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@AnneD. You can try using a capo on the higher frets. That makes the distance much shorter for your fingers to have to reach. Once you master the fretting at capo 5th fret, you would move it down to the 4th fret and try it there. And so on, until you get it cleanly with no capo. I keep my guitar tuned down a whole step (DGCFAD) and play with capo on fret 2 which results in standard tuning but with the capo on 2nd fret it’s so much easier to reach those stretches!! Also lower action and less tension on the strings makes it easier to get clean tones with less pressure/less stress in fretting hand.