Guitar Finger Stretching Warmup – “The Rack”

  • Monday, February 9, 2009, 10:01
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Following is one of the most diabolical warm-up drills I know on the guitar. It is designed lengthen the stretch between each fret-hand finger and improve your finger position. I call it ‘The Rack’ after the medieval torture device that would stretch people into unnatural proportions! Hopefully performing this exercise will be one of those ‘hurts so good’ moments.

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Not mentioned in the video is that you should sustain all notes to maximize the effectiveness (and difficulty!) of this exercise.

I would suggest doing some simpler warm-up exercises like “The Spider” before attempting this exercise. But when you want to get in a killer fret-hand workout, come back to ‘The Rack’!

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3 Comments on “Guitar Finger Stretching Warmup – “The Rack””

  • Mike wrote on 10 February, 2009, 23:57

    I like it! I like how this exercise gets progressively more difficult as you move down the neck. Seems like it might be a good idea to do the exercise with different string-finger mappings as well (e.g., index finger on string 4 and pinky on string 1 rather than the other way around).
  • jasim wrote on 4 August, 2010, 16:37

    My 4th finger won’t reach :(

  • Chucky wrote on 12 August, 2010, 3:42

    where I can see full tab?
    can you send to me on e-mail?

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