieagm1224]

OMG - this was SOOOO helpful!!! Thank you!

[@wiredambient]

Thanks for these tips. I've been struggling with the Villa Lobos etude No1 on the E chord with the added G sharp on the bass string (bar 6). If you have any special advice on this I would love to hear it!

[@DorothyOzmaLover]

Such helpful instruction about setting up fingers is a specific order in order to play several frets closer to the nut and it sounds pretty!

[@hadriscus]

Just the right dose of weird lmao. Loved it, let your tone free -if you have other ideas like these, all the better. And thanks for the tip : big stretches are my number one hindrance to some pieces, half of which are your arrangements.

[@swaroov9236]

I did this years ago,it's beneficial to your left hand

[@nickbufalinoacoustic]

Great video! The intro section of “The Space for This” by Cynic has a brutal stretch in it.

[@thatoneguy6469]

The first chord to polly always kills my fingers, I despise that chord but it sounds so good

[@fhulkster]

great stretching execise, thanks for sharing it :)

[@ruslannikolenko9469]

Regreting to not be able to hit the Like one more time.. Just for the "Little Nathan" :D

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

😅

[@jazzk.6154]

agree

[@cristoopa6329]

Thanks

[@MrRony-up6el]

Thank you for this lesson sir. Please make a video on bar chords. I can't manage to sound all.stringa.. it is always muted.

[@theflamboyantmirrormen4021]

Thank you for this great tip

[@leninmorales9015]

Gracias por compartir tan buen contenido, saludos desde Ecuador y te deseo muchos éxitos

[@bernardogarcia1814]

Wow Great exercise, great lesson 👏👏

[@himynameisfin]

I purchased your TLOU2 melody thinking it wouldn't be too bad coming back after a decade hiatus from really playing. Having a moderate level of playing prior I thought it would be fairly doable as it's mostly lower on the board, but realise it's still harder than I thought to get some of those stretches. Also I could be wrong but the tab didn't indicate which chords I should be learning / using so I was maybe not using the most practical chords while doing it. Anyway, I decided to search up how to do stretches and yours was the first video that came up, so thanks for that. Now that I'm past that intro (bit of a departure from your soulfull playing) I will absolutely try this and check out your other tutorials, so thanks for that. You probably aren't going to see this on a year old video, but if you do. Would you recommend learning Aeirths or Tifas theme first as the easier option? I'm assuming Tifas as I'm not sure what the technique you use on Aeirths that is fairly fast sounding, but it looks complex. Tifas has some pretty tough high parts near the start though which I really struggle with. I've never tried fingerstyle before but it's a dream to be able to play these.

[@ruslannikolenko9469]

I'll definitely try it when reach my guitar :) And one more thing, say "Alex", I like his editing :D I suppose it was him, who edited your face too :D Keep it, I like.

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Alex and his editing wizardry messing up my face...

[@RunonMusic]

I swear it was just my computer glitching out...i take responsibility for nothing

[@sergiomaresmartinez7665]

hope leaves by Opeth! this song has a very wide chord and I can do it pretty well, but can do it better and with less tension. so I'll work with this exercise and see if it helps me to improve! thanks dude, great video

[@dcdc1509]

Mate that is brutal..i am going to do this everyday..

[@claramercier7924]

I used to think my fingers simply weren't long enough. Then my teacher would show it to me in such a casual seemingly easy way. His hands were little as well so it was effective in showing me it's actually doable. Thanks for the tips and for making me laugh :)

[@yossephgetnet367]

Wish could give u more likes

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

1 is enough, although shares are always helpful too ;) appreciate you being here!

[@claramercier7924]

bold of you to assume I have a practice routine o: Working on it right now though

[@estebannolla3291]

I needed this for the Concerning hobbits tab!! Any chance you're doing a pizzicato one? XD Thanks, love both your music and instructional videos

[@PotatoeChews]

Im getting pretty bad pain in the fretting hand thumb, any advice?

[@ezcawi]

"Too weird" - I say not weird enough

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Mah mannnnn

[@saklain3543]

U r very underrated

[@monizap6000]

thanks now i can stretch 11 to 6 on the killing road solo

[@yoboopanda3019]

I can’t even stop my pinky from hitting the other notes yet! Should I keep practicing this or what!?!?

[@keychange6231]

Once I move my index finger to the next fret, I can’t even get the notes to ring out anymore. Also, when I move the index finger, the rest of my fingers slide involuntarily. And also, this really hurts my wrists. Any tips to avoid these 3 problems?

