Originally Posted by: equatorIf you take a look at your guitar fretboard, you will see that the frets are smaller from fret 8 and up.
So, I always recomend doing your: warm up, streaching, and speed exercises on those frets, and then work your way down, were the frets are bigger.

Now there's a good idea :) The string tension is lower higher up the neck as well, so your fingers have less distance to cover, and less pressure is required to fret the note.

Also, if I was going to guess, you might benefit from arching your hand more around the fretboard - pushing your wrist forward - thumb in middle of back of neck etc etc....

It will still hurt though... it's what makes it fun! :eek: