Guitar Finger Stretching Warmup – “The Rack”

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.

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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