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Hi @old_salt and welcome to TAC. I saw a YouTube video regarding how much finger pressure is needed to fret a clean note. An exercise was suggested to put your finder on a string and apply only the pressure that actually fully mutes the string and pluck the string. Then apply very small increments of pressure and repeat the exercise until you hear a clean note. Once you are able to produce a clean note, that is the pressure needed.! The amount of pressure is very small compared to the “vice grip” l put on the strings 😂. This person also indicated that too much pressure when repositioning the fingers will make the scraping sound on wound strings. Here is the video link
https://youtu.be/1c15JWPx6JA?list=PLho65cYn4nF1FXo8IWbKUb9_k0pMhgbtr
Thanks to @N-lightMike first shared the video link!
Have fun and keep playing guitar 😎🎶🎸