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Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink
Nice guitars in this thread - I won't upgrade until my skills improve.....left hand is still cramped from yesterday's session where I tried to do the Carlos Santana intro to Black Magic Woman, the stretch to do the multiple "way up the neck" octave slides in the beginning - was my downfall. There are "workarounds" to that part and I may have to look into them.
The man switched modes and scales like nobody's business.
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I'm going to bet it's your wrist position that is causing cramps and limiting your reach. Octaves are four frets apart (or three depending on which strings). If you are getting cramps - it's 100% certain that your wrist/hand position is wrong.