Originally Posted by: David PortelliIn general I do not agree with stretching exercises which do not involve playing on the guitar..Greetings Dave,,,nice to meet ya on here,,,,sounds very effective,,,i like the idea of working your way to the lower frets ,,so you get a good warm up by the time you get to the longer stretches,,,,very nice,,,,i like to put the back of the guitar neck(right in the c shape or D shape) right between my fingers,,,,i get a really good pain from it,,,,meaning really effective stretch,,,,but i can never say to many times,,,,DO NOT OVER DO IT,,,,,,it will cause an injury,,,,,well with that said,,,,enjoy,,,,and rock on.
So anything such as:
Placing marbles between fingers
Pulling fingers
Gym like exercises for fingers
Anything in between
Will never enter my practice schedule. That being said there are some effective ways to build a good stretch and they are very simple.
What I have done and this really helped me was to always practice my techniques all over the neck each time I practiced. I would start off on the high frets first and build my way to the lower frets which require more stretching.
This way I had a good warm up before going to the wide stretches and got a varied workout on the neck.
It worked very well and I am pretty proud of my stretch these days :)
/Dave
Ryder