All language subtitles for 008 Stretching Your Hands.en

Playing guitar does require some strength with both the left hand and right hand, and these are stretches

that I've been doing for years that I really believe in, and I believe they can help you.

I want to first say that I'm not a doctor, I'm not a physical therapist.

Consult your medical professional before you try anything out of your comfort zone.

But these are hand stretches that I do before every single practice session and before every single

recording or performance that I do.

So firstly, I would stretch the wrist like this.

For about 10 seconds.

And I'll speed it up a little for the purpose of demonstration in this video.

Then I'll bend the wrist down like this for about 10 seconds.

And you want to feel a nice, warm stretch, you don't want it to hurt.

And then I'll take the thumb and bend it back.

No one feels really good.

I'll do the same thing with the left hand.

We just mainly stretching the forearms here.

Stretched down.

And it might seem, you know, like a little too much to do this every practice session, but I think

it helps you.

Have a more deliberate practicing approach.

And it helps just loosen up the hands, warm everything up, just give it a good shake.

Make sure the shoulders are relaxed.

Another great stretch is this one.

On the other side, like I said, I'm speeding it up a little for the purpose of the video.

But doing those stretches before a practice session will, you know, really help you in training your

hands to be stronger without introducing tension, because that's that's our goal with technique is

as a little tension is possible, but as much strength and control as as possible.

In the next video, we're going to talk about the the left hand position and then we're going to talk

about the correct right hand position.