[@Tattoo_Noobie]

Whats the name of the song u playing in the example please?

[@leah.4783]

Hi, I'm new to guitar. Is fretboard freedom completly free? And what do I learn from it? And what can I do to improve my own fingerstyle arrangements?

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Yes, completely free. It teaches you how to build any chord anywhere on the fretboard - which helps you improve your fingerstyle arrangements by giving you the freedom to accompany your melodies with different chord voicings no matter where the melody travels across the neck, rather than being stuck having to rely on the chord shapes you've just memorized

[@leah.4783]

Great. Thank you

[@alewis7041]

i cant even do the first chord though

[@yugihsu537]

when i try to reach out to neck with this exercise, i try to pull down my arm and found my fingers are tight, and my thumb could hardly stick to the back of the guitar neck...

[@DrJ5485]

Kewlio. Thank you bro! Love your vids

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

glad you enjoy them!

[@swaroov9236]

Fret 1-6 hammer on,is it possible

[@yoboopanda3019]

What if I can’t even do the beginning part!! I’m also practicing on a 12 string..

[@FrancoDLF]

Hellow man . nice video! thnx . and i wanna say somthing about your ring , be carefull because the ring is to short . need to take care in this finger . change the ring or use in the neclage . i dont wanna be disrespecfull . again . thnx for this tips so usefull. hellow from arg

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Haha ok okkkk so I gained a few pounds since I got married... I'll be ok 😅

[@FrancoDLF]

@@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy gratz man . Anda the pounds it's no problem . But only telo You because You know the fingers si si important for the guitarrist . Jaja . Again . Thnx for all your videos ! You have a Lot of very Nice videos !

[@baoanhjvcuocsongviet-nhat9041]

like this a song

[@Kazapo78]

I can't do the first position.

[@flod1689]

Im over here trying to play his kung fu panda cover and my hand feels very weird when going into the high notes. Can you give some advise for the high end of the guitar neck? 😅🙂

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

Are you playing with a footstool or some type of support? It's really important to have the neck elevated at an angle when you're trying to reach those high notes

[@flod1689]

@@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy yes i recently switched to the classical position and i am indeed using a footstool. Should i take my thumb with me all the time?

[@hadriscus]

I will try to go through this but damn I can see the pain from here

[@GuitarFable]

haha that was funny :) Great video

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

thanks yannick!

[@matias3036]

I've got a problem separating my middle and ring fingers... Maybe because of my fingers' shape 😅. Hope this helps, thanks and greetings from Argentina!

[@BeyondTheGuitarAcademy]

That's naturally pretty challenging because they have shared tendons. This exercise definitely helps increase their independence

[@TheBiggerDavo]

Owww!

[@wilder7bc]

the 12,11,10, 9 check... 12,11.10, 8 check... 12,11, 9, 8 Oh crap... "Delta one command we are having problems"... 12, 10, 9, 8 .... OMG I cannot hardly do it trying to focus on weight not strain but its almost impossible for me to do moving that third finger while keeping that pinky there. I can do it but but pinky is pulled from center of its fret on 12 to edge of the its beginning fret on 12. This is with alot of focus and very slow even. It seems the movement of those fingers more than the stretch is what is killing me I mean I have huge hands if I anchor on my first finger I can reach with pinky up to 5th no strain at all. Then with some strain but not bad I can reach 6th fret with pinky on Taylor 214 CE acoustic that I own. So it seems to be control and movement as I can shift hand and get all those positions easily but to do like in video I really cannot do it worth crap. should I just stay there and practice that some each day? 2-5 mins once or twice a day(morning evening perhaps)?

[@DatingDilemmaBreakdown]

Love your channel cuz I'm a masochist. Ouch!

[@jonathanpozos]

Here when 654 views

[@roscmon]

This exercise makes me feel like I should give up. I can't even get my index finger to move to the next fret from the starting position. I can't even take the first step. It's so depressing. I'm trying to find a way to spend my time so I can find some kind of pleasure in living. And I can't even get my first finger to make the first move.

[@KB4JC116]

Him: 😏🎸 *Me clicking like multiple times to see the 1k to 1.1k trsnsition*

[@thepierre396]

Damn this is hard, can't move the ring finger to save my life lol

[@paulysguitarjournal]

Yeah! That was creepy.

[@jonathanpozos]

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[@alexstewart8097]

Nathan no more hot dogging to then go publicly blaming your graduate school failures on Aelx . Is that his his name though , really? . Let him edit this too. Lol.