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Power cords can actually be a really really good tool for certain songs more along the rock genre, but acoustically too. I prefer the two finger power cords versus a three finger. Which is what i# taught by Tony only because it’s easier with my hands and fingers and how small they’ are; much smaller than Tony’s ha ha?
To practice spreading your fingers I was taught to start on the high E, which is called the first string, and go up to say the 7th fret or even further down, such as the 8th or 9th fret. Plant your pinky and keep it on that fret, and then take your ring finger and place it on the fret next to it, lift up your ring finger spread it to the next fret and so on, all the time keeping your pinky down do it. Don’t overdo it, because you can actually hurt yourself. I did that once by stretching and straining to play a Chor that really required acrobatics to play it. I pulled tendons in my arm and stop immediately and ice and rest your hand. I went to an acupuncturist and a to take several months without playing. Never pla6 through pain. , and I was out of commission for months then put down your ring finger on the same thread that your pinky had just been on and do your pinky down the starting you know let’s say you’re on the seventh fret with your ring finger do the pinky on the eighth done the ninth if you can stretch it to the tent and then go back and keeping your ring finger there on the seventh do your middle finger on the U fret lift it up do it on the fifth fret, and just try to get it to stretch as much as possible teach threat and then do the middle finger down and do the same thing with the ring in the pinky going you know down the fretboard and then go back and do your index finger moving up you know on the sixth and the fifth if you can’t the fourth and keep doing it and you’re stretching the width of your fingers and then what’s gonna happen as they will get more flexible then you will be able to move further up the neck and stretch it a little bit more doing the same process on a fifth fret you know when that eventually on the third. Just keep at it. You’ll be surprised one day to realize that your finger stretched so much further than you ever thought possible I still have difficult times with certain cords and there are ways to modify them to where you can still play them but possibly not with all the single notes in that cord or there’s another fret that you can make the same cord on that’s different. You’ll learn that just as you move through your guitar journey.
Good luck and keep us posted on how you’re doing.