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Thank you to everyone for your replies — @Skyman, @petelanger, @Aservire and @jorgemai. And a very big thank you to @Loraine for your incredibly helpful suggestions and informative video. That was awesome!
As you mentioned, the TAC family on this forum really is fantastic. I don’t usually reach out in forums for online classes, so this has been a really positive experience.
I actually found the stretching course in the TAC course menu the other day. I followed it and, straight afterwards, found the first two G and C chords I’d played clearly. Unfortunately, they were also the last two clear chords I played for the rest of that session. But hey, two clear chords is still a win.
I was very interested in your stretching exercises on the guitar, and I really have to thank you again for the video because it made everything very clear and easy to follow. I’ll definitely be adding these into my warm-up routine alongside the “Spider” exercise I found.
I haven’t yet looked too deeply into alternative chords, as it’s all still a bit intimidating being so new and seeing just how many techniques are out there. Alternative tuning is probably a little beyond me for now too. I’m also a wee bit stubborn and determined to get these traditional chords right — not let them beat me.
That said, I also need to be realistic. If finding alternative chords means I enjoy playing more rather than feeling like I’m constantly fighting the guitar, then maybe that’s the better path forward. So thank you again for the encouragement and advice.