Steve Rieck: Now what I want to do is move this if that feels like okay to you, I want you to move down to the 1st fret and this one is going to be pretty adventurous; this is obviously the toughest part in the fret board to actually do this, so we get. So this is now an F chord and it has F C and G. So let's take it clean F#2. What I am going to do is go up to the 2nd fret on the 3rd string and play the 5th upon 5th like this. So that goes A E B, so that makes like a F major 9 with the #11. Definitely a pretty challenging finger stretch there.
So again, if that's tricky, slow down, back off this chord. You don't necessarily have to do that one but I do want you to notice how this pattern which we use for the minor chord, the 2nd grouping of 5th started on the same fret as the original grouping; 5th fret, 7th, 9th then 5th fret, 8th, 10th. So we think of that as the minor pattern, in this case A Minor. This would be the major pattern. So that one the 2nd grouping of 5th starts one fret ahead of where the first grouping started. So that's going to be the major form.
Now if I move it to the 10th fret, you start on D and make the minor pattern, you get D minor 11 and then down to B flat at the 6th fret, for the major. So when A minor, F major, D minor to B flat major. And absolutely before you get started practicing as an entire exercise that's a warm-up I use for the left hand. You know the first thing you want to really do is just work on that little grouping of fist and again, it's sort of arbitrary where you actually start that, could be anywhere and once that's comfortable there, then try to gradually move things down the fret board and I would say that anytime you are having trouble with any kind of finger stretch, it could be a scale or a chord or anything you are playing at all, a lacker scale or chord. Try to play it in the upper position where the frets are going to be more manageable and everything is closer in and as you get confident with it in this upper position, gradually bring it down to the more troublesome areas of the fret board down to the end here where the frets are so wide, it 's hard to make the stretches.
So of course, that little exercise I was playing before is tabbed out at the beginning of this video you can check that out for more details. So that's left hand stretching.
Pierre Bensusan: Hello! My name is Pierre Bensusan. I would like to play for you a tune that I wrote some years ago, it's called the L'Alchimiste and you are going to see also that in order to get there, you want to bend your ring finger towards the 4th fret, on the 3rd bass string but I decide to not bass actually bass with my thumb but with my index.
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