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Thanks, Loraine, for your suggestions. Maybe it *is* the cold, it’s 59 degrees in here and I’m playing with my jacket on! I have done most if not all of the jumpstart lessons, and a few of the others. I do play smaller guitars — I have a 3/4 Johnson, which I keep tuned to open D, a Baby Taylor, and my new, go-to guitar, a Zager Parlor electric/acoustic. All of them have reasonable scale and comfortable action. The Taylor was actually too low so I recently had it reset. I’ve done the stretches, but need to revisit them more often.
My biggest handicap is the middle finger; it won’t fold up enough to do some of the barre work-arounds I think should work, and even some of the normal chords, which is why I do a D chord and even the mini F with the “wrong” fingers.
But you are right, stretches and warmups, finger placement and practice!