[BarbaraM]

I think I get what you are describing, basically pulling the fleshy part down and flat sort of? That sort of does work, but stretching my middle finger over to the low E string third fret brings it up again. And I have a small guitar! I do have one with a skinnier neck, but then I run into muting strings adjacent to the one I’m fretting, so I only use that for the one open D tuning challenge Tony has.