practice practice. Watch how the videos fromn the instructors and how therey finger ther fretboard. Watching andf copying what I see helps me a lot. Also to help the cramping, type in the search bar spider fingers or look for Lisa Mccormick lessons and look for spider fingers excercises. This will lmber up your fingerws at the beginnning of a practice. m Trust me I have been playing only a short time and I have short fingers and small hands already a step against me.
Also 12 bar blues has backing tracks for lessons 4 and 5 this will help you after taking the lessons the AAAA DD AA E e A A backing trtacks really help.