[GerryB56]

Interesting questions! I tend to think it’s better to go with what’s comfortable and makes it easiest to play, otherwise I let myself get too frustrated with non progress. But I can see the point of training your fingers to stretch more for future applications. I’ve tried to fret my Em chord the way you describe, Joe, for easy transition to the Am then to the Bm. But my fingers don’t want to cooperate, having always used the middle and ring for the Em. It is useful to have multiple ways of fingering certain positions, for sure.