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Left Hand Stretches
Left Hand Stretches
The Left hand fingers will often need to stretch beyond the natural 4 frets span. When this happens, it is necessary to use the whole playing apparatus in order to carry on the task using more powerful and more adapt muscle groups. Leaving all the work to the fingers alone will augment the risk of mistakes and the mount up of muscular fatigue. Larger muscle groups achieve greater precision with greater ease. The exercise I perform in the video is from the opening stretch in Recuerdos de la Alhambra.
Notice how the elbow comes closer to theside of the body and to the front as more stretching is required for finger 1 to reach the notes in the second and third fret. Read the Complete article on Abel Carlevaro technique and the way to approach the work of the left hand here →
